Peter Brathwaite talks to Lucy Peltz, Head of Collection Displays (Tudor to Regency) and Senior Curator 18th Century Collections at the National Portrait Gallery conversation about Black portraiture and Peter’s exhibition. Ticket info here.

Peter revives the role of Paul in the Czech premiere of Ann Cleare’s The Little Lives at New Opera Days Ostrava.

In a Scottish town there is a small pleasant garden. From sunrise to sunset it is unlocked and available as a quiet place for contemplation. One morning four people come to the garden – a local elderly woman, Sarah, a young Englishman on holiday, Paul, and an Irish-German tourist couple, Andrea and Thomas. A strange man, Parkwächter, who is also in the park, locks them in the garden without giving a clear reason why, leading them to make their own assumptions. Tensions rise and truths, pains and desires surface. The work explores the impact of powerful propaganda at a domestic and national level, the tensions between gender and gender roles, the underlying stability of human needs and comfort, the frustrations of young people in the UK, and the progressive and regressive roles of national identity.

The Little Lives

Opera for five singers and chamber ensemble, 2020–22

Music: Ann Cleare

Libretto: A.L. Kennedy

Conductor: Bruno Ferrandis

Stage design: David Bazika

Costume design: Marta Roszkopfová

Director: Jiří Nekvasil

Performers:

Christopher Robson, countertenor (Parkwächter)

Peyee Chen, soprano (Andrea)

Peter Brathwaite, baritone (Paul)

Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano (Sarah)

John Pumphrey, tenor (Thomas)

Ostravská banda

Czech premiere, 90’

Join baritone, artist, broadcaster and writer Peter Brathwaite as he shares his passion for uncovering hidden histories in this last M Shed Winter Lecture of the season.

Black lives in the archives: Peter Brathwaite with Professor Farah Karim-Cooper

Hear about research into centuries of family history in the UK and Barbados, and the inspiration and scholarship behind Peter Brathwaite’s stunning photographic project, Rediscovering Black Portraiture. Brathwaite is currently a visiting artist developing a project with the Humanities Cultural Programme, supported by the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book and the Humanities Cultural Programme/TORCH, and in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries project ‘We Are Our History’: Towards Racial Equity. More here.

Collaborations in History, Art, Religion, and Music (CHARM) meets with London-based opera singer, Peter Brathwaite, as part of its CHARMing series.

Peter gives Newcastle University’s Annual Black History Month Lecture. More details here.

Peter Brathwaite’s first workshop as a visiting artist developing a project with the Humanities Cultural Programme. By invitation.

Join Peter Brathwaite and Meleisa Ono-George, historian of modern and Black British history, for an intriguing discussion on the recently published book, Rediscovering Black Portraiture, and the interplay between art, archives, and the history of Black people in Europe. More here.

Join Peter for an event centred around his Rediscovering Black Portraiture book and series at the Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Sheffield. More details here.

Join Peter for an event centred around his Rediscovering Black Portraiture book and series, in association with HistFest. More details here.

Join Peter for an event centred around his Rediscovering Black Portraiture book. Details here.

Join Peter for an event centred around his Rediscovering Black Portraiture book and series. More details here.

Join Peter for an event centred around his Rediscovering Black Portraiture book and series. More details here.

Peter leads a music research seminar at his alma mater, Newcastle University.

In this Open Session we get a glimpse of how Peter Brathwaite (a former Britten Pears Young Artist) and pianist Allyson Devenish are spending a BPA Residency developing music to complement Peter’s Rediscovering Black Portraiture project.

Join Peter for an event centred around his Rediscovering Black Portraiture book and series.

A Rediscovering Black Portraiture workshop at the Barbados Museum & Historical Society. Event to mark the announcement of a new collaboration.

Rediscovering Black Portraiture event. Peter Brathwaite on Rediscovering Black Portraiture In Conversation with Mark Sealy OBE. More details here.

A book tour event to mark the publication of Rediscovering Black Portraiture by Peter Brathwaite. A talk on paintings, music, and rediscovering the tradition of Black portraiture in Western art. More details here.

The acclaimed baritone Peter Brathwaite expands on his pivotal Rediscovering Black Portraiture series and the vital new work-in-progress Insurrection: A Work In Progress, which explores the history of resistance in Barbados through the tradition of opera and Peter’s personal story. Taking its cue from the radical folk traditions of enslaved Black workers, this new performance piece celebrates the human need to gather, move, make music, and tell stories amid and in response to oppression. Peter will be in conversation with renowned British dance artist and former Chief Executive of The Place, Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE. More here.

Part of Tudors Now! — a public event series convened by Christina Faraday.

Chan-Hyo Bae, Peter Brathwaite, Mat Collishaw.

Paul Mellon Centre, London and Online. More info here.

A book tour event to mark the publication of Rediscovering Black Portraiture by Peter Brathwaite. Join Peter for this In Conversation event about his book, illustrated by projections of his re-creations of representations of black subjects in Western art, Caribbean Folk Songs, and songs by composers including Hanns Eisler.

More details here.