Drop-in
Music: DJ Sets Programmed by Global Roots
Location: Turbine Hall, Level 0
Time: 18.00–21.30
Programmed by Global Roots catch a vocal dance session with B'licious of The Heliocentrics, performing with her electronic partner El Prevost. Plus Pritpal Ajimal, aka Sway of the Verses, digs deep across raga music and the associated cosmic frequencies.
Workshop: Connect and Make in Richard Bell’s Embassy
Location: Level 1 Bridge
Time: 18.00–21.30
Housed in a tent, Richard Bell’s Embassy is a public space for listening and telling stories of resistance, survival, displacement and oppression. The tent provides an opportunity to imagine a future where Aboriginal people – and all Indigenous peoples – are leaders in a truly equal society. Join us in the tent to share stories and create your own protest sign.
Social Space: Embassy Expanded
Various locations
Time: 18.00–21.30
Inspired by Bell’s Prelude to Imagining Victory which reimagines the first Aboriginal Tent Embassy, find a space to sit and connect among the beach chairs and umbrellas across the gallery.
Music: DJ Sets Programmed by Radiate Festival
Location: Terrace Bar, Blavatnik Building, Level 1
Time: 18.00–21.30
Programmed by Radiate Festival, catch DJ sets by DJ KTM and Phat Kontrolaz alongside craft beers and cocktails.
Workshop: Collective Banners with Joke Amusan
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 2
Time: 18.00–21.30
Join artist Joke Amusan to embroider fabric banners with statements of protest, hope and resilience. Take your work away to display at home or leave it with Amusan to be turned into a collective banner which will be displayed inside Embassy.
Workshop: Tate Draw
Location: Starr Foyer, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1 and Blavatnik Building, Level 3
Time: 18.00–21.30
Head to our drawing desks and bring your work to life using digital sketch pads. Tate Draw is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Film: The Redfern Story
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 4
Time: 18.00–21.30
The Redfern Story (2014, 60 min), directed by Darlene Johnson, documents the formation of The National Black Theatre in Redfern, Sydney. The theatre was set up in 1972 by a group of activists, actors, dancers and writers at a critical time in Australian political history which culminated in the establishment of many influential Aboriginal organisations. The National Black Theatre has left a lasting legacy on national politics, social welfare and the Australian arts scene. The film will be played on a loop.
Talks: 10 Minute Talks
Various times, throughout the building
Staff and volunteers from across Tate share their personal insights into works from the collection.
Free ticket required
Talks: Art Chats
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 6
19.00–19.30 Subversive Growing: Exploring the process of connecting with land, community, ancestry and deep psychotherapeutic healing, hear from Claire Ratinon and Marchelle Farrell.
20.00–20.30 Art and Migration: Counterpoints Arts, the national organisation working in the field of arts, migration and cultural change, presents rapper and filmmaker Awate Abdalla in conversation with human rights lawyer Matt Foot.
21.00–21.30 Art and Protest: Jamel Alatise and Imogen Faires share readings from their work, inspired by Bell and the connection between art making and protest.
All talks will be BSL interpreted
*Requires a free ticket, available to collect from Level 0 on a first-come, first-served basis from 17.30
Film: Dislocation Blues
Location: Starr Cinema, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1
Time: 18.30–19.10 and 20.00–21.30
Tate Film present a programme devoted to artists engaging with a transnational movement of resistance against colonial powers. Curated with artist and Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Alan Michelson. Works by Sky Hopinka, Caroline Monnet, Carolina Caycedo, Martha Atienza, Ana Vaz, Matti Aiko and Fox Maxy will be screened, followed by a conversation between the curators, Fox Maxy and Carolina Caycedo.
*Requires a free ticket, available to collect from Level 1 on a first-come, first-served basis from 17.30
