Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi Barbican inspired though they set the pattern

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including author and columnist George Monbiot

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reflecting the dual nature of her career as an artist and activist

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi Barbican inspired though they set the patternToshikazu Kawaguchis beautiful story explores the age old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafs time