| |  | |  | | To celebrate the its 25th birthday, the Barbican's programming team has selected 25 landmark events which embody the heart and spirit of the arts programme and showcase some of the most original and iconic artistic work being presented during the birthday year.
|  | Anna Best / Barbican residents | | June 2007 | Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican Art Gallery has commissioned London based artist Anna Best to work within the unique context of the Barbican Centre. Concerned with the politics of space, Best’s project explores the tension between the Barbican Centre’s private and semi-public spaces.
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Drawing visitors’ attention to the fractured architecture and how they navigate their way around the Centre, Best has choreographed a one-off performance which takes place in and around the Barbican’s public highwalks. Visitors will be invited to observe this from the balconies of Barbican residents which temporarily become incidental surveillance points during the performance. |
| | Big Screen Events | | June and July 2007 | Barbican Music
The Barbican, in association with the BBC, City of London Festival and the LSO, presents a week of event relays in two of the City’s best public spaces, Broadgate arena and Paternoster Square
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| | Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years | | June – August 2007 | Barbican Art Gallery
Panic Attack! looks at art in Britain and America in the late seventies. This was the period of punk, a movement that is most associated with music, fashion and graphics. However, punk was part of a larger cultural development, one which also found its expression in art.
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Panic Attack! features a large number of artists – working in photography and film, painting and sculpture – whose work reflects the rebellious and iconoclastic spirit of the punk years |
| | AfroReggae – From the Favela to the World | | 28 - 29 Jun 2007 | Barbican Theatre
In 2005, the Barbican’s Head of Theatre, Louise Jeffreys, travelled to the favelas of Rio with Peoples Palace Productions to meet a cultural phenomenon, AfroReggae. Created in the wake of a brutal police massacre in the early 1990s, the group turn their socially conscious song writing into blistering live performances.
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Bite commissioned the company to create a stage show, From the Favela to the World and Barbican Education arranged a successful series of workshops run by AfroReggae in local schools. From the Favela to the World toured the UK after its Barbican run and is revived there again in 2007. The Barbican has also commissioned the company to create a new show for bite08. |
| | New Crowned Hope: A Festival by Peter Sellars | | 4 Jul - 14 Aug 2007 | Throughout the Barbican
As a major player on the global scene, the Barbican has established fruitful collaborations with other international arts organisations to commission major new work, projects and productions to bring to London. In a bold endeavour, the Barbican has teamed up with the Wiener Festwochen and the Lincoln Center, for one of the most innovative festivals to mark Mozart’s 250th anniversary, devised by maverick stage director Peter Sellars for the City of Vienna.
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Sellars’ festival, New Crowned Hope, is entirely of new work, with commissions from Mark Morris, John Adams, Kaija Saariaho and Osvaldo Golijov, plus six new films by directors across the world from Chad to Thailand and Paraguay. Each work is a response to themes Mozart was exploring in his final year, such as forgiveness, reconciliation, transformation and magic, giving Mozart’s ideas a relevant, contemporary context. |
| | Philip Glass 70th birthday | | 19 - 21 Oct 2007 | Barbican Hall
The Barbican’s commitment to contemporary composers continues with a weekend of events celebrating Philip Glass’ 70th birthday, deepening a relationship that has included the seminal Philip on Film, a five-day celebration of Glass’s film music, and the UK premiere of Orion. Central to this weekend of events is the European Premiere of Book of Longing, a 12-part music cycle based on Leonard Cohen’s new book of poems. Co-commissioned by the Barbican, this event pairs one of the le
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| | Ramadan Nights 2007 | | Oct 2007 | Barbican Hall
Over the past decade, the Barbican has developed a unique formula for themed festivals, which have opened a window onto a multitude of world music traditions.
The Barbican marks the end of Ramadan and the beginning of Eid ul-Fitr with Ramadan Nights, a feast of music from across the Islamic world.
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With sold-out concerts and rave reviews – “the Barbican's annual Ramadan Nights festival is ever more necessary” (The Independent) - the first two festivals in 2005 and 2006 have offered a timely perspective on the diversity of Muslim culture around the world, prompting the Barbican to make the festival an annual event in its music calendar |
| | The Stravinsky Project, Part 3: | | Les Noces by Michael Clark Company | 30 Oct - 10 Nov 2007
Barbican Theatre
Michael Clark Company joined the Barbican in 2005 in a three-year partnership as Artistic Associate. 2007 sees the culmination of his three-year Stravinsky Project. The trilogy will be performed in its entirety, including a new piece, set to Les Noces. The Stravinsky Project is co-commissioned by bite.
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