Marking the end of the harvest season and the final week of A Common Ground, Tate Britain’s pop-up community garden, this event brings together local food vendors, musicians and creatives to celebrate the importance of community and conversation.
A Common Ground has provided a natural, living space over the summer to host cooking demonstrations, wellbeing workshops and community takeovers designed to bring people together. This event invites many of our collaborators from over the summer back to take over the gallery with a fun (and tasty) programme of tours, workshops and food offers to celebrate Autumn and the harvest season.
Explore the autumnal garden, decorate a super-sized leaf and add it to a giant tree sculpture, enjoy some squash soup and herbal drinks made with produce from our garden and listen to a local choir as they perform some well-known songs.
A Common Ground: Show and Tell
14.00–18.00, Drop-in, (Un)Common Space in the Learning Gallery
Visit the Learning Gallery to meet the A Common Ground team and the many people and groups who have worked with us over the summer. The space will be hosted by Restoration Station, Cry Club, Ramadan Tent Project and the Al-Nagashi Centre, each leading an object-based show and tell about their work. There will be complimentary tea, coffee and courgette cake made with produce from the garden, as well as plenty of opportunities to chat and connect with others.
Art
BSL Tour: A Common Ground
14.00–15.00, Millbank Steps
Join Deaf Guide Edward Richards for a tour in British Sign Language of A Common Ground.
Library and Archive Display
14.00–17.00, Drop-in, Library and Archive Reading Rooms
Visit the Library and Archive to enjoy a relaxed space where you can see a colourful display of archive material relating to gardens and harvest. Discover photographs of plants and gardens taken by artists such as Paul Nash, John Piper and Eileen Agar. Browse books about artist-designed gardens and learn about the Tate Britain allotments during the Second World War.
Workshops
Make Space
15.00–16.30, Drop-in, Duveen Galleries
Inspired by the vegetables growing in A Common Ground, this friendly workshop with artist Sarah Carne invites you to explore the garden and enjoy making your own response using materials from the Make Space art trolley.
Playing Up
12.00-17.00, Drop-in, Octagon
Playing Up is a game for kids and adults to play together. Join a playful, hands-on introduction to live art that encourages children’s creativity, confidence and imagination.
Get creative with Shambush!
14.00-17.30, The Duffield Room and outside in A Common Ground
Go on a creative adventure with Shambush! and make an autumn themed creation to celebrate the harvest season. Meet some quirky woodland creatures, follow the clues and have your work added to our giant tree display.
Music and Performance
Westminster Freedom Choir
16.00, The Octagon
Hear Westminster Freedom Choir as they fill the galleries with their singing as part of this harvest celebration.
Abundance Arts: African Drumming Workshop
15.00 and 16.30, Manton Foyer
Join Folasade Babarinde, artist and facilitator at Abundance Arts for this high-energy African drumming workshop. Come together with friends and strangers to create a drumming circle, working as a collective to fill the gallery with sounds, rhythm and beats.
Food
A Seat at the Table
14.00-17.00, 1840’s Room
We’re transforming the 1840’s gallery into a living space to meet, eat and connect. Hosted by artist Abbas Zahedi and Abdullah Elias, this space invites you to pull up a cushion, enjoy soup made with ingredients from the garden and engage in conversation and exchange with your neighbour.
Ital Workshop
15.00-17.00, Kitchen Prep Area in A Common Ground
Learn how to make some delicious and affordable vegan soups and stews with an Afro-Caribbean twist. Join Rastafarian chef and entrepreneur, Jahson Peat, the owner of Peckham’s Zionly Manna Vegan Rastarant as he picks and cooks with the last of our vegetables in the garden and shares his knowledge on Ital.