Image: The Wedding by Gecko.
I’m sitting in the dark, waiting for a child to be born.
It will happen very soon and, much like in real life, be just as unexpected and confusing. Echoes of childlike cries resound through the Barbican, coming first from my right, then frighteningly close behind me, making their way down toward the stage where the end of a slide protrudes onto a crash mat of stuffed teddy bears.
Image: Artist David Shearing, photographed by Tom Joy.
Image: Timberlina (left) and Dan de la Motte, present Rock n Roll Nature Revelation on Saturday 23 July
Summer is here, and Team London Bridge brings a weekend of family fun to Potters Fields Park, and it’s all free to join in. Whether you enjoy great shows, like to get hands-on with workshops or love to explore with guided adventures, there will be plenty to entertain you across two days dedicated to children and their families.
Image: 'devotion - seduction', work by Joseph Morgan Schofield, 2020. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou
FUTURERITUAL is an artist-led curatorial project which explores the connections between ritual, queer culture, and performance art. Since the emergence of performance art as an artistic medium, the practice has been entangled with ritual.
Image of Valerie Renay
For the most versatile and tenacious performers, exploring the plethora of personalities, environments and mediums that make art such a connective and predictive platform is like secretly slipping into a new pair of shoes and skipping through a mortal kaleidoscope - seeing which intoxicating reflection you end up breaking them in first.
Image: Victoria Willing, writer of SAD
Image: 'Showwomen'. L-R: Fancy Chance, Marisa, Lucifire, Livia, photographed by Sarah Hickson.
Image: Livia Kojo Alour
Image: Hannah Kumari in ENG-ER-LAND, performing at Dulwich College (9 Feb) as part of the UK Tour
Image: Festival of Europe
"Imagine building a musical bridge between the UK and our friends, allies and neighbours across the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Something joyous, indestructible and heartfelt: The Festival of Europe is that bridge."
Howard Goodall CBE Composer, broadcaster, writer and patron of Festival of Europe