Friday 5 August 2011

Turner Contemporary Margate - August Bank Holiday 2011

The Path of Totality 2010. Projection
 of 79 slides Courtesy of Paloma Polo Copyright: Paloma Polo, 
Maisterravalbuena Gallery
26 August - Nocturne at Turner Contemporary Margate


Experience show-stopping performances at Late Night Live, a series of thrilling events on the last Friday of every month when the gallery is open until 10pm.

Join TC for their first Late Night Live event, Nocturne, where internationally acclaimed dance company Wayne McGregor | Random Dance will come together with artists, musicians and scientists to fill every space of the gallery with exhilarating performances.

Artist/scientist Zoe Laughlin brings the Materials Library to the Clore Learning Studio to give a performative lecture; cellist Austen Sculley will devise an original improvisation to Conrad Shawcross’ Projections of the Perfect Third, 2011; Paloma Polo's, The Path of Totality will be projected alongside the oboe concertos by Sir Wilhelm Herschel accompanied by the Festival Chamber Orchestra with oboist Ian Crowther and conducted by internationally acclaimed conductor Anthony Halstead; Robert Jarvis from the Armagh Observatory will give voice to the stars by demonstrating elements of around North, a project inspired by the movement of the stars around the Celestial North Pole, with astronomer Brendan Owens from the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

Time: 6 – 10pm
Location: Foyle Rooms
Free
http://www.turnercontemporary.org


Late Night Live: Nocturne is set to be just the start of a spectacular August Bank Holiday weekend in and around Turner Contemporary:

Sat 27 August
- Witness Margate’s miraculous transformation as buildings come alive, the beach lights up with stunning flaming structures and 100 people perform with choreographer Wayne McGregor  and his company Wayne McGregor | Random Dance,  the extraordinary theatre ensemble Pan Optikum and the UK's most innovative soundscape artist Scanner. 
 
Sun 28 August & Mon 29 August - Get creative together building mirror buildings inspired by Ellen Harvey's 'Arcadia' at our family fun workshop Easy Sundays

Monday 29 August - see the premiere of The Depiction of Clouds, a miniature theatre performance by local artist Robert Poulter and artist Serena Korda.

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