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20 shows for 2020

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Our Nature Unwrapped 2020 programme opened last week with a spectacular series of events and performances from Theatre of Voices, Brian Cox,…

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Nature Unwrapped Sound Calendar 2020 by Chris Watson

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Our Artist-in-Residence for Nature Unwrapped, Chris Watson, has created a sound calendar of environments from the northern hemisphere. Come early…

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Noh and the Natural World

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As Noh Reimagined returns to Kings Place in June 2020, curator Akiko Yanagisawa reflects on the centrality of nature to…

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15 Years of Kings Place

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Over the years, Kings Place has established an award-winning, innovative programme for music and spoken word, developing new series, festivals,…

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Venus Unwrapped

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Venus Unwrapped throws a spotlight on the creative fire power of female composers, from Hildegarde of Bingen to Helen Grime,…

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The Wild Within

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Paul Hillier, director of Theatre of Voices and Associate Artist in Nature Unwrapped, explores the place where music and the…

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Time Unwrapped 2018 – Official Trailer

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What does music have to tell us about Time? In Time Unwrapped we show how music can stretch time, condense…

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Time Unwrapped

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Time Unwrapped is the tenth edition of Kings Place’s award-winning Unwrapped series. What does music have to tell us about Time? In Time Unwrapped we…

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Venus Unwrapped 2019 – Official Trailer

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In 2019 Kings Place’s award-winning flagship series focuses on the creative firepower of women composers: Venus Unwrapped.

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Ears to the Ground

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Chris Watson, sound recordist, artist and composer, is Artist in Residence for Nature Unwrapped; Pascal Wyse introduces him.

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Light in the Darkness

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Tansy Davies goes deeper than most composers dare to do and emerges with music of clarity and hope. Amanda Holloway…

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Cello Unwrapped

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The ninth edition of our now award-winning Unwrapped series features more than 30 great cellists, from legendary masters Christophe Coin, Pieter Wispelwey,…

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Venus Unwrapped Interviews

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As our year-round celebration of women composers continues, we’ve been interviewing some of the stars of the Venus Unwrapped series.…

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Jackie Kay - Scotland Unwrapped

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Jackie Kay CBE is one of Scotland’s foremost poets and novelists, and a guest curator for Scotland Unwrapped. Here she…

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Thomas Gould in Gould Standard & Time Unwrapped – A Kings Place Podcast

Podcasts

Violinist Thomas Gould chats to our Creative Consultant, Helen Wallace, about his genre-defying ‘Gould Standard’ series, and shares his favourite…

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Your A-Z Guide to Time Unwrapped

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The tenth edition of our year-long series celebrates music as a temporal art in myriad ways. With just over a week left…

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Meet the young Cello Unwrapped champion

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Fifteen-year-old cellist Willard Carter was Cello Unwrapped’s most devoted audience member. The Purcell School student missed only a handful of…

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Time Unwrapped – Spotify Playlist

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Kings Place’s year-long Time Unwrapped series features music that marks, measures and manipulates time, from Andriessen’s ever-accelerating De Snelheid, to…

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Composing Herself Kathy Hinde

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Bristol-based audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde makes a unique contribution to Venus Unwrapped & Luminate with Scattering Layer, (Sat 9 Feb, Hall…

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Celebrating 15 years of Kings Place

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As Kings Place reaches its 15th birthday, we look back with pride – and some wonder – at what has been…

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Noh, an Art of Contrasts

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Diego Pellecchia, Associate Professor at Kyoto Sangyō University, introduces one of the oldest extant theatrical forms in the world.

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No Man’s Land – Sound Installation by Chris Watson

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Our Artist in Residence for Nature Unwrapped, Chris Watson, has created a sound calendar of environments from the northern hemisphere.…

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Dances in the Dark – Sound Installation by Chris Watson

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Our Artist in Residence for Nature Unwrapped, Chris Watson, has created a sound calendar of environments from the northern hemisphere.…

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The Old Railway Path – Sound Installation by Chris Watson

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Our Artist in Residence for Nature Unwrapped, Chris Watson, has created a sound calendar of environments from the northern hemisphere. In…

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