Sea - Jodie Carey at the Foundling Museum
Commissioned by the Foundling Museum, Jodie Carey has created three new site-responsive installations in response to the Foundling Hospital story. Displayed within the exhibition gallery and amongst the historic Collection, these monumental pieces are imbued with a sense of remembrance and emotional trace.
Noh + Neuroscience - Glimpsing the Invisible
As part of Noh Reimagined two leading neuroscientists, Professor Semir Zeki and Professor Atsushi Iriki, will examine curious connections between the 650-year-old tradition of Noh and the mechanisms of our brain.
Women in music: Breaking into the music industry on and off stage with Rebecca Allen and Imelda May.
Universal Music, the UK’s leading music company have partnered with the National Portrait Gallery for an exclusive insight into the music business with Rebecca Allen, President of Decca Records and singer-songwriter Imelda May, one of biggest-selling UK female artists of the year. The discussion is aimed at anyone wanting to break into the music industry – on and off stage - and will include the opportunity to meet both Rebecca and Imelda.
Archaeology of Fashion Film
ONE-DAY CONFERENCE HOSTED AT CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
How did early 20th century cinema present and represent fashion, and how does this historical material relate to contemporary fashion film? This one-day conference investigates new methods, topics and themes at the interface of three fields: media archaeology, fashion history, and film studies. The conference looks at two parallel moments of fashion and film in the early 20th and 21st centuries, when the emergence and intensification of new technologies of the image began to impact the culture and commerce of fashion.
A Festival of Korean Dance:
For the first time ever The Place celebrates the rich and diverse Korean dance scene ranging from contemporary dance to hip hop and the UK debut appearance of the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR THE KNOWLEDGE QUARTER: The Place is delighted to offer £10 tickets (usually £20/£17) to the shows featured in A Festival of Korean Dance.
The Francis Crick Institute Presents: Pint of Science Festival 2018
The 2018 Pint of Science festival promises to be bigger and better than ever before. For the fourth year running the Crick will be brewing up three nights of talks and games based on the theme of 'Our Body', bringing research from the lab bench to the bar stool.
Crick researchers will be swapping the lab for the pub and discussing the cutting-edge interdisciplinary research that takes place at the institute over a pint. Come and quench your thirst for knowledge with three evenings of fascinating talks on cancer, the nervous system and microscopy at the Star of Kings pub.
Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival
Real to Reel, the UK’s first film festival devoted to making, returns to Picturehouse Central, Piccadilly, London, this spring and promises to be one of the highlights of London Craft Week. The event, produced by Crafts magazine and the Crafts Council, runs over three evenings from 8-10 May.
Placeless people: writing, rights and refugees
This lecture discusses how writers such as Arendt, Orwell, Simone Weil, Dorothy Thompson, and Samuel Beckett responded to the mass displacements of the last century, and anticipate many of the issues we confront today. Sceptical about the ability of human rights to legislate for refugees, yet committed to universal justice, these writers challenge us to imagine new terms for placelessness in modern times.
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