Read, Watch & Listen

This week we look back with a series of two episodes that attempt to explore the music, the man and the myth of composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle in his 80th year in 2014.

Watch a ScreenTalk with 'Sisters with Transistors' director Lisa Rovner and producer/engineer Marta Salogni, hosted by Zing Tsjeng.

On this week's edition we step into a deep and complex digital universe: we take down from our archive shelf a conversation with composer Jessica Curry. 

Learn how to make your own zoetrope from LUPA, a collaboration between filmmaker Pablo Rojo and visual artist Lucia Novoa Gil, that focuses on the exploration and documentation of textile making techniques.

In this week’s archive edition we travel back quite a way in our archive, in this case to the 19th Century and meet the manipulative Lady Susan played by Kate Beckinsale in Whit Stillman’s film Love & Friendship.

Annie Fan and Cia Mangat present a collaborative poem in response to women's safety.

In this week’s archive edition we return to the cinema and find ourselves trapped in the claustrophobic Oscar winning drama Room…

Not familiar with Monsieur Dubuffet? Don’t fear, as our Research Assistant and resident Dubuffet expert Camille Houzé has written a brief biography about the artist’s life and times.

Artist Nye Thompson speaks to us about the politics of island geography and national identity explored in her video installation INSULAE [Of the Island].

In an empty Level G foyer, saxophonist Jess Gillam performs the world premiere of her ECHO Rising Stars commission: Edmund Finnis's A Spiral Ascending, before she's joined by pianist Leif Kaner-Lidström and double bassist Sam Becker for Kurt Weill's Je ne t'aime pas and Astor Piazzolla's 'Nightclub 1960' from Histoire du Tango.

This week we return to our archive and a conversation with the late conductor Mariss Jansons, who sadly passed away in December 2019. 

In a new interview series, we get to know some of the performers, artists and creatives from our programme.