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TUESDAY 16 AUG-SATURDAY 27 AUG
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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 |
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FREE EXHIBITIONS
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UNTIL 31 JUL
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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.
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UNTIL 16 OCT
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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.
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TOURING EXHIBITION
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EVENTS
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UNTIL 30 JULTUESDAYS-FRIDAYS, 11.00-16.00
SATURDAYS, 11.00-14.45
(RUNNING TIME 1 HOUR)
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'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.
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BOOKS
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COMING SOON
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15 SEP 2016 - 15 JAN 2017
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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.
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YOUTH PROGRAMME
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SATURDAY 27 AUG
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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
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WELLCOME AND BEYOND
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