Reekie's Round-Up 2018
Somerset House Director Jonathan Reekie CBE selects his cultural highlights of 2018.
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Somerset House Director Jonathan Reekie CBE selects his cultural highlights of 2018.
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A workshop and public performance of a re-inscribed script of Horace Ové’s Baldwin’s Nigger.
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Somerset House and Fashion Open Studio present a series of inspiring talks and workshops challenging ways of thinking and making through fashion.
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An interactive workshop employing collective singing, listening and discussion.
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Led by disabled artist Raquel Meseguer Zafe, this session explores rest and horizontality as methods for artistic strategy.
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An exhibition examining the historical representation and shifting legacy of Black women in visual culture.
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Fashion designer and founder of self-titled lifestyle brand Tihara Smith speaks to us.
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Film poster exhibition, talks, screenings and workshops in line with Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House
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Free, live music sets each Friday afternoon.
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Makerversity's Fiona Dent on how their community of emergent maker businesses have been keeping busy behind the scenes producing much needed PPE for frontline workers
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UK Label BBE draw on 20 years of releasing the finest disco compilations and re-issues with an evening dedicated to the glittering 70s sounds of New York and Chicago clubland.
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York Times, alongside many other End of Year lists including Loud & Quiet, Paste, Stereogum and ... globe including sold-out headline shows at EartH, ICA, The Scala, Oval Space and Queen Elizabeth Hall in ... has been described as ‘sheer exhilaration’ (New York Times), while NPR’s Bob Boilen described the show ...
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Paying homage to the diversity of London.
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An in depth workshop exploring various techniques used to grow mushrooms and the principles behind cultivating fungi.
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London's landmark open-air cinema announces first titles of this year's festival, plus a new range of seating options
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Storymix is an inclusive fiction studio that works with emerging and established writers and illustrators of colour.
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Our pioneering Creative Careers Academy offers paid work placements to people aged 18-25.
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Further exhibition highlights revealed
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DEFRAG returns for another series investigating the myriad ways that technology continues to change culture and society.
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The biggest free outdoor contemporary circus event in central London this summer
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