Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House

We talk to designer Sebastian Conran about his father’s legacy and his influence on British design. We discover Cromwell Place in South Kensington, London’s newest venue for galleries and collectors shaking up the art world. Plus we talk to the Dutch artist Jan Hendrix at his home in Mexico about his new exhibition, Paradise Lost, just opened at Shirley Sherwood’s Gallery of Botanical Art at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

We’re tracking down and rereading:

The House Book by Terence Conran

We’re visiting

Electronic: from Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers

The Design Museum - Designmuseum.org

Paradise Lost : an exhibition by Jan Hendrix

The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanic Art, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-on/paradise-lost-jan-hendrix-exhibition

Cromwell Place in South Kensington

Visitors must register to visit beforehand at Cromwellplace.com

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Elif Shafak on curating the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Chris Riddell’s Poems to Change the World With and Kensington and Chelsea Art Week

We’re booking up:

The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival from Friday 2nd October until Sunday 11th. For all details of what’s on and how to book visit

www.cheltenhamfestivals.com

We’re visiting:

Kensington and Chelsea Art Week from Thursday 1st October until Sunday 11th. See website for details and for exhibits that will be in situ for longer

www.ckaw.co.uk

We’re reading:

How to Survive in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak

10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak

We’re loving:

Poems to Change the World With by Chris Riddell by Macmillan Children’s Books

Visit Wonderland with Chris Riddell 

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Loyd Grossman discusses his new book and saving our culture and the Royal Borough opens its Physic Garden and National Army Museum for its annual History Festival.

We’re reading:

An Elephant in Rome : Bernini, the Pope and the making of the Eternal City by Loyd Grossman, £19.99

We’re going to:

The Chelsea History Festival

www.chelseahistoryfestival.com until 27 th September

We’re visiting:

The National Army Museum www.nam.ac.uk and The Chelsea Physic Garden

www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk for numerous live events during The Chelsea History

Festival – BOOKING ESSENTIAL

We’re scrabbling to get the last seats for:

Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – till 27 th September

www.Openairtheatre.com

ENO’s Drive & Live : Puccini’s La Bohème at Alexandra Palace till 27 th September

www.eno.org

Produced and Edited by Alex Graham

This week: Neelay Patel on how Digital Theatre is transforming young people’s lives and revitalising the theatre world, Phil Edgar-Jones on how and why we’re all going to be watching Sky Arts for free and Hafsa Adan on exploring hidden, uncelebrated parts of London at this weekend’s Open House Festival.

We’re tuning into Sky Arts for free on Freeview from midday Thursday 17th September

We’re logging onto Digital Theatre at

https://www.digitaltheatre.com

subscribe for £9.99 per month or rent productions for £7.99

Teachers, libraries and all educational institutions can subscribe to Digital Theatre + at https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education

We’re exploring London this weekend with the Open House Festival from Saturday 19th September.

For details of what to see and now to book go to

https://openhouselondon.open-city.org.uk

We’re pre-ordering Open House’s Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs, £14.99, edited by Owen Hatherley from

https://shop.openhouselondon.org.uk/products/pre-order-open-house-london-guide-2020

Produced and Edited by Alex Graham

Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Vogue photographer Misan Harriman on combatting racism in the capital and Kate Mavor from English Heritage chooses her favourite sites and blue plaques to visit

For our cultural nutrition, we’re logging onto What We Seee www.whatweseee.com

We’re visiting sites cared for by English Heritage. To book please visit

www.english-heritage.org.uk

We’re downloading the Blue Plaques of London app and watching English Heritage’s video

about how it makes them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAmnwsVfu1U

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Can we go out to watch a film this summer? Ben Roberts, CEO of the British Film Institute tells us what’s happening with British cinema and Rob Adediran from London Music Masters tells us about the positive changes happening in the music industry

We’re breaking out to:

Recently opened National Trust Properties

For all details of how to book:

www.nationaltrust.org.uk

Petworth House in Sussex

Barrington Court in Somerset

Kingston Lacy in Dorset

Lyme in Cheshire

Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk

The Argory in Country Armagh

Packwood House in Warwickshire.

Festivals:

Gisburne Park’s Pop Up – the first socially distanced festival in Lancashire: Parties in the park every Friday and Saturday from 11 July to 31 August

https://www.gisburneparkpopup.com

Red Rooster Festival: celebrating the best of the American Deep South at Euston Hall in Suffolk

4-6 September

www.redrooster.org.uk

Theatres:

Fanny and Stella opens outdoors at The Garden Theatre, adjacent to The Eagle in Kennington

Sleepless, based on Sleepless in Seattle, opens at the Troubador in Wembley Park on 25 August

https://www.troubadourtheatres.com/wembley-park

Machine de Cirque at Sadlers Wells Peacock Theatre opens 8 September

https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2020/machine-de-cirque/

Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert at Regent’s Park Open Theatre Theatre from 14 August

http://openairtheatre.com/production/jesus-christ-superstar-the-concert

Cinema:

The BFI on the South Bank will open on 1 September

https://www.bfi.org.uk

To find out what Odeons are open please see https://www.odeon.co.uk

Sign up to I’m In, the new tool from London Music Masters

https://londonmusicmasters.org/portfolio-item/40-music-organisations-sign-up-to-im-in/

For more of what’s on every week, sign up to our Weekly What’s On newsletter here –  https://www.countryandtownhouse.co.uk/newsletter/

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tony Hall in his new role as Chair of the National Gallery shares his vision for the gallery’s future and the Marquis of Cholmondeley talks about working with Anish Kapoor to mount his exhibition, now open to the public at Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

We’re breaking out to:

Titian : Love Desire Death at the National Gallery till 17 th January 2021

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/titian-love-desire-death

Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall till 1 st November 2020

https://www.houghtonhall.com/?page_id=3181

Ronnie Wood at Ashridge House : 21 st to 27 th August – SOLD OUT please see website for

news of more ticket releases

https://www.ashridgehouse.org.uk/events/ronnie-wood-x-ashridge-house-art-exhibition/

Turner Contemporary in Margate

https://turnercontemporary.org

Produced and Edited by Alex Graham

All Change: June Sarpong, TV broadcaster and panellist and author of Diversify became the BBC’s first ever Director of Creative Diversity last October. She talks to Ed and Charlotte about change at the BBC, gives a sneak preview of all the exciting programming coming up this summer and autumn and tells us how white people can be effective allies in the fight against racism

We’re breaking out to:

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at The Barbican from 13th July

Jan Svoboda: Against the Light at The Photographers Gallery from 14th July

Radical Figures:  Painting in the New Millennium  at Whitechapel Gallery from 14th July

We’re Reading:

Diversify by June Sarpong

The Power of Women by June Sarpong

We’re Watching:

I May Destroy You: BBC iPlayer

Noughts and Crosses: BBC iPlayer

Produced & Edited by Alex Graham

Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Breaking out from lockdown – what’s opening up from art galleries to the office Cabaret duo Kit and McConnel on the future of cabaret and pantomime, Martin Waller of Andrew Martin on the new-look office and Spirit and Endeavour, the opening of a new art exhibition to celebrate 800 years of Salisbury Cathedral.

This week we’re breaking out and visiting:

Spirit and Endeavour at Salisbury Cathedral

https://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/events/spirit-and-endeavour

Love, Desire, Death : Titian at the National Gallery

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/titian-love-desire-death

Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age at the National Gallery

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/nicolaes-maes-dutch-master-of-the-golden-

age

Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/picasso-and-paper

Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media at The Foundling Museum

https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/events/portraying-pregnancy/

Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings at the Focal Point Gallery, Southend

https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibitions/

Mohammed Omar Kahlil – Homeland under my Nails at TheMosaic Rooms

https://mosaicrooms.org/event/homelandundermynails/

We’re browsing:

Andrew Martin’s brand new store and ‘Luxe Lab’ Pop Up on 72-74 Sloane Avenue

https://www.andrewmartin.co.uk/be-inspired/events/luxe-lab-pop-up-at-sloane-avenue

We’re watching:

Kit and McConnel in Cabaret at the How To: Academy

https://www.howtoacademy.com/events/kit-mcconnel-in-cabaret/

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Matthew Burrows explains how his Artists’ Support Pledge has saved thousands of artists’ incomes during lockdown and Jesus Adorno, London’s favourite maître d shares his secrets and tells us if London’s iconic and much-loved restaurant Le Caprice has a post-lockdown future. As we start to leave lockdown, the philanthropist Sir Lloyd Dorfman encourages everyone who’s lost a loved one to Coronavirus to create a memorial for them on St. Paul’s Cathedral’s tribute site 'Remember Me'.

Artists’ Support Pledge:

@artistsupportpledge

www.matthewburrows.org

Remember Me : St. Paul’s Cathedral

www.rememberme2020.uk

Ed and Charlotte will be back next week with 'BREAK OUT CULTURE'

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/