in partnership with Fully Focused

LIFT the City Digital Film Series

Our new two-year programme in partnership with the City of London Corporation, supporting thousands of workers, residents, and visitors of the Square Mile to come together with a creative focus on culture wellbeing, inclusion, and sustainability.

Acting as an integral part of our wider programme, LIFT the City will enliven spaces and buildings throughout this historic part of London via performance and participatory work, connect communities and encourage footfall back into the City following the pandemic.

Democracy From Where I Stand: A Fully Focused film

LIFT 2024 | Democracy From Where I Stand, The Dutch Church, Saturday 8th June. In partnership with the Financial Times.

In a year when half the world’s population are heading to the polls in national elections, LIFT and the Financial Times came together in LIFT 2024, to present Democracy From Where I Stand, a powerful night of provocations, poetry, live music and performance at The Square Mile’s Dutch Church. The event brought together leading women from across the globe to share their views on and relationship to democracy today.

This event was developed from the FT film series Democracy 2024, directed and produced by Juliet Riddell, and was presented as part of LIFT the City, supported by The City of London @cityoflondon.

Film Credits: @ukfullyfocused @basmakhalifa @amarabjorkhaug @mansa_mi @misterfye @mansa_mi

LIFT 2024: Democracy From Where I Stand

Image by Matthew Johnson

LIFT 2024: L'Animale by Chiara Bersani

LIFT 2024: L’Animale by Chiara Bersani 

Set against the backdrop of The Old Bailey, Italy’s Chiara Bersani revisited The Dying Swan (a ballet originally choreographed by Michel Fokine for Anna Pavlova in 1905), with her site specific work, L’Animale. Chiara Bersani is one of the world’s leading stage artists and an influential figure in Italian performance. With a reputation of pushing the boundaries of dance, Bersani uses her body to draw on the universal themes of loneliness and mortality.

L’Animale was presented as part of LIFT the City, supported by The City of London @cityoflondon.

Film Credits: @ukfullyfocused @basmakhalifa @amarabjorkhaug @mansa_mi @misterfye

LIFT 2024: L'Animale by Chiara Bersani

Images by Katie Edwards

LIFT Workplace Boosts in partnership with Coney

In 2024, LIFT commissioned BAFTA award-winning interactive arts company Coney to design and deliver a series of powerful and playful workshops for workers and residents in the City of London, with the goal of broadening access to wellbeing through creativity. This film follows one workshop held with Square Mile based staff at Regular Cleaning.

The Workplace Boosts workshops are part of LIFT the City, supported by The City of London @cityoflondon.

Film Credits: @ukfullyfocused @basmakhalifa @amarabjorkhaug @mansa_mi @misterfye

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Events

LIFT the City: Coney Workplace Boosts

5 Jun – 27 Jul

This spring, LIFT has commissioned BAFTA award-winning interactive arts company Coney to design and deliver a series of playful workshops for workers in the City, supported by The City of London Corporation

Democracy From Where I Stand

8 June (this event has now passed)

In 2024, half the world’s population will head to the polls in national elections. In the UK, people will be asked to vote in a General Election on 4 July. Democracy is being put to the test in an unprecedented way. LIFT would like us all to have a chat about it. Featuring Brenda Emmanus (London) Lola Shoneyin (Lagos), Aditi Mittal (Mumbai), Rosie Holt (London), Fetuma Hassan (London), Dr Michelle Johansen (London) , Baque Luar (London), Margaret Atwood (Toronto), Osheen Siva (Thiruvannamalai/Vellore).

L’Animale

22 – 23 Jun

Against the formidable backdrop of the Old Bailey's Grand Hall, Milan's Chiara Bersani transforms The Dying Swan into L'Animale. Pushing the boundaries of dance, L'Animale is an evocative exploration of the universal themes of loneliness and mortality, creating a unique, unrepeatable performance each time.

쿠쿠 | Cuckoo

14 – 16 Sep

Three talkative rice cookers take you on a journey through the last 20 years of Korean history.

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