Agenda item

Report of the Managing Director.

The Board received a report of the Managing Director providing Members with an update from each of the Centre’s Directors.

The Managing Director advised that the consultation on the Barbican Area Strategy that would feed into the development of the Cultural Hub was about to commence.

The Director of Arts advised Members that the new Head of Music would begin work in September 2014 and the recent ‘Testament of Mary’ production had received critical acclaim.

The Director of Creative Learning advised that the ‘Snapshot Songs’ event was well received and that Drumworks, an organisation the Barbican had helped establish, had received a grant from Youth Music. He added that his team were working with the Museum of London and reaching out across London to assist in fulfilling the City’s Objectives.

The Director of Audiences and Development advised that a contract for the website development was being finalised and that the Centre was examining future collaboration opportunities with Trampery which would build on the Hack the Barbican event that took place in August 2013.

The Director of Operations and Buildings reported that no disruption to performances had occurred despite some protests being organised with regards to the crisis in Ukraine. He added that improvement projects continued to produce carbon and energy savings for the Centre and the City Corporation.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.