What’s on

EXHIBITION

LULAMA WOLF: NDIZALWE NGE NGUBO EMHLOPHE (I WAS BORN WRAPPED IN A WHITE BLANKET) Until 4 March SoShiro 23 Welbeck Street, W1G 8DZ soshiro.co

This exhibition of new works by the South African visual artist Lulama Wolf features the fruits of residency in Antibes, France, for the Undiscovered Canvas residency programme for emerging African artists. Lulama’s approach is rooted in her heritage, and her work captures some of the simplicity and deep spiritual power of the pre-colonial African experience, but her interrogation of history, geography and spirituality feels highly contemporary.

Lulama Wolf THEATRE

THE TEMPEST 9 – 19 March The Cockpit Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH thecockpit.co.uk

The The Bridge Theatre Training Company’s new time shifting production of The Tempest mixes the Elizabethan world with the 1950s painter’s studio that is Prospero’s desert island. Betrayed by family and peers and racing against time to complete a masterwork, Prospero must choose between revenge and justice, violent retribution, and forgiveness. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg meets outrageous vaudeville comic Max Miller, Leonardo da Vinci and abstract expressionist artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner in this extraordinary new version of Shakespeare’s hymn to the imagination. MUSIC

BACH IN LEIPZIG 20 March Royal Academy of Music Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT ram.ac.uk

The third Bach in Leipzig concert of 2022 features an opulent cantata for Epiphany surrounded by two intense, questioning works written for occasions later in the year. The use of recorders, horns and oboes da caccia in Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen colourfully illustrates the magnificence of the Magi’s arrival at the crib. Ich glaube, lieber Herr is a work of subtle drama, musing on the complex interplay between doubt and faith. The expressive Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, one of Bach’s most popular solo cantatas, sings of the pain and torment of sin and seeks forgiveness through reconciliation with God.

The Tempest FOOD

MARYLEBONE FOOD FESTIVAL 26 April – 1 May marylebonefoodfestival.com

The amazing Marylebone Food Festival marks its highly welcome return after an enforced two-year hiatus. Visit the website for updates on the dozens of culinary events taking place across the neighbourhood throughout the festival, which is organised and funded by The Howard de Walden Estate and The Portman Estate. Highlights include a gala dinner hosted by Jay Rayner, with each course cooked by a different chef from the area’s best restaurants.