Uniqlo Tate Play: Kusama's obliteration room
Location: Turbine Hall
Time: 18.00–21.30
Yayoi Kusama’s obliteration room is a playful, interactive artwork for all ages. You are invited to transform a completely white domestic apartment into a sea of colour using sticker dots.
Talk: Audio Description Tour, Kusama's obliteration room
Location: Turbine Hall
Time: 18.30–19.00
Join an audio described tour of Yayoi Kusama’s obliteration room. Seats and hearing equipment are provided. Please meet at the benches by the Cloakroom on Level 0 from 18.10
Activation: Candoco Open Workshop
Location: South Tank, Blavatnik Building, Level 0
Time: 9.00–20.00 and 20.30–21.30
Catch a glimpse of Candoco Dance Company’s creative process, as they lead a workshop inspired by the choreography of Trisha Brown Dance Company. This ‘open workshop’ will be visible to visitors inside the Set and Reset display in the South Tank. The session at 20.30–21.30 will be BSL interpreted.
Digital Display: Anna Farley’s Set and Reset visual guide
Location: Tanks Foyer, Level 0
Discover Anna Farley’s new visual guide for Tate, a guide for everyone that gives you another way to access the display Set and Reset.
Music: DJ Sets programmed by Global Roots
Location: Level 1 Bridge
Time: 18.00–21.30
Catch DJ sets from Anna, Pelin Pelin and Actress programmed by Global Roots.
Drinks and Music: DJ Sets programmed by Global Roots
Location: Terrace Bar, Blavatnik Building, Level 1
Time: 18.00–21.30
Enjoy summer cocktails, craft beers and more alongside DJ sets from Tim, Papaoul and Anja Ngozi, programmed by Global Roots.
Workshop: Are You Comfortable Yet? with Anahita Harding
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 2
Time: 18.30–21.30
Are you comfortable yet? Artist Anahita Harding invites you to respond through written text, poetry or visual motifs. Your response will be shared and performed by invited guests throughout the night, all performances will be BSL interpreted.
Performance times:
18.30, Jamie Hale, Nina Thomas (recordings)
19.00, Tiiu approved
19.45, Lisa Kelly
20.30, Shaun Shears
21.15, Sam Castell-Ward
Digital Display: DASH– We Are Invisible We Are Visible
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 4
Time: 18.00–21.30
This month, 31 artists with disabilities set out to disrupt 30 locations with surreal interventions alongside the 102nd anniversary of the first DaDa International Exhibition. See the results of their work from We are invisible We are Visible.
Talks: Art Chats
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 5
19.00–19.30 Artist Davey Jose discusses how he explores his spinal injury in his work, hosted by his younger brother, presenter and teacher Bobby Seagull.
20.00–20.30 Artists Leah Clements and Amanda Lynch speak to Helen O’Malley, Producer of Community Programmes at Tate, about institutional change and artistic access in the cultural sector.
21.00–21.30 Meet artists Poppy Nash and Christopher Samuel for a discussion hosted by Senior Creative Producer, Liat Rosenthal
All talks will be BSL interpreted.
*Please note each talk requires a free ticket, available to collect from the Level 0 ticket desk, on a first-come, first-served basis from 18.30
Talk and Screening: Jo Bannon and Candoco, Feeling Thing
Location: Starr Cinema, Natalie Bell, Level 1
Time: 19:00-20:00
Watch Feeling Thing, a film that invites us to pay attention to the objects around us and experience them as the dancing, feeling things they are. This screening will be followed by a talk with the artist Jo Bannon, Candoco’s Artistic Director Charlotte Darbyshire, and dancer Ihsaan de Banya, hosted by Tamsin Hong, Assistant Curator of International Art at Tate. The talk will be BSL interpreted.
*Please note this requires a free ticket, available to collect from the Starr Cinema, on a first-come, first-served basis from 18:30
Performance: Christina Lovey, Rhythmicity Me
Location: Natalie Bell Building
In Rhythmicity Me, Christina Lovey uses rhythm tap to create sounds and vibrations that respond to artworks across the galleries. Here she shares her experience of processing data through rhythmic actions with viewers and the space.
Screening: Tate Shorts
Location: Natalie Bell Building, Level 4
Relax and enjoy Tate short films which explore how artists with disabilities respond to the gallery, featuring David Johnson, Lisa Squirrel and dancers from Corali.
Talks: 10 Minute Talks
Various times, throughout the building
Staff and volunteers from across Tate share their personal insights into works from the collection.
Music: DJ Sets from Queer Bruk and The Rimmers
Location: Turbine Hall, Level 0
Time: 18.00–19.30
The Rimmers: Friday Night kicks-off with ‘The Rimmer Rave’. Join Jewish mum Gaye Rimmer, her husband Mervyn and their daughter Becky for schmaltzy tunes and a Friday night dinner.
Time: 19.30–21.30
Queer Bruk: Club night Queer Bruk aims to bring more Afro-Caribbean culture and music to London’s queer nightlife scene. This month they team up with Donnie Sunshine.
