Kings Place

Events at Kings Place

• Adina Hoffman: The Poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali at Kings Place

  Special Event

  19 Feb 2012

  Adina Hoffman’s Jewish Quarterly-Wingate-Prize-winning biography of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali is a moving account of the ways 'ordinary' individuals are swept up by the floodtides of both war and peace. Beautifully written, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.

• Agi Mishol: Things Happen at Kings Place

  Short Film Cinema

  21 Feb 2012

  For the past 30 years, Agi Mishol has been living in Kfar Mordechai, a village located near Gedera. She describes it as 'the most natural place for me to be'. Now they are packing figs and pomegranates in her yard. She gets up early and writes between eight and nine, when her Alpha waves are still somewhat in a dream, at which time the poem emerges. She has three dogs, six cats, rabbits and a duck, a fleet of animals. She remembers by heart every poem she ever wrote. 'She undoubtedly belongs to the dynasty of great Hebrew poets: Lea Goldberg, Dalia Rabikovich and Yona Wallach,' wrote Dan Meron. She has published 11 books to date. 'I was able to connect earth to sky in one stride,' she wrote in one of her poems. Thus the film attempts to connect her down-to-earth, sensual, Israeli-local world to her metaphysical ethereal world.

• Aimua Eghobamien at Kings Place

  Pop

  3 Mar 2012

  Poured Gently is the debut album from Aimua Eghobamien, and combines fresh and unusual arrangements of jazz and pop standards from Ellington, Monk, Gershwin and Stevie Wonder with haunting and melodic original compositions. Eghobamien is joined by his long-time collaborator, New York-based pianist, composer and arranger Glafkos Kontemeniotis, along with stellar musicians Jerome Davies on double Bass and Rod Youngs on drums.

• Allegri Quartet: The Complete Beethoven Quartets 6 at Kings Place

  Classical Music

  12 Feb 2012

  The sixth concert in our Beethoven-Shostakovich cycle presents an early Beethoven quartet with one of the last ones, composed almost twenty-five years later, interspersed with Shostakovich’s seventh quartet composed in early 1960 in memory of his first wife, Nina Vassilyevna. The programme features Beethoven: String Quartet in A, Op. 18 No. 5, String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132; Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7in F sharp minor, Op. 108.