Read, Watch & Listen

This week, we’re speaking not to a director, or an actor, but an author: Naomi Alderman, who discusses the film adaptation of her first novel, Disobedience.

Journey through The Curve and discover Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta's exhibition 'Sun at Night'. 

Maxine Peak plays Funny Cow, a woman who want to make people laugh, someone who refuses to give up on her dreams. The film is the fictional tale of a woman who dreams of making it in the unforgiving northern comedy circuit of the 70s. 

This week, New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay, dancer and choreographer, Dame Siobhan Davies, Radiohead drummer and musician Philip Selway, and director Alla Kovgan about Kovgan’s amazing 3D documentary, Cunningham.

Over this three-part series we’ve entered a parallel universe of video games music, from the chunky world of 8-bit tunes to the full studio cinematic scores that define the modern immersive gaming experience. These mechanical melodies have been sneaking out of the consoles and into the concert hall for well over a decade.

This week, documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto speaks to journalist Laurence Topham about her 2019 film Shooting the Mafia.

Latinx jazz collective Colectiva perform an exclusive piece in the Milton Court Theatre, ahead of their sold out gig with Balimaya Project last October.

From 2018 we present the second of our three-part series Ode to Joysticks. Sit back as we move from 8-bit to 64-bit and find ourselves in worlds old and new, searching for mystical treasure, solving puzzles, joining ancient societies, driving fast cars or at the most fundamental level just trying to survive that new very scary looking new monster coming toward us.

From 2018 we present the first of our three-part series Ode to Joysticks. Sit back and enter a parallel universe of video games music from the chunky world of 8-bit tunes to the full studio cinematic scores that define the modern immersive gaming experience.

Watch as Yolande Yorke-Edgell of Yorke Dance Project performs Martha Graham’s expressionist solo masterpiece Lamentation in our Gallery.

We chatted with Stephanie Francis-Shanahan, an artist who took part in our Young Visual Arts Group and Young Curators about her experience.

We return for another archive cinema edition. Back in 2017 we got to spend some time in the company of writer and director Rungano Nyoni where she talked in detail about her debut film - I Am Not a Witch.