Genesis Foundation
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Here you will find links to a selection of the press releases that the Genesis Foundation has issued in recent years.
Genesis Foundation collaborates with HighTide to create, the Genesis Laboratory
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Thursday, 11 February 2010Announcing the Genesis Laboratory, HighTide's Research and Development Studio for emerging theatre practitioners at the Tabernacle, Notting Hill, supported by the Genesis Foundation.
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Spanish post-graduate photography student awarded first full two-year Genesis Foundation Scholarship
Monday, 26 October 2009
Monday, 26 October 2009Greta Alfaro has been awarded the Genesis Foundation Scholarship at the Royal College of Art. The first of its kind, the scholarship provides a full award for a student for both years of an MA course.
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Tête À Tête The Opera Festival – A Kick Up the Aria 30 July – 16 August
12 July 2009
12 July 2009First the three tenors put the opera into football; now it’s up to Tête à Tête to put the kick into opera. Join us as we take the terraces by storm in a jubilant festival of more than 30 new works in our biggest programme yet of entirely 21st century drama and storytelling driven by music and the voice. Over an action-packed three weeks, we host up to six different performances a night where artists will strain every sinew to poke, prod, nudge, dribble and lovingly kick about this most immediate, engaging, sensual, consuming and sweaty of art-forms.
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Harry Christophers and The Sixteen release world premiere recording of new works by leading British composers James MacMillan, Roxanna Panufnik and Will Todd
26 April 2009
26 April 2009The productive partnership between The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation continues with the release in May 2009 of a CD of three new choral works from three of Britain’s most respected contemporary composers: James MacMillan, Roxanna Panufnik and Will Todd. Each work is a setting of the prayer Stay With Me, Lord, by the Capuchin priest Padre Pio (the familiar name by which millions know St Pius of Pietrelcina).
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SAINT REMEMBERED AT THREE-IN-ONE CONCERT, WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL, 3 JUNE 7.00PM
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Tuesday, 18 March 2008A holy trinity of composers - James MacMillan, Roxanna Panufnik and Will Todd - has been commissioned by the Genesis Foundation to set music to a prayer by one of the most popular saints of the 20th century. The new works will be premiered at Westminster Cathedral in a free concert on 3rd June 2008 by the choir of The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers.
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Disconnect: An excerpt
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010An excerpt from Anupama Chandrasekhar's latest play, Disconnect, currently showing at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs from 17 February until 20 March. Anupama Chandrasekhar is an alumnus of the Genesis Foundation supported International Playwrights programme at the Royal Court.
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Genesis Foundation collaborates with HighTide to create the Genesis Laboratory
Thursday, 11 February 2010
On March 15th, HighTide will launch their brand new research and development studio, home of the Genesis Laboratories, underneath the Waterloo Brasserie - Supported by the Genesis Foundation.
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