In contrast to the past, DADA, the first declared anti-war art movement, approached the subjects of war, death, terror, insanity, diseases, domination, and conquest at a completely different level. The artists were often on the frontline, thus, by interiorizing the traumatic experiences there, they were able to exteriorize them on their canvas later. The results speak for themselves.
Join Contemporary Art Specialist Bojana Popovic, to learn more about what makes some art works worth millions. In this lecture we will explore what makes an artwork valuable and what set of guidelines to look out for when buying art, whatever the price range. We will discuss the importance of provenance, exhibition history, as well as other details inherent to the work itself – such as medium, size and condition.
What does our DNA tell us about who we really are? What does it explain to us about our personal and collective identities and the culture and society we really come from? Join us for a reflection on life after doing a DNA test and an exploration of the questions and thoughts it raises about where we come from.
Join us to explore the celebratory history and purpose of a Caribbean Carnival to understand its combination of Trinidadian roots, African traditions and Jamaican sound system culture and how it came to symbolise freedom in the face of oppression for the Afro Caribbean community in West London's Notting Hill carnival.
Have you ever considered who decides what is cool, appealing, fashionable, undesirable, threatening or healthy? We consume the media for knowledge and entertainment but do we ever stop and think how that consumption shapes what we get to know and like and what we don't? Join Samantha Allen to explore notions of beauty, heritage and 'the savage' to understand why we often think the way we do.
Comics, graphic novels, or bandes dessinees, this mix of visual and textual fragments has been in the attention of the large public since its birth. Approaching all subjects, including social critique, children's story tales, justice themes, war, terrorism, and generational trauma, comics reach out to people of all classes and ages.
In this talk we discuss the history of the Dandy, its relevance to fashion, arts, drag and theatre today and how we might learn from this playful archetype to further embody our own inner Dandy.Â
In this talk we delve into a world where the outlandish is ordinary and the ordinary seems outlandish, of clowns and comics, dancers and dreamers, of performance just below street level or in a tucked away attic up many flights of seemingly endless stairs. Join us as we discuss who what where when how and why is Cabaret.
In collaboration with Book Club Bunch we are excited to announce our next poetry reading evening! Join us as we delve into literary works and enjoy masterpieces read out loud by amazing actors! In December we will focus on poems exploring ideas of Humanity.
In collaboration with Book Club Bunch we are excited to announce our next poetry reading evening! Join us as we delve into literary works and enjoy masterpieces read out loud by amazing actors! In November we will focus on poems exploring ideas of Freedom.
