PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
BIRMINGHAM MUSIC
Clarion Singers
All Saints Centre
Kings Heath
Birmingham B14
Saturday March 12. Doors open 7.15pm, admission £5 (£4 unwaged).
Clarion, Birmingham’s oldest socialist choir, is performing at this sopecial event with guests that include DIY Poets, Bournville Brass and Maria Caravanas with Tamsin Holding, who will perform their own poetry as well as promote the publication Over Land, Over Sea: Poems for those seeking refuge. Clarion will be performing works made popular by its former president Paul Robeson, including an updated version of the short cantata Ballad for Americans. Highly recommended.
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LEEDS SCULPTURE
A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham
Henry Moore Institute
Galleries 1, 2 and 3
The Headrow
March 24- June 19
A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham addresses his visionary contribution to the study of sculpture, bringing 16 of his works into conversation with 16 sculptures by artists working across the 20th and 21st centuries. Through his provocative approach, Latham rethought the limits and possibilities of art. He dedicated his life to building a cohesive world view, unifying science and the humanities and described his position as not as that of an “incidental person” This exhibition is a rare and thought-provoking opportunity to experience a unique artist.
www.henry-moore.org
GLASGOW MUSIC
Walking On Cars
King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
Vincent St
March 20
Hailing from Dingle, County Kerry, Walking On Cars have just released their first and much-awaited album Everything This Way. Get a taste of the quintet’s atypical style of writing that places them outside the existing crop of Irish rock-pop bands. They boast a wide cinematic quality with an iconic sense of hook-driven significance. Their videos are engaging as they interweave narrative with imagery of serious themes, in a way that is highly innovative. Also at London’s Koko on March 18.
www.kingtuts.co.uk
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about a two-handed theatrical homage to jazz’s most mercurial musician
With the recent release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After Another, STEPHEN ARNELL gives the storied history of the British real-life left-wing urban guerillas
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
Re-releases from Bobby Wellins/Kenny Wheeler Quintet, Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippet/Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Charles Mingus Quintet


