Event: Meet van Gogh January 29, 2020 | Sponsored After captivating audiences in Beijing, Barcelona and Seoul, the official Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience will arrive in London soon. For a limited time only, let Vincent van Gogh guide you on a magical and multi-sensory journey through his extraordinary life. Morning Wire Club members are offered an exclusive ticket to enjoy Meet Vincent van [...]
Event: Chineke! Orchestra January 29, 2020 | Sponsored The Chineke! Foundation was created by Chi-Chi Nwanoku in 2015 to provide career opportunities to established and up-and-coming Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians in the UK and Europe. Morning Wire Club members are offered a 20% discount on full price tickets. The code can be entered at the checkout stage online, over the [...]
Event: London Choral Sinfonia January 29, 2020 | Sponsored Join soloists from the London Choral Sinfonia (LCS) on a journey through some of the most sublime German lieder and instrumental music alongside carefully selected wines. In association with Majestic Wine, the London Choral Sinfonia presents a brumal evening for German music lovers. Together we will explore some of the most heart-wrenching and heart-warming lieder [...]
Event: Lunchbreak Opera January 29, 2020 | Sponsored Lunchbreak Opera’s mission is to persuade those who work in the area to take a proper lunch break, and a few times a year, to spend it nourishing their artistic imagination. Lunchbreak Opera hosts two productions a year, previously including Gianni Schicchi, Prima la Musica, Suor Angelica & A Dummies Guide to Opera. Morning Wire [...]
Event: Samuel Beckett: Fail Better January 29, 2020 | Sponsored Presented by Poet in the City as part of their FailBetter2020 Season. When is failure a good thing? Poet in the City’s 2020 programme contemplates failure as a catalyst for change. Writing in a time of global change and at the intersection of literary modernism and postmodernism, Samuel Beckett’s work was preoccupied with the failure [...]
Event: Big Band Night at Eastcheap Records January 29, 2020 | Sponsored EastCheap Records’ monthly Big Band series continues. Visit Eastcheap Records to see the top 16 London musicians improv their way through classic swing, bebop and Latin. It’s a one-of-a-kind night in the City and happy hour will be running from 5pm ’til 8pm. So grab a cocktail, grab a seat and enjoy the ride. City [...]
Morgan spiced: The new Morgan Plus Six combines classic styling with modern mechanicals January 27, 2020 Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. The Morgan Plus Six has a downsized, turbocharged engine and paddle-shift gearbox. It has electric power steering, LED running lights, a digital speedo and a Sport Plus mode. It even has remote central locking and puddle lights under the doors. A truly modern Morgan, then? Well, let’s not [...]
DEBATE: Should Britain introduce taxes on meat and dairy to meet our climate goals? January 27, 2020 Should we consider introducing taxes on meat and dairy products to meet our climate goals? Leo Murray, director of innovation at the climate change charity Possible, says YES. “Nanny state!” That’s the shrill, familiar cry of the reactionary commentariat whenever a threat to “individual freedoms” is spotted on the horizon. But the climate crisis is [...]
Ikebana: We tried out the Japanese art of ‘mindful’ flower arranging January 24, 2020 As Londoners wholeheartedly embrace houseplants, you might be trying to keep alive forests of greenery. But what about flowers? In our mindful age, flower arranging has finally come out of the shadows of the WI. It allows us to slow down and consider the fragrance, touch, colour and form of each stem as we design [...]
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote review: Terry Gilliam goes balls-to-the-wall in this kaleidoscope of imagination January 24, 2020 Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote begins with a title card: “After 25 years in the making… And unmaking”. He’s not kidding – Gilliam started work on the film in 1989, it entered full production almost a decade later with Johnny Depp starring, only to see illness and floods destroy the work and [...]