Late at Tate Britain: Camden Town

First Friday of each month, 18.00–22.00

Join us for a night of music, art and film inspired by the art of the Camden Town Group. Hear Michael Palin in conversation with Tim Marlow, discover the vulgar history of Camden with Stephen Smith and witness the only living RnB music hall star Ida Barr roaming the Collection displays with her beat box.

General Information
Main pay bar in the Manton Foyer on Level 1, 18.00–21.30
Pay bar in Room 9, 18.00–21.30
Refreshments available in the café on Level 1, 18.00–21.30
Restaurant Tasting Menu for 19.30 sitting £60 per head
Main Shop Level 2 open until 21.40
Members Room open to all members until 21.30
Collection displays open 18.00–21.40

Michael Palin in Conversation with Tim Marlow
Tate Britain Auditorium, 18.30–19.30

Actor, writer and traveller Michael Palin and art historian Tim Marlow discuss their continuing fascination with the Camden Town Group. They consider in particular how character, realism and a sense of place are revealed within paintings of the period, as well as in works of theatre, fiction, history and travel

Free tickets available from the Clore Information Desk from 18.00.
First-come, first-served. Limited to 2 per person

Artprojx Presents...
OPERA
Tate Britain Auditorium, 20.00 – 21.30

The launch night of a new series of artists’ film programmes compiled by Artprojx especially for Late at Tate Britain. Selected and introduced by Artprojx’s director David Gryn, these unusual and inspiring films are linked to Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group through music and performance. The music hall has been transposed to the opera and contemporary classical music. These films include originally composed music and collaborations between visual artists and composers which emerge in the spatial logic of opera; from anarchic animations to baroque staging of the body via the hysterical clarity of the operatic voice.

An artists film selection featuring:

Alice Anderson, Martha Colburn, Haris Epaminonda,
Karen Knorr, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Tania Mouraud,
Michelle Naismith, Mariele Neudecker, Jayne Parker,
Sophy Rickett, Susanne Winterling
Films selected by David Gryn, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Sophy Rickett

OPERA

Jayne Parker - The Reunion
Sophy Rickett - Auditorium (with music by Ed Hughes)
Rut Blees Luxemburg - Liebeslied/My Suicides (extract - with music by Paul Clark, libretto A G Duttmann) Tania Mouraud - OR DONC (extract)
Mariele Neudecker - Winterreise / The Phantom Suns and The Organ Grinder (extract)
Alice Anderson - The Blue Woman
Haris Epaminonda - Elapsed
Martha Colburn – don’t kill the weatherman
Michelle Naismith - The Captains
Karen Knorr - Lessons (extract)
Susanne Winterling - Drums

Organised by Artprojx in association with Birds Eye View Film Festival

www.birds-eye-view.co.uk

www.artprojx.com 

Free tickets available from the Clore Information Desk from 18.00. First-come, first-served.

Ida Barr
Between 18.30 and 21.00. Throughout the gallery

Ida Barr, the first Music Hall singer turned RnB rap superstar performs her own special brand of musical fusion as she roams throughout the gallery

From Roundhouse to Winehouse: A Vulgar History of Camden
Duffield Room. 19.00-19.45 and 20.30-21.15

The seedy face of Camden – has the character of the infamous London district changed that much over the last 100 years? Newsnight’s cultural correspondent Stephen Smith charts the rise and fall of CamdenTown, from Sickert to Winehouse and all and sundry in between

Free tickets available from the Clore Information Desk from 18.00. First-come, first-served.

Tobias Hill
Room 9, Tate Britain
19.30 – 19.55

Poet and novelist Tobias Hill reads a selection of his poems from Zoo and Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow exploring Camden’s flora and fauna human or otherwise

Music: Jonny Trunk
Room 9, Tate Britain
18.30-19.30 and 20.00- 21.30

Jonny Trunk, head of Trunk Records and one of the UK's leading experts on vintage film music and related recordings, presents a remarkable array of off-centre music on, about and inspired by CamdenTown from his extensive collection

This series is related to the Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group exhibition

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