Thursday 28 July 2016

Wellcome Collection - What's On in August

Wellcome Collection, A Free Destination for the incurably curious. What's On
 
Booking for events opens at 11.00 on Friday 29 July.
 
You can book online by following the links below, or you can call us on 020 7611 2222.
  FREE DROP IN
TUESDAY 16 AUG-SATURDAY 27 AUG
FREE | DROP IN
This August, Wellcome Café and the Reading Room are hosting artist Dora García's project 'The Hearing Voices Café', a meeting place for voice-hearers, their friends and coincidental guests.


From Socrates and Saint Teresa of Avila to avant-garde writer Hannah Weiner, philosophers, believers and artists have long regarded voice-hearing as a special gift. Others, such as Virginia Woolf, have had less positive experiences. Either way, voice-hearing has played a significant role in human experience historically and continues to do so today - as highlighted by the International Hearing Voices Movement, a social movement challenging narrow understandings of voice-hearing.


Join us at the café for drop-in discussions and events produced in collaboration with different communities related to voice-hearing, to share, explore and learn about diverse perspectives and experiences.

Event timings and details will be available online from 1 August.

› The Hearing Voice Cafe - find out more
  FREE EXHIBITIONS
UNTIL 31 JUL
FREE | DROP IN
This exhibition explores how the unique grain of our voice locates us socially, geographically and psychologically and how the voice is utterly flexible and can be altered with treatment and training.
Designed as an acoustic journey, the spotlight is cast on the meaning and emotions conveyed through the patterns of rhythm, stress and intonation.
Non-verbal forms of communication are emphasised, revealing the power of the voice before and beyond words.

All our exhibitions are free. Find out about entry at busy times.

UNTIL 16 OCT
FREE | DROP IN
Exploring phenomena such as somnambulism, synaesthesia, and disorders of memory and consciousness, the exhibition examines ideas around the nature of consciousness, and in particular what can happen when our typical conscious experience is interrupted, damaged or undermined.
'States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness' will feature a series of changing installations.The final one is 'Time Present' by Shona Illingsworth, from 19 July until 16 October. Find out more about this installation.
The exhibition also features work by artists Carla MacKinnon, Louise K Wilson, A R Hopwood, Mary Kelly and Aya Ben Ron.
All our exhibitions are free. Find out about entry at busy times.

 TOURING EXHIBITION
19 AUG 2016 - 8 JAN 2017
FREE | HUNTERIAN ART GALLERY, GLASGOW
'Skeletons: Our Buried Bones' is going on tour across the country, with a first stop in Glasgow. Based on a show originally at Wellcome Collection in 2008, the exhibition is a collaboration with the Museum of London, touring to the Hunterian Art Gallery, M Shed in Bristol and Leeds City Museum over 2016-18.
  

 EVENTS
UNTIL 30 JULTUESDAYS-FRIDAYS, 11.00-16.00
SATURDAYS, 11.00-14.45
(RUNNING TIME 1 HOUR)

FREE | BOOK ON THE DAY
'The Quiet Volume' is a whispered, self-generated and ‘automatic’ performance for two visitors at a time, exploiting the particular tension common to any library: the combination of silence and concentration within which different people’s experiences of reading and listening unfold.
You are invited to participate in pairs, sitting side by side in the Wellcome Library. Taking cues from both written and whispered sources, you will find yourselves burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books.
SATURDAY 5 NOV, 19.00-21.00
£5 | BOOK VIA BETHLEM GALLERY FROM 10 AUG
Head to Bethlem Gallery and Museum of the Mind in Beckenham to explore the site of this world-famous hospital through historical and contemporary artistic perspectives. This is a collaboration between Wellcome Collection and Bethlem Gallery in celebration of our 'Bedlam' exhibition and Bethlem’s 'Reclaiming Asylum' exhibition.
 BOOKS
OUT NOW
RRP £14.99
A practical toolkit of 99 step-by-step vocal exercises devised by renowned vocal coaches to help speakers and singers of all abilities transform the quality of their voice. Bursting with advice – and with a foreword by Cerys Matthews – it covers everything from warm-ups, breathing, pacing and projection to techniques for speaking with confidence and singing jazz, pop, opera and even beatboxing with style. 'This is a Voice' will ensure that you make yourself heard.

OUT NOW
RRP £9.99
Understanding the nature of consciousness continues to challenge even the leading experts in the field. This collection of literature, science and art delves into the mysteries of consciousness and features an introduction by Mark Haddon.

OUT NOW
RRP £16.99
We all hear voices. In this book, Charles Fernyhough takes a wide-ranging look at the voices in our heads, examining how we think and what it means for our lives and sense of self. Published to coincide with Wellcome Collection’s 'This is a Voice’ exhibition.

OUT NOW
RRP £14.99
The story of the Indian people, in sickness and in health; a unique perspective on the most diverse and fascinating country in the world.Written by Aarath Prasad and inspired by Wellcome Collection’s 2016 Mumbai exhibition.

COMING SOON
15 SEP 2016 - 15 JAN 2017
FREE | DROP IN
Opening this September, ‘Bedlam: the asylum and beyond’ traces the rise and fall of the mental asylum and the present-day landscape that has succeeded it, through the lens of one such institution, Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, known in popular slang as Bedlam. 
The exhibition focuses on the diverse perspectives and lived experiences of individuals that inhabited the asylum or created alternatives to it – their voices have shaped the meaning of mental illness and the current landscape of mental health care.

YOUTH PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 27 AUG
FREE | DROP IN
Young people from our ‘Minds in Motion’ Hip Hop dance project will be performing their newly choreographed work, inspired by our ‘States of Mind’ exhibition. This project has been led by dancers from ZooNation Dance Company and  was organised in partnership with Camden Summer University.

Image: ZooNation Dance Company

ONLINE

Prolific and accomplished British electronic musician Matthew Herbert is renowned for manipulating everyday sounds and bodily experiences to produce electronic music. Chorusasks visitors to sing a single note within a professional recording booth in the This is a Voice exhibition, following a set of instructions. The visitors’ voices are then automatically added to a chorus of voices, including performers and staff from the Royal Opera House.

Seven young voice hearers collaborated with artist Hannah Hull to create a significant body of artwork that aims to evoke and challenge the viewer’s expectations of a voice hearer. Hannah tells us more about it and considers the ethics of such an artwork inHearing Voices: On Curiosity.

Producing trailers for Wellcome Collection often involves hunting around for that perfect music track to convey the mood of the show. Find out how we created the soundtrack for the 'THIS IS A VOICE' trailer.

We invited artists to programme or perform live vocalisations in the ‘THIS IS A VOICE‘ gallery space. These daily events offered an intimate, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the mechanics of voice production and vocal exercises. We reflect on this unorthodox programme of events,Voicings.
WELLCOME AND BEYOND
3 AUG - 29 AUG
FREE | PALLANT HOUSE, CHICHESTER
Outside In and Unlimited presents three Japanese visual artists showing their work in UK for the first time: intuitive musical scores, ‘Makoot’ dolls and colourful drawings, including some that challenge gender representation, will all be exhibited.


Submit your images now for the 2017 Wellcome Image Awards for your chance to win up to £5,000. Winning images will be displayed in galleries and science centres across the UK and around the world.

› Wellcome Image Awards – find out more
17 JUN - 21 AUG
THE MUSEUM OF BRANDS
The Museum of Brands is exhibiting the spectacular dresses from fashion designer and Kumiko Tani’s ‘Re-cycle Style’ collection exploring consumer culture and fashion.

10 JUN - 4 SEP
FREE | SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
Curated by Pablo León de la Barra this exhibition brings together highlights from the Guggenheim’s collection of recently acquired Latin American works, spanning installation, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video.

› Under the Same Sun:Art from Latin America Today – find out more