We're very pleased to announce that
@TheMontyDon
🧑🌾joins the
#NatureUnwrapped
programme on Thu 21 May for a very special behind-the-scenes look at his private garden, Longmeadow, followed by a Q&A with
@GWmag
Editor
@lucyhall_GW
.
📢 New Announcement Klaxon!! 📢
Kings Place supports
#artists
,
#promoters
and
#recordlabels
. We’re thrilled to announce we WON’T charge commission to artists when they sell their own merchandise (outside of festivals) 🎉🎉🎉
🥂We won!! Delighted to announce Kings Place has won Best Concert Series & Events at
#RPSAwards
for our 2019 series
#VenusUnwrapped
, which threw a spotlight on the creative power of female composers. Thank you
@RoyalPhilSoc
! Some words from
@HelenRichenda
:
Last night at Kings Place: a glorious and heartwarming evening of carols to bring in the festive season. Thank you
@annalapwood
and Pembroke College, Cambridge!
@pembroke1347
We are devastated to hear that the
@bbcsingers
have been axed. Fond memories of Macmillan’s Seven Last Words with
@auroraorchestra
& Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun &
@juliawolfnyc
Anthracite Fields Without them, NONE of the above cd even have been programmed
💥 Breaking news!
@rickygervais
to join the Pilot TV LIVE podcast 250th episode as special guest next Sat 19 Aug at Kings Place.
Snap your tickets up now! 🎟️
EPISODE 250 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
We are *extremely* excited to share the headline special guest joining us for our LIVE podcast on 19 Aug at
@KingsPlace
: the star and creator of After Life, The Office and more, the one and only
@rickygervais
!
TICKETS:
A message from our Artistic Director...
We aim to raise £20,000 by 31 August to help towards re-opening in the autumn with an enhanced programme of live & streamed events.
We believe in our future: we hope you do, too.
#SaveKingsPlace
Find out more:
Don't miss
@ChrisHewitt
's hilarious interview with
@TomHolland1996
on the
@empiremagazine
podcast.
How did he keep that spidey-secret?? Find out and stream to your hearts content for the next 7 days!
📺
.
@HelenRichenda
will be leaving Kings Place to become Head of Music at the Barbican.
We all wish Helen well in her new role knowing that, with her creativity and experience, she will continue to raise the quality of music in London.
Read our statement:
Tomorrow, 11.30am ⏰ Much-loved author
@MichaelRosenYes
talks to
@NicoletteJones
about 'On the Move' - his new, deeply personal poetry collection for children exploring migration and displacement.
Presented by
@JewishBookWeek
.
Join us & watch on KPlayer:
We're thrilled to announce that Sam McShane will join the team as our new Artistic Director from 20 May.
Sam's rich experience and innovative, risk-taking approach to programming perfectly aligns with the Kings Place ethos. We can't wait to welcome her!
We’re 10 years old! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who’s raised a glass with us tonight and to everyone who’s been a part of our first decade. Here’s to the next one. 🥂
#KP10Years
(1/2) Thrilled to announce that Kings Place has been awarded a Culture Recovery Grant from
@DCMS
@hmtreasury
@ace_national
. It's a huge vote of confidence in the work we do, recognising the key role the venue plays in the wider community...
We're delighted to have been shortlisted for a 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Award 🎉🎉
@RoyalPhilSoc
#RPSAwards
.
We're up for the 'Concert Series and Events Award' with our 2019
#VenusUnwrapped
programme celebrating the creative firepower of women composers.
Featuring composers from Medieval times to today,
@Kingsplace
's Venus Unwrapped was a year-long trailblazer celebrating the creative firepower of female artists.
#RPSAwards
We’ve been overwhelmed by your response to
#SaveKingsPlace
, so we’re doubling our target to £40k.
We want to open safely again, but with 70% of seating capacity removed, it’s going to be a challenge.
Your donations will be doubled until 31 August.
❤️
🏴📢 Today we announce
#ScotlandUnwrapped
, a year-long series celebrating Scottish music and spoken word culture.
Artist in Residence:
@IAMKP
Guest curators:
@obanfiddle
&
@JackieKayPoet
Join us for 80+ events from Jan-Dec 2024.
1st wave now on sale🌊
1/2 🎶Indescribable joy at hearing music in Hall One again as
@theoae
reconvenes for the first time since the lockdown to film a brand-new episode of
#BachtheUniverseandEverything
@KingsPlace
, ft a fascinating talk by Dr Dickon Bevington
@AFNCCF
on the importance of human contact
.
@OvercoatsWooden
is a
@britpodawards
&
@audioverseawrds
winner and was included in the Telegraph’s 100 Best Cultural Events of 2021 🏆
The show returns for its final season next year and brand new episodes will be performed live at Kings Place 💫
We're thrilled to welcome back the inimitable
@SonaJobarteh
for two unmissable performances on Sat 9 May (6.30pm, 9pm).
Sona is Gambia's first female kora virtuoso 'blending traditional music, blues and Afropop to impressive effect' ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (
@guardian
)
We are a place where many audiences belong and we proudly continue building relationships with our European artists, audience members and partners. We share our love of music and art with everyone and remain open to all 🇪🇺🌍
What a show. Thank you again
@steverichards14
for working with us to make
#RocknRollPolitics
possible from home and to you all for joining us!
👀 Watch here:
❤️ Help to secure the future of our venue and support our performers:
Applause, standing ovations & LIVE music, we’ve missed you ❤️
Thank you
@auroraorchestra
& everyone who joined us for either (or both!) of tonight’s performances.
The one and only
@eddireader
finally on stage in Hall One celebrating her 40th year of performing live… Worth the wait! Thank you everyone for joining us tonight.
Happy 12th birthday to us! As the pics from the past few weeks tell us, being able to operate as a venue again is the greatest gift we could ever asked for, thanks to the support from our artistic partners & audiences. Come & enjoy more shows this weekend:
And we're off!
@DeborahFW
and
@GuiltFemPod
5th anniversary is everything we dreamed it would be. Here's Deborah killing it in her opening monologue and our sold out Hall One audience. A very happy anniversary! 🥰 Great to have everyone back in the venue.
📼
We have beaten the £50k target for our
#SaveKingsPlace
campaign!!
How can we ever thank you? Kings Place still faces so many challenges while social-distancing continues, but thanks to you we can begin to move tentatively forward.
Thank you from us ⬇️❤️
.
@Elif_Safak
in conversation with Mark Lawson discussing her new book 'How To Stay Sane', streaming live from Kings Place right now as part of
@JewishBookWeek
📚
The talk will be available to watch on demand until 31 March:
@Baddiel
up next at 8.15pm!
Saturday we welcome a festival of the supernatural culminating in a very special live episode of Uncanny, the smash hit paranormal podcast from Radio 4 & BBC Sounds and hosted by
@danny_robins
. Live and streamed online on KPlayer.
And you, dear
@juliefowlis
, are a very special artist to us. We are SO humbled by your kindness. ❤️ Thank you for your support to our
#SaveKingsPlace
campaign, and we can't wait to see you back in Hall One!
➡️
All donations will be doubled until 31 Aug
📣 JUST ANNOUNCED 📣 The award-winning actor and activist
@michaelsheen
joins Richard Herring (
@Herring1967
) as a guest for
#RHLSTP
on Mon 17 Jun 🎉 Tickets:
Actor
@Alex_Macqueen
joins
@annalapwood
and the choirs of Pembroke College on Friday when he’ll read from the festive works of Rowan Williams, T.S. Elliot, Margaret Deland and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
A Ceremony of Carols, Fri 9 Dec
❄️ Find out more & book
We’ve had an amazing day celebrating all things TV for
#PilotTV200
. Full of thrills, surprises, laughs and some serious quiz competition!
Still time to join us this evening for a bumper ep 200 feat.
@porksmith
(Matt Berry)
@corinhardy
& much more. Happy birthday
@PilotTVPod
! 🎉
After a truly incredible couple of weeks, our fundraising appeal is now closed at a grand total of £103,834. Given our original dream was to raise £5,000, we are truly astounded and so so grateful to everyone who came together to support independent musicians and
@HelpMusiciansUK
Join us Monday next week when comedian
@DeborahFW
brings her comedy podcast
@GuiltFemPod
to
#KingsPlace
with guest co-host
@kemahbob
.
Tickets available 👉
‘Very funny… pure guilt-free pleasure.’ Guardian
An
@empiremagazine
all-dayer in Hall One? It's the multi-verse we've all been asking for!
Join us for a veritable jamboree of film discussion, special guests and EPIC quiz challenges.
#Empire500
🎬
The Empire Podcast is about to reach its 500th episode! 🚨
To celebrate this milestone, we’re putting on an EPIC day of events at
@KingsPlace
on Saturday 5th February 2022, with three special live sessions taking place throughout the day.
Here’s a thread of what’s in store…
Our Resident
@auroraorchestra
are on stage performing for an audience again for the first time since lockdown 🎉🎉🎉
A truly special performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major (from memory) in the heart of
@kingscrossN1C
Here’s to an amazing end to
#VenusUnwrapped
! Across 12 months, we issued >26k tckts to 117 shows ft 166 female creatives, hosted 30 premieres & involved >1k musicians. The total line-up of artists across our entire 2019 programme has been 60% female. Thank you all!
@KeychangeEU
Soul-stirring music from Vermont's
@samamidon
+ band &
@beth_orton
this evening in Hall One, launching his new album out soon on
@NonesuchRecords
.
Thank you everyone who joined us in the hall or online! The stream will be available for the next 7 days:
Sun 19 Sep, a new show from uniquely creative pianist and composer
@bellepianist
and visual artist Bobby Williams exploring London as a living entity through performance, field recordings and visuals.
#LondonUnwrapped
“Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five. [...] If this doesn’t stop, I’ll send a man to Moscow and there’ll be no need to send any more” Tito to Stalin.
@simonmontefiore
talks to
@TanyaGold1
about the letters that changed the world at
#JBW2019
@KingsPlace
📢
#SoundUnwrapped
2023 📢
Over 12 months, we’ll shine a light on pioneering artists & composers who play with sound and space.
🔊 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE:
@Hanpeel
& Space Afrika
🔊 PARTNER:
@dbaudiotechnik
Discover new sonic dimensions:
Japanese multi-instrumentalist
@Eiko_Ishibashi
performs Sun 20 Nov, following her critically-acclaimed soundtrack to the 2022 Oscar-winning film, ‘Drive My Car’.
Expect music from across her career 🎹🎶
🎟️ Last few tix:
The incredible
@juliefowlis
performed to a sold-out audience in Hall One yesterday evening, performing material from her latest album alterum, The Beatles and much more! Browse our upcoming folk concerts here: 📷
@ProperMusicGrp
Before Unsilent Spring with
@GeorgeMonbiot
on Fri 10 Jan, get to know the genius behind Chris Watson’s work with A Life in Sound, a selection of programmes and soundscapes featuring his unique work.
🎶Final day of filming by
@theoae
for new online episodes of
#BachtheUniverseandEverything
. Energising to see our beautiful hall in use! Next broadcast is Sunday 19 July, 11.30am 👉🏻 🎶
Celebrate the power and the joy of singing with
#VoicesUnwrapped
throughout 2022 🗣️
We're delighted to announce our first wave of events ☀️⬇️
More info & tickets ➡️
Happy
#IWD2020
! Having committed to
@PRSFoundation
's
#KeyChange
initiative tackling the gender imbalance in music industry, we are proud to provide a platform for women composers & performers to inspire audiences. Here's a selection of those amazing artists⬇️
#EachforEqual