Live performances: First Thursday Lates with Sadegh Aleahmad and Harriet Richardson
Thursday 1st August 2024 , 6:00pm to 9:00pm
An afterhours chance to explore this year’s Bow Open exhibition curated by Lindsey Mendick, alongside two exclusive live performances by exhibiting artists Sadegh Aleahmad and Harriet Richardson.
Bow Arts’ annual Bow Open Show showcases the talent and diversity of art being made across the charity’s artist community, selected by a guest curator. This year’s curator, visual artist Lindsey Mendick, invited submissions with her provocation “A Personal Treasure”, and has gathered work from 33 artists, various in media and all distinctly precious for sharing a treasured notion. Read more about the exhibition here.
For this special late opening, Sadegh Aleahmad will be activating his installation Poems for Keeping Warm, inviting visitors to write poems, observations, messages, or even a shopping list on pieces of kindling, before ceremonially setting them alight and burning them to ashes, in an act of metamorphosis and transformation.
Building on from her exhibited artwork MSN, for her live performance, Harriet Richardson will be revisiting the ‘90s, recreating her 2007 home teenage computer set up in the gallery space. She will then invite visitors to chat with her on MSN Messenger, unravelling the possibilities of text-based dialogue and the collective creation of digital moments in time.
The Nunnery Cafe will be open for the duration of the evening, selling a range of tasty snacks and refreshments.
These performances will take place in the Nunnery Gallery and in our outdoor courtyard space.
Access information
The Nunnery Gallery and courtyard have step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 3967 1643.
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Fri, 9am to 5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
