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Tate St Ives Late

Late at Tate

22 September 2023 at 18.30–22.00

Free entry for Members

© Berber Diffusion

  • Programme
  • Food and drink
  • Accessibility
  • Biographies

Join us for a late-night opening of art, music, film, talks and more

Celebrate the vibrant Moroccan ‘new wave’ of The Casablanca Art School with drop-in activities to get involved with throughout the gallery.

Create a collaborative artwork inspired by the urban murals and outdoor exhibitions that took place around Morocco in the 1960s.

Get creative and delve deeper into the school’s applied arts, typography and graphics and learn more about Afro-Berber art and culture.

Dance to Northern African Berber music with live music sets inside and outside the building.

Enjoy Moroccan street-food and drinks on the café terrace.

Programme

Display: Something New From Repetition

Kleiner Shames

Location: Loggia

Time: All day

Workshops: Something New From Repetition: Late at Tate Mural

Kleiner Shames

Location: Foyle Studio

Time: 18.30–21.30

Join artist Kleiner Shames for an experimental painting workshop to produce a 3m x 8m collaborative wall mural. Drop-in through the evening and use handmade tools, brushes and extension poles to add or remove from the mural.

Informed by his work Something New From Repetition 2022, which will be on display in the Loggia through the night. This is a three-dimensional exploration of recurring shapes and colours found in Kleiner Shames’ work and the desire for them to break the bounds of the canvas and inhabit the world we live in.

Film Screening: Something New From Repetition: Documentary film

Andy Lawrence

Location: Foyle Studio

Time: 18.30–21.30

7min 10secs, screened on a loop

Screening on a loop alongside Kleiner Shames’ drop-in mural workshop. This documentary film and accompanying photographs capture some of the process in creating Something New From Repetition, offering a glimpse into the creative process.

Stemming from a lifetime of influences and infatuations firmly rooted in the subcultures of skateboarding and graffiti, an ethos of community, collaboration and constant evolution inform this ever-evolving output.

Making Activity: Design a Poster

Location: St Ives Studio, Level 2
Time: 18.30–21.45

Casablanca Art School tutor Mohammed Chabâa expressed ‘the poster is a painting accessible to all’.

Explore the striking colourful designs by the artists and teachers Mohammed Chabâa and Mohamed Melehi who co-designed Souffles and Integral Magazine. CAS artists used graphic design to place their art into public life, using symbolism and logos in solidarity with Angolan and Palestinian people and resistance movements. Find inspiration in these shapes, colours, symbols and montage together your own poster cover design to take home.

Music: Sunset and Sundown Acoustic sets

Berber Diffusion

Location: Gallery 8
Time: 19.00–20.00 - Sunset

Location: Café Terrace
Time: 20.30–21.30 - Sundown

Berber Diffusion are the UK’s first traditional Amazigh band. The Amazigh people, or Berbers, are pre-Arab North African nomadic clans, whose history runs deep under the Saharan sand, defying many attempts at oppression and eradication. There musical traditions have continued into the present day through small groups of travelling musicians who still play at weddings and other ceremonies and celebrations, sharing the stories and poems of their ancestors.

Film Screening: ‘Soundscape x Berber Diffusion’

Location: Foyle Studio
Time: 18.30–21.30

22min 21secs, screened on a loop

Soundscape radio interview with founder of Berber Diffusion and lead singer, Abdellah Rais.

The Casablanca Art School Talks: Ceramics object handling and Talk with Shannon Bartlett Smith

Location: Gallery 6

Time: 19.00–19.30

Focusing on the ceramics of Abderrahman Rahoule (b.1944) and the works he made for the 1960’s group student exhibition on display on The Casablanca Art School. Learn about the techniques and processed used to create the works by handling ceramics made by potter and arts educator, Shannon Bartlett-Smith.

This talk will be BSL interpreted.

The Casablanca Art School Talks: Talk with Dr Sophie Kazan

Location: Gallery 6

Time: 19.30–20.00

Observing the influence of Afro Berber and the traditional arts on the Moroccan Modern Art Movement and considering how the Casablanca Art School has inspired art today.

This talk will be BSL interpreted.

Talks: 10 Minute Talks

Various times, throughout the building

Staff and volunteers at Tate St Ives share their personal insights into works from the collection.

Location: Level 4, Cafe & Terrace

Time: 18.30

Moroccan style street-food:

Chicken Tagine with olives, apricots & preserved lemon.

Served with cous-cous royale & chermoula

Ras el Hanout spiced aubergine & chickpea tagine with golden raisins & preserved lemon.

Served with cous-cous royale & chermoula

Both include bowl of chilled melons w/ mint & rose water syrup

£15

Please note due to limited availability food will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis, so we recommend arriving early to avoid disappointment.

Bar open serving craft beers, cocktails, sodas and more. Last orders 21.30.

There is one main entrance to the gallery.

  • There is a ramp into the main entrance from Porthmeor Beach.
  • A flight of steps with a handrail
  • From inside the building, there is lift access and level access to most areas of the gallery.

Late at Tate will feel different to a regular day at the gallery. Here’s what to expect:

  • Gallery spaces and concourses might be busier than usual
  • There will be live music in Gallery 8 with amplified sound, these areas will be busier than usual. Please ask a member of staff if you would like earplugs
  • Ear defenders can also be borrowed from the Ticket desk
  • Magnifiers and coloured overlays will be available at making workshops
  • 30-min Talks in Gallery 6 with be BSL interpreted. Hearing headsets will also be available
  • A fully accessible Changing Places toilet is located close to Gallery 1. It has a height-adjustable changing bench and hoist. There is another accessible toilet close to Gallery 6
  • The Parent and Baby Room is on the third floor between Gallery 3 and 4. It can accommodate a pushchair
  • There are also baby changing facilities in the main male and female toilets

For more information before your visit:

  • Email visiting.stives@tate.org.uk
  • Call +44 (0)173 679 6226
Check all Tate St Ives accessibility information

Kleiner Shames

Kleiner Shames (b. in Oxford, England 1988) began writing graffiti at the age of 14. It was here he became intrigued by lettering, shape, form and composition, with graffiti offering limitless boundaries of expression and exploration. With a move to Bristol in 2012, this interest widened, translating into screen printing, a continuation of painting walls and experiments within his studio. An invaluable short period in London working as a sign painter allowed a more formal expression of his affinity with graffiti and continued to expand the definitions of his work. Now working from a remote studio not far from Land’s End, this innate desire to explore different techniques - playing the same song with different instruments - continues in his practice.

Andy Lawrence

Andy Lawrence is a visual artist based in Newlyn. He uses the camera as a tool to explore the world around him. His work is increasingly informed by interactions with the natural world and a desire to document and tell tales from the field.

Berber Diffusion

Berber Diffusion are the UK’s first traditional Amazigh band, based in London and leading the scene with a unique blend of Amazigh pentatonic scales with Gnawa traditional music. They have played at many different venues around London and the UK including Wilderness Festival, The National Theatre, Hootananny, Boom Town festival and African Diaspora Festival.

Abdellah Rais

Abdellah Rais is a multi-talented musician who studied under masters in Agadir and across Morocco. Playing the banjo, guembri, qraqab and drums, as well as a composer of  house tracks, he twists together various strains of his musical heritage to create an innovative and unique sound. Leading the Berber music scene in London, he has joined musicians from all around the world to share the Amazigh rhythms, constantly discovering new crossovers with other folk traditions, from Irish to Bluegrass and beyond.

Soundscape

The Soundscape team are: Radio producer and music journalist; Lara Adobati, Video-maker; Jacqueline Ching, Sound engineer; Gabriel Makara, Graphic designers; Rebecca Fraser and Anoushka Narayanan, Community managing; Célia Saboureau.

Shannon Bartlett-Smith

Shannon Bartlett-Smith is a ceramicist and arts educator based in Cornwall. She studied at Bristol School of Art and graduated with a BA Hons in Contemporary Crafts from Falmouth University.  She was shortlisted for the New Designers 'Designer of the Year 2015' award and had her first solo exhibition ay LINLEY, Belgravia in London entitled 'Journeys in Paper'. During an 18-month internship at the Leach Pottery, St Ives, she became particularly inspired by the Japanese ideologies that Leach prides itself on. She went on to teach and deliver workshops at the Leach before opening her own pottery in 2021 in New Milll, near Penzance where she continues to teach and develop her own pottery line. Her pots are available from a range of stockists including The Shop at Tremenhere Sculpture Garden, Leach Pottery, Dor Falmouth, and Thrown Contemporary.

Dr Sophie Kazan

Dr Sophie Kazan is an art and architecture historian and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Leicester.  She holds degrees from SOAS - University of London, the University of Oxford and the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Sophie has curated exhibitions and event. This year, Sophie is working on several publication projects, the Association for Art History (AAH)’s Global New Voices Conferences 2023, focussed on Doctoral and Early career researchers (DECR) from around the world and she is also part of the African State Architecture research group (ASA) with the Institute of Africa Studies, University of Ghana. Sophie's research considers tradition and modernity, national identities and aesthetics in the art and architecture of the Middle East and Africa.

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22 September 2023 at 18.30–22.00

Free with a gallery admission ticket, Local's Pass or Tate Membership

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The Barakat Trust

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