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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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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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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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Composing Herself Kathy Hinde

Interview

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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These are the voices that want to be heard

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Isobel Colchester is Chief Executive of Poet in the City, Artistic Associate at Kings Place, which promotes live poetry events…

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19 Events For 2019

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Our 2019 artistic programme started last week with a spectacular performance from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, launching…

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Venus: a manifesto

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Lavinia Greenlaw

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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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Mind the Gaps!

How five choirs coming to Kings Place are putting women’s contributions to choral music back on the map. By Amanda Holloway.

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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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‘You play pretty good… for a woman.’

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Amy Sibley-Allen, Jazz Consultant to Kings Place, reflects on the untold story of women in jazz

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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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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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Nik Void and Ashley Paul

Interview

Experimental electronic artist and producer, Nik Void, and multi-instrumentalist/composer Ashley Paul, discuss their new collaboration appearing in Venus Unwrapped & Luminate.

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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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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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Walking the Tightrope

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Since the time of Hildegard of Bingen, every century has had its share of exceptional female composers. So why aren’t…

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Peggy Seeger Q&A

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Legendary folk singer, song writer and activist Peggy Seeger recalls her mother, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, in a special event…

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2019: Five of the year's most memorable events

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From the most exquisite orchestral music through to folk, jazz and cutting-edge electronica, 2019 has seen an extraordinary range of…

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

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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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Forging the future

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Polly Bielecka, Director of Pangolin London, pays tribute to three formidable female sculptors featured as part of Venus Unwrapped this…

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Light in the Darkness

Interview

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

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2023 in 10 events, introduced by Rosie Chapman

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We asked Head of Artistic Planning Rosie Chapman to introduce 10 Kings Place events she will not be missing this year……

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