All posts for: Talks
1-54 Forum
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Accompanying 1-54, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, is 1-54 Forum, the fair's programme of discussion, performance, readings and other interventions that platforms creatives from the continent as well as its global diaspora.
Gaslight: Domestic Abuse through the Lens
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Evan Stark, forensic social worker & author of Coercive Control, discusses the 1944 psychological thriller Gaslight and the UK's Domestic Abuse Bill 2020.
RAD@Home
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As the home for dance, the RAD is here to support you when you can’t leave yours. As such, we’ve created RAD@Home to provide a whole raft of content to help you make the most of dancing at home. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be adding online dance classes for all ages and abilities as well as fun and useful features such as exclusive Dance Gazette articles, interviews and more.
Zoom in on The Fonteyn
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Zoom in on The Fonteyn is an insightful series of online interviews and reflections held over Zoom, relating to The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition. Over the 9-week series, we will hear from international dance professionals like Dame Darcey Bussell DBE, Sir Anthony Dowell, Stella Abrera, Marianela Nunez, Dame Monica Mason DBE, Mlindi Kulashe, and many more. They will discuss what they value in dance, preparing for your own performances, Margot Fonteyn, the person and the performer, dancing Frederick Ashton’s choreography and their own competition experiences.
36000 Humans
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36,000 humans have lost their lives in transit whilst trying to seek asylum in Europe. In Refugee Week 2019 Bearwood Action For Refugees launched a project to honour and remember them. Now you can share that experience online.
Portals: Joshua Yaffa in Conversation with Caelainn Hogan
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The New Yorker's Moscow correspondent Joshua Yaffa lifts the lid on Putin's Russia, discussing his book 'Between Two Fires' with Caelainn Hogan.
The Enchanted Interior | Curator Talk with Madeleine Kennedy
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Curator of The Enchanted Interior exhibition Madeleine Kennedy shares behind-the-scenes insights into how the exhibition evolved: from a seedling idea over five years ago and the iconic artworks which inspired it, to the design of the exhibition within the gallery, and the heightened contemporary resonance of works by women artists that speak to resilience in the face of isolation.
In The Testing Tank. Part 1 - Deep Dive
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A 3D sound trip into research, faith, doubt & nautical engineering. For home listening on stereo headphones. Please join us.
BODY (UN)MUTE
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A two-day online festival that looks into the rituals of dancing and masking in times of social distancing. How do these rituals happen in online space? What are the solutions that can empower us and activate our bodies? How do we navigate through this switch between private and public space? What kind of knowledge and ideas can we extract from new media artists and dancers? Together, we will create an online experience that stays part of our memory as festivals do. Last few months, our movements and ways of communicating have been impacted by a global crisis. Distances between our bodies in public and private spaces have been regulated by new measurements. Our freedom of movement is on hold. Dancing became possible only in private, and suddenly it has a different meaning and context. It introduced another form of visibility, “performing” for the web camera on our online meetings, dates, events. In the beginning, it felt weird and awkward, but we are adjusting to it. Now it is time to emancipate the online body and get a deeper understanding of the new realness. It is time to unmute the body.
Nottingham Playcast including the Amplify Podcast
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Welcome to Nottingham Playcast. Join us as we go behind the scenes at Nottingham Playhouse where we chat with actors, playwrights and directors, and share new work from our Amplify Artists.
Portals: Fernanda Melchor in Conversation with Caelainn Hogan
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Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor speaks to Caelainn Hogan about her International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, 'Hurricane Season', a masterpiece of contemporary Latin American literature that serves as a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons.
SEMMELWEIS - Behind the work with composer Ray Lustig and Matt Gray
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Join Ray Lustig, Composer and Matt Gray, General Director at The American Opera Project (AOP), for a conversation about Semmelweis, which is streaming on demand at www.doctor-semmelweis.com. Ray and Matt will talk about the history of Semmelweis, lessons for our time, and the development of the project. Several early workshops, directed by Matt Gray, were staged with AOP’s generous support.
Jess Hill: See What You Made Me Do
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Drawn from years of Walkley Award–winning investigative reporting on domestic abuse, Jess Hill’s See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse, vividly conjures the scale of our national emergency. Winner of the 2020 Stella Prize and praised by Helen Garner as a “shattering book: clear-headed and meticulous, driving always at the truth”, See What You Made Me Do evokes a sense of urgency in the reader. Rather than asking questions like, “Why didn’t she leave?”, Jess puts perpetrators – and the criminal justice system enabling them – into the spotlight. Journalist Georgie Dent speaks with Jess about her searing exposé and manifesto for change.
Social distancing has left many feeling isolated - especially in care homes and on hospital wards. So we've set up Playhouse Pen Pals!
— Nottingham Playhouse (@NottmPlayhouse) April 14, 2020
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Playhouse Pen Pals - help those most isolated feel more connected!
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Social distancing has left many feeling isolated - especially in care homes and on hospital wards. So we've set up Playhouse Pen Pals! Find out more using the link in our tweet.
Stephen Fry and Philippe Sands
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Stephen Fry and the international human rights lawyer Philippe Sands discuss his award-winning book East West Street, a compelling family detective story and exploration of the legal principles that defined the Nuremberg War Trials. It's riveting and exacting and you'd expect that, of course. But it's also hilarious, and the laughter is the light in this deep darkness.
The Forgotten Women of Astronomy
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Come on a cosmic journey of scientific discovery with one of the youngest female astrophysicists on the planet, Jo Dunkley. From the basics - like why the earth orbits the Sun - to astonishing facts about star catalogues and superclusters, this brilliant communicator teaches us all about our astonishing galaxy, hosted by multi-award-winning STEM journalist and Wiradjuri woman, Rae Johnston. Along the way, we encounter some extraordinary, little-known women who defied the restrictions placed on them because of their gender, and whose pioneering research laid the foundations that Professor Dunkley has built on.
Las Meninas
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An Arts Society lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Cockburn. This talk is a section of a longer lecture outlining Velázquez’s arrival in Madrid from Seville and his gradual rise at Court. In this lecture Jacqueline pays attention to one painting, probably the artist’s most famous ‘Las Meninas’ 1656, which she unravels for the viewer and considers the possible reasons why he painted it and what he hoped to gain from it. Filmed by the wonderful Natural Light Films.
Illuminated River Google Arts Exhibit
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Take a virtual tour of the Illuminated River artwork via the incredible Google Arts exhibit. There’s lots to explore including the history of the Illuminated River bridges and video interviews with light artist Leo Villareal.
Book Club: Peace Talks by Tim Finch
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We are delighted to be hosting a virtual book club with Dr Russell Rook talking to acclaimed author Tim Finch about his second novel 'Peace Talks'. It tells the story of Edvard Behrens, a senior diplomat highly regarded for his work on international peace negotiations. Honest, honourable, tragic, witty, wise, it's an unforgettable novel of love, loss, and the human longing for peace. It maps the darkest and most tender territories of the human heart. Tim Finch is a leading campaigner and writer on refugee and migrant issues. He formerly worked as a director for the Refugee Council and has founded two charities, including Sponsor Refugees. As well as working as a senior political journalist at the BBC, he has broadcast frequently on Channel 4, Al Jazeera and CNN.
A year of arts adventures in Weston-super-Mare
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A documentary following a series of extraordinary community arts projects in Weston-super-Mare.
The Enchanted Interior at Guildhall Art Gallery | Video Tour
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The Enchanted Interior is an exhibition that explores the recurring motif of female subjects in art, as depicted in enclosed, ornate interiors. Such images are inherently alluring yet sinister, carrying implications of enforced isolation. This theme is prevalent in nineteenth-century British painting, with many Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalists showing a fascination with the so-called ‘gilded cage’. Visitors will encounter work by a breath-taking variety of artists from the high Victorian through to Art Nouveau, Aestheticism, Surrealism, and pieces by contemporary female artists, who ‘speak back’ to the historic tradition.
Running Free: online workshops for the screen industries
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We’re partnering with Media Mentors to create twice-weekly micro skills workshops for the screen industries (and keen movie lovers) that people can view on ACMI’s YouTube channel. Workshop leaders will be available on Twitter for conversation via hashtag #runningfreeskills after the workshops are uploaded at 10am every Wed and Fri.
Richard Ford in Conversation
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Richard Ford in conversation with Brendan Barrington at The Pillar Room, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin.
Museums n'That
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This podcast gets to the very heart of the things that make museum people tick, by asking the questions you actually want to know: Can you archive an orange? How do you stuff a caterpillar? What’s the greatest city in the world? (Spoiler alert: it’s Leeds).
Elizabeth Gilbert in Conversation
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Elizabeth Gilbert in conversation with Anna Carey at the O'Reilly Theatre, Dublin, as part of a special International Literature Festival Dublin Off The Page event in June 2019.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Conversation
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson at the Convention Centre Dublin, as part of the 2018 International Literature Festival Dublin.
Tracey Thorn & Sinéad Gleeson in Conversation
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Tracey Thorn and Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with Jim Carroll at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2019.
Mark Billingham In Conversation With Eddie Izzard
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#HIFAtHome Mark Billingham and Eddie Izzard first met more than twenty-five years ago as struggling stand-up comics. Mark continued to struggle then later chucked in the comedy and went on to write the hugely successful series of crime novels featuring DI Tom Thorne. Eddie meanwhile became the mot acclaimed comedian of his generation, on top of which he is now a hugely successful actor, activist, and campaigner. In this very special guest event, they will discuss the overlap between crime and comedy, the art of storytelling and of course Eddies many TV and film appearances. Recorded live at HIF’s Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival (Friday 17 July 2015)
#RADISH - Rural Arts Daily Inspiration while Staying at Home
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Every weekday, #RADISH shares a free creative opportunity, including live workshops, talks and tutorials and artist profiles!
The case for hope with DeRay Mckesson
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DeRay Mckesson, civil rights activist and leading voice of Black Lives Matter, joined us at ANTIDOTE 2019. Watch his discussion with Faustina Agolley about how we can keep believing in change in a world marked by racism and violence. “Hope is the belief that our tomorrows can be better than our todays. Hope is not magic; hope is work.” – DeRay Mckesson
Denise Ho on pop and politics in Hong Kong
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LGBTQI activist and Cantopop singer, Denise Ho, has become a prominent figure in Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution. She visited Australia for ANTIDOTE 2019 at a crucial time for the Hong Kong protests, for a conversation with Broadly's Zing Tsjeng about how all contributions to activism - no matter how small they might seem - can have a big difference.