An annual festival of over 90 sessions, Battle of Ideas will return to the Barbican in 2017 for another weekend of free-thinking and lively debate.
Battle of Ideas weekend tickets
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An annual festival of over 90 sessions, Battle of Ideas will return to the Barbican in 2017 for another weekend of free-thinking and lively debate.
Weaving Workshop with Christabel Balfour
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Weave you way through our Brutalist architecture and get inspired as you learn the techniques of hand-weaving in Christabel Balfour's weaving workshops.
Casting Demo with Phil Cuttance
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Designer/maker Phil Cuttance demonstrates his cool, contemporary take on an age-old craft, as he casts a series of Jesmonite stone sculptures in the Barbican Shop.
Architecture on Stage: Ahrends Burton & Koralek
Peter Ahrends and Paul Koralek discuss their prolific architecture practice, established in the 1960s
Casting Workshop with Phil Cuttance
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Cast your own Jesmonite stone vase with designer/maker Phil Cuttance.
Being a Woman (12A*) + Sheila Rowbotham & Ann Deborah Levy
From a teenage girl's broken dreams to women's limited career opportunities, these films examine the collision between the fantasy of womanhood and the reality of women’s lives in the 1970s.
Women Finding Their Voices (PG*) + Stephanie Palewski
A rare chance to see documentaries that were screened in political gatherings during the 1970s and 1980s, mobilising the growing ranks of feminists.
Desire, Beauty & the Gaze (18*) + panel discussion
A fun collection of shorts from feminist filmmakers broaching topics such as love, body image and sexual pleasure – from a woman's perspective – for the first time.
The Personal is Political (PG*) + intro by Susie Orcbach
Second wave feminist filmmakers pioneered the sub-genre of the personal documentary, painting intimate and vivid portraits of a society in the flux of change.
