 | Barbican at heart of London’s 2012 cultural celebrations Juliette Binoche, Cate Blanchett and Luc Bondy, Toni Morrison, Rokia Traoré and Peter Sellars, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Sir Simon Rattle, Simon McBurney, Nico Muhly, and a major new Bauhaus exhibition head up the unmissable arts projects presented by the Barbican throughout 2012 - its 30th birthday year.
An engine room of creativity, the Barbican brings together a dazzling array of international and local collaborations throughout the year when the eyes of the world will be on London for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The world-class events, revealed today, puts the Barbican at the heart of the London 2012 Festival – a UK-wide festival which will bring leading artists from all over the world together in the summer of 2012 . With a programme spanning theatre, art, architecture, design, film, music, opera and dance, combined with innovative Creative Learning projects, the Centre continues to present the best in and outside its walls.
Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director of the Barbican said: “In 2012 London welcomes the world for the Olympic and Paralympic Games , and the Barbican will be at the forefront of that international moment with an extraordinary range of great cultural experiences for all. Next year we are offering an unparalleled range of arts with our partners and International Associates, leading to special events mounted as part of the London 2012 Festival. There will be something for everyone in our ambitious programme in the Barbican and beyond. Our core funding from the City of London, enhanced by support from Arts Council England, LOCOG and the Barbican’s community of supporters, will enable us to complement the excitement of the Games.”
Louise Jeffreys , Director of Programming, said: “Our major exhibition on the Bauhaus is a perfect demonstration of our ambitions at the Barbican: the Bauhaus pioneered new models of collaborative working between artists and artforms - challenging the way the arts were viewed in society and generating a radical new creative community. The Barbican reflects the principles of the Bauhaus - a unique urban complex integrating arts, living and learning on one campus. We continue to push forward this pioneering spirit. In 2012 stars of stage and screen will rub shoulders with first-timers, international artists will meet local young people and the traditional will meet the new. The Barbican offers the world in an arts centre, right at the heart of what London will offer the world in 2012.”
The headline projects, running from the beginning of the year to September are as follows: (full chronological listings and credit information are in Notes to Editors).
- Bauhaus: Art as Life - the biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK for 40 years explores the world’s most famous cross-disciplinary modern art school, featuring the work of those artists and designers at its centre, from Walter Gropius and Paul Klee to Marcel Breuer , Anni Albers and Mies van der Rohe
- International stage and screen artists - Juliette Binoche stars in Mademoiselle Julie and Cate Blanchett in Gross und Klein, a Sydney Theatre Company production; Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach premieres in the UK; an unprecedented Pina Bausch season celebrates the work of the iconic choreographer and the Centre presents a major new work from Complicite directed by Simon McBurney – all five Barbican co-commissions
- Major music projects - the Barbican presents the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in residence , featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis , including a UK premiere with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra ; and new work Desdemona created by Toni Morrison , Peter Sellars and Rokia Traoré . These projects headline the finale of the Barbican’s London 2012 Festival activity – with many events taking place in East London venues and spaces, and more artists to be announced
- International-local collaborations - cult hit theatre performance group You Me Bum Bum Train return with new work; Unleashed presents young East London talent working with Boy Blue Entertainment and guest artist Hofesh Shechter ; Guildhall School Opera present Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; a whole range of emerging and inspirational music making is explored in the series New York Sounds which features new commissions from Nico Muhly and Owen Pallett ; plus a tour of UK from Africa Express in their most ambitious project to date
- Residencies and reinterpretations - in addition to the return of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in the summer, two first-time International Associate residencies take place during 2012: the New York Philharmonic featuring Lang Lang , Joyce DiDonato and Thomas Adès , and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam with Mariss Jansons , Bernard Haitink and Nikolaus Harnoncourt . These residencies create new ways of working; the groundbreaking Kronos Quartet showcase reinterpretations of existing repertoire and new work; and, re-imagining the past, Yukio Ninagawa takes on Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
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MAJOR NEW EXHIBITION ANNOUNCED - Bauhaus: Art as Life
The largest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years, this major new show explores the world’s most famous modern art school. From avant-garde arts and crafts beginnings to a new model uniting art and technology the Bauhaus’ utopian vision sought to change society in the aftermath of the First World War, to find a ‘new way of life’. Bauhaus: Art as Life explores the cross-arts, pioneering and diverse artistic production that make up its turbulent fourteen-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the Bauhaus: life and art, politics and society, culture and the changing technology of the time.
Bauhaus: Art as Life traces the life of the school from its founding in 1919 to its dramatic closure in 1933 and will feature a rich array of painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and installation. Exemplary works from such Bauhaus Masters as Josef and Anni Albers , Marianne Brandt , Walter Gropius , Johannes Itten , Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee , László Moholy-Nagy , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Gunta Stölzl , will be presented alongside works by lesser-known artist Masters and Bauhaus students .
As one of Europe’s leading cross-arts centres the Barbican will embrace the spectrum of Bauhaus arts throughout its parallel Bauhaus: Art as Life public programme. A host of workshops, talks, films and performances will accompany a major Creative Learning initiative, the Bauhaus Summer School , an intensive two-week school held at the Barbican and led by leading practitioners from all artistic backgrounds. (April-August 2012)
INTERNATIONAL STAGE AND SCREEN ARTISTS
Juliette Binoche in Mademoiselle Julie
Juliette Binoche stars in a new Barbican co-commission of August Strindberg’s Mademoiselle Julie, directed by Frédéric Fisbach – a French language, modern-day take on the timeless themes of desire, love and the constraints of social convention of Strindberg’s classic play. Fisbach re-imagines this intimate drama which sees the tragedy of the three main protagonists unfold under the watch of a chorus of local community actors, framed within a striking, contemporary staging. (September 2012)
Luc Bondy production with Cate Blanchett for Sydney Theatre Company
Cate Blanchett leads another Barbican co-commission, a Sydney Theatre Company production of the delicately surreal play Gross und Klein by German playwright, Botho Strauss.This work, first staged in 1978, has a new English text by playwright Martin Crimp, by theatre director Luc Bondy. Gross und Klein (Big and Small) whisks audiences down a rabbit hole and into a Wonderland-like world to a hotel dining room in Morocco where Lotte (Cate Blanchett) sits alone. Within a sequence of scenes the courageously optimistic and perpetually disappointed Lotte searches for human connection; rejected by her husband, unrecognised by old friends and unfamiliar to her family, the protagonist never quite fits. Like Carroll’s Alice, sometimes Lotte is too big for her surroundings and sometimes too small to be noticed within them. (April 2012 – part of the London 2012 Festival)
Einstein on the Beach
Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, the Barbican presents the first ever UK performances of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach, An Opera in Four Acts . This rarely performed work launched its creators to international success when the Byrd Hoffman Foundation originally produced it in 1976, presented at the Festival d’Avignon in France, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The production radically and indelibly broadened what audiences might expect from opera, theatre or performance art.
Nearly four decades later and twenty years since its last staging, Einstein on the Beach is being reconstructed for a major international tour that begins in the spring of 2012, bringing this groundbreaking work to new audiences and a new generation. A Barbican co-commission, this new production of Einstein on the Beach features choreography by Lucinda Childs, a long-term collaborator of Glass and Wilson, who choreographed the opera in 1984 and 1992 and was principal performer in the original and both subsequent productions of the work. (May 2012 - part of the London 2012 Festival)
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012
The Barbican and Sadler’s Wells are collaborating for the first time to present an unprecedented season of 10 works by one of the most influential choreographers in dance, Pina Bausch . The month-long season of international co-productions will be performed by Tanztheater Wuppertal at the two venues in summer 2012.
The season features 10 international co-productions exploring 10 global locations; India, Brazil, Palermo, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Budapest, Istanbul, Santiago de Chile, Rome and Japan. Embarked upon by Bausch in 1986, the landmark series of international co-productions were created at the invitation of specific global cities. Living in each city for a period of time, her renowned multinational company would then return to Wuppertal to create a new work inspired by their visit; a choreographic travelogue deeply informed by its host location. (June and July 2012 – part of London 2012 Festival)
New work from Complicite
In March 2012 the Barbican present a major new co-commission from Complicite, directed by Simon McBurney . (March 2012)
MAJOR NEW MUSIC PROJECTS
In a culmination of its artistic activity as part of the London 2012 Festival, the Barbican presents Jazz at Lincoln Center in residence featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis , Sir Simon Rattle and the Barbican’s Resident Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and Desdemona, a major new collaboration from Toni Morrison, Peter Sellars and Rokia Traoré for the London 2012 Festival. With more artists to be announced.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Residency
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra returns to the Barbican and East London in 2012, following on from their critically acclaimed residency in 2010, which sees the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO) take the programme in exciting new directions. Focusing on new commissions and collaborations, a highlight of the residency is the UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ new composition Swing Symphony (Symphony No.3) which will be performed by JALCO, LSO and Sir Simon Rattle.
As part of this second residency as International Associate of the Centre, the Creative Learning division and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Education Department will again collaborate on a number of large scale projects in their commitment to support and nurture jazz education and activities in the UK. Projects include: Essentially Ellington - a high-school big band competition inspired by the music of Duke Ellington; the Band Directors’ Academy; training for jazz educators, musicians and leaders; bringing together the East London Creative Jazz Orchestra working with JALC musicians and workshops in the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. (July 2012 – part of the London 2012 Festival)
Desdemona
In Desdemona, Rokia Traoré and Toni Morrison, two women of African and African American origin, come together to create a work inspired by an 'invisible' character from one of Shakespeare’s most racially charged plays. In response to Peter Sellars’ 2009 Othello, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison and Malian singer/songwriter Rokia Traoré collaborate to create an intimate and profound conversation between Shakespeare’s Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary from beyond the grave. Moving beyond centuries of colonialism and racism, two women share stories, songs and hope for a different future.
In responding to Shakespeare, they create their own composite work of art. Toni Morrison writes the stories, weaving the multiple histories that changes Shakespeare’s play - one of the most iconic, central, and disturbing treatments of race in Western culture - into the new realities and potential outcomes facing a rising generation of the 21st century. Rokia Traoré writes the songs and sings the role of Barbary. She creates a musical texture that includes traditional African instruments, the kora and ngoni, creating an intimate performance that allows the audience to connect deeply with the two women who have the microphone at last. (July 2012 - part of the London 2012 Festival )
INTERNATIONAL – LOCAL COLLABORATIONS
You Me Bum Bum Train
The cult hit theatre production where a single audience became the show returns with a new work in 2012, co-commissioned by the Barbican with the Create Festival and Theatre Royal Stratford East. The winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2010, this new incarnation of the show takes place in a found-building in an East London location. (July 2012)
Unleashed
Celebrating the Barbican’s work with young people, this show for the Barbican Theatre is conceived by a creative team led by Artistic Associate of the Barbican, Boy Blue Entertainment and director Walter Meierjohann. It features guest artists including Hofesh Schecter and is performed by 300 young drummers, dancers, poets, film-makers and musicians. Drawn mainly from East London, this community of young people has worked with the Creative Learning team over many years – drawing inspiration from and contributing to the programme at the Barbican and beyond. (July 2012 - part of the London 2012 Festival)
New York Sounds
Following on from the recent, critically acclaimed, Reverberations: the influence of Steve Reich weekend-marathon, New York Sounds explores a range of exciting music making from the fertile contemporary New York music scene. Featuring International Associate, the New York Philharmonic , Bang on a Can All-Stars and new commissions from Nico Muhly, Owen Pallett, Bryce Dessner and Sufjan Stevens. (February/March 2012)
Guildhall School Opera
The Guildhall School’s award-winning Opera programme makes its Barbican Theatre debut in February/March 2012 with the Britten/Shakespeare masterpiece
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ahead of the one hundredth anniversary of Britten’s birth, Guildhall School singers and musicians present one of the composer’s most spellbinding works, conducted by Stephen Barlow, directed by Martin Lloyd-Evans and designed by Dick Bird. (February - March 2012)
Africa Express
In 2012 the Barbican is Executive Producer for Africa Express’ most ambitious event to date. Travelling through cities across the UK, Africa Express will bring together African and Western musicians in its typically freewheeling and inventive manner. Embarking on an unprecedented artistic adventure that fuses the excitement of the live shows with the spirit of inquiry and sense of inspiration seen on the trips to Africa, it will take some of the world’s most exciting musicians to communities in towns and cities in the UK giving them the chance to experience this unique artistic endeavour. (September 2012 - part of the London 2012 Festival)
RESIDENCIES AND REINTERPRETATIONS
International Associates - New York Philharmonic and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
A further two of the Barbican’s five International Associate Orchestras’ residencies take place during the Olympic year. Before the return of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in the summer, the New York Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam make their first visits to the Barbican for International Associate residencies. Enabling a deeper relationship with audiences, the Residencies connect the world’s best international orchestras and conductors with existing and new audiences by allowing the orchestras to stamp more of their personality on the programmes and to present the best of their seasons back home. Through work with Guildhall School students, East London communities and young people, the International Associate residencies allow orchestras to reach far deeper into the lives of audiences and participants, leaving a legacy that will resonate far beyond the concert hall.
The first International Associate residency for the New York Philharmonic with Music Director Alan Gilbert features soloists Joyce DiDonato and Lang Lang ; a UK premiere of Barbican co-commissioned Polaris by Thomas Adès; and a Young People’s Concert with narrator Jamie Bernstein. Working together with the Orchestra’s established music education team, the programme includes animating the Barbican foyers with an exhibition, interactive installations and free activities; creating a digital platform where audiences across continents can blog, chat, upload and explore the New York Philharmonic’s archive; masterclasses and ‘Front Room’ performances taking place in local communities. (February 2012)
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam’s first International Associate residency will be lead by a venerable trio of conductors - Mariss Jansons, Bernard Haitink and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. This remarkable line-up will take this amazing orchestra through some of its Amsterdam season highlights. Creative Learning will work with the Centre for Orchestra and Guildhall School students to offer expert coaching and masterclasses from the Royal Concertgebouw musicians. A highlight includes a masterclass from Mariss Jansons who will deconstruct his approach to scores. (April and May 2012)
A Kronos Quartet Residency: Awakenings
The groundbreaking Kronos Quartet return to the Barbican for a three-date residency, demonstrating why they are still one of the world’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Recent winners of two prestigious international prizes: Avery Fisher Prize and the Polar Music Prize, the quartet will take their work out into East London with a concert at Hackney Empire featuring the London premiere of a new production of George Crumb’s Black Angels, and will appear at the Barbican with a programme called Awakening, featuring music by Osvaldo Golijov, Michael Gordon and Terry Riley, a musical meditation on 9/11. (January 2012)
Ninagawa Company present Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Having previously directed Hamlet , Coriolanus and a kabuki Twelfth Night - as well as indigenous Japanese plays - Yukio Ninagawa, renowned for his visually powerful staging, brings this new Japanese language production of Shakespeare's romance tragedy Cymbeline to the Barbican Theatre. (May - June 2012 - part of the London 2012 Festival)
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Notes to Editors:
CHRONOLOGICAL LISTINGS AND CREDIT INFORMATION:
JANUARY
A Kronos Quartet Residency: Awakenings
24, 26 & 27 January
Barbican Hall, Hackney Empire and other venue to be announced
On sale: now
FEBRUARY
New York Philharmonic Residency with Alan Gilbert
16, 17 & 18 February
Barbican Hall
16 February: Mahler - Symphony No 9
17 February: Thomas Adès - Polaris (UK premiere) | Berlioz – Les nuits d’ètè | Stravinsky – Symphony in Three Movements | Ravel – Daphnis and Chloë – Suite No 2
18 February: Magnus Lindberg – Feria | Bartók – Piano Concerto No 2 | Prokofiev – Symphony No 2
18 February: New York Philharmonic: Young People’s Concert – Leonard Bernstein’s New York
Polaris is c ommissioned by the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy, for the opening of the New World Symphony concert hall. Partnered by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Alan Gilbert, Music Director), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Barbican, London, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony.
Other dates to be announced.
On sale: now
New York Sounds
February / March (exact dates to be announced)
Barbican Hall and other venues tba
On sale: to be announced
Guildhall School Opera - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
February – March (exact dates to be announced)
Stephen Barlow, conductor
Martin Lloyd-Evans, director
Dick Bird, designer
On sale: from 1 October 2011
MARCH
Complicite – new work
Director Simon McBurney
March (exact dates to be announced)
Barbican Theatre
Barbican co-commission
Press night: to be announced
On sale: to be announced
APRIL
Bauhaus: Art as Life
April – August (exact dates to be announced)
Barbican Art Gallery
A Barbican Art Gallery exhibition in co-operation with Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin / Museum für Gestaltung, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Klassik Stiftung Weimar
On sale: to be announced
Gross und Klein (Big and Small)
A journey across contemporary Germany
By Botho Strauss. English text by Martin Crimp
Director Luc Bondy
13 – 29 April
Barbican Theatre
A Sydney Theatre Company production, co-commissioned by the Barbican, London and London 2012 Festival using funds from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Théâtre de la Ville Paris and Wiener Festwochen.
Part of London 2012 Festival.
Press night: 14 April 2012
On sale: from 25 May 2011
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam Residency
22 April, 12 & 20 May
Barbican Hall
22 April: Harnoncourt | Beethoven – Missa solemnis
12 May: Jansons | Stravinsky – Mass, Violin Concerto in D major, The Firebird – complete ballet
20 May: Haitink | Bruckner – Symphony No 5
On sale: now
MAY
Einstein on the Beach
4 - 13 May
Barbican Theatre
Einstein on the Beach is produced by Pomegranate Arts, Inc and commissioned by the Barbican; BAM; Cal Performances University of California, Berkeley; Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity; De Nederlandse Opera/The Amsterdam Music Theatre; Opéra et Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Rousillon and the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan.
Part of London 2012 Festival
Press night: Friday 4 May 2012, 6pm
On sale: now
Cymbeline
Ninagawa Company
Directed by Yukio Ninagawa
29 May – 2 June
Barbican Theatre
Part of the World Shakespeare Festival
The World Shakespeare Festival is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London 2012 Festival.
Part of London 2012 Festival
Press night: 29 May
On sale: from 6 June 2011
JUNE
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012
6 June – 9 July
Barbican Theatre and Sadler’s Wells
Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells in association with Cultural Industry and the Barbican. With thanks to Wuppertal, North Rhine Westphalia and Arts Council England
Part of London 2012 Festival
On sale: now
JULY
Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra
Residency
July (exact dates to be announced)
Barbican Hall and other venues
Part of London 2012 Festival and funded by Arts Council England
On sale: to be announced
Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3) : Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra
25 & 26 July
Barbican Hall
Swing Symphony was commissioned by Berliner Philharmoniker in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, and the Barbican, for the LSO, Arts Council England and the London 2012 Festival.
Kathryn McDowell , Managing Director of the LSO, said: “The LSO is delighted that the funding for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad has enabled the Orchestra to collaborate with Wynton Marsalis and the Barbican in presenting Wynton Marsalis’s A Swing Symphony conducted by Sir Simon Rattle”
Part of London 2012 Festival
On sale: to be announced
Desdemona
Toni Morrison, Rokia Traoré, Peter Sellars
July (exact dates to be announced)
Barbican Hall
Desdemona is commissioned by: Wiener Festwochen, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Cal Performances, Berkeley, California, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, spielzeit'europa I Berliner Festspiele, Barbican, London, Arts Council England and London 2012 Festival.
Part of London 2012 Festival
On sale: to be announced
You Me Bum Bum Train – new work
July (exact dates to be announced)
East London location
On sale: to be announced
Unleashed
July (exact dates to be announced)
Barbican Theatre
Part of London 2012 Festival
On sale: to be announced
SEPTEMBER
Mademoiselle Julie
August Strindberg
Directed by Frédéric Fisbach
20 – 29 September (not running 23 September)
Barbican Theatre
Press night: 20 September 2012
On sale: From 6 June 2011
Set and lighting design: Laurent P. Berger
Costumes : Alber Elbaz for Lanvin
Director’s assistant: Benoit Résillot
French translation : Terje Sinding
Artistic collaboration: Raphaëlle Delaunay
With Juliette Binoche, Nicolas Bouchaud, Bénédicte Cerutti and a local community cast
Producer: Avignon Festival
Co-producers: Barbican, London, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre Liberté de Toulon, La Comédie de Reims Centre dramatique national, CDDB Théâtre de Lorient Centre dramatique national, France Télévisions, Compagnie Frédéric Fisbach
With the support of Région Île-de-France, ADAMI, and the Maison Lanvin
With the special support of SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Africa Express
September (exact dates to be announced)
UK venues
Part of London 2012 Festival and funded by Arts Council England
On sale: to be announced
ABOUT THE BARBICAN
The Barbican Centre is one of the world's leading arts centres, founded and run by the City of London Corporation. It encompasses dance, film, music, theatre, visual arts and creative learning who work together in creating the model of tomorrow's international arts and learning centre. Committed to providing a world-class programme, which inspires, challenges and amazes its audiences, the Barbican is also home to Resident Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Associate Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Associate Producer Serious. Its Artistic Associates include Boy Blue Entertainment, Cheek by Jowl, Deborah Warner, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and Michael Clark Company. International Associates are Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Jazz at Lincoln Center. The architecturally renowned Centre, now Grade II listed, opened in 1982, and comprises the 1,949 seat Barbican Hall, the 1,166-seat Barbican Theatre, the Pit theatre, a 286 seat cinema, the Barbican Art Gallery, a second gallery The Curve, foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside Terrace, roof-top tropical conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants.
For more information visit www.barbican.org.uk.
ABOUT THE CULTURAL OLYMPIAD AND LONDON 2012 FESTIVAL
The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is the largest cultural celebration in the history of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Movements. Spread over four years, it is designed to give everyone in the UK a chance to be part of London 2012 and inspire creativity across all forms of culture, especially among young people. The culmination of the Cultural Olympiad will be the London 2012 Festival , bringing leading artists from all over the world together from 21 June 2012 in this UK-wide festival – a chance for everyone to celebrate London 2012 through dance, music, theatre, the visual arts, film and digital innovation and leave a lasting legacy for the arts in this country.
Principal funders of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival are Arts Council England , Legacy Trust UK and the Olympic Lottery Distributor . BP and BT are Premier Partners of the Cultural Olympiad and the London 2012 Festival. The British Council will support the international development of London 2012 Cultural Olympiad projects. Panasonic are the presenting partner of Film Nation: Shorts .
For more details visit www.london2012.com/culture
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