ScreenNotes: The Pan-African Cultural Festival + Trances
Journalist Kevin Le Gendre looks at two films documenting the celebration of post-colonial African nations.
Journalist Kevin Le Gendre looks at two films documenting the celebration of post-colonial African nations.
Emma-Lee Moss aka Emmy the Great revisits memories of her childhood in Hong Kong and the stories of immortal love and resilience, myths and mooncakes that come when Autumn arrives.
Destiny Adeyemi presents Fat, Black & Sad. a new poem and short film exploring fatphobia and the public's perception of fatness.
Oliver Cross presents #NotGoingOut, a video which looks at his experience as a young disabled neuro-divergent artist during lockdown.
What does it mean to be real online? We invited two Young Barbican artists to bring together a group to explore this question in an online multidisciplinary project.
A multidisciplinary group of Barbican Young Creatives produce new, artistic work that explores the uncertain times we're living in.
In 2019, we invited a collective of multidisciplinary artists to explore what it means to be human as part of Life Rewired. Design Yourself collective member, Tice Cin looks back at the project.
Remi Graves presents a poem, inspired by "the disproportionate amount of deaths of black people during the Covid-19 pandemic in the USA and UK, and the recent, yet brief media resurgence of interest in systemic racism and police brutality".
See the Barbican through the eyes of musician Erland Cooper and artist Alex Kozobolis.
Photographer and activist Sunil Gupta tells us how he captured the diametrically opposed experiences of gay culture, in New York and Delhi.
Students from east London team up with music producer Semothy Jones, musician Bellatrix and composer Omar Shahryar to professionally write and record their own songs.
We speak to some of the Headway East London team to hear more about their work supporting people affected by brain injury and how Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning has been collaborating with them so far.