Your digital diary: culture to stream from 13 - 19 July
Plays, concerts and world-class dance can all be enjoyed online if you know where to look. Here, we bring you day-by-day culture to stream in self-isolation
Late at Tate Britain Online
London life as we knew it is slowly reawakening, but most theatre, dance performances and concerts remain confined to the online sphere. Here, we bring you day-by-day culture to stream at home.
MONDAY 13 JULY
Photo: Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Jakob Kudsk Steensen: The Deep Listener
WHEN: Available now | WHERE: Via Serpentine Galleries’ website and YouTube
Ahead of reopening on Tuesday 4 August, Serpentine Galleries has released a digital version of Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s 2019 augmented reality experience: The Deep Listener. This audio-visual ecological expedition takes the viewer on a journey through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, seeing and hearing five of London’s species – London plane trees, bats, parakeets, azure blue damselflies and reedbeds – along the way.
Click for access
TUESDAY 14 JULY
Pandora Sykes
How To Academy: Pandora Sykes in conversation with Hadley Freeman
WHEN: Tuesday 14 July, 6:30pm - 7:30pm | Where: Zoom
Hear journalist and co-host of The High Low podcast Pandora Sykes discuss her first book, a collection of essays titled How Do We Know We’re Doing it Right?, with the Guardian’s Hadley Freeman. Touching on everything from fast fashion to millennial angst, the book is an interrogation of the myths and strictures that dictate modern life.
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WEDNESDAY 15 JULY
School of Wok Online Cooking Class with Celebrity Chef Jeremy Pang
WHEN: Wednesday 15 July, 6pm - 9pm | WHERE: Zoom
Learn how to chop, toss and sizzle delectable Pan-Asian cuisine like a pro under the guidance of award-winning celebrity chef Jeremy Pang in this masterclass co-hosted by Wonderful Communications and School of Wok. In the comfort of your own kitchen, you’ll prepare three dishes from Thailand, China, Vietnam, Korea or Japan. Advanced booking is essential in order to access the recipe pack in time.
Click for access
THURSDAY 16 JULY
Tom Kay and Madeleine Knight in Birdsong Online
Birdsong Online
WHEN: Thursday 16 July, 7pm (available until Sunday 19 July) | WHERE: Stream via the Original Theatre Online website
Sebastian Faulks' epic war story Birdsong is transformed into a play. Specially made during lockdown by Original Theatre Online, the production uses video technology, sound design, music and live performance, along with narration by Faulks himself, to bring the novel to theatrical life. Unlike most theatre-streaming options, this is a show that was made to be online and as such it is a more dynamic experience.
Click for access
London Philharmonia concert starring Sheku Kanneh-Mason
WHEN: Thursday 16 July, 7pm | Where: London Philharmonia Orchestra’s YouTube
The popular young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins conductor John Wilson and the Philharmonia in the first of three concerts by the orchestra created especially for streaming. Players are reunited to work together for the first time since lockdown, and with the soloist, although without an audience. Kanneh-Mason, who performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle, here plays the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1. The orchestra also performs Vaughan Williams's evergreen Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Click for access
National Theatre at Home: Amadeus
WHEN: Thursday 16 July, 7pm | Where: National Theatre’s YouTube
Michael Longhurt's rousing revival of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus – starring Lucian Msamati as a stoic, calculated Antonio Salieri – is the latest production to get the National Theatre at Home treatment. Longhurst colours the epic tale with both pomp and irreverence: the world of Mozart moves effortlessly from the vulgar to the sublime. With the Southbank Sinfonia's beautiful accompaniment, Amadeus is high drama and symphonic storytelling at its best.
Click for access
FRIDAY 17 JULY
Royal Opera House's Faust (credit: Tristram Kenton)
Royal Opera House: Faust
WHEN: Friday 17 July (available for two weeks) | WHERE: ROH’s Facebook and YouTube
Gounod's spectacular opera in this staging by David McVicar, recorded last year, has a final double act in tenor Michael Fabiano in the title role and baritone Erwin Schrott as the wily Méphistophélès, to whom he sells his soul. Faust believes he has a good deal, until his luck runs out. Irina Lungu sings Marguerite, the faithful young woman he loves and abandons.
Click for access
Late at Tate Britain Online
WHEN: Friday 17 July, 7pm - 9pm | WHERE: Stream via the Tate website
Explore the work of young creatives through workshops, talks and music, as Late at Tate Britain goes online. Among those whose work is being shown is artist Simone Niles, new media artist Huntrezz and photographer Paul Ifeneziuche. Reprezent Radio, the self-proclaimed voice of young London, has curated a playlist for the event.
Click for access
SATURDAY 18 JULY
Lambeth Country Show
Virtual Lambeth Country Show
WHEN: Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 July | WHERE: Via the Lambeth Country Show website and social channels
Usually a highlight of the south London summer calendar – one that appeals to all ages with its eclectic mix of live music, farm animals, fairground rides and market stalls – the Lambeth Country Show has swapped its physical home of Brockwell Park for the virtual sphere this year. Visit the country show’s website for a chance to shop the virtual market, get involved with competitions and workshops, and stream the official playlist – made up of artists who have performed on the main stage over the years.
Click for access
SUNDAY 19 JULY
Glyndebourne 2016: Barbiere di Siviglia
Glyndebourne Festival Opera: The Barber of Seville
WHEN: Sunday 19 July, 5pm (available for a week) | WHERE: Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s YouTube
Rossini's sparkling comedy was recorded live in 2016, when the cast was led by Danielle de Niese as a ward whose jealous guardian wants her for himself. With the help of the resourceful barber surgeon Figaro, a young count in disguise manages to spirit Rosina away. Fizzing music and farce abound in this very attractive production. Look out for a hilarious music lesson with hidden motives.
Click for access
BBC Proms: Beethoveniana
WHEN: Sunday 19 July, 7pm | WHERE: BBC Four
It takes more than a pandemic to stop the biggest music festival in the world. In this, the first of regular Proms programmes until 12 September, a specially commissioned curtain-raiser both marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven and brings together some 320 of the BBC's own players in a Grand Virtual Orchestra and two dancers. Beethoveniana is followed by another chance to see the brilliant Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducting her City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's dramatic Fifth Symphony.
Click for access
Gecko's Institute
Gecko: Institute
WHEN: Sunday 19 July, 11:30pm | WHERE: BBC Four
A thrilling and thought-provoking piece of physical theatre, Gecko's Institute is set in an office that could also be a hospital, populated by damaged men, where the prevailing climate swerves from jolly to sinister.
Read more
Dance Theatre of Harlem: Coming Together
WHEN: Sunday 19 July, 1am | WHERE: Dance Theatre of Harlem’s YouTube
The penultimate programme from Dance Theatre of Harlem's Virtual Ballet Series brings us a restless, intense work by the Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato.
Click for access
MONDAY 13 JULY
Photo: Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Jakob Kudsk Steensen: The Deep Listener
WHEN: Available now | WHERE: Via Serpentine Galleries’ website and YouTube
Ahead of reopening on Tuesday 4 August, Serpentine Galleries has released a digital version of Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s 2019 augmented reality experience: The Deep Listener. This audio-visual ecological expedition takes the viewer on a journey through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, seeing and hearing five of London’s species – London plane trees, bats, parakeets, azure blue damselflies and reedbeds – along the way.
Click for access
TUESDAY 14 JULY
Pandora Sykes
How To Academy: Pandora Sykes in conversation with Hadley Freeman
WHEN: Tuesday 14 July, 6:30pm - 7:30pm | Where: Zoom
Hear journalist and co-host of The High Low podcast Pandora Sykes discuss her first book, a collection of essays titled How Do We Know We’re Doing it Right?, with the Guardian’s Hadley Freeman. Touching on everything from fast fashion to millennial angst, the book is an interrogation of the myths and strictures that dictate modern life.
Click for access
WEDNESDAY 15 JULY
School of Wok Online Cooking Class with Celebrity Chef Jeremy Pang
WHEN: Wednesday 15 July, 6pm - 9pm | WHERE: Zoom
Learn how to chop, toss and sizzle delectable Pan-Asian cuisine like a pro under the guidance of award-winning celebrity chef Jeremy Pang in this masterclass co-hosted by Wonderful Communications and School of Wok. In the comfort of your own kitchen, you’ll prepare three dishes from Thailand, China, Vietnam, Korea or Japan. Advanced booking is essential in order to access the recipe pack in time.
Click for access
THURSDAY 16 JULY
Tom Kay and Madeleine Knight in Birdsong Online
Birdsong Online
WHEN: Thursday 16 July, 7pm (available until Sunday 19 July) | WHERE: Stream via the Original Theatre Online website
Sebastian Faulks' epic war story Birdsong is transformed into a play. Specially made during lockdown by Original Theatre Online, the production uses video technology, sound design, music and live performance, along with narration by Faulks himself, to bring the novel to theatrical life. Unlike most theatre-streaming options, this is a show that was made to be online and as such it is a more dynamic experience.
Click for access
London Philharmonia concert starring Sheku Kanneh-Mason
WHEN: Thursday 16 July, 7pm | Where: London Philharmonia Orchestra’s YouTube
The popular young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins conductor John Wilson and the Philharmonia in the first of three concerts by the orchestra created especially for streaming. Players are reunited to work together for the first time since lockdown, and with the soloist, although without an audience. Kanneh-Mason, who performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle, here plays the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1. The orchestra also performs Vaughan Williams's evergreen Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Click for access
National Theatre at Home: Amadeus
WHEN: Thursday 16 July, 7pm | Where: National Theatre’s YouTube
Michael Longhurt's rousing revival of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus – starring Lucian Msamati as a stoic, calculated Antonio Salieri – is the latest production to get the National Theatre at Home treatment. Longhurst colours the epic tale with both pomp and irreverence: the world of Mozart moves effortlessly from the vulgar to the sublime. With the Southbank Sinfonia's beautiful accompaniment, Amadeus is high drama and symphonic storytelling at its best.
Click for access
FRIDAY 17 JULY
Royal Opera House's Faust (credit: Tristram Kenton)
Royal Opera House: Faust
WHEN: Friday 17 July (available for two weeks) | WHERE: ROH’s Facebook and YouTube
Gounod's spectacular opera in this staging by David McVicar, recorded last year, has a final double act in tenor Michael Fabiano in the title role and baritone Erwin Schrott as the wily Méphistophélès, to whom he sells his soul. Faust believes he has a good deal, until his luck runs out. Irina Lungu sings Marguerite, the faithful young woman he loves and abandons.
Click for access
Late at Tate Britain Online
WHEN: Friday 17 July, 7pm - 9pm | WHERE: Stream via the Tate website
Explore the work of young creatives through workshops, talks and music, as Late at Tate Britain goes online. Among those whose work is being shown is artist Simone Niles, new media artist Huntrezz and photographer Paul Ifeneziuche. Reprezent Radio, the self-proclaimed voice of young London, has curated a playlist for the event.
Click for access
SATURDAY 18 JULY
Lambeth Country Show
Virtual Lambeth Country Show
WHEN: Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 July | WHERE: Via the Lambeth Country Show website and social channels
Usually a highlight of the south London summer calendar – one that appeals to all ages with its eclectic mix of live music, farm animals, fairground rides and market stalls – the Lambeth Country Show has swapped its physical home of Brockwell Park for the virtual sphere this year. Visit the country show’s website for a chance to shop the virtual market, get involved with competitions and workshops, and stream the official playlist – made up of artists who have performed on the main stage over the years.
Click for access
SUNDAY 19 JULY
Glyndebourne 2016: Barbiere di Siviglia
Glyndebourne Festival Opera: The Barber of Seville
WHEN: Sunday 19 July, 5pm (available for a week) | WHERE: Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s YouTube
Rossini's sparkling comedy was recorded live in 2016, when the cast was led by Danielle de Niese as a ward whose jealous guardian wants her for himself. With the help of the resourceful barber surgeon Figaro, a young count in disguise manages to spirit Rosina away. Fizzing music and farce abound in this very attractive production. Look out for a hilarious music lesson with hidden motives.
Click for access
BBC Proms: Beethoveniana
WHEN: Sunday 19 July, 7pm | WHERE: BBC Four
It takes more than a pandemic to stop the biggest music festival in the world. In this, the first of regular Proms programmes until 12 September, a specially commissioned curtain-raiser both marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven and brings together some 320 of the BBC's own players in a Grand Virtual Orchestra and two dancers. Beethoveniana is followed by another chance to see the brilliant Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducting her City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's dramatic Fifth Symphony.
Click for access
Gecko's Institute
Gecko: Institute
WHEN: Sunday 19 July, 11:30pm | WHERE: BBC Four
A thrilling and thought-provoking piece of physical theatre, Gecko's Institute is set in an office that could also be a hospital, populated by damaged men, where the prevailing climate swerves from jolly to sinister.
Read more
Dance Theatre of Harlem: Coming Together
WHEN: Sunday 19 July, 1am | WHERE: Dance Theatre of Harlem’s YouTube
The penultimate programme from Dance Theatre of Harlem's Virtual Ballet Series brings us a restless, intense work by the Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato.
Click for access
