GENESIS –LIGHT–MAGIC, Belfry Exhibition, 1-18 November
Opening Event: 1 November, 6-9pm (Fat Man performance at 7.30pm) Friday 2, 9, 16 November, 12-6pm Saturday 3, 10, 17 November, 11am-6pm Sunday 4, 11 November, 12-4pm (Sunday 18 November by appointment) New works inspired by the historic Church of St John on Bethnal Green, a grade-one listed church designed by Sir John Soane. GENESIS. Kristina Pulejkova’s moving image work addresses the science fiction trope of terraforming in reverse. Laura Moreton-Griffiths collages facts and fictions around the Church’s patron, John the Apostle and originator of ‘In the beginning was the Word’....
Read MoreTOKYO CHUTEI IKI – SUNDAY 18 NOVEMBER, 1pm
The return of our friend Akira Mizutani and his band Tokyo Chutei Iki, for a free concert as part of the London Jazz Festival. Adventurous Japanese baritone saxophone ensemble Tokyo Chutei Iki cross genres from jazz to classical to rock and beyond. Today’s show allows the audience to see them in an open rehearsal. Tokyo Chutei Iki – probably the greatest Japanese 10 baritone saxophone ensemble in the world! Their only instruments are their voices and their baritone saxophones. Their music is adventurous and cross genres from jazz to classical to rock and beyond. Their latest...
Read MoreBRIGID MAE POWER, DUCK BAKER, GWENIFER RAYMOND – 26 October, 7pm
Upset The Rhythm presents… An evening in the harmonious fellowship of Tompkins Square Records Tickets: £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/448010 BRIGID MAE POWER is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, like Judie Sill, Micky Newburyor Linda Perhacs before her, paints her songs in dreamily expansive strokes, transporting earthly compositions into universal and exultant realms. Her self-titled debut on Tompkins Square was a majestic suite of reverb-swathed laments for voice, guitar, piano, accordion, and harmonium, recorded at the Portland...
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