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East: Barbican Offers!

As part of the EAST Festival, the Barbican Centre are offering 10 pairs of tickets to ANY of the following events! Off course – everything is subject to availability.

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COMPETITION: 1x Pair of tix per winner to attend ANY of the below events.

To claim your tickets, send an email with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ box. Please state which event you’d like to attend, and please suggest two options for dates. The winner(s) will be randomly selected.

Q: The latest exhibition at the Barbican is titled Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art and is partly inspired by the first chapter of Thierry de Duve’s Kant after Duchamp, in which an imaginary anthropologist from outer space sets out to inventory ‘all that is called art by humans’. Since the Martians do not have art as a defined category in their culture, they classify and interpret their chosen objects with out the ‘knowledge’ we know as art history. Instead they treat works of art as artefacts: objects which serve a function, whether real or symbolic. So, let's spin off on a slight tangent... which TV episode opening narration begins with ‘Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.’?

A: .1) Starship Voyager .2) Stargate SG1 .3) Futurama .4) Star Trek

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BARBICAN CENTRE
Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS

THE PIT
THU 6 – FRI 7 & MON 10 - TUE 11 MARCH, 8.15PM
Tough time, nice time
Martin, an ex-rent boy drug-dealing lawyer, offers to share his tales of misfortune with Stefan, a jaded hack writer on a junket. Together they engage in an intricate exchange of outrageous stories, weaving through movies, sex, celebrity and genocide. With its razor sharp dialogue and lightning pace Ridiculusmus’ latest production is vividly imaginative and utterly absorbing. Over 18s only.
Usually £15

SAT 8 MARCH, 6.15PM
How to be Funny
A chance to learn the secret of comedy with Ridiculusmus. This exploration of the nature of humour is also a touching observation on the human condition.
Usually £15

SAT 8 MARCH, 9PM
Yes Yes Yes
A one off opportunity to see this cult classic from unconventional, innovative theatre company Ridiculusmus. Drawn from mental health experiences, personal and otherwise, its unique comedy is the light out of the pit of depression. Ages 14+
Usually £15

BARBICAN THEATRE
THU 6 – TUE 11 MARCH (EXCEPT SUN)
MON – SAT 7.45PM AND SAT 2.30PM, TUE 7.15PM
The Harder They Come
This exhilarating production is based on the groundbreaking film of the same name, which starred Jimmy Cliff and launched reggae onto a world stage. With a live reggae band, the cast perform all the classic songs from the film soundtrack, including You Can Get It If You Really Want and By The Rivers of Babylon.
£10 - £30

BARBICAN HALL
THU 6 MARCH, 7.30PM
Karetnikov Symphony No 4 / Mahler Symphony No 5
FRI 7 MARCH, 7.30PM
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1 / Mahler Symphony No 7
Over two consecutive nights the London Symphony Orchestra perform two of Mahler’s great symphonies, led by Russian conductor Valery Gergiev as part of his Mahler Series at the Barbican.
Usually £6 - £30

SAT 8 MARCH, 7.30PM
Bartok/ Van Gogh: Organic Symmetries
David Robertson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a special audiovisual concert presenting two 20th-century masterworks by Bartók, which draw upon paintings and sketches by Van Gogh.
Usually £8 - £24

SUN 9 MARCH, 7.30PM
Linton Kwesi Johnson and The Dennis Bovell Dub Band
plus special guests Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Winston Francis and Zena Edwards
Famed worldwide as the first reggae poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson hosts a night of words and deeply grooving dub and reggae.
Usually £10 / £15 / £20


BARBICAN ART GALLERY
Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS

THU 6 – TUE 11 MARCH, THU 11AM – 10PM, FRI – SUN 11AM – 8PM, TUE 11AM – 6PM
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
This exhibition presents contemporary art works under the fictional guise of a museum collection conceived by and designed for extraterrestrials.
Usually £8 / £6 conc

THU 6 MARCH, 6.30PM – 10PM
Fantasy, Fiction and Fact
Science fiction and fantasy writer Russell Hoban performs new readings and music.
Free to same day ticket holders otherwise
Usually £8 / £6 conc

SAT 8 MARCH, 4.30PM, CINEMA 2
This Wild Melody
Artist Marcus Coates presents a choral performance of British birdsong performed by the LSO St Luke’s Community Choir. This multi-media event uses digital, audio and video projection to enable the singers to accurately replicate birdsong.
Usually £4

SAT 8 MARCH, FROM 6.30PM
Big Martian Night Out: Team Mega Mix and their Space Hits
Listen into 50 years of ‘space hits’ with the dazzling Team Mega Mix DJs in their incredible uniforms.
Free to same day ticket holders otherwise
Usually £8 / £6 conc

SAT 8 MARCH, 7PM, REDGRAVE ROOM, LEVEL 4
Big Martian Night Out: Imagining Mars - Fact and Fiction
At the boundaries between fact and fiction, new parallel worlds are explored. What is the relationship between fantasy and reality? Speakers include poet Maurice Riordan and Barry Phipps, Curator in Residence, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Chaired by Sian Ede, Arts Director, Gulbenkian Foundation.
Usually £3

SAT 8 MARCH, 8PM
Big Martian Night Out: Close Encounter
Bo Maxwell, Managing Director of the Mars Society UK, talks about how the planet Mars and space travel have captured the human imagination throughout the centuries.
Free to same day ticket holders otherwise
Usually £8 / £6 conc

THU 6 MARCH – TUE 11 MARCH, 11AM–8PM
Hans Schabus: Next Time I’m Here, I’ll be There
For his first UK solo show, Hans Schabus transforms the architectural space of The
Curve into a scenario for a fictional journey.
FREE



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