Cuarteto Quiroga
Aitor Hevia violin Cibrán Sierra violin Josep Puchades viola Helena Poggio cello Haydn: Quartet in G minor Op.20/3 Webern: Rondo INTERVAL Brahms: Quartet in C minor Op.51/1 Tickets: £10. Free entry for people aged 8 – 25 (courtesy of the CAVATINA Ticket Scheme). The Cuarteto Quiroga, recently appointed quartet-in-residence in charge of the Royal Collection of decorated Stradivarius at Madrid’s […]
Richter Quartet
Dimitar Burov violin Hristiana Geourguieva violin Joël Sultanian viola Zela Terry cello Haydn: Quartet in C Op.33.3 ‘The Bird’ Smetana: Quartet No.1 in E minor ‘From My Life’ INTERVAL Beethoven: Quartet in E minor Op.59/2 Tickets: £10. Free entry for people aged 8 – 25 (courtesy of the CAVATINA Ticket Scheme). The Richter Quartet was formed in 2012 by […]
Camerata Alma Viva “Paint it Black”
graphic sound – a counter transfiguration Contributors Camerata Alma Viva – string ensemble Charlotte Maclet – leader / director Eric Mouret – arranger / composer Johnny de Mearns – artist Neil McLean Robertson – artist Programme Mozart: Divertimento in D K136 Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat K364 (arr. Eric Mouret) Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in […]
The Testing Ground 3: Life Enhancing New Dance & Performance
Hazel Copcutt – Rose Petal Eyes A live relay of a new dance performance from Brazil. Rose Tinted Eyes is a dance led performance which invites the audience into the home, a place of comfort, of safety yet equally with prison like isolation. The enchanting silence of the night cuts a door for the imagination to […]
The Testing Ground 2
Lydia Cottrell – Atlantis Atlantis is a new dance theatre performance, taking the audience on a journey from ancient Atlantis, through Disneyland, the works of Donovan and the end of the NASA space shuttle programme. This event will involve lots of popcorn, projection, a paddling pool and Plato. The work is currently in development and is […]
The Testing Ground 1
London’s exuberant showcase of new dance and movement based performance. A vibrant, daring and life affirming event curated by Luke Dixon & Jane Turner. Time Lapse SVJDance Through a series of surreal, nostalgic and captivating scenarios, Sarah Vaughan-Jones investigates how we gauge and measure the passage of time according to personal and social influences. Time Lapse […]
Slavery and the Shaping of British Culture
SOLD OUT The past 40 years have yielded an astonishingly rich and varied archive and historiography about slavery. Much less impressive however has been the efforts to locate slavery as an integral feature of Western cultural life itself. Too often, slavery is seen as an exotic, discreet subject which belongs outside Western culture. This talk takes a different approach, arguing that […]
The Law’s Ambiguous Struggle with Slavery
This talk considers the ambiguity that the law faced in the eighteenth century in its struggle with slavery. In this century, several English judges upheld the rights of slave owners to claim property in their “Negroes”, either on the grounds that they were not Christians, or by appealing to the legal concept of jus gentium (law of […]
The Inequality Debate
Income inequality has been rising for 30 years. Executive pay is sky high, with the top 1% taking an ever increasing share of GDP while average real wages have fallen. Politicians on the left bemoan the ‘cost of living crisis’, others blame immigration and the EU for lower salaries. The consequences are wide-ranging, on poverty, […]