season review 2011 / 12

barbican.org.uk 1 barbican.org.uk Forewords Catherine McGuinness©Felix Clay There cannot have beenamore exciting year Alongside our partner the Guildhall School Alongside ourpartnertheGuildhallSchool year, whetherwiththeBarbican’sown resident Chairman, Barbican Centre Board with opportunitiesto create andperform. we have fostered have helpedusto develop with musicandyouth servicesinneighbouring whom we have beenableto engage. Olympiad, orwithourlocalcommunities. Partnerships have beenattheheartof the from thisOlympicyear we needto keep If we are to ensure alastingartisticlegacy new audiencesandprovide many people momentum goingdespite adifficult funding boroughs for decades. Thestrong relationships its partto thefull–not onlyby presenting income neededto helpuscontinuedelivering is makingevery effort to attract theprivate the wonderful anddiverse audienceswith our richandvaried programme, butalsoin to beinLondon,andtheBarbicanhasplayed of Music&Drama, we have beenworking other organisations involved intheCultural and associate orchestras andensembles,with our world-class artsand learningprogramme. to domore withless.That’swhy theBarbican climate inwhichallartsorganisations need Catherine McGuinness

audience. We lookforward to welcoming you here. supporter, amember, apatron, orpartof ourever-widening heart of theCity’soffer to and theUK:becomea Join usonthejourney thatisputtingtheBarbicanat the create acultural quarter attheheartof theCityof London. development, working withourneighboursandpartnersto opening in2013, we now lookforward to aperiodof rapid School of Music&Drama’s new Milton Courtbuilding With theopeningof thetwo new cinemasand the Guildhall to offer world-class artsandlearningfor all. popular events, andwe have expanded ourmission to theBarbicanfor awiderange of innovative and London 2012 Olympics. Audiences have thronged our 30thanniversary andplayed amajorrole inthe exciting duringayear whenwe have both celebrated The BarbicanCentre hasfelt vibrantly alive and accessible offer for theCityandwholeof London. is really distinctive inLondon’sartisticlife –adiverse and our talented teams, have delivered somethingwe believe in 2011/12. Ourgroup of creative leaders, supported by Twitter commentabouttheBarbican’sartsprogramme ‘An almostimpossiblelevel of brilliant’ismy favourite Managing Director, Barbican Centre Kenyon Nicholas Sir Sir NicholasKenyon ©Felix Clay 12 / Barbican Season Review 2011Barbican Season Review world-class arts and learning 2 Our vision 3 barbican.org.uk London 2012

Sydney Theatre Company’s Big and Small (Gross und Klein) – © Lisa Tomasetti ‘[The Barbican] is pulling out all the ‘[The Barbican]ispullingoutallthe The Barbicancontinuedto grow beyond The enhanced2012 fundingawarded to The Barbicanpresented anoutstanding You MeBumTrain atEmpire Housein A major collaboration for 2012 with Sadler’s Wuppertal of ten works performances from the Wells brought about an unprecedented Wilson andPhilipGlass’smesmerising Big andSmall(Gross undKlein)starring Cate Our London2012 Festival programme well asthepartnershipswe’ve forged in Daily Telegraph Daily Pina Bausch season presenting Tanztheater Blanchett, andtheUKpremiere of Robert England allowed usto buildonourlong Stratford andtheBack2Black festival hosted focused itsattention onLondon,theBarbican music-theatre pieceEinstein ontheBeach. history of high-qualityprogramming, as by Gilberto GilinOldBillingsgate Market. its walls withtheparticipatory adventure production of Botho Strauss’s surreal play performances, star namesandmust-seeevents. playing amajorrole intheCultural Olympiad programme to celebrate theLondonOlympics, included theSydney Theatre Company’s each exploringeach adifferent global location. east London,to create aonce-in-a-lifetime the Barbicanby LOCOG andArtsCouncil offered adazzlingarray of international and and London2012 Festival. Astheworld legendary choreographer’slegendary World Cities saw sold-outshows inthetheatre. These series of unforgettable experiences. local collaborations consistingof exceptional stops for theOlympicyear’ , 8March 2012 series, series, ‘The artsbeingfirmly established ‘H20’ Sandy, ArtisticDirector of Boy Blue Morrison, Center Orchestra withWynton Marsalis Games, theBarbicanhosted anumber which was partlychoreographed by Kenrick Desdemona, anew work created by Toni Evening Standard, 26July2012 Rattle andtheLSOalsofeatured inthe Entertainment, aBarbicanArtisticAssociate. Symphony Orchestra underSirSimonRattle. Shortly before theopeningof theOlympic Sir NicholasKenyon, International Associate JazzatLincoln and ourResident Orchestra theLondon of extraordinary musicprojects including acclaimed Olympicopeningceremony, and aresidency bringingtogether Barbican at thecentre of ourlives, andof our city, isonesmallpartof the legacy of 2012 thatwilllive on’

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4 Barbican Season Review 2011/12 5 barbican.org.uk Serve all our audiences This work hasincludedtaking visitingmusicians The concertcreated anelectricatmosphere The Barbican’sblockbuster exhibition Designing Audiences are always attheheartof the

Many events attracted ayoung anddiverse Bauhaus: ArtasLife received over 100,000 visits. Our creative learningprojects andfree while reaching outto potential newcomers. 007: FiftyYears of BondStyle attracted ahuge Residencies from theconcertplatform into Barbican’s vision;we exist to serve our featuring theBBC Symphony Orchestra free tickets to thoseaged between 16 and 25. freeB membershipprogramme, whichgives future, andour partnershipswitharange of never before having booked for anevent at new audience,with90per centof visitors performances inschools,hospitals andother nurturing theartistsandaudiencesof the before beingperformed to 9,000peoplein public through abroadcast onBBC Radio 1 involved inourInternational Associate in theBarbicanHallandreached ahuge past year hasseentheBarbicandevelop relationships withexisting visitors through our increasingly wideanddiverse public.The unique andoutstanding artisticprogramme, the heartof localcommunities,resulting in east Londonarts,communityandeducation the grounds of Waltham Forest Town Hall. together withstars of theurbanmusicscene. audience, includingtheUrbanClassicconcert, the Barbican.Atsametime,exhibition audiences was alsodemonstrated by our community venues. Ourcommitmentto young a varied range of needsacross thecity. organisations ensure theBarbicanserves events across eastLondonare central to The Barbicanisalsocommitted to usingdigital We’re continuallyworking to better understand Urban Classicrehearsal –Fazer ©MarkAllan year we undertook arange of research to Barbican andwhatpartsof theexperience from theintroduction of e-ticketing to our podcasts anddownloadable programmes. Understanding audiences technology to enhancevisitor experiences, the comingyears to improve ouroffer. they value. We’ll usethisresearch over our current andpotential audience.This get abetter picture of whocomesto the 4,500 peopleinLondon’sGranary Square. the country, includingaconcertattended by to anestimated audienceof 14,000 across adventure across theUK.Thetour played African andwestern musiciansfor amusical association withtheBarbican,brought together The Africa Express Africa Express tour, whichwas produced in

6 Africa Express concert in Granary Square, Kings Cross © John Sturrock Barbican Season Review 2011/12 7 barbican.org.uk Produce an outstanding arts programme ‘It’s fair to say that this year will year will this to that say fair ‘It’s see no more spectacular theatre theatre spectacular more no see Margarita The Master and and The Master than production Evening Standard Evening at the Barbican’ , March 2012 Alongside our London 2012 Festival events, The Barbican maintained strong partnerships 12 / the Barbican’s 2011/12 programme was with other organisations, from our work with packed with brilliant artists, groundbreaking artistic associates such as Cheek by Jowl and collaborations and innovative performances. Michael Clark Company to our collaboration with CREATE on events in surrounding boroughs, Work from outstanding artists and companies including Dance Nations Dalston in Gillett from across the world included Complicite’s Square and our Shoreditch Festival programme celebrated production of Bulgakov’s The Master celebrating the creativity of east London. and Margarita, Schaubühne Berlin’s visceral interpretation of , and the largest Our relationship with Theatre Royal Stratford Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years East saw the two organisations share an Olivier which was a hit with critics and audiences alike. Award for Roadkill, which won the Outstanding

The Barbican also hosted four International Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre award. 2011Barbican Season Review Associate Residencies: Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam; Jazz at Lincoln Center

Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.

Collaborations included a unique new song cycle from Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner and the world premiere of Hofesh Shechter and Antony Gormley’s Survivor.

We supported innovative new work ranging from Hydrocracker’s The New World Order, which saw five short Pinter plays uniquely Director’s Office at the State Bauhaus Weimar (1923) (1923) Bauhaus Weimar at the State Office Director’s staged at Shoreditch Town Hall, to the first and Herbert Bayer, Gropius Walter Bauhaus: Art as Life, major UK exhibition from Chinese artist Song Dong, whose Waste Not installation comprised over 10,000 items collected by the artist’s mother, providing a poignant meditation on family life. © Tristram Kenton © Tristram and Margarita The Master 8 © Jane Hobson Not Song Dong, Waste Leipzig/Chailly © Mark Allan Orchestra Gewandhaus Complicite, Complicite, 9 barbican.org.uk Place creative learning at the heart of our work We give young peoplethechanceto We believe thattheartscanhelpto Creative JazzOrchestra andFuture Band. with groups suchasBarbicanYoung Poets vibrant, foyer-filling BarbicanWeekenders, and Creative learningistrulyembeddedinourwork. Professional Development courses. Labs, summer schools and Continuing Labs, summerschoolsandContinuing Emerging artistsandprofessionals are also Last year ourprogramme involved 40,000 models to train andsupportartistsaspart In partnershipwiththeGuildhallSchool professional level intheartist-ledWeekend inspire, influence andcreate opportunityin people of allages andabilities,offering first initiative ArtWorks. Ourpartnershipdraws using International Associate Residencies ensembles including the East London ensembles includingtheEastLondon the Guildhall School curriculum. the GuildhallSchoolcurriculum. to provide uniqueexperiences across and Young Filmmakers, andwithmusic develop theirartisticskillsthrough working communities across eastLondonwe aimto transform lives. Working withschoolsand experiences of theartsthrough ahugevariety on Barbicanprogramming, including of thePaul HamlynFoundation special of Music&Drama we are pioneeringnew our projects andactivities across eastLondon. of events attheCentre. Theseincludedthe some of theUK’smostdeprived boroughs. given theopportunityto develop skillsto a This year alsosaw thelaunchof Barbican The Barbican,GuildhallandLSOwere also The London2012 celebrations involved a Guildhall musiciansjoiningWynton Marsalis will beextending themodelacross Paul’s Cathedral duringtheOlympictorch relay. London Creative JazzOrchestra performing andIslington over thenext year. Hackney took partintheprogramme. We Each year anartistorcompany curates the Box, abox filled withthe‘ingredients’ for Education inEngland,whichsaid‘these Drumheads performing atBack2Black, Barbican Young Ensembles,includingthe far-sighted partnershipisamodelthatwould form oneof thecountry’smostdeveloped making andcreating theatre inspired by number of landmarkperformances from pilot year thebox was curated by Told by benefit from closeexamination by other models of a“Communityof Practice” …This in thedelivery of theireducationactivities to recognised intheHenley Review of Cultural Barbican Box Barbican young musicians to anaudienceof thousandsonthesteps of St the work presented ontheBarbicanstage. at theBT River of Musicfestival andtheEast an Idiot, andtwelve secondaryschoolsin and teachers devise theirown play. Inthis contents of thebox from whichstudents cultural andeducationorganisations.’ separate organisations work together asone and London2012

and recent graduates from theGuildhall. School’s young ensembles,aswell asstudents drummers from theBarbicanandGuildhall performers andmusicianswere almost100 Gormley. Appearingonstage withShechter’s Shechter collaborate withsculptor Antony A uniqueperformance inJanuarysaw Hofesh Survivor

10 Hofesh Shechter and Antony Gormley, Survivor © Tom Medwell Barbican Season Review 2011/12 11 barbican.org.uk Develop our iconic building The 30thanniversary of theBarbicanCentre The Barbican has also been used as a The Barbicanhasalsobeenusedasa To complementDesigning007,theBarbican Our buildinghasbeenusedcreatively writers, residents andarchitects alike. Designing 007exhibition saw many of the Saturday Magazine, andasaninterview Designing 007alsoproved ahuge Barbican’s spaces usedinimaginative for itsarchitectural tours andadmired by furniture shoot for Wallpaper* magazine, new ways, transforming thefoyers model of urbanplanning,visited by many photography shoots including a LouisVuitton reassess theimpact of thisuniquebuilding in March 2012 provided amomentto backdrop for NBC Washington. used foyer spaces to houseanexhibition ensured theCentre attracted awideand the BarbicanCentre to itsfullpotential. The throughout 2011/12 aswe lookto utilise three decades theCentre hasbecomea on London’sarchitecture. Over thepast a fashion shoot for theIndependenton channels from across theworld. the exhibition featuring onmajor draw for international film crews, with diverse audiencethroughout thesummer. as to hostDesigning007atthesametime and ThePitinto temporary exhibition location for anumberof high-profile film and shop andapop-upMartinibar. spaces. Thisnew approach allowed us , something that Bauhaus: ArtasLife, somethingthat ‘Now, more thanhalfacentury As well ascelebrating thebuilding’sunique Independent onSaturday Magazine photoshoot ©Andrew Leo New Statesman, 27February 2012 why we’ve introduced measures thathave Our commitmentto sustainability saw the Barbican shortlisted for theBestGreen International BusinessAward atthe that itsarchitects envisaged’ prestigious International Green Awards. reducing itsenvironmental impact. That’s after [theBarbican]was conceived, total energy useby 22percentsince2008. over thelastyear andhave reduced our cut ourenergy consumptionby 5percent architecture, we are alsocommitted to it is truly the vibrant and successful it istrulythevibrant andsuccessful part of the urban landscape part of theurbanlandscape 13 barbican.org.uk The year in pictures

Transcender Junya Ishigami Architecture as Air Handsprung Puppet Sain Zahoor June – October 2011 Company sep September 2011 © Lyndon Douglas Woyzeck on the Highveld September 2011 © Barney Simon

Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig/ Antic Meet Chailly Merce Cunningham Dance October – November 2011 Company © Mark Allan October 2011 © Anna Finke Roadkill October – November 2011 © Tim Morozzo

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Festen November 2011 © Florin Biolan

Amadou & Mariam UBS Soundscapes LSO Artist Portrait November 2011 Anne-Sophie Mutter © Mark Allan November 2011 and February 2012 © Bill Robinson/LSO nov

OMA Progress October 2011 – February 2012 © Jim Gourley

Duckie Copyright Christmas December 2011 © Hugo Glendinning Hydrocracker The New World Order November – December 2011 dec © Matthew Andrews

Schaubühne Berlin Hamlet November – December 2011 © Arno Declair

Hofesh Shechter and Antony Gormley Awakenings: A Kronos Quartet Survivor jan Residency January 2012 © Tom Medwell January 2012 © Mark Allan

New York Philharmonic/Gilbert February 2012 © Chris Lee

Song Dong Cheek by Jowl Waste Not ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore feb February – June 2012 February – March 2012 © Jane Hobson

The Long Count Portico Quartet February 2012 February 2012 © Mark Allan © Jamie Leith

Urban Classic Andrew Bird Complicite Bang on a Can All-Stars March 2012 March 2012 © Mark Allan © Brandi Ediss The Master and Margarita March 2012 mar March – Arpil 2012 © Pascal Perich Julien Jourdes © Tristram Kenton

Urban Stories Weekender March 2012 © Katie Henfrey Penderecki & Greenwood March 2012 © M.Oliva Soto

The Sinking of the Titanic April 2012 © Mark Allan apr

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Silent Film & Live Music - Sydney Theatre Company Dessner & Nico Muhly Beggars of Life Big and Small April 2012 April 2012 April 2012 © Mark Allan Dir William A Wellman, 1928, US © Lisa Tomasetti

BBC SO’s Total Immersion Arvo Pärt April 2012 © Universal Edition Eric Marinitsch

Big Star Third Robert Wilson & Philip Glass Bauhaus: Art as Life may May 2012 Einstein on the Beach May – August 2012 © Mark Allan May 2012 © Estate Erich Consemüller © Lucie Jansch Ninagawa Company May – June 2012 © Takahiro Watanabe

Palestine Fim Festival April – May 2012 Dirs Sama Alshaibi & Ala’ Younis

jun Vienna Philharmonic/Rattle Rokia Traoré: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch June 2012 Donguili – Donke – Damou World Cities 2012 © Mark Allan June 2012 June – July 2012 © Mark Allan © Oliver Look

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16 barbican.org.uk Barbican Season Review 2011/12 ‘It’s fair to say that this year will year will this to that say fair ‘It’s mind- this anything, ‘More than ‘staggering, demented, incredible’ ‘Riccardo Chailly’s Barbican ‘An exhaustive survey work of the for labels one-word the ‘Of all Transcender, September 2011 Arts Blog – The Independent Online on Arts Blog–TheIndependentOnlineon Guardian onGewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Observer onSchaubuehneBerlin’sHamlet, Observer onOMA Progress, October 2011 Evening Standard onTheMaster andMargarita, Centre’s Transcender is surely the the surely is Centre’s Transcender March 2012 what this annual autumn weekend autumn annual this what Southbank Centre, Grimeborn at at Grimeborn Centre, Southbank of Rem Koolhaas’s as is OMA can do’ can theatre what evening (...) about is contemporary music festivals out November 2011 December 2011 Margarita at the Barbican’ see no more spectacular theatre theatre spectacular more no see the musical pinnacles of the year’ of the pinnacles musical the cultures’ diverseglobal from encapsulates funkily tag The finest. Barbican –the Theatre Arcola the at Ether and –Meltdown there production than The Master and and Master The than production earth-moving spit-hurling, blowing, of one been has orchestra Leipzig Beethoven cycle storied with his itself’ practice intelligent and challenging as the the as challenging and intelligent is about: spiritual, psychedelic music music psychedelic spiritual, about: is ‘50 Years Of Bond at the Barbican Years‘50 Barbican the at Bond Of ‘These unforgettable, full-hearted ‘Though flecked with tragedy, this superb’ Life is as Art ‘Bauhaus: force de tour ‘[Cate Blanchett’s] The Sunday TimesonPinaBausch’sTen Chi and / Haitink,May 2012 Time OutonBigandSmall,May 2012

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13 barbican.org.uk What they say @TomMison Big and Small by@TomMison Small and Big @BarbicanCentre @smoke_seller What to say about to about say What @smoke_seller @BarbicanCentre afavourite @BarbicanCentre @CuriousCurating: at @barbicancentre it’s awesome an @barbicancentre @YandZcouk Always to enjoy visits Absolutely incredible. incredible. Absolutely & rain, culture, food & drink. Spaces Spaces food &drink. culture, & rain, Cate Blanchett is mind numbingly numbingly mind is Blanchett Cate Thanks guys Thanks Sydney Theatre Co at Barbican is an an is Sydney Barbican at Co Theatre good. The end. The good. almost impossible level of brilliant. From Twitter to say. No words. Larger than life. life. to say. than Larger words. No to sit, work, read... wonderful! to sit, work, read... Einstein on the Beach. What not What Beach. the on Einstein London place. Free, inside from cold cold from Free, inside place. London building with lots of friendly staff. lots of friendly with building @Dave_Buxton Visited the Designing Designing @Dave_Buxton the Visited @crcarchitecture Bauhaus exhibition yet accessible way to celebrate 50 yrsof Bond. 50 way to celebrate 007 at the Barbican – Truly amazing –Truly amazing Barbican the at 007 at the Barbican - inspiring. Total -inspiring. Barbican the at design, radical yet fun. Intellectual yet Intellectual fun. radical design, Central to theBarbican’sstrategic development was abestseller–andother artisticfare. Pop- Barbican ArtGalleryShopcontinuesto serve first time.Ouraimisto provide acommercial, In November 2011 we launchedBarbicanRetail, merchandise, catalogues –theBauhausbook public fundingfrom theCityof Londonand is theneedto continueto diversify oursources up retail thisyear includedaChristmasshop Barbican shops as well asthrough commercial operations development, businessandcorporate events, our fundingfrom ArtsCouncilEngland,we of revenue. Inaddition to ourprincipal operating thefoyer shopourselves for the and aDesigning007giftshopfor Bond fans. our visualartsaudienceswithexhibition-related alongside innovative andbeautifulgifts. to buyprogramme-related merchandise to strength thisyear givingvisitors thechance a distinctive appeal.Ithasgonefrom strength such asourretail andcatering offer. generate incomethrough thebox office, successful andengaging retail experience with This year they alsoproduced theexhibition Our approach on is strong, based in-depth which offers asmall-plate menuandoutdoor Our three superbplaces to eatoffer Our BarbicanInternational Enterprises Designing 007: FiftyYears of BondStyle in Barbican Business brings Events together for theDesigning007exhibition, itproved facilities thisyear istheMartiniBar;installed hall, theatres, conference suites and boardrooms, the team delivers meetings, modern Britishcuisine.Anew addition to our partnerships between the client and between our partnerships both the Barbican and our clients. restaurant whichcontinuesto provide including Toronto, Shanghai,Melbourne programme of exhibitions internationally. Business Events Barbican International Enterprises corporate hospitality and dinners. and hospitality corporate conferences, film/photography shoots, concert the Utilising meetings. corporate the venue’s and in the arts expertise Eating anddrinking teams. This achieves previously unseen creativeartistic, learning and development dining inthesummermonths;andSearcy’s and contemporary Foodhall; theLounge, to cross continentsfor thenext three years. and New York. Designing 007willcontinue the Centre, which isnow touring to venues team curates, manages andpromotes a such ahitthatwe have extended itsrun. levels of creativity, delivering returns for something for allaudiences:theinformal Designing 007: FitftyYears of BondStyle ©JohnShort Barbican Foodhall ©Gareth Gardner

20 Barbican Season Review 2011/12 21 barbican.org.uk Create a cultural quarter The development of theBarbican’stwo The Cityof Londonrecently relaunched its With thearrival of new Crossrail stations, 2 & 3 and the Guildhall School’s Milton 2 &3andtheGuildhallSchool’sMilton Court, alongsideexisting attractions will extend thereach of thebuildingand London, the arts and learning destinations London, theartsandlearningdestinations fresh venues suchastheBarbicanCinemas milestone. Asthefirst new Barbicanvenue new cinemascreens represents amajor provide astunningstreet level entrance including LSOSt Luke’s andtheMuseumof café-bar andtwo 156-seat auditoria. to facilities includingarestaurant, a of arevitalised transport network. With this sectionof theCitywillbeatcentre on offer inthearea willbeunrivalled. around theBarbicaninheartof theCity. the ambitionto create avibrant cultural quarter cultural strategy for thefuture, whichincludes since we openedin1982, thecinemas

Milton Court (Guildhall School of Music & Drama) The area surrounding theBarbicanis These new buildingstransform theWhitecross The future for thisarea of Londonisthrilling. Crossrail stations asacatalyst for development. City. TheBarbicanisreaching outto these will beworking alongsidetheCityof London while alsousingtheadded promise of thenew Street endof the BeechStreet tunnelandwe Silicon Roundabout to the creative professionals for visitors. Thisisakey part of theCity’s becoming filled withcutting-edgeandexciting the Cityinto anexceptional cultural destination, organisations andindividualsto helptransform of andthebusinessesof the organisations, from thestart-ups of Tech City/ commitment to thevisionfor acultural quarter. the access andappealof thenearby streets over thecomingyears aswe lookto improve 22 Barbican Cinemas 2 & 3 © Tom Flynn Barbican Season Review 2011/12 23 barbican.org.uk Development Torsten Thiele,Patron ‘ out it try people that recommend veryI would much visitors. like-minded and performers to meet on, going is what advance to know arts, in the with deeply more way to engage wonderful a is programme Patrons ‘The The Barbican’s achievements in 2011/12 A multi-year grant from the Paul Hamlyn 12 / have been realised thanks to the generosity Foundation is funding Shift, a research of our supporters who play a crucial role programme examining how artists learn, as we continue to diversify our funding. In teach, lead and collaborate. Our status and the financial year 2011/12, grants and funding as one of Arts Council England’s donations raised directly or through the National Portfolio Organisations also Barbican Centre Trust totalled £977,000. enabled significant expansion of our arts and learning activity in east London. A growing family of supporters Barbican Patrons enjoyed a close The first stage of our concert hall backstage relationship with our arts and learning refurbishment was completed thanks to programmers, gaining a deeper insight gifts from the Wolfson Foundation, UBS

into our work by attending a wide range and Vitra. This significantly improved the 2011Barbican Season Review of events and becoming part of an active experience for artists and supporters, with community. This year we developed a capital work in this area set to continue. giving circle in partnership with Sadler’s Wells to support one of the stand-out events All this support ensures that the of the London 2012 Festival: Tanztheater investment of the Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012. Corporation reaches the widest possible audience with the greatest impact. The involvement of local businesses has never been more important as we expand arts and learning activity beyond the walls of the Barbican Centre. We benefit from strong relationships with our ten corporate partners, and corporate support contributed to education initiatives including Barbican Box, which enjoyed a successful pilot year.

Investing in artist and audience development Our supporters help us to reach new ’With the Barbican, you can be audiences and to invest in artists at every assured of top-class performances stage of their development – from young no matter how familiar you may people to established professionals. Trusts (or may not) be with the performer and foundations made vital contributions or, indeed, the art form. It is this to this work in 2012, with a major two-year

uc ˇ ek, Nayoung Kim © Bettina Stöß ek, Nayoung ˇ uc certainty of quality across diversity ˇ grant from the City Trust allowing of activity that makes the Barbican us to deliver a wide range of creative learning activity to our local communities. such a sure-fire winner as a corporate partner’ Matthew Sparkes, Global Head of Corporate

Responsibility, Linklaters 24 Pina Bausch, Nur Du l-r Aleš C 25 barbican.org.uk 30th anniversary The anniversary saw aflurry of media Sam BompaswiththeBarbican’sBrutalist birthday cake ©JaneHobson Majesty TheQueenon3March 1982. This Over thelastthree decades theBarbican Statesman , givingusanopportunity to setout feature articlesinthe Guardian andtheNew In 2012 we marked the30thanniversary of has becomearenowned andinternationally past, present andfuture artisticprogramme, by Westby &JonesandBompasParr. interest intheBarbicanincludingmajor range of artistic events –andaspecially respected arts centre. We honoured this and theplansto create acultural quarter. as well asto talk aboutouriconicbuilding occasion gave usachanceto celebrate our the openingof theBarbicanCentre by Her our missionof world-class artsandlearning. our visionfor thefuture aswe look to deliver commission Brutalist birthday cake created landmark achievement withanunparalleled The Barbican’ssuccesshasrelied ona Guardian, 7March 2012 at BarbicanCentre opening,March 1982 Henry Wrong introduces HMTheQueento Anthony Camden faced’ has it battles to have wonseems uphill many the it that asign is forward so boldly stepping is Barbican the ‘That very bestartto thewidestpossibleaudience. national and international. As the Barbican national andinternational. AstheBarbican how anartscentre canbe simultaneously local, remains more steadfast thanever aswe in how artistswork, whataudienceswant, and enters itsfourth decade, thiscommitment commitment to responding to thetimesasit continue to pushboundariesandoffer the seeks to beattheforefront of thehugeshifts

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Arts events, events, Arts rentals etc. Commercial and 35% other events other 12%

own promotions Arts events, events, Arts 53%

28 Barbican Season Review 2011/12 29 barbican.org.uk Who’s who Anthony Hyde Anthropology attheUniversity of CambridgeandChair John Barker OBE(untilApril2012) Jeremy Simons(from April2012) John Scott Joyce NashOBE(untilApril2012) Tom Hoffman Tomlinson (from May 2012) Trustees: Tony Medniuk,Chairman,Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK) and Co-founder of SHMProductions Ltd(from December Vivienne Littlechild(from April 2012) Chief Operating &FinancialOfficer: Citigroup (from December2011) Chairman: CatherineMcGuinness Chairman: Christopher PurvisCBE Catherine McGuinness,Chairman,BarbicanCentre Board Christopher PurvisCBE 2011) Wendy Mead General Manager, BusinessEvents: Graham Nicholson,ChiefLegalAdviser, Bankof England Guy Nicholson September 2011 –August 2012 Managing Director: SirNicholasKenyon Matthew Richardson Sandeep Dwesar Sir David Scholey CBE,SeniorAdvisor, UBS Stuart Popham QC(Hon),ViceChairman,EMEABanking, Sir BrianMcMaster Sir NicholasKenyon, Managing Director, BarbicanCentre Sue Robertson Professor Henrietta Moore, WilliamWyse Chairof Social PLC Interim Head of Finance:Peter Martin(from March 2012) Interim Operations andBuildingsDirector: ShaunKerfoot Roly Keating David Graves (from April2012) Board Members: Deputy Chairman:Jeremy Mayhew (untilApril2012), John Head of Cinema:Robert Rider Head of Theatre: Toni Racklin Head of Communications:LornaGemmell Head of HumanResources: Steve Eddy Head of Customer Experience:David Duncan Head of Music:AngelaDixon Head of Finance:NikiCornwell Head of BarbicanArtGalleries:Kate Bush Head of Development: Lynette Brooks Head of Marketing: Rob Baker Leonora Thomson Director of Audiences &Development: Director of Programming: LouiseJeffreys Director of Creative Learning:SeanGregory Foundation (untilJuly2012) Lesley King-Lewis, Director, ManGroup Charitable Dr GilesShilson Keith Salway Richard Regan (from April2012) Dr Andrew Parmley (untilApril2012) Management Team Barbican Centre Board Barbican Centre Trust Directors

ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture, Greece A New Direction Amnesty International Jazz atLincolnCenter Orchestra Cultural Industry City of LondonFestival Chiang Kai-shek MemorialHall,Taipei, Taiwan Centro Cultural Bankof Brazil, Brazil Canada Councilfor theArts Cheek by Jowl Create Cultural andEducationPartners Associate Orchestra Artistic Associates Associate Partner Associate Producer Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Graz Kalenik General Manager ExhibitionHalls: Guildhall Schoolof Music&Drama Greenwich Music Service Greater LondonAuthority Glenbow Museum,Calgary, Canada Gillett Square Gateway HousingAssociation Galerie Stilh, Waiblingen, Germany Martin Auger Michael ClarkCompany Serious Nicholas Triantafyllou Network Manager: DominicSmith Neil McConnon New York Philharmonic Interim Head of Estates andFacilities (from February 2012): BBC Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Head of Technical: ChrisWheal(untilJanuary2012) Head of Projects: JimTurner Business Systems Manager: Head of BarbicanInternational Enterprises: Head of Engineering:MalcolmJohnson Head of Event Management: LeeDobson Head of Sales:SammeAllen Film Club Fellows CourtCommunityCentre Experimental MediaandPerforming Arts EON Productions Ltd Dance Umbrella Da DongArtCenter, Kaohsiung, Taiwan BT River of Music BTAP Institute Bicycle FilmFestival BI ARTS Bexley MusicService Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/MuseumfürGestaltung Barking andDagenham MusicService Back2Black Festival Boy BlueEntertainment Royal ConcertgebouwOrchestra Los AngelesPhilharmonic International Associates Resident Orchestra Heads of Department

Trinity LabanConservatoire of Music&Dance Tower HamletsMusicService Tower HamletsCouncil Tokyo Gallery The Vortex JazzClub The Shrine/Mwalimu Express The Oxford SamuelBeckett Theatre Trust The LearningTrust Hackney Theatre Royal Stratford East The Architecture Foundation TIFF BellLightbox, Toronto, Canada Technopolis, BuenosAires, Argentina York Hall ZooCom Village Underground VAM DesignCenter, Budapest,Hungary Queen MaryUniversity of London Oregon, USA Oregon Museumof ScienceandIndustry(OMSI), Portland, Open TheGate OMA Old Wilton’s Music Hall Waltham Forest Music Service Unthinkable Consulting University of theArtsLondon Union Chapel Museum of Popular Art,Lisbon,Portugal Museu daImagem edoSom(MIS),SãoPaulo, Brazil Moti Roti Morpeth School Minsheng ArtMuseum,Shanghai,China Manchester International Festival Made inScotland St Paul’s Trust SecondarySchool Stoke Newington Town Hall Stoke Newington SecondarySchool Stiftung BauhausDessau Spitalfields Music Shoreditch Trust Shoreditch Town Hall Shoreditch Festival Scottish ArtsCouncil Scarborough ArtGallery Sadler’s Wells New ZealandFilmFestival National Theatre of Scotland Pomegranate Arts Ideas Tap LSO St Luke’s London 2012 Festival London JazzFestival London International MimeFestival London International AnimationFestival London Borough of Newham LIFT 2012 Lewisham MusicService Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands Klassik Stiftung Weimar Kinoteka KINOKINO, Sandnes,Norway Hofesh Shechter Company Hi8us South Havering MusicService Hackney OneFestival Hackney MusicService Hackney Council Royal Holloway University of London Redbridge MusicService Torsten Thiele The Surrey Square Charitable Trust Sir David andLady Scholey Keith Salway Ian andEmmaRosenblatt John andLizRobins Christopher andPhillidaPurvis Judith andMargaret Pleasance Graham Nicholson George andBetsy Newell Tony andMelanieMedniuk Catherine McGuinness Jeremy Mayhew Sir LaurieandLady Magnus Ruth andStuart Lipton Lesley King-Lewis John andAngelaKessler Sir NicholasKenyon Lord andLady Hollick Richard andJenny Hardie The Gordon family Fatemeh Ebtehaj andHamidHakimzadeh Claire Enders Tim andCaroline Clark Mr andMrsBahaBassatne Stephen andAlyson Barter Anonymous (4) Barbican Patrons UBS Swiss Re Slaughter andMay Linklaters DLA Piper Crédit Agricole Bloomberg DAC Beachcroft Bank of AmericaMerrillLynch American Express Corporate Partners UBS The Wolfson Foundation SHM Foundation Paul HamlynFoundation LOCOG Linklaters The CityBridgeTrust Arts CouncilEngland Major Supporters or visitbarbican.org.uk/support-us. or [email protected], Head of Development, on02073822397 and learning,pleasecontact Lynette Brooks, To helpusprogress ourvisionof world-class arts 2011–12. anonymous) whosupported usduringourfinancial year and organisations (includingthosewhowishto remain We would alsolike to thankthefollowing individuals Corporation. of ourfounder andprincipalfundertheCityof London The Barbicanisvery grateful for thecontinuedsupport April 2011 –March 2012

Yamaha Vitra Toyota MunicipalMuseumof Art Puppet Centre Trust New ZealandHighCommission of theRepublic of Poland Ministry of Culture andNationalHeritage Körber Foundation Instituto CamõesPortugal Gallery Koyanagi Filmoteka Narodowa, Poland Epson Embassy of Japan Embassy of Portugal Czech Centre Cinemateca Portuguesa Arup In-kind support Sky Arts Icon Magazine Media Partners The NehruCentre The JapanFoundation Polish Cultural Institute Institut Français Goethe-Institut London The FlemishRepresentation intheUK Embassy of theUnited States of America Embassy of theKingdomof theNetherlands Embassy of theFederal Republic of Germany Australian HighCommission Adam Mickiewicz Institute The Worshipful Company of Musicians The Worshipful Company of Barbers The Stanley ThomasJohnsonFoundation The NetherlandsArchitecture Fund The HenryMoore Foundation The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation The Daiwa Anglo-JapaneseFoundation The BettyMay Grey CharityFund The AngusAllnattCharitable Foundation The 29thMay 1961 Charitable Trust Leonora Thomson Patrick McKillen Louise Jeffreys Donatella Flick Lynette Brooks Homer supported by Arts andCreative Learning tp bennett Shiseido CoLtd Ernst von SiemensArtFoundation Bank of AmericaMerrillLynch Supporters

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