Late at Tate November
Behind the scenes
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View of frame and polyester resin moulds
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General Information
Main pay bar in North Duveens 18.00-21.30
Pay bar in Gallery 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
Member's Room Too open to all members until 21.40
Collection displays open 18.00-21.40
Half price entry to Francis Bacon and Turner Prize 08
Behind the Scenes Tours of Tate
Please note that there is limited space on all tours
All tickets will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis from the Rotunda Information Desk from 18.00
Tate Archive
18.15, 19.15 and 20.15
See Tate's hidden gems in a rare behind-the-scenes tour of the extensive Tate Library and Archive store and view a selection of unusual and unique material from the Tate Library and Archive collections.
Gather by the Meeting Point near the main cloakroom where you will be met
Please put coats and bags at the cloakroom (we will hand out clear plastic bags for valuables). Please note that pens are not allowed in the Research Centre.
The Prints and Drawings Rooms
18.30, 19.30 and 20.30
Did you know a staggering 80% of Tate's collection can be seen here? This tour provides a taster of Tate's vast collection of works on paper. It offers a chance to see Turner's earliest sketchbooks to his famous Venetian views, as well as his legendary Blue Rigi, acquired by Tate last year. In addition, you can see watercolours and drawings by William Blake, Stanley Spencer and Francis Bacon, among others, and some of the finest examples of modern and contemporary printmaking from David Hockney, to Richard Hamilton and Paula Rego.
Please meet in the Rotunda, you will be escorted to the Prints and Drawings Rooms
Please put bulky bags and coats in the cloakroom in advance of your tour. Please note that pens are not allowed in the print rooms (pencils will be provided).
Tate Stores
18.30 and 19.15
Only a fraction of the total artworks that Tate owns can be displayed at once. Framed paintings sculptures and installations by world-famous artists are kept in the fabled Tate Store. Take this opportunity for insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of all the Tate galleries and find out how Tate cares for and manages its vast and important Collection.
Please meet on the Millbank Steps. A minibus will drive you to and from the Store.
Please put bulky bags in the cloakroom at Tate Britain in advance of your tour
Frames Conservation
18.45 and 19.45
Please meet in the Rotunda, you will be escorted to the Conservation Studios
Encounter a gilded world in the frames conservation studio with gold leaf, carved wood and moulded ornament in this behind the scenes experience. In this practical demonstration by conservator Stephen Huxley you'll discover traditional and modern techniques used to treat important frames to fulfil their essential role for paintings in our collection.
Look out for the Frame Stories captions throughout the gallery - pick up a map for room numbers.
Please put bulky bags and coats in the cloakroom in advance of your tour
Alternative Talks on the Collection
Power: Richard Thomas
18.30
Room 4: Hogarth
Join Tate's artist-educator Richard Thomas for a tour and candid discussion on the power behind the early art markets through works such as Hogarth's O the Roast Beef of Old England.
Sight: Gillian Cutbill
19.00
Room 17: Image and Paint
Gillian Cutbill, a Tate guide who presents audio descriptions for blind and partially sighted visitors, will be describing Freud's Standing by the Rags for the Late at Tate audience and discussing the principals of audio description.
Outsider: Leon Wainwright
19.30
Room 24: Swinging 60s
Art Historian Leon Wainwright will be talking around the idea of the 'authentic outsider' and how Kitaj and Hockney - in their different ways - communicated Britishness and notions of otherness in the age of Pop
Money: Louisa Buck
20.00
Room 26: Richard Hamilton
After record-breaking sales of Damien Hirst and Francis Bacon hear a timely discussion on the credit crunch and the art market from the Art Newspaper's Louisa Buck
Insider: Nivek Amichund
20.30
Room 8: Cecil Collins
Inspired by the recently opened Cecil Collins display in Room 8, Nivek Amichund, both a visitor services assistant and a member of Tate Forum, Tate's youth advisory panel, gives his view on the works from his unique insider's position
Frame Cleaning
18.30-19.15 and 20.00-20.45
Frame cleaning is a delicate activity which normally takes place before the gallery opens, but tonight members of the visitor services team will be frame cleaning in Rooms 14 and 15. Talk to them about the specialised equipment and the nature of the frames they're cleaning.
Film
Losing Her
(James Killough, 29 minutes, 2007)
North Duveens
19.00 on a loop
Written and directed by James Killough and shot after hours in Tate Britain, this short film explores memory and past as they collide when Helen desperately searches for her grandmother in the galleries and encounters visitors and staff. What unfolds is a tale of loss, memory and art which leads to a devastating conclusion.
Stills from behind the scenes of the shoot will be projected in the North Duveens
With the kind support of ARRI and Panasonic
PoetryFilm
Auditorium
19.00-19.30 Screening
20.00-20.45 Screening and Discussion - what happens behind the scenes of a film?
21.00-21.30 Screening
A selection of PoetryFilms including an animation based on 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens; a film by Billy Childish celebrating the life of Dadaist and bicyclist Kurt Schwitters; and also go behind the scenes of a spying man with OCD who lives the same routine over and over - soundtrack by Aphex Twin.
Plus, at 20.00, a discussion about the processes of making PoetryFilms with directors, editors and writers who have featured at Cannes, chaired by Malgorzata Kitowski, director of PoetryFilm.
Tickets available from the Rotunda information desk from 18.00
Music
18.00-21.40
Room 9
Hear the double life of Tate employees with DJ sets in Room 9 with live visuals by Joe Catchpole and artist Dan Dvisualist Fenton
18.00 - 19.15 Dark Emotions playing Dubstep and Electronica
19.15 - 20.30 Knappen will be playing an eccelctic mix of sounds from the kingdom of rad
20.30 - 21.40 DJ Ferg Money with an early 90s Hip Hop set to end the night
Behind the Screen
South Duveens
18.00-20.00
During this summer's Street or Studio exhibition at Tate Modern, Tate partnered Flickr and Blurb to create an alternative catalogue of urban portraits, Street or Studio: A Photobook. The 100 photographs that the judges selected will be projected onto the walls of the Duveen galleries for the evening
Art Now: Rosalind Nasashibi & Lucy Skaer
Alongside their individual art practices, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer have been making collaborative works since 2005. Their two films Ambassador 2005 and Flash in the Metropolitan 2006 focus on the act of looking and the transformative potential of film. Nashashibi and Skaer will be creating a new installation for the Art Now space which opens this evening
