Too Young For What? Chris Webb on Barbican’s Free Festival Celebrating Jean-Michel Basquiat
Chris Webb is Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning’s Visual and Cross Arts Curator. Creative Learning’s programmes support people of all ages and backgrounds to discover their creative voice and access world-class arts for free. Chris Webb develops learning activity in connection to Barbican’s exhibitions, including work with young people on programmes such as Barbican’s Young Visual Arts Group.
Parallel Universe: Holly Revell on Photographing and Collaborating with David Hoyle
All photos © Holly Revell
Holly Revell is a photographer and videographer of live performance and all that surrounds it. ‘David Hoyle: Parallel Universe’ is a limited edition book of photography and artworks emerging from the intimate eight-year collaboration between Holly and avant-garde queer performance legend David Hoyle. Holly writes for Run Riot about the making of the book.
Michael Hall: Doing Things Differently at Genesis Cinema
Genesis Cinema's Alternative Programming & Outreach Manager Michael Hall writes for Run Riot on how East London's truly independent cinema is defying the norm; reducing ticket prices, making programming more inclusive and providing free tickets to low incomed or unwaged patrons.
Frau Welt: The Making of A Grande Dame by Peter Clements
Photo credits: Holly Revell
It began with a voice. A character I’d once played wouldn’t leave me alone. Her name was Frau Welt, a grande dame of the theatre. I’d sit on trains muttering, in a thick German accent, tall tales of Berlin, Broadway and Angela Lansbury. I was desperate to make a solo show.
