Programme

POPPIES: Wave and Weeping Window

July 2015 – December 2018 By Paul Cummins Artist & Tom Piper Designer Find Out More

Dazzle Ship Series

June 2014 – January 2019 Tauba Auerbach / Ciara Phillips / Peter Blake / Tobias Rehberger / Carlos Cruz-diez Free

These brightly coloured boats pay homage to the hundreds of ships that were ‘dazzled’ during the First World War.

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WHERE ARE THE POPPIES NOW

6 September 2017 – 31 March 2019 By Paul Cummins & Tom Piper GLOBAL

This global digital projects aims to reunite digitally the 888,246 ceramic poppies from artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper’s 2014 installation, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red.

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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, HOLLY FULTON, ROKSANDA, J JS LEE, EMILIA WICKSTEAD, SADIE WILLIAMS, SHOWSTUDIO, LUKE SNELLINFashion & Freedom

9 March - 30 November 2018 Burton-on-Trent

The huge wartime changes in women’s lives and responsibilities inspired this innovative exhibition, which re-examined the conflict’s fashion legacy for the 21st century.

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JEREMY DELLERWE'RE HERE BECAUSE WE'RE HERE EXHIBITION

3 March 2017 – 14 April 2018 Free UK-WIDE

An exhibition about the extraordinary living memorial to the Battle of the Somme when 1400 volunteers dressed in wartime uniform appeared unannounced across the UK.

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Bob StanleyAsunder

10 July 2016 – 15 June 2018 SUNDERLAND, LONDON

Featuring a film by Esther Johnson and a soundtrack by Field Music and Warm Digits, Asunder examined the Battle of the Somme through the prism of a single city – Sunderland.

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Phil CollinsCeremony 2017

16 July 2017 World Premiere Free MANCHESTER

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Turner Prize-nominated artist brought a statue of Friedrich Engels from Ukraine and installed it in central Manchester.

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The 306: Day

5 – 13 May 2017 SCOTLAND

Part two of this musical-theatre trilogy focused on the poignant stories of three British women living through the traumas of the First World War.

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Complicite & Schaubühne BerlinBeware of Pity

9 – 12 February 2017 Adapted From The Book By Stefan Zweig. Directed By Simon Mcburney BARBICAN THEATRE, LONDON / LIVE STREAM

Simon McBurney directed a German cast in this pioneering collaboration between two of Europe’s most innovative and exciting theatre companies.

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DAVE MCKEANBlack Dog - The Dreams of Paul Nash

18 September 2018 RUGBY

Inspired by the haunting works of the British surrealist painter, McKean’s major new book launched with a series of multimedia performances.

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BALLETBOYZYoung Men

12 January - 16 March 2017 UK-WIDE

Michael Nunn and William Trevitt adapted their highly acclaimed 14-18 NOW dance performance to the screen in this moving silent drama.

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