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• Tickets Alert:  Derek Jarman’s Blue on the big screen

  17-10-2024 17:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be a rare chance to see Derek Jarman’s landmark film Blue with a live performance to mark World Aids Day at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.
  Blue Now. Courtesy of Basilisk Communications
  British director Neil Bartlett and actor Russell Tovey have worked together to create a special live performance of Blue (1993) featuring Travis Alabanza, Jay Bernard and Joelle Taylor, who together deliver Jarman’s powerful words (previously voiced by Tilda Swinton, Nige
  
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• National Gallery is banning visitors bringing liquids into the building

  17-10-2024 16:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Following recent attacks on artworks by protestors, the National Gallery has decided to ban visitors bringing liquids into the building from Friday until futher notice.Since July 2022, the National Gallery has been the victim of five separate attacks on paintings, including Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’, John Constable’s ‘The Hay Wain’ and Velázquez’s ‘Rokeby Venus’. Two of the attacks took place within the past couple of weeks, and
  
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• Race against time to save a futuristic 2004 school classroom

  17-10-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A futuristic school classroom is about to be demolished unless someone can be found to move it to a new location.
  Future Systems Classroom Pod (Image credit – Andrew Holt, C20 Society)
  The Ingenium Classroom Pod was built in 2004 for Grey Court Secondary School in Ham, Richmond-upon-Thames, and was designed by the avant-garde architects Future Systems. Often described as a ‘B-movie alien spaceship’ or an ‘oversized iPod’, the building was inspired by Lord’s Cr
  
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• HS2 reportedly to get go ahead to build the full Euston to Crewe railway

  17-10-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The government reportedly plans to reverse some of the cuts to the HS2 railway from the previous government, and the railway will run from Euston to Crewe.
  HS2 tunnel entrance next to the M25 motorway (c) ianVisits
  Citing government sources, LBC reported this morning that the “Prime Minister held private discussions on the matter at last month’s Labour Party conference and that the government had been planning to make a formal announcement in the new year.”
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