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Barbican Centre

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The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. [1]

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Adrian Noble

Adrian Keith Noble (born 19 July 1950) is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.

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Aldersgate

Aldersgate is a Ward of the City of London, named after a gate in the ancient London Wall around the City.

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Art exhibition

An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience.

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Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan (the Mingei movement) in the 1920s.

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Barbican Centre, York

The Barbican Centre is an indoor entertainment venue located in York, England.

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Barbican Conservatory

The Barbican Conservatory is the second largest conservatory in London, located at the Barbican Centre.

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Barbican Estate

The Barbican Estate is a residential estate that was built during the 1960s and the 1980s within the City of London in Central London, in an area once devastated by World War II bombings and today densely populated by financial institutions.

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Barbican tube station

Barbican is a London Underground station situated near the Barbican Estate, on the edge of the ward of Farringdon Within, in the City of London in Central London.

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Barbicania

Barbicania is a 2014 film by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine, documenting a month in the life of London’s Barbican Centre and Estate.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Brutalist architecture

Brutalist architecture flourished from 1951 to 1975, having descended from the modernist architectural movement of the early 20th century.

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Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon was a British firm of architects whose work involved designing the Barbican Estate.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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City of London Corporation

The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the municipal governing body of the City of London, the historic centre of London and the location of much of the UK's financial sector.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s to early 1990s, which includes modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music.

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Culture of London

The culture of London concerns the engineering, music, museums, festivals and other entertainment in London, the capital city of the United Kingdom.

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EC postcode area

The EC (Eastern Central) postcode area, also known as the London EC postal area, is a group of postcode districts in central London, England.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Farringdon station

Farringdon is a London Underground and connected main line National Rail station in Clerkenwell, in the London Borough of Islington, just outside the City of London.

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Global Cultural Districts Network

The (GCDN) is a federation of global centers of arts and culture that fosters cooperation and knowledge-sharing among those responsible for conceiving, funding, building, and operating cultural districts and/or clusters with a significant cultural element.

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Golden Lane Estate

The Golden Lane Estate is a notable 1950s council housing complex in the City of London.

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Gramophone (magazine)

Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London devoted to classical music, particularly to reviews of recordings.

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Gregory Doran

Gregory Doran (born 24 November 1958) is a British director known for his Shakespearean work.

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Grey Global Group

Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City, and 432 offices in 96 countries, operating in 154 cities — organized into four geographical units: North America; Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.

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Ila Bêka

Ila Bêka (also Ila Beka or Ilabeka) is a contemporary Italian artist, filmmaker and producer living in Paris.

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List of concert halls

A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Liverpool Street station

Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Michael Paraskos

Michael Paraskos, FHEA, FRSA (born 1969) is a novelist, lecturer and writer on art, and is the son of the Cypriot artist Stass Paraskos.

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Moorgate station

Moorgate is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station on Moorgate in the City of London.

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Museum of London

The Museum of London documents the history of the English capital city from prehistoric to modern times.

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Pentagram (design firm)

Pentagram is a design firm.

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Performing arts center

Performing arts center/centre (see spelling differences), often abbreviated as PAC, is used to refer to.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Seating capacity

Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.

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Shakespearean history

In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies.

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Silk Street, London

Silk Street is a street in the City of London.

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St. Paul's tube station

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Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone

Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, PC (born 1942) is an English politician and university administrator.

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Theo Crosby

Theo Crosby (3 April 1925 – 12 September 1994) was an architect, editor, writer and sculptor, engaged with major developments in design across four decades.

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Ziggurat

A ziggurat (Akkadian: ziqqurat, D-stem of zaqāru "to build on a raised area") is a type of massive stone structure built in ancient Mesopotamia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_Centre

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