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London's Victoria and Albert museum have announced a nationwide cinema screening to mark the end of the successful 'David Bowie Is' exhibition. The event will take place across 200 UK cinemas and tickets are available from Friday (28 June).
'David Bowie Is Happening Now' will celebrate the finale of The V&A’s exhibition, opened to great acclaim in March, selling more than 67,000 advance tickets and breaking pre-sale records.
The exhibition has already been seen by nearly 200,000 visitors and in response to the incredible demand for tickets the Museum will take David Bowie is live to cinemas across the UK.
V&A Director Martin Roth said: “Visitors have gone to great lengths for a chance to see our exhibition so we wanted to give everyone across the country one last opportunity to experience it for themselves.
"This is the first time the V&A has taken part in a live broadcast event of this magnitude and we are extremely excited to be working with such a talented production team to present the phenomenon that is David Bowie to the widest possible audience.”
Watch a video tour of the Bowie retrospective below:
David Bowie Is Happening Now will be introduced by exhibition curators Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh, and will feature special guests 'offering an insight into the stories behind some of the 300 objects on display from the David Bowie Archive'.
Then, the exhibition will begin its international tour, starting at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (25 September – 27 November 2013) followed by the Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo (28 January – 21 April 2014).
Tickets will be on sale from Friday 28 June, for details of participating cinemas and to book visit here.
The news comes after Bowie's guitarist Earl Slick revealed that there would be 'no Bowie live dates this year'.
Below: take a look at the David Bowie Is V&A exhibition
