Beyond K-pop, this year’s K-Music Festival brings together traditional Korean instruments and shamanic music with hip-hop, gaming soundtracks, jazz and experimental music, showcasing the diversity of Korea’s contemporary music scene across London from September 28 to November 23. Pablo Muñoz London’s celebration of Korean music and culture returns […]
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New voices reshape London’s orchestral stage
From six Chinese women poets across more than a thousand years of Chinese history to contemporary questions of identity, ancestry and social change, the programme connects different voices, traditions and artistic forms. Pablo Muñoz The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) has announced an autumn 2026 season featuring collaborations across […]
Living with contradictions
“Everything was forever, until it was no more” is one of those books that upsets common assumptions about something that has been packaged and presented for uncritical digestion. Sean Sheehan Life in the USSR, before it imploded in 1989, is often characterized in binary terms: communism was bad, […]
Gardens galore
Gardens are fascinating places. They say so much about their custodians. Sean Sheehan Walk down a suburban street in Britain and front gardens tell all. You might see a small but manicured lawn with flower beds or an unkempt patch of grass filled with a jumble of bikes […]
‘Amreeka’ and the human face of exile
The production directed by Cherien Dabis follows the journey of a Palestinian family seeking to reconstruct their lives far from the Middle East, in a tale where migration, identity and dignity are at the heart of the story. It is a story that remains relevant. Sergio Berrocal It […]
















