{"id":19796,"date":"2017-11-27T20:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=19796"},"modified":"2017-11-27T20:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:55:25","slug":"got-5-spend-it-on-londons-arts-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/got-5-spend-it-on-londons-arts-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Got \u00a35? Spend it on London&#8217;s arts and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enjoy the screening of The Florida Project to Basquiat&#8217;s large-scale artworks from just \u00a35.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n\n<h6>\u00a9 Voice of London, Olivia Herring<\/h6>\n<p>The Barbican Centre, 30 minutes on foot from anywhere in Central London, is a melting pot of arts and culture amongst iconic tower blocks. It\u2019s host to a concert hall, a theatre, art galleries and a lending library. There\u2019s three cinemas, a large-scale tropical conservatory, and public spaces which converge with impressive installations. Packed with creative events on a daily basis, young Londoners are spoilt for choice with heavily discounted rates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/11\/young-barbican.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19805\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/11\/young-barbican.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1495\" height=\"2318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>\u00a9 Barbican<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Young Barbican scheme offers 14 &#8211; 25 year olds (yes, you students) discounted tickets to events within classical and contemporary music, visual arts, theatre and dance and creative learning. The discounts are available within three price tiers, \u00a35, \u00a310, and \u00a315.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I live for the young barbican, making everything only five quid and removing the booking fee, yes make art accessible, i am v into this, an entire show is basically a meal deal<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 kia nicole (@nicocakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicocakes\/status\/932755659791192064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One exhibition proving popular at the minute is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/whats-on\/2017\/event\/basquiat-boom-for-real\">Basquiat: Boom for Real<\/a>.\u00a0The first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, held in one of many Barbican art galleries. Standard tickets are being sold for \u00a316, but with Young Barbican, get access for just a fiver.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19825\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/11\/basquiat-art.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6926\" height=\"4886\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If immersive hip-hop exhibitions don&#8217;t take your fancy, check out below to see what else&#8217;s on, or head over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/whats-on\">Barbican website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/11\/barbican.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19824\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/11\/barbican.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4850\" height=\"9448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>\u00a9 Barbican<\/h6>\n<p>Words: Olivia Herring | Subbed: Katherine Doherty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy the screening of The Florida Project to Basquiat&#8217;s large-scale artworks from just \u00a35.\u00a0 \u00a9 Voice of London, Olivia Herring The Barbican Centre, 30 minutes on foot from anywhere in Central London, is a melting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,149,33,82,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-culture-travel","category-culture","category-lifestyle","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}