A film season explores the relevance of craftsmanship with documentaries and short films on traditional and contemporary trades, from Sami textiles to Japanese listening cafés. This will happen in “The old ways”, which will take place from 22 March to 16 May 2026 at the Barbican Cinema. Sara Harvey […]
Culture
In the footsteps of Colombian painter Débora Arango
Débora Arango is one of the most valuable painters in Colombian painting of the twentieth century. She is valuable because of the quality of her brushstroke, especially in watercolour: intense, agitated, and by no means fragile; as if she painted with wine and blood, not with water. Jorge Raedó* […]
Multicultural music celebrating diversity and peace
This is a posthumous work by British musician Nick Page, who seeks unity through dub, reggae, Afro-beat and global fusion rhythms, with lyrics in Amharic, Spanish, French and English. Its name says it all: “Dub will keep us together”. Angie Lemon In May 2021, the world lost musician, […]
Yanomami genocide
Over thirty years ago, projecting slides onto plastic screens and mirrors, Claudia Andujar raised awareness of the sufferings of the Yanomami people brought about by illegal gold miners. Sean Sheehan The Yanomami live in an Amazonian region of northern Brazil and the forest of the Orinoco River basin […]
Victor Serge: the disobedient revolutionary
Victor Serge was born in Brussels in 1890 but came to live in many cities. He was, as an outstanding new biography puts it, an “unruly revolutionary”. Sean Sheehan His parents were Russian immigrants and, in Paris, their son was drawn into anarchist circles and began writing for […]
















