How culture and media can play a role to reduce poverty and increase social cohesion in cities?

In 2009 the founder and director of Big Bang Lab, Sergio López Figueroa, received an award from the British Council, part of the Cultural Leadership Programme.  He worked in Delhi with Prayas an NGO supporting  underprivileged children in Delhi. Other [...]

CSR as Cultural Social Responsibility.  Delhi City Symphony 
Film screening + networking event
The Hub King’s Cross 18th February 7 pm

Booking   http://globalcitysymphony.eventbrite.com

• Why is culture outside of CSR or under represented by social enterprises?
• Are cultural enterprises committed to social change?
• What is the common language of CSR, Cultural and Social Enterprises?
Come and join us for an open discussion and watch the [...]

Sergio Lopez has been invited as keynote speaker by Notre Dame University to contribute to the CityStreet conference in Lebanon on Friday 20th November. Sergio will be introducing the model of City Symphony and cultural social responsibility in the context of the city including the screening of the documentary Building Fragments produced by Big [...]

“It’s up to us to advocate the role of culture by simply doing”, interview with Sergio López Figueroa     
Lab for culture is a platform for cultural cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world representing 50 countries and 6 languages, working with artists, arts and culture organisations and cultural professionals.
Big Bang Lab’s [...]

Big Bang Lab as a member of the Citizens’Coalition for Public Service Broadcasting (CCPSB) supports the consultation report in relation to A Response to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the Consultation: ‘Sustainable independent and impartial news; in the  Nations, locally and in the regions’.
Response of the Citizens’ Coalition for Public Service [...]

The outcome of this project is a new silent digital film (8 mins) as part of a collaborative interdisciplinary creative learning project, created and delivered by Sergio López Figueroa for Brent Holocaust Memorial Day

Special screening featuring a live programme of new music scores created by Sergio López Figueroa to a range of classic avant-garde and experimental silent films commissioned by Tate modern / Dalí exhibition.
 
 
 
“Yes, live music set to film can be a joy”. The Guardian
The scores for nine strings, piano, percussion, soprano and clockwork toys examine new [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme.
UN CHIEN ANDALOU Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, France 1929
(from Tate modern programme) Dalí and Buñuel wrote Un Chien Andalou in a matter of weeks in early 1929. It was shot in Paris and ready for viewing by June that year. [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme.
EL HOTEL ELECTRICO Segundo de Chomón, Spain/France 1904

(from Tate modern programme)
A couple -performed by the director and his wife Julienne Mathieu- arrive as customers to a hotel where everything works automatically. One of the best known films by Segundo de [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme.
TUSALAVA Len Lye, UK 1929

(from Tate modern programme) This unique tribal dance animation by New Zealand-born film pioneer Len Lye was influenced by Australian aboriginal art and uses more than 4,400 drawings. The first of Lye’s films to be made during [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme.
L’ETOILE DE MER Man Ray,  France 1928

(from Tate modern programme) A classic surreal film staring Man Ray’s wife Kiki. L’Étoile de mer is based on Robert Desnos’s poem ‘la place de l’étoile’. Desnos and Man Ray shared a view that the [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme.
A PHANTASY Norman McLaren, Canada 1952
(from Tate modern programme) This is a very special film featuring hand-drawing landscapes inspired by surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy and René Magritte. It is the only non- silent film in this programme [...]

Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of  Clonic Mutations programme.
THE STRENGTH AND AGILITY OF INSECTS F. Percy Smith,  UK 1911
(from Tate modern´s programme) This early film by national history film pioneer F. Percy Smith observes real insects juggling and playing with objects in a bizarre manner. A major success at [...]

A contemporary silent animation winner of the best music award at SCIFE 07, short film festival (Spain)

Director: Jonay Ortiz de Urbina
Original music: Sergio López Figueroa
Sound recording and mastering: Tenth Egg, Nick Barron
“Homeland” tells the adventures of two characters who look for a place to settle. It is a tale of belonging and fitting in of [...]

Creative Partnerships cross curriculum project combining music and maths

Big Bang Lab and the curriculum Who says maths has to be boring? Year 7 and Year 8 students had an opportunity to explore the relationship between graphic notation, geometry, music composition and moving images using a balloon orchestra! We use photography and flash animation during the [...]

Visual Rhythm project
project description  and a video of the workshop