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Among the non-musical highlights is a major exhibition at The Red
House, Britten & Women, which celebrates the powerful role women
played in Britten’s life, while composer Joanna Ward will create an
audio-visual installation which will explore the nature of work and asks
the questions what is good work, what is hard work and what do we
want to do with our time? Meanwhile, across the Snape Maltings
site art curator Isabel de Vasconcellos will bring together three
distinctive artists, Paul Benney, Laurence Edwards and Kiki Smith, all of
whom have a love of the environment and the human form.
Finally, the festival will be celebrating the 100th birthday of painter
John Craxton. During their lifetime, Britten and Pears collected 13
works of art by Craxton, which were hung at their home, The Red
House. To mark Craxton's centenary year and Britten's and Pears'
connection to him, the festival will gather the works in the Britten-Pears
collection and display them in the Snape Maltings Concert Hall gallery.
The 73rd Aldeburgh Festival runs from Friday June 3 to Saturday June
26, 2022. Full details of the programme and online booking at
brittenpearsarts.org
