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Free Tate Britain Late

Late at Tate Britain Hidden Folklore

7 November 2025 at 18.00–22.00
Life drawing workshop with people sitting in a circle around sculpture.

Late at Tate Britain: Other Worlds (Photography by Dan Weill)

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This autumn, join us for a night delving into hidden folklores at Tate Britain

Experience workshops, performances, music and talks all looking at different perspectives on folklore. Explore the collection and discover the hidden folklores within.

Late at Tate Britain is co-programmed with Tate Collective Producers who are supported by Gucci through Gucci Changemakers London. Late at Tate Britain is supported by The Rothschild Foundation.

Programme

Hidden Folklores: Rituals for the Unattended

Opening Procession
Inside the Millbank Entrance 18.00

Workshop
North Duveens 18.30-20.30

Closing Procession
North Duveens 20.30

Join us as we pay our respects and make offerings to the quiet and constant things that we take for granted.

The East Anglian Folklore Centre will bring Moth and Magpie to lead these rituals, opening and closing the magical space that Tate Britain is providing for the evening. You need only bring yourselves.

Rosemary Cronin: Dream Worlds

Tarot Readings
Play Studio 18.00-21.30

Create your own Tarot
South Duveens 18.00-21.30

Join artist Rosemary Jane Cronin and delve into the subconscious by creating your own tarot cards through surreal and ethereal techniques. Tarot readings will be taking place throughout the night in Play Studio: Dream Worlds!

Adeche Presents Under the Baobab: Live Painting and Storytelling

Performance

18.30-20.30

Room 10

Adwoa and Solomon, the creative couple behind Adeche Atelier, present a live painting inspired by African folklore. Across the evening there will be storytelling, an opportunity to view a selection of mythology-inspired paintings from their collection, and a chance to watch a new artwork come to life as they paint simultaneously on one canvas. You are invited to drop in, observe, and ask questions as the night goes on!

Reprezent Radio: Main Stage

Music

18.00-21.30

Room 8

Reprezent are back in their spiritual home of Room 8 - come hear some of the best London based DJs playing the freshest tunes amongst some of the U.K's most famous artworks.

An Adventure for Tricksters

Workshop

18.00-21.30

Room 5

Anansi is the cunning trickster. Artist Rudy Loewe leads you on a trail through the Tate galleries, on an adventure to find Anansi. Along the way, you will write and share your own stories with the great spider god.

Mermaid's Grotto Escape Room

Workshop

18.00-18.20, 18.35-18.55, 19.10-19.30, 19.45-20.05, 20.20-20.40, 20.55-21.15*

Clore Studio

The Little Mermaid has had her tongue cut out by the sea witch, can you return it in time?

Spend 20 minutes in the mind of Hans Christian Anderson on the night he wrote the world's most famous mermaid story. Working together you must solve puzzles, find clues and you might even get to decide how you'd like the story to end. This pop-up experience has been designed by Sacha Coward, escape room designer, folklorist and queer historian, so grab a worthy crew and dive in!

*each timeslot will require a free ticket that can be collected from the Manton ticket desk at 17.00.

Hellebore's Cave of Mysteries

Workshop

18.00-21.30

Room 23

Join Hellebore to create your own art through contemplation and sensorial deprivation. You will be surrounded by a flow of images from the past and listen to visionary music before being blindfolded to produce your own art.

Reprezent Radio: Under the Rotunda

Music

18.00-21.45

Lower Rotunda

Come hear the best of new London sound presented by Brixton based Reprezent Radio. Dubbed as a hidden subterranean club, under the rotunda goes off!

The Hidden Folklore Quiz

Quiz

18.30-19.00, 19.30-20.00, 20.30-21.00*

Djanogly Café

Do you know your myths from your legends? Show off your folklore knowledge in our pop quiz taking place at the back of the Djanogly Café. Assemble your team and compete to win prizes!

*each timeslot will require a free ticket that can be collected from the Manton ticket desk at 17.00.

Imagined Index

Workshop

19.00-20.30

Library and Archive Reading Rooms

Discover the hidden stories of the archive at ‘Index of Lore’, a participatory event in the Reading Room. As evening falls, explore curious and rarely seen items from the Tate Library and Archive collection, objects that seem to hold their own quiet secrets. You’re invited to imagine new narratives inspired by these fragments, adding your words to a collective index of storytelling that will grow throughout the night. Together, we will awaken the archive’s unofficial folklore.

Quiet Space

18.00-21.30

Do you need a room to take a break from the many activations happening in the building, and the rest of the world? We invite you to reset your senses and recharge in this quiet, access-friendly and wellness-inspired chill out space.

Adeche Atelier

Adwoa Botchey and Solomon Adebiyi are the creative couple behind Adeche Atelier, a research-driven studio dedicated to reimagining African mythology, folklore, and spirituality for contemporary audiences. Painting simultaneously on the same canvas, they fuse education with striking visual storytelling, building a global community of over half a million followers across social platforms. Their work spans fine art, education, and media, alongside their podcast Afro Mythos, and includes high-profile commissions with the National Gallery, BBC Arts, and the Fitzwilliam Museum. 

@adeche.atelier

Rudy Loewe

Rudy Loewe is a multidisciplinary artist blending painting, drawing, and sculpture to examine a complex web of socio-political dynamics. Through their work, Loewe brings to life histories unearthed through archival research and interviews. In 2025, Loewe is the ninth exhibiting artist for the Art on the Underground Brixton Mural Programme.

@rudyloewe

Sacha Coward

Sacha Coward has worked in museums and heritage for over ten years. For the past three years, he has been freelancing as a historian, public speaker, tour guide and researcher. He is also an escape room designer and has built games for historic sites around the world, from art galleries, to castles, to royal parks! Sacha is passionate about queer history, mythology and storytelling in all their many forms. Sacha is also a published author, his first book Queer As Folklore is published through Manchester University Press.

Maria J Pérez Cuervo

Maria J Pérez Cuervo is the founder and editor of HELLEBORE, for which she was a finalist at the World Fantasy Awards in 2022. HELLEBORE was also shortlisted at the British Fantasy Awards 2024 in the category of Best Magazine/Periodical. Maria’s work revolves around myth and culture, and it has been published in Fortean Times, Daily Grail, Severin Films, Radiance Films, and Indicator, among others. She has been featured on BBC culture, VICE, The Sunday Times and BBC Radio 5, and has been a guest speaker at various events at Williamson’s Art Gallery, Stone Club and British Library.

@helleborezine

Rosemary Cronin

Rosemary Cronin is an artist, writer and lecturer with a research-based practice focusing on gender, psychoanalysis and subversion. The work is realised through film, performance, paint, print and sculpture. Cronin has exhibited at The Freud Museum, Tate, ICA London, National Portrait Gallery, Transition Gallery, South London Gallery and The Wallace Collection.

@rosemaryjanecronin

Food and Drink

Duveens Bar

18.00-21.45

Fancy a drink? Head over to our pop-up bar in the Duveens!

Djanogly Café

18.00-21.45

Grab some food and drink and enjoy the music in the Djanogly Café. Try out our range of drinks, including a selection of locally sourced beer.

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7 November 2025 at 18.00–22.00

18+

Please note this event will be photographed. If you do not wish to be photographed, please collect and clearly wear a red sticker from the Manton ticket desk.

Tate Collective Producers are supported by Gucci Changemakers London

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