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"This event moved beyond traditional community outreach to recognise the value of our members as artists, musicians, writers and creators of culture in their own right."

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Community Views are free, interactive private view events for community groups and charity service users. They are designed for those who may otherwise struggle to access our programme, due to financial, health or social barriers, but also as a way of the Barbican hearing directly from these groups to learn and ensure that we don't perpetuate these barriers.

Community Views are events that are co-created with our partners. The events include access to see an exhibition (or film or piece of theatre) with connected creative workshops and activities. Our Community Views were moved online and elements in creative packs during the pandemic.

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As a result of the pandemic, many of our spaces were left empty. The Communities-in-Residence programme directly responded to this by providing free space to local community partners for creative, social and support groups within a COVID-secure environment and in line with the government's support group guidance.

The residency model has worked so well that we plan to continue developing and growing this model beyond the pandemic. The residencies enable us to provide spaces for ideas and people to connect.

Our current Communities in Residence are Accumulate who provide creative activities for people who have experienced homelessness, Age UK City of London, supporting local older people and Key Changes who provide music engagement and recovery programmes for young people and adults affected by mental health conditions. We are also currently developing a new residency with a young refugee group in the Conservatory, May Projects who aim to reconnect people with nature.

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"I wanted to really really thank you and all of The Barbican for all of the support, organisation and resource given to Accumulate over the past few months - it was really so amazing and wonderful that we were able to have workshops during this time and also in such a culturally engaging environment and it was incredibly important and beneficial to the Accumulate participants that they could meet, create and be part of a community again."

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Key Changes | Promoting Positive Mental Health Through Music

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Key Changes offers award-winning music-industry focused recovery services for musicians experiencing mental health problems.

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I am continually impressed by the @BarbicanCentre Communities in Residence programme, currently hosting @keychangesmusic which supports #mentalhealth  through music.
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I am continually impressed by the @BarbicanCentre Communities in Residence programme, currently hosting @keychangesmusic which supports #mentalhealth through music.#CityReopening pic.twitter.com/e2VdiNa1g4
— Lord Mayor, City of London (@citylordmayor) May 21, 2021

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Our Progression Sessions every Friday at London's iconic @BarbicanCentre provide 1-1 support for musicians w/ #mentalhealth experience - huge thanks to centre staff & our awesome team, volunteers & artists for making it happen #musicindustry #recovery

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We'll be coming back soon with a brand new look.

In the meantime, you can:

Our Hip Hop Garden programme engages urban youth with nature through popular Hip Hop culture, which transcends language and cultural backgrounds.

Combined, the two worlds give young people a strong and holistic foundation for financial security, self-discipline, independence, balance, good health, social integration, and fulfillment.

You can support the young unaccompanied minors and refugees featured in this short film by buying their track Freedom Now.

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We'll be coming back soon with a brand new look. In the meantime, you can: Our Hip Hop Garden programme engages urban youth with nature through popular Hip Hop culture, which transcends language and cultural backgrounds. Combined, the two worlds give young people a strong and holistic foundation for financial security, self-discipline, independence, balance, good health, social integration, and fulfillment.

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“These events are important because people need a night off and can’t always afford it. An arts experience for someone with disposable income would be food, drink, art, conversation – this shouldn’t be a luxury!”

'Into the Night' Community View Attendee

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Takeover of Online Community View for Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty by Community Collaborator Headway East London

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Community View Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty

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Explore a collection of activities and resources, co-produced by Headway East London, inspired by Jean Dubuffet.

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Age Concern Christmas Screening 2019 Impact Report

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Barbican Community View Jan 19 Impact Report

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“As a mental health survivor, these events are so important for connecting with people."

Community View attendee

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Barbican Community View Aug 18 Impact Report FINAL

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The Community Collaborator programme is an in-depth, long term partnership with a community group. The model encourages two-way exchange, collaboration and learning.

Our first Community Collaborator is brain injury charity, Headway East London.

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We moved our Community Views online while the centre was shut

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Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer Community View

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Our Community Collaborator: Headway East London

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Meet Headway East London to hear more about their work supporting people affected by brain injury and how Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning has been collaborating with them so far.

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Community Creative Responses to the online Community View

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Making Moves

Kate Coyne, Associate Director of Michael Clark Company, created activities that invited the groups to explore a different way of moving their body. They encouraged people to be creative in response to everyday objects, like a bicycle chain or an album cover.
Watch these short films to see some of the wonderful dance footage our Community Partners shared.
Featuring dancers: Alice, Bethan, Claudia, Fiona, Jackie, Nicole, Graham, Sasha, and Sophie.
Featuring students from The Garden School

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Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer Creative Responses

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Kate Coyne, Associate Director of Michael Clark Company, created activities that invited the groups to explore a different way of moving their body. They encouraged people to be creative in response to everyday objects, like a bicycle chain or an album cover. Watch these short films to see some of the wonderful dance footage our Community Partners shared.

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"EVERYONE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE AN ARTIST"

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"EVERYONE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE AN ARTIST"

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@mitchel_ceney [Accumulate member]

The drawing is a left handed self portrait from a workshop today organised by @accumulate_ldn at @thebarbicancentre led by Chris and Chris from @headwayeastlondon I had a wonderful time as usual seeing everyone. I liked the theme of this session, it got me thinking about what art is, who is an artist etc and I realised that I am working thru lots of preconceptions about what it is to make art and my own stereotype of an artist. It’s taken me 37 years to be able to say out loud I am an artist without feeling stupid. Anywho that’s me. AN ARTIST. #everybodyhasthepotential #artdonthavetobepretty #galleriesforall #LoveArtDrinkCoffee #lefthandeddrawing #markerdrawing #quickdrawing #markersketching #waxcrayon #inclusivity #nobarriers

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Offering paid opportunities for members: Mitchel reflection at showcase

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Offering paid opportunities for members: Mitchel reflection at showcase

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"In 2020, I did some work through Accumulate. I met the lovely guys at the Barbican at one of their workshops and they asked me to create a workshop for their Community View. I used to be a workshop leader back in my 20s and doing this really reminded me how much I love doing this sort of work. I made my activity bright and colourful and they got me to do it with 3 or 4 different groups. I'm so grateful for the chance to do this as it made me remember my skills with people and it boosted my confidence no end. I remember when I first met Marice [Accumulate lead] I couldn't even look her in the face I was so lacking in confidence at the time. But through doing this work, it made me feel equal to the people I was working with and like a functioning member of society again, not a thief, drug addict or a criminal.

Let me fast forward to where I am now. I'm drug free alcohol free, I'm healthy and I finally feel like I have a purpose in life again. Through these experiences I've realised I love working with people and being creative and without Accumulate I wouldn't have rediscovered this passion."

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Community Partnerships has 3 main interlocking projects which connect the centre with community partners and visa versa: 

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Community Collaborators

Communities in Residence

Community Views

(Community Partnerships was previously part of Creative Learning but has recently been moved to align with the new Communities & Neighbourhoods team)

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Overview of Community Engagement Partnerships

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Community Engagement Programme

As a public arts centre we are committed to ensuring that everyone has access to and can benefit from the arts.

We collaborate with community, charity and local organisations to create meaningful arts experiences that support the wellbeing of people of all ages and backgrounds. By creating space for people and ideas to connect, we develop sustained relationships with community partners centred on two-way learning and co-production.

Our programme of free events, both on and offsite, showcases creative talents and allows us to test different models of collaboration with artists, communities, local authorities and other local stakeholders.

Alice Westlake, Age UK London

Every year we work with a group of Community Ambassadors, individuals aged 16+ from across London who are actively engaged with their community and passionate about the arts.

Ambassadors reach out to communities to promote the Barbican, especially those who haven't heard of us before. Ambassadors' knowledge and expertise help to shape our offers for local communities and to identify potential partnerships, ensuring that everyone has access to our arts and learning offer.

We are not currently recruiting new Ambassadors. We will be launching a Community Newsletter in 2021, please do check back on this page to sign up to get information on our programmes and opportunities.

Every year we collaborate with a range of community groups to create meaningful experiences in response to our partners' needs. Whether it's ticket offers, projects, or finding ways to platform the creative work of our partners, we are committed to nurturing relationships to ensure we remain open for all.

Are you part of a community organisation and would like to collaborate with us? Email us at [email protected] will be launching a Community Newsletter in 2021, please do check back on this page to sign up to get information on our programmes and opportunities.

Our Community Collaborators programme is an in-depth partnership model. Our Creative Learning team work with one local community organisation over three years on a range of projects that encourage two-way exchange, collaboration and learning.

We are delighted to work with brain injury charity, Headway East London, as our first Community Collaborator 2019-2022.

Headway East London is a local charity supporting people affected by brain injury, offering specialist services to survivors and their families.

Headway East London has exceptional artists as members. We work to complement, develop and showcase their work and, in turn, they support our staff and programme to develop in new ways.

Find out more

Community Views are free, interactive private view events for community groups and charity service users.

They are designed for those who may otherwise struggle to access our programme, due to financial, health or social barriers. Community Views include access to see an exhibition (or film or piece of theatre) with connected creative workshops and activities.

Our Community Views are now accessible online. If you would like more information on how to access our Online Community Views, please email [email protected]

Click on the button below to see creative work made by attendees to one of our Online Community Views.

Community View Responses

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of our spaces were left empty. Our new Communities-in-Residence programme directly responds to this by providing free space to local community partners for creative, social and enterprise activities within a COVID-secure environment. This enables us to ensure that we are providing spaces for ideas and people to connect and that our building remains open to all.

Our current Communities in Residence are Accumulate who provide creative activities for people who have experienced homelessness, Age UK City of London, supporting local older people and Key Changes who provide music engagement and recovery programmes for young people and adults affected by mental health conditions.

If you are interested in learning more about our Communities-in-Residence programme, please email [email protected]

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"The ivory tower model of elite artists and arts organisations being funded to cater for a narrow segment of society has crumbled. Forward-looking arts organisations now focus on the coalescence of artistic excellence and social impact, the broader health of their communities and offering public spaces that truly enrich the high streets they inhabit."

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The role the arts plays in our society is changing. Increasing pressure on public subsidy means the industry has to work harder than ever to prove its value in a variety of frameworks, and the arts venue of the future is going to look very different to what it does today.

The ivory tower model of elite artists and arts organisations being funded to cater for a narrow segment of society has crumbled. Forward-looking arts organisations now focus on the coalescence of artistic excellence and social impact, the broader health of their communities and offering public spaces that truly enrich the high streets they inhabit.

The inherent features of arts centres - their multidisciplinary context and the community, civic and artistic role they play - can make it difficult to pin down their identities, and often lead to them being underrepresented in the media and public dialogue around the arts. But this challenge is also their greatest strength. Arts centres are the unsung heroes of the creative sector, and they might hold the key to the future of UK arts.

Arts centres are often busy from early morning to late at night, offering an extensive range of services and platforms for engagement, attracting audiences the sector usually finds hard to reach. Not producers in the classical sense, they provide fertile ground for artists to produce new work and find new meeting points with audiences.

Visit the Albany on a Tuesday and you'll encounter an artist-led day club for the over-60s, where you're likely to see participants suspended from silks in a circus workshop or developing their spoken word skills. The club not only increases the richness of audiences for the programme as a whole, it also challenges artists to find new ways of creating work that speaks to a diverse audience.

Crucially for the council, we are also working to deliver a public health agenda, combating issues around the isolated elderly, more efficiently and cost-effective than many of the other options available. As a Lewisham councillor said recently: "We spend 40% of our budget on adult social care. Perhaps if more of them had experienced the arts that figure wouldn't be so high."

Arts centres have for years worked closely with councils, who are often their principal funders. As the demands on council resources increase, these building and venues are playing a central role in finding creative solutions to fulfilling social remits.

At Stratford Circus, a priority is engaging those who would otherwise have no opportunity to engage with the arts. Its home borough of Newham is one of 20 districts in Britain where the financial loss from the welfare reforms is greatest.

However, over the past year, we've seen a 159% increase in audiences for children's work - a direct result of a strong partnership with the local authority that means, among other things, every child in Year 5 from Newham could see Michael Rosen's Centrally Heated Knickers for free. With the arts in the curriculum increasingly under threat, arts centres can play a lead role in creative arts education, providing access to artists, consultancy, networks and training.

Artists also recognise that arts centres provide a more vibrant environment in which to develop work - places where they can connect with potential audiences during the creative process. So when Hannah Nicklin wanted to collect stories about breaking Britain; when Unlimited Theatre wanted to ask children about their approach to money; and when Andy Field wanted to find out about different kinds of love, they went to ARC in Stockton, an arts centre that was able to connect them to their local community. It's this kind of engaged, socially driven activity that could help provide a framework for the future of UK arts.
Clare Connor is director of Join our community of arts, culture and creative professionals by signing up free to the Guardian Culture Pros Network. Stratford Circus, and Gavin Barlow is CEO of - both are co-chairs of the National Partnership of Arts Centres

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“The social mobility crisis has many causes, but it’s not helped by the deeply unequal opportunities for cultural expression across the UK. Inclusive growth in the UK requires a much more inclusive cultural sector committed to holding open doors, transforming the way it looks and works”

John Knell, Warwick Commission

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Impact report from Accumulate workshop led by Headway

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011020 Comms in Residence Accumulate Report

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Communities in Residence Pilot impact report

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SO proud to see Accumulate scholarship winner Mitchel lead his own art workshop with children from @nova_newopps last week. The children loved it! It’s just amazing to see the student has now become to teacher! 🙌 Huge thanks to @BarbicanCentre for supporting this workshop.

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SO proud to see Accumulate scholarship winner Mitchel lead his own art workshop with children from @nova_newopps last week. The children loved it! It’s just amazing to see the student has now become to teacher! 🙌 Huge thanks to @BarbicanCentre for supporting this workshop. https://t.co/jMHxiN7VEY

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SO proud to see Accumulate scholarship winner Mitchel lead his own art workshop with children from @nova_newopps last week. The children loved it! It’s just amazing to see the student has now become to teacher! 🙌 Huge thanks to @BarbicanCentre for supporting this workshop. pic.twitter.com/jMHxiN7VEY
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SO proud to see Accumulate scholarship winner Mitchel lead his own art workshop with children from @nova_newopps last week. The children loved it! It’s just amazing to see the student has now become to teacher! 🙌 Huge thanks to @BarbicanCentre for supporting this workshop. https://t.co/jMHxiN7VEY

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SO proud to see Accumulate scholarship winner Mitchel lead his own art workshop with children from @nova_newopps last week. The children loved it! It’s just amazing to see the student has now become to teacher! 🙌 Huge thanks to @BarbicanCentre for supporting this workshop. https://t.co/jMHxiN7VEY

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SO proud to see Accumulate scholarship winner Mitchel lead his own art workshop with children from @nova_newopps last week. The children loved it! It’s just amazing to see the student has now become to teacher! 🙌 Huge thanks to @BarbicanCentre for supporting this workshop.

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Headway East London is a local charity supporting people affected by brain injury, offering specialist services to survivors and their families. We've radically transformed our services in response to Covid-19, and we need your support more than ever.

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A brand-new dance troupe took its bow on the Barbican stage, as members of the dance group at brain injury charity Headway East London were invited to take part in a series of workshops led by Kate Coyne, Associate Director at Michael Clark Company.

In Autumn 2020, forming part of Barbican Creative Learning's rich programme of events responding to the Barbican Art Gallery exhibition, Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, these vibrant workshops saw participants exploring ways to use their bodies to create shapes, respond to music, and express themselves through movement.

Eleven participants took part in small groups across three separate workshops at both the Barbican and Headway East London's centre in Haggerston. Kate talked to them about working at Michael Clark Company and led the group as they used dance and movement to explore their creativity.

'Kate was able to tap into the group's extraordinary creativity and create a safe space for us to delve into our imaginations'

'She asked everybody to do some moves,' says Headway East London member and workshop dancer Jackie Pingue. 'Then she got each and every single one of us to think of a move, and then we'd all join it together...having it all flow... it was fantastic.' Fellow Headway dancer Sandra Lott concurred, praising the workshops' inclusivity and accessibility: 'It was absolutely lovely. I can walk - well I have my walking stick - but some people have wheelchairs, but they can join in as well. It's brilliant.'

The Headway East London dancers certainly brought their flair and vitality to the workshops and the project became a truly special experience - creating a community and a dialogue between all involved. Some of the group were also able to visit the Gallery exhibition just before lockdown which included films of the Company - spotting Kate in some of the videos too!

Safety precautions were put into place, allowing the group to come together to dance, laugh, and express themselves at a time when things felt very dark - with the Theatre stage lit up in vibrant yellows, oranges and blues to bring additional warmth and communal joy.

Headway dancer Ken Hazeldine said: 'I've always enjoyed dance - usually more as a spectator than as a participant due to my ungainly nature! It was great to dance on stage, in front of the huge auditorium at the Barbican. It was a little bit like dancing [in] a great cathedral!'

'Kate was able to tap into the group's extraordinary creativity and create a safe space for us to delve into our imaginations,' says Stephanie Kelley, Therapy Assistant at Headway East London. 'There were real moments of magic up there on that stage!'

'I LOVED working with the Headway members,' says Kate Coyne, Associate Director at Michael Clark Company. 'Their joy in dancing was infectious, and the enthusiasm and generosity of their energy and creativity was a complete delight. I have taught many people over my career, but these sessions with Headway East London make me smile whenever I think back to them.'

'Well, it's not every day we get to dance together on the Barbican Theatre stage! Many of the themes Michael Clark explores really resonated with us so this collaboration felt very exciting. '

Stephanie Kelley, Therapy Assistant at Headway East London

'The Barbican was empty, so it was very weird being there...If there was another workshop, I would definitely want to do it again - I loved it!'

Linda Martin, Headway East London dancer

About Headway East London
Headway East London is a charity supporting people affected by brain injury. Working across 13 London boroughs, they offer specialist support and services for over 200 survivors, family, friends and carers. Headway East London have a three-year partnership with the Barbican as their Community Collaborator and have been involved in many projects and events as part of the Barbican Creative Learning programme.

Our Barbican Creative Learning pioneers new models for cultural learning across the art forms. Our mission is Creative Skills for Life and, in a typical year, we deliver more than 40 programmes and events alongside 150 partners to over 29,000 participants.

Headway East London Dancers:
Ken Hazeldine, Velma Hurst, Sandra Lott, Linda Martin, Tirzah Mileham, Theresa Malcolm, Tiiu Mortley, Jackie Pingue, Trevor Small, Dominic Tran, Carol Zeniou

Headway East London Staff:
Fiona Allan, Physiotherapist
Bryn Davies, Co-ordinator
Steph Kelley, Therapy Assistant
Laura Owens, Communications and Development Manager
Rosie Scott, Communications and Fundraising Assistant
Cristina Vidal, Public Engagement Officer

Michael Clark Company Staff:
Kate Coyne, Associate Director

With thanks to Kate Coyne and Michael Clark Company, the Barbican Theatre team for their support on the project and to Barbican Art Gallery for their ongoing support with our community work.

Thank you to photographer and filmmaker Williamz Omope and charity Accumulate, The Art School for the Homeless.

Meet our community collaborator headway east london

Community engagement programme

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Meet the Shape Makers - a dance project with Michael Clark Company and Headway East London | Barbican

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Funded quarterly podcasts from Headway East London in collaboration with people connected to the Barbican Centre.

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1. This Went Through My Body by DISRUPT Festival

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