City of London Corporation puts culture at the heart of recovery What is city talk?
· London Symphony Orchestra funding renewed
· City of London Corporation confirms commitment to developing Culture Mile
· Centre for Music will not be progressed
The City of London Corporation has reinforced its commitment to embedding culture at the centre of the Square Mile’s post-Covid recovery with a series of commitments to the sector.
A phased approach to a major renewal of the City’s leading cultural destination, the Barbican Centre, has been approved today by its Policy and Resources Committee.
Elected Members backed plans to reimagine and upgrade the 40-year-old complex to serve the changing needs of modern audiences, visitors, performers, and artists.
A blimp of the outgoing US President Donald Trump known as Trump Baby which has travelled across the world in protest of Trump and his administration wou
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The iconic Trump baby balloon has been acquired by the Museum of London ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration tomorrow. (20th January). The Museum has recognised its significance in the protests that took place in London in July 2018 and June 2019 when protesters took to the streets on President Trump’s visits to the UK. Trump’s reaction was; “They Love Me In England.”
The Trump Baby can now be consigned to history along with the man himself
The over-sized balloon toured the world and now will be conserved and displayed in the Museum’s future new home in West Smithfield in the coming years.