Building upon the revolutionary ideas of women artists, we explore key intersections of personhood and how the themes of the exhibition are still relevant and essential today.
At this Late at Tate Britain experience workshops, performances, DJ sets, talks and displays that imagine new futures, question the role of mothers in society and explore the politics of the body.
This programme has been curated by Tate Collective Producers Jasmine Pierre and Zahra Coulthard.
Performances
Reprezent Radio
Room 8
18.00 - 19.00 DJ MB
Born in Camden from Caribbean heritage, DJ MB is celebrating Women In Revolt by bringing the best in neo soul, jazz and deep house, a fusion of nostalgia.
19.00 - 20.00 Nadī
Nadī was born in Sylhet, Bangladesh. She moved to the UK when she was two years old and has always lived in South London.
Nadī is a DJ, host and producer with an unparalleled passion for music, dominating dancefloors with her genre-bending sets.
For the London based DJ, her sets are all about creating a musical narrative, where she likes to combine different flavours, incorporating underground sounds from dub, UKG, bassline, dancehall and Eastern inspired D&B tunes - with one thing in common: ‘a bouncy bassline’.
As a presenter and host Nadī has chaired discussions and panels, including a Friday Late takeover at the V&A. She regularly appears on radio as a DJ and presenter on Reprezent + Rinse FM, with guest mixes on Selector Radio for Jamz Supernova, BBC Asian Network for Manara and Foundation FM.
20.00 - 21.30 Ailbhe Máiréad
Serving groove-infused sounds honouring fierce and fabulous women from across the sonic spectrum, blending heaters from female-identifying icons who've made their mark on culture with groundbreaking styles and sounds. Featuring originals and reworks celebrating trailblazing goddesses from funk and disco, synth, new wave, pop, diy, post punk, riot grrrl, indie sleaze and beyond.
Reprezent Radio
Djanogoly Cafe
18.00 - 19.45 Safaree
Safaree is made up of Australian born Fiona Wicklow and South London native Rahnee (UK born with Caribbean heritage). Expect this set to be a multi disciplinary experience as Safaree brings together women from across the arts.
With Rahnee bringing the generational knowledge of the vibrant UK rave scene and Fiona being an avid creator and experiencer of feminist works this mix combines Jungle, Techno, Punk and Dubstep. It will be truly revolting.
19.45 - 21.30 Prinny & Amber
Prinny x Amber are a dynamic London based DJ duo. They bring an infectious energy to the decks through their unique blend of genres, energetic style of DJing and alluring presence; the perfect formula for an electrifying atmosphere.
Influenced by sounds from their native homes all the way to the diaspora, they fuse a myriad of sonic experiences that can captivate each and every listener.
Trans Voices
Turner Galleries
19.00 - 19.15, 20.00 - 20.15, 21.00 - 21.15
Trans Voices' co-founders ILĀ and Coda Nicolaeff will perform improvised soundbaths exploring the interplay between intimacy and expanse using their voices to respond to work in the space combined with live electronics using innovative AI and quantum computer music tools.
On Wrath
North Duveens
20.45 - 21.15
On Wrath is a choreopoem which honours the suppressed anger in Black women’s lives. It refuses calls to forgiveness, forgetting, and relinquishing fury – instead, this is a space for that rage to be free and beautiful. It features original sound art from Shenece Oretha.
Signature Brew Bar
Manton Foyer
Tate's collaboration beer with Signature Brew Riot Grrrl just took home the award for Best Individual Design at the SIBA Business Awards 2024. The beer and its artwork, co-created by artist Steve Beech, was inspired by the trailblazing women and art at the forefront of the feminist punk movement of the 70s and 80s.
The beer is a 4.8% Hazy Pale, delivering huge juicy flavours whilst remaining indignantly drinkable. When Riot Grrrl was released in November 2023 it sold out immediately, which prompted us to produce additional batches to keep up with demand.
To celebrate the incredible success of the beer and the Women in Revolt exhibition, Signature Brew will be serving up their award-winning beers all-night long. Enjoy 2 for 1 off your first order of Riot Grrrl by displaying a valid ticket to Women in Revolt at the Signature Brew Bar.
Workshops
The Future Philosophical Pills
Library & Archives Workshop Rooms
18.30 - 20.30
What do you see when you think about the future? How do you tell the story of the future you want? Can this story be told differently? Would you like to experiment with prototyping a different future?
Set in 2050, the workshop will facilitate the production of alternative stories about the kind of future you care about. Working in small teams and using a range of activities like collage-making and open-ended speculation, participants will play with the Future Philosophical Pills deck of cards - a world-building, future-crafting game to kickstart new futures.
We will question existing ideas around ‘The Future’ and you will be guided in a playful exploration of new stories and new visions about more just futures.
The workshop will be hosted by Betti Marenko and Kaye Toland of Hybrid Futures Lab.
*This workshop will require a free ticket which can be collected from the Manton ticket desk.
Sick Sad Girlz
Manton Studio
18.30 - 21.00
The Sick Sad Girlz community was born from a moment of realising the luxury that existed in being able to have honest and vulnerable conversations on how to manage our physical, emotional and spiritual health. These conversations amongst fellow Sick Sad Girlz have since blossomed into a multi-platform support group for people existing across a breadth of experiences, paradoxically bound by our differences, and finding comfort in the things that unite us in unconventional ways; mainly being sick and being sad.
The Sick Sad Girlz workshop brings this community platform to Tate to create space for honest conversations around accessibility in the arts sector. This will be an open forum to share your personal experiences, speak openly about what you want to see museums doing differently, and learn practical ways to advocate for yourself as a sick, sad artist or arts worker.
Join Kenzie, artist and co-founder of SSGz and Daisy, curator and researcher, for a cosy evening to vent and share your experiences in a non-judgemental space, or just relax and find community while making friendship bracelets.
This event is open to everyone: you do not need to identify as a ‘girl’ and no one is too sick or sad, or not sick or sad enough, to join.
This workshop will have a BSL interpreter.
Threads of Liberation
Clore Studio
18.00 - 20.00
Join socially engaged artist Dana Olărescu for an interactive session where exploration meets dialogue in an event centred on intersectional feminism, with an emphasis on womxn's* health, rights, gender justice, and liberation. Through thought-provoking prompt cards featuring quotes and ideas, dynamic conversations will be ignited. Immerse yourself in engaging with dried herbs and visual elements strategically placed throughout the space, enhancing your understanding of the evening’s themes. Allow the visual projections of quotes from womxn to inspire you, while a curated soundtrack sets the ambiance for reflection and exchange.
*This term is used to avoid perceived sexism in the standard spelling and to explicitly include or foreground transgender women and nonbinary people.
to hold and to be held
Learning Gallery
18.30 - 19.30, 19.45 - 21.15
How can we bring our sensorial experiences into conversation with the archive?
What echoes might we hear from the histories of radical women as we delve into our own pasts? As our hands touch that which has been made by others, what might we feel? What might we remember? How might that lead us forward?
This is a multimedia and collage-based workshop involving an attunement to our senses and memories. Exploring what a sensitivity to both looks like in relation to radical feminist and queer histories.
In this workshop we will delve into archives using the Tate’s own collections, ephemera from places such as the Feminist Library, Black Cultural Archives (BCA) and excerpts from personal research. Together we will engage with both visible and hidden histories, using the messages we decipher to write letters to our future selves.
Documenting and Reimagining the Body
Art Now
18.30 - 19.25, 19.30 - 20.25, 20.30 - 21.25
Come join artist Husna Memon for this two-part mixed-media workshop.
In the first half of the workshop, participants are invited to take a moment to acknowledge their own bodies, reflecting on the journey it has taken and how it has served them up to the present moment. Mixed media will be used to document any pain and/or sensations experienced in the participant's body.
In the second half of the workshop, participants are invited to reimagine their bodies. Away from all rules and constraints, what is considered ‘normal’, and the pressures of being perceived, how would participants want to exist? How would they reimagine their bodies to look like?
Themes and concepts of decolonisng the gaze and the body being a site of violence will be addressed in the workshop. No prior skill or experience is needed!
Patterns of Power: Digital Data Response to Women in Revolt!
Taylor Digital Studio
18.00 - 20.00 Meet the team and contribute ‘data’ to the project
20.00 - 20.45 Women in Revolt Live AI Performance & Q&A
Join us from 6pm to talk and create with the team behind Patterns of Power - a project that brought together artists, data specialists, coders, researchers and creatives to explore critical data mapping and storytelling through the lens of Women in Revolt! at Tate Britain. From 8pm, you are invited to join the team in a live dialogue with an AI ‘entity’ developed based on the data gathering of the project. The project is part of an initiative at Tate Britain, Electronic Life, working with young people to experiment with and challenge AI and new digital technologies.
Creative House with Stephanie Wong
Clore Foyer
18.20-19.20, 19.20-20.20 and 20.20-21.20
How do some of the themes in the Women in Revolt! exhibition make you feel? Angry, shocked, inspired, frustrated, reassured, upset or a mix of feelings?
Come release your complex emotions and transform them into creative energy.
Make your own stress balls and let go of all your complicated feelings!
No prior experience is needed, all abilities are welcome.
This workshop is inspired by Kumiko Shimizu’s Angry House project.
3 [Hour] Scream
South Duveens
18.00 - 22.00
An ode to Gina Birch
Have you ever want to scream in public? Well, now is your chance!
In the spirit of punk, we are calling out for participants to join us in a capturing a collective scream of defiance. Release your inner howl into our scream-vessels and feel the spirit of revolting women vibrate through you.
Explore
Prints and Drawings
Prints and Drawings Room
18.00 - 20.00
‘My Mother opens the door at 7AM she is not bulletproof’ - Marlene Smith
‘Who’s holding the baby...and often alone’ - Hackney Flashers
Motherhood, with all its hopes and expectations, often occurs during and despite of the mechanisms of society. Looking back at familial ideals pushed during Thatcher’s Britain [1980] such as neoliberalism and individualism. Jasmine Pierre and Zahra Coulthard, through a temporary exhibition, explore the harsh constraints that are and have been placed on mothers and care givers. Leaving you to question what is the ideal society for motherhood to flourish?
Show and Share: Making Histories Visible
Library and Archive Reading Rooms
18.00 - 20.30
For April’s Late at Tate Britain: Women In Revolt!, our Library and Archive team are putting on a Show and Share that will present a curated selection of material from the Making Histories Visible archive.
Join us to explore the Making Histories Visible (MHV) archive, presented to Tate Archive by Turner Prize-winning artist and curator Lubaina Himid in 2023. The MHV archive was conceived as a study aid for artists, students, and staff, when Himid was appointed Professor of Art to the University of Central Lancashire, Lancaster, in 1990, and as a means of positioning then-marginal Black artistic and curatorial practice within a national and international institutional context. It is nothing less than a record of Black artistic activity in the UK throughout the 1980s and early 1990s – its production, exhibition, promotion, and reception. It has a particular, though not exclusive, focus on Black women’s art, and figures well represented in the MHV archive include Himid, Maud Sulter, Claudette Johnson, Ingrid Pollard, and many others who feature in the current Women in Revolt! exhibition at Tate Britain. The MHV archive comprises catalogues, posters, and ephemera for solo and group exhibitions; correspondence about exhibitions, acquisitions, access, and representation, with major institutions, such as Greater London Arts, Tate, and the Arts Council; photographs; and handmade ‘mail art’ by key artists such as Chila Burman.
Show and Share invites visitors to explore highlights from the Library and Archive collections. Previous highlights have included letters, sketchbooks, artists’ books, zines, catalogues, ephemera, photographs, and other special collections.
Each display is curated to a specific theme or collection and includes a guided talk from the Library and Archive team, as well as occasional guest talks and performances. Show and Share displays provide a unique viewing and handling experience highlighting art and ideas found in the Library and Archive collections.
Quiet Space
Millbank Studio
18.00 - 22.00
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 room. In this space you will find something to activate each one of your senses and have an array of activities to distract your mind.
Multi-faith and Contemplation Room
This month for visitors observing Ramadan we will have a space available between 19.30 – 20.30 in the Clore Centre for breaking fast and for prayer and reflection. This is located on Level 0 opposite the Djanogoly Cafe. Water and fruit will be available. A multi-faith and contemplation room is also available on Level 1 off the Turner Galleries. This is a designated space for worship and prayer, as well as quiet and reflection. All are welcome to use these spaces.