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This week's best culture, from the Proms to Nick Cave, the Almeida to Drowntown

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Classical

BBC Proms
The 125th anniversary of the Proms opens with the BBC Grand Virtual Orchestra: 350 musicians from the BBC orchestras and choirs performing Iain Farrington’s new arrangement of Beethoven’s nine symphonies. The opening weekend continues with the best archive concerts from the past 25 years, headed by Igor Levit, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Leila Josefowicz. Friday, 7pm, Radio 3; and on BBC Four from Sunday 19 July. Fiona Maddocks

Film

Clemency
Long-awaited on UK screens – it’s been 18 months since it won the top prize at Sundance – Chinonye Chukwu’s unflinching prison reform drama revolves around Alfre Woodard’s career-best turn as a warden in moral turmoil. On release from Friday. Guy Lodge

Alfre Woodard in Clemency.



Alfre Woodard in Clemency. Photograph: AP

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
The true story of a surrealist and a lottery ticket, this striking Spanish animation by Salvador Simó, based on the graphic novel by Fermín Solís, tells the story of Luis Buñuel – depicted here as angular both in personality and in character design – and the making of his second film. Streaming on BFI Player from Thursday. Wendy Ide

Theatre

Shifting Tides
Aimed at and created with 14- to 25-year-olds, the Almeida’s new digital festival looks at the part the arts can play in tackling the climate crisis. Audio drama (including Ben Weatherill’s new play As Waters Rise), film screenings, exhibitions and panel discussions will be available free, Thursday-Saturday at almeida.co.uk Susannah Clapp

Invisible Music
When Catherine Church’s mother started to lose her hearing, the artistic director of Platform 4 accompanied her to lip-reading lessons. This experience set Church on the road to the co-creation of Invisible Music. Originally a live event, it has been transformed into a 47-minute-long “digital meditation” on hearing loss, with 15 different musical moments/stories revealed through the interplay of soundscapes, words and projections. The premiere is on Wednesday, 8pm, and the production will be available to stream for at least a month. Clare Brennan

Nick Cave at Alexandra Palace.



Nick Cave at Alexandra Palace. Photograph: Joel Ryan

Pop

Book now: Nick Cave: Idiot Prayer
The solo Cave will be performing a career-spanning set for an “as live” live stream on Thursday 23 July, filmed last month at London’s Alexandra Palace. Tickets via the Dice app. Kitty Empire

Ellie Goulding
Brightest Blue, the Herefordshire siren’s most ambitious album to date, finds serpentwithfeet, the late Juice WRLD and Swae Lee all lending vocals. Out on Friday. KE

Comedy

Live from the Comedy Trap House
American standup Nore Davis has released a new comedy album, Live from the Comedy Trap House. Recorded on 29 May on Zoom, he talks quarantine and Black Lives Matter on this 50-minute set. Listen on Spotify. Kadish Morris

Nore Davis, live from the Comedy Trap House.



Nore Davis, live from the Comedy Trap House. Photograph: Marcus Russell Price

Art

Whitechapel Gallery
The doors open again at the Whitechapel, east London, on Tuesday for the big painting show Radical Figures, a small display of Spanish contemporary art and international art films – all continuing from where they left off in March (pre-booking and social distancing required). Laura Cumming

Dance

Drowntown Lockdown
Theatre-maker and choreographer Rhiannon Faith has made a digital prologue to Drowntown, the dance theatre piece she was about to tour. Set in a deprived coastal town, the show looks at six strangers weighed down by isolation, loneliness and the failure of social support. This prologue, available via the Barbican’s Facebook site or via Rhiannon Faith Company’s own Facebook page, lasts 15 minutes, and follows the cast in their own homes before they leave for the beach. Sarah Crompton

Watch Drowntown Lockdown by Rhiannon Faith

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