Don’t miss the BBC’s The Arts Hour on Tour in St. Louis, Missouri in 2024! Enjoy live performances and interviews with top creatives discussing the cultural scene in the city.
The BBC will be in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on Tuesday 10 September 2024 to record The Arts Hour on Tour.
The programme will feature live performance and star guest interviews with leading St Louis creatives who join BBC presenter Nikki Bedi on stage, along with a live audience, to discuss the themes of cultural life in St. Louis right now.
Damon Davis courtesy of Instagram
Damon Davis is a ‘Post Disciplinary’ artist whose work embraces a wide range of mediums to explore ideas about power, myth and identity. Founder of the ‘FarFetched’ record label, he has exhibited photographs and sculpture at the St Louis Art Museum and co-directed the documentary film, ‘Whose Streets’, about the Ferguson Uprising. His ‘Darker Gods’ project is an epic mythology of multiple black gods, whose stories are presented in a sensory world of visual imagery and soundscapes, and his opera ‘Ligeia Mare’ brings science fiction to the African American story.
There will be music from blues prodigy Dylan Triplett and his band, and from phenomenal singer-songwriter, poet and bassist Tonina Saputo, with a stand-up routine from St. Louis comedian Tina Dybal.
Recorded in English for BBC World Service radio, The Arts Hour on Tour visits cities all over the world to explore their hottest trends and issues, by talking to the artists who live and work there.
Everyone is invited to sign up for free tickets to be part of the audience for the recording, which will take place Tuesday 10 September at:
The Lee Theater at The Touhill Performing Arts Center
University of Missouri-St. Louis
1 Touhill Cir, St. Louis, MO 63121, United States
Arrival is at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
The show will be broadcast on BBC World Service Radio, to millions of listeners worldwide.
You can register for a FREE ticket here.
About The Arts Hour on Tour:
The Arts Hour is the BBC World Service’s flagship arts and culture programme.
To date, The Arts Hour on Tour has been live on stage in: Paris, Jerusalem, Jaipur, New Orleans, Berlin, Venice, Reykjavik, Seoul, Edinburgh, St Petersburg, Mexico City, Mumbai, Copenhagen, Addis Ababa, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Montreal, Brussels, Johannesburg, Tunis, Milan, Bogota, London, Warsaw, Accra, Nashville, Tbilisi, Sarajevo, Sau Paulo, Miami, Lisbon, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Helsinki, Jakarta, Tirana, Nairobi, Budapest, Athens, Taipei, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Istanbul. We also recorded ‘virtual’ shows in Rome, Stockholm and Sydney during Covid 19 Lockdowns. You can listen to all these programmes on the BBC Arts Hour website .
About Nikki Bedi:
Nikki Bedi is an international television and radio broadcaster with a passion for making arts and culture accessible. Her knowledge, curiosity, world-view and comprehensive research, have led to her being described as a ‘cultural courier, de-colonising the world one programme at a time.’
She currently curates, writes and hosts The Arts Hour on the BBC World Service, which several times a year becomes The Arts Hour On Tour, a show which travels to different cities in the world bringing that country’s biggest and brightest artists, actors, authors, musicians, comedians, directors, architects, poets and other top creatives in their fields, together, for a spirited debate before a live audience.
In covering the arts across the globe for over two decades, which she describes as not only a privilege, but also the greatest education anyone could have, Nikki has interviewed some of the world’s biggest names and talents, celebrities and industry heavyweights including:
Christopher Nolan, Barry Jenkins, Sian Heder, Steve MCQueen, Alexander Payne, Ariana de Bose, Aunjanue Ellis, Geena Davis, JA Bayona, Michael Mann, Celine Song, Ruth E Carter, Asif Kapadia, Todd Field, Ruben Östlund, Baz Luhrman, Colson Whitehead, and Riz Ahmed.
Nikki Bedi joined the BBC as a presenter in 2003 and has rarely been off their airwaves since, hosting all kinds of TV and radio shows.
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