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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.

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.

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.

Lyrix Organix is a social enterprise that creates experimental events, rewriting the rulebook for live music and spoken word. The energy behind the collective comes from Dan Tsu, its founder and creative director, who is passionate about breaking down the barriers between different genres of ‘soulful’ music.

Photo credit: Jason Haye