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Longplayer opens up for Open House Festival 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf
04 September 2024As part of Open House Festival 2024, Trinity Buoy Wharf is opening its doors to the public and hosting tours and workshops across their artist studios and heritage sites for two weekends this September: 14-15th and 21-22nd. Longplayer Trustees will be at the Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse, home to Longplayer, across both weekends to welcome…
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Longplayer Listening Post at Arts Festival Watou 2024
17 July 2024Longplayer’s installation at the Arts Festival Watou 2024 – Landscape of the Imagination – is now open to the public to visit in Poperinge, Belgium until 1st September, throughout which time you can listen to Longplayer resonating through the singing bowl and throughout this unique space. We are excited to be part of this brilliant…
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A very Long Afternoon with Ansuman Biswas (9th June, 9-5)
21 May 2024On Sunday 9th June, Longplayer invited you to spend a Long Afternoon with Ansuman Biswas at London’s only lighthouse. This special event took the form of a particularly long afternoon, with Ansuman offering a durational performance from 9am-5pm. ‘Escaping the 9 to 5 is a work of imagination. It’s hard to see what’s there until…
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Long Afternoon with Iain Sinclair, Sunday 28th April
12 April 2024Our April Long Afternoon in the lighthouse featured a talk with Iain Sinclair. The lighthouse was open to visitors, with a young persons activity table, from 1:30-3pm, and Iain Sinclair’s talk, ‘Gifts of the River Returning’ took place at 3:30pm. Iain’s talk reflected on the legacies of work undertaken in the area, and his nocturnal…
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Watch Gavin Starks’ Lecture – How Will We Be Long ?
03 February 2024On the 29th February 2024 Longplayer Trustee Gavin Starks presented a talk and discussion on the topic “how can a piece of music help us think about the next 1000 years ?” You can watch it here. Context: Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli is Lord Mayor of the City of London from 10 November 2023 until 10 November…
