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People across the nation are set to gain more access to culture where they live with a major funding package announced by Culture Secretary @lisanandy today. This includes financial support for arts venues, museums, libraries, and heritage
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Koestler Arts: No Comment is our FREE exhibition exploring and showcasing the artistic range and talent of people in criminal justice settings (until 15 Dec) 🎨💛
👉 Check out this interview with co-curators Jeremy Deller & John Costi from @itsnicethat
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Sara Ahmed, Hannah Catherine Jones & Holly Pester join @i_a_revell & Sarah Shin @southbankcentre, 7 Nov, to explore sound & listening through a feminist lens of the body.
With a Chiron Choir performance including works by Alice Coltrane & Pauline Oliveros
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★★★★★ "It’s hard to imagine a more viscerally thrilling performance... From the breathtakingly intimate dynamics... to the astonishingly crisp articulation of Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor, this concert was a masterclass in clarity and poise"
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🗣️ ‘I’ve been able to find my way back to enjoying his music… but its tinged… it will never be like it was before’
As part of our Artist on Artist series, writer and performer @Vanessa_Kisuule explains her complicated relationship with Michael Jackson:
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Ever wondered how a book is adapted for the stage? 📖 📣
So’ve we.
So we asked Kevin Barry to tell us about the processes and challenges of bringing his novel The Heart In Winter to our Purcell Room for London Literature Festival:
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🪭 A former burlesque dancer, Ruth Ivo has now brought her previous life to the page with the fictionalised memoir, Performance. Get a look into her process with How I Create:
When was the last time someone's art took you to an emotional place? 🥲
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According to Kiran Millwood Hargrave her earliest ambition was to be a cat 🐈 Luckily, she eventually realised that her calling was actually to write!
Read the full introduction to the children's author, novelist, poet and playwright ➡️
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We've all done it, and if you haven't...then you need to go find the singing lift in our Royal Festival Hall 🎶
We’ve been selected for two categories in The Lovie Awards! If you've enjoyed our content lately, help us win & vote for us below 🏆
👉 Social (Arts, Culture & Lifestyle):
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Voting closes tomorrow!
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It’s believed that as many as 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year 🧠 🌍
This #WorldMentalHealthDay#, we’ve surfaced some talks from our archives to show that it is good to share and that you are never alone...
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The late great Tommy Cooper was many things, but would you consider him an inspirational stage performer? Forced Entertainment's @Tim_Etchells does.
🎭 Read our new series Artist on Artist and find out more about @ForcedEnts shows this weekend:
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Looking for a place to catch up with friends or a space to work? We've got you sorted 💛
Not very many performers can claim the title ‘pianist, composer and technologist’, but you've not met Zubin Kanga 🎹 ⌨️
💭 We asked him 'what is the future of the piano?’ Find out his answer...
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Same content, new guest host - join @HarryBenn16 for this months 5 Shows by Disabled Artists!
Got a show or event by disabled artists we should know about?
Comment below or get in touch at digital@accessallareasproductions.org
#AflieMurphy# #5DisabledShows#
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Could you define yourself with a 10 track playlist? 🎶
Listen to @ScotEnsemble's picks ahead of their concert here on Sunday 👉
It was a full house at our rehearsal venue Henry Wood Hall today, as we were joined by the Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat Male Voice Choir from Finland.
Join us tomorrow, Thursday 26th September @southbankcentre for the opening of our season and the Nordic Soundscapes series, in a concert that features the choir in Sibelius’s exhilarating Kullervo Symphony.
Details:
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Peter Salisbury at work for the dress rehearsal @southbankcentre with @philharmonia Grieg tonight. More passion than power needed from the piano, and a kind of intense, lyrical sound @YamahaPianos @YASINewYork
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