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Barbican Sessions: Peter Moore

London Symphony Orchestra’s co-principal trombonist, Peter Moore, performs 'Doolallynastics – a brief torture for solo trombone’ by Brian Lynn in our latest Barbican Session, filmed in one of our Frobisher Auditoriums. 
 

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A Guide to Fashion Shoots

What goes on behind the scenes of those major fashion brand campaigns we see in the glossy magazines or on Instagram? We invited the Warehouse team to share their experience working on the Barbican partnership. 

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Listen: Japanese Innovators

A playlist featuring some of our favourite Japanese artists. From the ambient electronica of Ryuichi Sakamoto to the Noise Rock of Boredoms - we shine a light on the nation's innovative musical past and present.

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Being a Change Maker

What does it mean to be a 'change maker'? We've been working with students and teachers from one of Britain’s largest secondary schools, Sydney Russell School in Barking & Dagenham to explore that question...

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Music of conflict

Music has a unique role to play in war time. Dr Kate Kennedy looks at a number of solider-composers from World War I, from different backgrounds and nations, exploring the vital importance of music for survival.

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Dorothea Lange: A Life in Pictures

We look back through the life and work of pioneering documentary photographer and visual activist, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) to coincide with the first UK retrospective of her work, 'Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing'.

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Vanessa Winship: she dances on Jackson

In an extract from 'Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds' exhibition catalogue, photography historian David Chandler reflects on Winship’s Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation award-winning body of work: she dances on Jackson.

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Barbican Sessions: Keaton Henson

For our latest Barbican Session, English folk rock musician Keaton Henson performs an Impromptu on a theme from 'Six Lethargies' in the Barbican Library.