XR & ClimateKeys: Music from our Times

Lola Perrin, Phil Maxwell & Hazuan Hashim with XR Berlin

Music from our Times (see event on facebook)
Inspired by the people of Rebellion around the world
Solo piano composition with activist film
featuring on-stage conversation with members of XR Berlin

Lola Perrin: composer pianist
Phil Maxwell & Hazuan Hashim: film

Extract from film ‘Avoiding Apocalypse At All Costs’

Tickets: Donations on the door

4 February 2020 at 21:00
Kunstfabrik Schlot
Invalidenstraße 117
10115 Berlin
+49 30 4482160

Lola Perrin

Lola Perrin is a London-based American pianist and composer of works for solo and multiple pianos who has performed extensively in Europe. She has composed eleven piano suites from various triggers including the speed of thought in the brain, the passage from this life to the next, and imagined characters in the deserted streets of Edward Hopper.

In recent years she’s exclusively turned her attention to the planetary emergency both as a composer and as a citizen, bringing the two elements together in her ninth piano suite, Significantus, which combines music with talks and audience conversation on climate action. This led her to found ClimateKeys; an initiative in which musicians could engage audiences in the same way. To date seventy concerts have been held in thirteen countries.

Lola Perrin is a member of Extinction Rebellion and coordinates street events including a six hour street piano concert with 32 concert pianists during Rebellion 2018, a four hour Procession through London visiting oil companies to counter their greenwashing, and a music theatre action at the doors of a major world aviation conference.

She has been interviewed by various media in connection with these projects, most recently by BBC radio, Bloomberg News and Democracy Now TV. Her tenth piano suite, The Big Invisible Clock (2018), is about the short time we have to transition away from unsafe systems, and her eleventh suite, Music from our Times (2019), is inspired by the people of Rebellion around the world.

www.lolaperrin.com
https://soundcloud.com/lolaperrin
www.climatekeys.com

Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell

Hazuan Hashim, a filmmaker and video artist, started collaborating with Phil Maxwell in 1996 on film and photography projects. Phil Maxwell is a photojournalist, filmmaker, visual artist and writer. He worked in the East End of London for over 30 years. His extensive archive attracts historians, writers and museums. Both are now based in Liverpool.

Exhibited all over the world including the Middle East, their work covers documentary and experimental film. They have collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Lola Perrin, Deirdre Gribbin and Simon Rowland-Jones, theatre director Lou Stein, dancers Mavin Khoo, Seeta Patel and Kamala Devam and painter Alice Sielle.

https://vimeo.com/hazandphil
http://philmaxwell.org