Unlimited 2014 brochure

2 – 7 September 2014

Extraordinary new work by disabled artists

Access

Performances, discussions and events Accessible performances are available throughout the festival. Please see the symbols on individual event pages for details: British Sign Language Interpreted Performance Captioned performance

Audio Described Performance Touch Tour

Meet at the Queen Elizabeth Hall Ticket Office one hour before the performance start time.

BSL and captioned performances Appropriate seats have been reserved for all BSL and CAP performances in Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall and for Edmund the Learned Pig. To book these seats, please email access@ southbankcentre.co.uk rather than booking through the website.

All other events have unallocated seating.

Please ask a host to direct you to the reserved access seats.

Relaxed peformance

All post-show talks are BSL interpreted and speech-to-text transcribed Assistance available for blind and visually impaired visitors, including guiding and narration. Please ask at the Ticket Desk for details.

Front cover: Image commissioned by Southbank Centre. Artist Claire Cunningham Š Photography: Manuel Vason Styling: Kalina Pulit Hair & Make-up: Lillie Russo Featured garment by Ida Gro Christiansen / RCA

We lc om e t o unli m i t ed f e sti va l The first week in September sees the much-anticipated return of Unlimited Festival – Southbank Centre’s festival that celebrates the artistic vision and originality of disabled artists.

In 2012, Unlimited Festival was one of the highlights of the Cultural Olympiad. Join us again for a festival of theatre, dance, music, literature, comedy and visual arts that celebrates difference with a spirit of artistic adventure, honesty and humour.

These artists continue to break boundaries, challenge taboos and drive innovation in imaginative and unexpected ways. Their influence is acknowledged across the globe as audiences everywhere encounter the power of their work.

Jude Kelly Artistic Director, Southbank Centre

The Unlimited commissions celebrate the work of disabled artists on an unprecedented scale. In 2013, Shape and Artsadmin were awarded funding by Arts Council England, Creative Scotland and Spirit of 2012 to deliver a new three-year programme with key partners including Southbank Centre, British Council, Disability Arts Online and DaDaFest. Between 2014 and 2016, the Unlimited programme will once again support disabled artists creating extraordinary work.

Indicates the project is supported by the Unlimited programme

The Dinner Party Revisited © Rachel Dowle and David Caines

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KATHERINE ARANIELLO The Dinner Party Revisited

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In this live, unscripted and digital performance the artist Katherine Araniello hosts two dinner parties on stage with deadpan humour.

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She appears in two London venues simultaneously, creating a spectacle of chaos and disorder. She exploits and subverts clichéd expectations of disability to absolute fever pitch.

Although Araniello does her utmost to control her surroundings, her outrageous guests are out to cause chaos. Meanwhile, the butler and her personal assistant have access to unlimited alcohol and her guests’ babble becomes intoxicating.

Venue: Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Time: 7.30pm Duration: 1 hour 30 mins Post-show talk £15*

6.30pm

© Colin Mearns / Sunday Herald

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Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 September

CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM Guide Gods

Acclaimed performer Claire Cunningham goes on a perilous quest to explore how the major world faiths view deafness and disability.

This witty and illuminating new show uses dance, live music, humour and interviews with religious leaders, academics and deaf and disabled people.

A Southbank Centre & Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s co-commission

Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall Enter via Queen Elizabeth Hall Artists’ Entrance Times: Tuesday 2 September Wednesday 3 September Duration: 1 hour 10 mins

8pm 2pm & 8pm

Tue 2 Sep

Post-show talk: after the 8pm performance on Tuesday 2 September. £15* *No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online; £2.75 over the phone.

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‘Unique and completely beautiful show.’

(The Scotsman)

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Wednesday 3 & Thursday 4 September

ROBERT SOFTLEY GALE

If These Spasms Could Speak (The Times) (The Scotsman) A collection of funny, sad, touching and surprising narratives, gathered through interviews with disabled people. Let us tell you how we perceive ourselves.

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An engaging, humorous and interactive performance about disabled people that exposes a truth behind bodies that differ from the norm.

Venue: Spirit Level (Blue Room) at Royal Festival Hall Times: Wednesday 3 September, 6.30pm

Thursday 4 September,

3pm & 6.30pm Duration: 50 minutes Post-show talk: after the 6.30pm performance on Wednesday 3 September. £15*

Wed 3 Sep

Thu 4 Sep 3pm

© Eoin Carey

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As disabled people, our bodies are central to how we exist in the world.

They are the way others first judge us, the subject of medical diagnosis and usually seen as the reason that we can’t take part in society.

Perceptions of Difference

Survivors’ Poetry Reading As part of the celebration of Disability Arts Online’s tenth anniversary, DAO and Survivors Poetry, an organisation by and for survivors of mental distress, are getting together to highlight the creativity within survivor culture.

Their words and rhythms chime with an understanding of disability and difference from the point of view of those who know only too well what a mad world it is, but are proud of their place within it.

Venue: The Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall Time: 8pm Duration: 1 hour FREE (Ticket required) Email: specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk

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Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Hilary Porter, Frank Bangay and John O’Donoghue read selections, teasing out some of the gems amongst the poetry collections and anthologies that adorn the bookshelves of The Saison Poetry Library.

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Wednesday 3 September

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Wednesday 3 & Thursday 4 September

vital xposure: Julie Mcnamara Let Me Stay

Directed by Paulette Randall and designed by Libby Watson, Let Me Stay is a celebration of life and love; a homage to Shirley McNamara, Queen of the Mersey. This work represents a love letter from the playwright, Julie McNamara, to her mother who lives with dementia.

A wonderful portrait that suggests Alzheimer’s does not have to mean a tragic end and apologetic withdrawal. Rather think of it as a shedding of all care, with two fingers up at the world and a constant sense of glee.

‘A journey of connection, forgiveness, comedy and compassion’ (New Zealand Listener) A Vital Xposure production.

For ages 12+

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Times: Wednesday 3 September Thursday 4 September Duration: 50 minutes

7.30pm 2pm

Wed 6.30pm Thu 1pm

Post-show talk: after the performance on Thursday 4 September.

£15*

© Eoin Carey

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Venue: Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

© Manuel Vason

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‘An extraordinary 10 minutes which considers not just how we look but what we choose to look at too.’

(Lyn Gardner, The Guardian)

Thursday 4 – Sunday 7 September

JO BANNON Exposure

Exposure is an investigation into how we look, how we are looked at and if we can ever really be seen.

This intimate one-to-one performance is a tender and tentative look into autobiography, asking how fully we can reveal ourselves to ourselves, to another, with another.

Times: Thursday 4 & 3pm – 5pm & 7pm – 9pm Friday 5 September Saturday 6 & 12pm – 2pm & 4pm – 6pm Sunday 7 September One performance every 12 minutes.

For ages 14+ Duration: 10 minutes £8* *No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online; £2.75 over the phone.

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Venue: Level 4 Meeting Room at Royal Festival Hall Meet at Level 2 Ticket Office at Royal Festival Hall, 10 minutes before the start time, where you will be guided to the performance location.

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‘Michelle’s fragile beauty belies the power and strength within her body. Her honesty illuminates the stage.’

(Choreographer, Meryl Tankard) Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September

MICHELLE RYAN & Torque show Intimacy

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​ ichelle Ryan, one of Australia’s leading dancers, was diagnosed M with multiple sclerosis at the age of 30.

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In this funny and moving show, she shares her most private thoughts and feelings in a very public way. Made in collaboration with theatre makers Torque Show w ​ ith a live score

by Lavender Vs Rose.

Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall Enter via Queen Elizabeth Hall Artists’ Entrance Times: Thursday 4 September Friday 5 September Duration: 50 minutes

8pm 2pm & 6.30pm

Post-show talk: after the performance on Thursday 4 September. £15*

Thu 4 Sep

Fri 5 Sep 1pm

Fri 5 Sep 2pm

tom doughty & Adrian lee Unlimited Friday Lunch

Tom and Adrian, both seasoned and established individual artists in their own right, come together for this lunchtime concert, blending acoustic lap slide with electric guitar.

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Friday 5 September

This performance provides a fusion of songs and themes that explore the very core of music, melody and rhythm.

Venue: Central Bar at Royal Festival Hall Time: 1pm Duration: 1 hour

Š Ashley Maile

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Both guitarists are members of The British Paraorchestra that was showcased at the 2012 Olympic Games.

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© Sam Robinson

P e rf o rman c e Friday 5 September

TOURETTESHERO & CAPTAIN HOTKNIVES

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Unlimited Friday Tonic

In a last-ditch attempt at pop superstardom and a lucrative record deal, Christopher Smith, aka Captain Hotknives, and Jess Thom, aka Touretteshero, have formed the unlikely Tourettes Bipolar Alliance.

They’re neurologically incapable of staying on message, and that’s where the fun begins. Help them make the breakthrough album that’ll take them all the way to the top.

BE WARNED: Biscuits, swearing and songs about animal sex are all likely, so if you’re easily offended, this isn’t the show for you. For everyone else, prepare to be amazed.

May contain strong language. Not suitable for young children.

Venue: The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Times: 5.30pm & 6.30pm Duration: 30 minutes FREE

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Friday 5 September

DIVERSE CITY’S YOUNG PERFORMANCE COMPANY Touched: A New Circus Show By Remix Gold

The touch of a stranger that saves someone from the brink. A touch on the shoulder when you feel scared. A sudden touch that makes you blush. These young artists go up in the air and perform dance routines to a soundtrack you will wish you put together as a party playlist.

Fingertips are for so much more than swiping a screen.

Venue: Under Hungerford Bridge Times: 1pm, 2.30pm & 4pm Duration: 15 minutes FREE

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Six young disabled performers present a surprising new circus show that tells the story of touch.

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Š Chris Parkes

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The Awakening

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The Awakening is an outdoor performance created by learning disabled dance artist Chris Pavia. A quiet but simmering disruption in outdoor spaces, it involves four individuals trapped in a strange but mesmerising ritual.

The Awakening is performed by four disabled and non-disabled dancers.

Venue: Riverside Terrace, Royal Festival Hall Times: Friday 5 September 6pm Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 September 1pm, 3pm & 6pm Duration: 20 minutes FREE

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Friday 5 September

CHISATO MINAMIMURA & MARC BREW Dance double bill

RING THE CHANGES+ is an interactive dance performance created by deaf dance artist Chisato Minamimura with three dancers in collaboration with software artist Nick Rothwell and body>data>space.

Choreographing what Chisato calls ‘visual sound/music’, the project uses interactive technology to create an innovative sense and visual experience for hearing and non-hearing audiences.

The evening begins with an intimate solo performance by Marc Brew. Remember When draws upon exposure, peeling away layers using line and extension, intricate folding, placement and replacement, creating a conversation of remembrance.

Venue: Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Time: 7.30pm Duration: 1 hour

© Andrea Testoni

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Post-show talk £15*

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© Eoin Carey

P e rf o rman c e Friday 5 September

Unlimited unleashed

Hosted by Liz Carr

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A late-night, ribald, riotous celebration of sexy disabled performers, with striptease, speciality acts, and much more!

Saturday 6 September – Sunday 7 September

Marc Brew Company (i)land

Abandoned on a deserted island, three people discover the pieces of a vehicle that can take them off the island, only to discover that it won’t carry all of them.

Featuring BBC star Liz Carr, bold Unlimited Festival artists and hot talent from around the globe. Marc Brew Company fuses fierce physicality with tender expression Venue: The Clore Ballroom at drawing on the unique physicality Royal Festival Hall of each performer. The work with Time: 10pm disabled and non-disabled artists Duration: 2 hours is honest, unsentimental and recognisably human.

FREE

Venue: Under Hungerford Bridge Times: Saturday 6 September 5.30pm

Sunday 7 September

12pm, 2pm & 5pm Duration: 30 minutes FREE

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© Niall Walker

Pe rf o rman c e ‘A tentative, yet complex and sometimes beautiful show.’

(The Scotsman)

Saturday 6 September

Dancer

Ian Johnston & Gary Gardiner

Venue: Spirit Level (Blue Room) at Royal Festival Hall Times: 3pm & 6.30pm Duration: 50 minutes

3pm

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Created with the late Adrian Howells, Dancer is a gentle provocation on what it is to be a ‘dancer’. Ian and Gary both love to dance in public.

Neither are trained dancers. Ian and Gary are two artists asking questions about visibility, opportunity and experiences; as well as sharing a few of their dances to Lady Gaga, Kylie and Nick Cave.

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Saturday 6 September

EDMUND THE LEARNED PIG Fittings Multimedia, Krazy Kat & The Royal Exchange Theatre (The Guardian) Bonaparte’s travelling circus, show and marvellous menagerie wasn’t doing so well. They have: a zoo with only pigeons, an aerialist who’s afraid of heights, a chipped plate spinning act, and a mind reader who can’t remember his own name. And then into their lives came Edmund the Learned Pig - a pig who taught himself to read.

Based on an unpublished poem by Edward Gorey, this story fuses British Sign Language, puppetry, mime and music.

Written by Mike Kenny with music and songs by Martyn Jacques of the Tiger Lillies. From an original idea by Garry Robson and Kinny Gardner.

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Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall Times: 2pm & 6pm Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes (including interval)

5pm

6pm

Post-show talk: after the 6pm performance. £15*

© Joel Fildes

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For ages 8+

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Saturday 6 September

HEART N SOUL’S The Beautiful Octopus Club Club Night in Royal Festival Hall

Heart n Soul’s multi-media club night, The Beautiful Octopus Club, returns to Southbank Centre.

Enjoy live performances across five stages including music from Lizzie Emeh and The Fish Police and chart-topping beats from some of the best DJs across the learning disability music scene in the UK.

Or come and flirt with us inside our multi media installation in Spirit Level, The Tunnel of Love.

Venue: The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Time: 7pm Duration: 5 hours FREE

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You can also get involved in the art zone, create your own music tracks in the SoundLab or relax in the chill-out zone where you can enjoy a free massage.

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Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 September

WENDY HOOSE

Birds of Paradise and Random Accomplice Written by Johnny McKnight Directed by Robert Softley Gale & Johnny McKnight ‘Outrageously funny.’

(The Guardian)

A frank and hilarious sex comedy.

Laura and Jake just want sex. Late Friday night drunken sex.

Nothing more. No strings attached. But getting your leg over is sometimes more difficult than you think.

The production contains strong language and scenes of a sexual nature. Includes audio description, BSL and animated surtitles.

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Venue: Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Times: Saturday 6 September 7.30pm

Sunday 7 September 5.30pm Duration: 65 minutes Post-show talk: after the 5.30pm performance on Sunday 7 September. £15*

Sun 7 Sep

© Eoin Carey

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For ages 16+

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‘A remarkable collection, combining technical poise and an expansive intellectual range.’

(The Guardian on Otherwise Unchanged)

Sunday 7 September

OWEN LOWerY & POET IN THE CITY Unlimited Poetry

Owen Lowery reads from his acclaimed book Otherwise Unchanged.

These performances look at the act of translating poetry and the power of poetry through the universal tool of the body.

In Otherwise Unchanged, Owen Lowery explores his experience of hospitalisation and disability following a spinal injury.

Venue: Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall Time: 2pm Duration: 2 hours £8* *No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online; £2.75 over the phone.

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Poet in the City take language to new limits with The Body Electric, an event bringing together poetry and sign.Celebrated deaf actors Adam Barrett and Jean St Clair, with TV presenter Ashley Kendall, bring fresh and surprising new light to classic poems, from Robert Frost to Rabindranath Tagore, by taking words off the page and performing them live in BSL.

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© Anthony Hopwood

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‘Deliciously wry... disarmingly frank.’

(The Herald, Scotland)

Sunday 7 September

CAROLINE BOWDITCH Falling in Love with Frida

(The Herald Scotland)

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An intimate and enticing performance that explores the life, loves and legacy of painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954).

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It is a reclaiming of a disabled artist, a love like obsession, and an enquiry into how we shape, what we are remembered for, and how much we can really control others’ memories of us.

Where affinities and parallels are drawn, happy distractions are employed and a tale of ‘the great concealer’ is skillfully revealed by and through powerful yet fragile bodies.

Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall Enter via the Queen Elizabeth Hall Artists’ Entrance Times: 3pm & 6.30 pm Duration: 1 hour Post-show talk: after the 6.30pm performance. £15*

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3pm

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Sunday 7 September

touretteshero

Backstage in Biscuit Land Jess Thom has Tourettes, a condition that makes her say ‘biscuit’ 16,000 times a day. She unleashes her unique perspective on life alongside Jess Mabel Jones.

Post-show talk £15*

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This two-woman solo show weaves together comedy, puppetry, singing and incredible tics to explore spontaneity, creativity, disability, and things you never knew would make you laugh.

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Geranium bashing and penguin gangbangs may or may not feature – no two shows can ever be the same. Jess is neurologically incapable of staying on script, and that’s when the fun begins.

May contain strong language. Not suitable for young children.

Venue: Spirit Level (Blue Room) at Royal Festival Hall Time: 5pm Duration: 1 hour

© Patrick Baldwin

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‘Whoopingly defiant and joyful.’

(The Guardian)

Sunday 7 September

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Reasons to be Cheerful – The Concert

This concert version of Graeae’s wildly successful show features the songs of Ian Dury and The Blockheads including all their classic hits like Spasticus Autisticus, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll and more.

In 2012, Reasons to be Cheerful raised the roof of Queen Elizabeth Hall. Celebrate the closing night of this year’s Unlimited Festival with a night of raucous glee where you can sing, and sign, along to these punk classics. Oi! Oi! Venue: The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Time: 7.30pm Duration: 1 hour FREE

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Š Juan delGado

Five Short Films: Does It Matter?

Irreverent and unexpected takes on the legacies of war and disability

When two million newly disabled British ex-servicemen returned from the First World War, society’s attitudes to disability had to change.

Produced by Artsadmin and Xenoki. Co-commissioned by Channel 4 and 14-18 NOW, WWI Centenary Art Commissions.

Venue: The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Time: 6pm Duration: 1 hour

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From a cast of animated disabled soldiers to a chaotic WW1 hospital and the heroic figures depicted on war memorials, these films from five contemporary disabled artists, Katherine Araniello, Jez Colborne in collaboration with Mind the Gap, Claire Cunningham, Tony Heaton and Simon Mckeown, present warm, witty and poignant perspectives on war and disability.

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Tuesday 2 – Sunday 7 September

Saturday 6 September

The Flickering Darkness (Revisited)

Juan delGado in conversation with producer Sandra Tabares-Duque followed by a guided tour of the installation.

JUAN DELGADO

Juan delGado’s The Flickering Darkness (Revisited) is a video installation filmed at the Corabastos market in Bogotá.

The market is the largest of its kind in Latin America.

Produced during a three-month residency in the city in 2009 and reedited for this exhibition, the project explores the journey that produce takes from its arrival before dawn until it is consumed. Reflecting on the idea of belonging, on the need we all have for positioning, for locating ourselves in an environment, it creates sense out of the city’s chaos and order, while inviting wider reflections on society’s strata and how they fit together.

Venue: Spirit Level (White Room) at Royal Festival Hall Times: 10am – 10pm daily FREE

Artist’s talk

Venue: Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Time: 12 noon Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes including tour For level access please ask at the Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office where a host will provide you with access to the lift.

FREE

TUNNEL OF LOVE Heart n Soul

This multi-sensory, interactive installation comes complete with mirrors, a soundtrack of giggles and love songs, vibrating rooms, a giant Twister mat, live performances, a powder room and a cinema. Heart n Soul is a leading creative arts company with learning disability culture at its heart.

Venue: Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall Times: 10am – 10pm FREE

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The Tunnel of Love explores Ludus – flirty, playful love.

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Sue Austin © Norman Lomax

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Tuesday 2 September – Sunday 7 September

the unlimited story An exhibition

Unlimited began as a groundbreaking programme in 2012, embedded in the UK’s Cultural Olympiad. Representing the world’s largest ever commissions programme for disabled artists, it resulted in 29 commissions, all presented at Southbank Centre’s Unlimited Festival in September 2012.

Unlimited continues to push disabled artists to the forefront of cultural practice through a new programme running between 2014 and 2016, which will award over £1 million to disabled artists to create new artworks.

This exhibition tells the story of Unlimited – past, present and future.

Venue: Level 2, Blue Side at Royal Festival Hall Times: 10am – 10pm FREE

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LEA CUMMINGS

Cosmic Fields of Endless Possibilities This work is part of a series produced in a meditative state.

Cummings acts as a channel for subconscious images that take shape in an automatic, intuitive way. The drawings tap into the collective unconscious, where themes, motifs, patterns and symbols frequently found in ethnographic art produced by various disparate cultures combine. As such, they portray a spiritual reality that underlies and transcends the physical, and unites all living things.

© Image courtesy of the artist

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Venue: Foyer, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall Times: 10am – 10pm

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Garry Robson © David Hevey

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Tuesday 2 – Sunday 7 September

YOUR SLOGAN HERE

UNLIMITED ON SCREEN

Young disabled people have designed a series of T-shirts that address the everyday social, political and personal issues that matter to them.

Featuring profiles of the Unlimited-commissioned artists from 2014 and 2012 alongside other film made by Unlimited Festival artists.

For the Unlimited Festival ten of these designs are made into T-shirts and exhibited around Southbank Centre.

Foyers, Level 2 Green Side, Royal Festival Hall Times: 10am - 10pm

An Exhibition of T-shirt Designs by Young Disabled Activists

Venue: Royal Festival Hall foyers Times: 10am – 10pm FREE

A programme of films created by disabled artists

FREE

SUE AUSTIN Flying Free

When Sue Austin got a power chair 18 years ago, she felt a tremendous sense of freedom — yet others looked at her as though she had lost something. In her art, she aims to convey the spirit of wonder she feels wheeling through the world. In her performances Austin creates surreal juxtapositions and quirky re-presentations of disability equipment facilitating new ways of seeing, being and knowing.

Royal Festival Hall External Wall – Festival Terrace Times: 7.30pm – 10pm External projection Duration: an eight-minute film on a continuous loop.

FREE

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This video installation captures Austin’s desire to fly.

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© Mark Morreau

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Tuesday 2 – Thursday 4 September

LUKE PELL & JO VERRENT Take Me To Bed

Take Me To Bed is an installation and an invitation to come closer, be curious, and to be involved with the dances of these particular bodies.

A new work from Luke Pell and Jo Verrent, created in collaboration with artist performers Caroline Bowditch, Janice Parker, Robert Softley Gale and video artist Mark Morreau, Take Me To Bed explores the dis/comfort of audiences around bodies that are different.

Venue: The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Times: 10am – 10pm (except when there are other events on The Clore Ballroom floor)

Duration: A one-hour film on a continuous loop FREE

BEKKI PERRIMAN The Doorways Project

Inspired by the artist’s own experience of life on the streets, the project uses a direct and unsentimental approach to investigating the personal, social and political dimensions of homelessness and offers an opportunity to listen to society’s most silenced voices.

Venue: J.P. Morgan Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Times: Friday 5 September 4pm – 10pm

Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 September 10am – 10pm For level access please ask at the Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office where a host will provide you with access to the lift.

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Bekki Perriman’s Doorways Project explores homeless culture through photography and sound. It invites audiences to pay attention to the intimate, sometimes humorous, often disturbing and mostly ignored experiences of homeless people.

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Saturday 6 September

THE HUMAN FACTOR

DANCE ON FILM

brings together major works by 25 leading international artists, including Ryan Gander, Jeff Koons, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Rebecca Warren, who have fashioned new ways of using the human form.

A series of short dance films showcasing inclusive adult and youth community dance projects. Featuring films by Foundation for Community Dance, Corali Dance Company and GDance.

Spanning the past 25 years, The Human Factor focuses on artists who use the figure as a means for exploring far-ranging concerns. Compelling and thought-provoking, their work brings into play ideas about history, voyeurism, sexuality and violence, while reflecting on how we represent the ‘human’ today.

The session concludes with a discussion hosted by Luke Pell with Artistic Director of Stopgap Dance Company, Lucy Bennett and choreographer of The Awakening, Chris Pavia.

Includes Q&A with British Sign Language Tour Lucy Bennett and Chris Pavia from The Human Factor: The Figure Stopgap Dance Company in Contemporary Sculpture

Join us for a BSL tour of the exhibition included in the exhibition ticket price.

Venue: Hayward Gallery Time: 1pm Duration: 1 hour

Venue: The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Time: Films 5pm – 5.30pm

Talk 5.30pm – 6pm FREE

£12* *No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online; £2.75 over the phone.

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Thursday 4 September

Be There At The Start

Presentations of Unlimited projects in research & development Sheila Hill shares her research towards creating Him – a performance in which all the action comes from fleeting expressions on a projected image of a single actor’s face, featuring Tim Barlow.

Choreographer and performer Louise Coleman shares her fascination with the development of medical equipment, supports and aids.

Pete Edwards, who is mentored by Mark Storor, talks about broaching taboo subjects in Brain, which explores the sensitive issues of rape and sexual abuse.

Irish classical composer and theatre writer Ailís Ní Ríain shares her research for The Drawing Rooms, a place where strange stories are told through BSL, film, live contemporary classical music, new writing and live drawing.

Louise Coleman © Andrew Dawson

FREE (ticket required)

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Venue: Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall Time: 10.30am Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes

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UNLIMITED voices:

An afternoon of discussion and debate St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 1.30pm – 2.30pm 3pm – 4pm 4.30pm – 5.30pm Talking Dirty: Shifting Identities: Happy to be Disability and Desire Otherwise me: Challenging Unchanged? perceptions of Leading disability disability The artists on artists and sex This panel is this panel all activists explore stimulated by have an acquired the hidden secrets society’s ignorance impairment. They of disability and have experienced life of disability and sexuality. uses subversive being non-disabled Hosted by Jo Verrent, and disabled. How do humour to challenge Senior Producer you survive and thrive preconceptions. of the Unlimited when you acquire an The session begins programme, with impairment? with a performance Caroline Bowditch, from Alex Bulmer Robert Softley Gale, Hosted by Tony and Liz Carr’s workHeaton, Chief Penny Pepper and in-progress Assisted Executive of Shape Mik Scarlet.

Arts, with Sue Austin, Suicide: The Musical.

Marc Brew, Owen Hosted by Jude Kelly, Lowery and Michelle Artistic Director, Ryan.

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Saturday 6 September

with Katherine Araniello, Alex Bulmer, Liz Carr and Claire Cunningham.

FREE (limited capacity, first come first served)

the vacuum cleaner Madlove – A Designer Asylum Workshop

Madlove – A Designer Asylum Artist Talk

It begins with a question. ‘If you could design your own asylum what would it be like?’

Madlove, a truly collaborative and ambitious national project, invites those with and without mental illness to reconsider how mental health is treated.

We want you to help us design a ‘safe place to go mad’ – to redesign the ‘asylum’. This fun and informal three-hour workshop helps to create the blueprint that will be used to ultimately build a temporary ‘designer asylum’.

Madlove is a new project by artist and activist the vacuum cleaner based on his personal experience of mental health hospitals, and his desire to find a positive space to experience mental distress… and enlightenment. In this artist talk, he presents the context to the Madlove project and ideas created for the blueprint from the previous day’s workshop.

FREE (ticket required) Please note, places are limited; please only book if you are committed to attending. The 10.30am workshop will be filmed.

For level access please ask at the Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office where a host will provide you with access to the lift.

FREE (ticket required)

on request

Wed 3 Sep 10.30am

on request

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Venue: J.P. Morgan Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Times: Wednesday 3 September 10.30am & 3pm Duration: 3 hours

Venue: J.P. Morgan Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Times: Thursday 4 September 10.30am & 2pm Duration: 25 mins

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stopgap youth Dance Workshop

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Stopgap Dance Company An inclusive dance workshop for disabled and non-disabled young people aged between 11 and 25.

Carers are welcome and encouraged to participate.

Open to all abilities.

Venue: The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Time: 4.30pm Duration: 1 hour 30 mins FREE

Thursday 4 September

A CELEBRATION OF INTEGRATED COMMUNITY DANCE Anjali, Corali, Magpie, Slide & Stopgap Dance Companies

A showcase of performances by disabled and non-disabled community dancers with work from Anjali Dance Company, Corali Dance Company, Magpie Dance Company, Slide Dance and Stopgap Dance Company.

Venue: The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Time: 5pm Duration: 1 hour

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THE ANGELS OF KAOS CHOIR

North London choir, The Angels of Kaos, perform everything from folk to funk, all laced with heavenly harmonies and British Sign Language interpretation.

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Sunday 7 September

Audience participation is not compulsory but could be irresistible.

Don’t miss this Sunday-morning sing-along.

Venue: The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Time: 11am Duration: 1 hour FREE

Sunday 7 September

Learn How To Sign, Sing And Dance To Pharrell Williams’ Happy Learn some sign language skills as you dance and sing along to Pharrell Williams’ worldwide number one hit song, Happy. This is your chance to learn something new whilst taking part in this feelgood event. The British Sign Language workshop concludes with everyone singing, signing and dancing along to Happy with the Kaos Signing Choir. No experience required; all welcome.

For ages 5+ Venue: The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Times: Workshop 12 noon Duration: 1 hour 30mins

Performance 1.30pm Duration: 30 mins

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Workshop and participatory performance

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Index

† indicates a post-show talk

Tuesday 2 September 6pm Five Short Films: Does it matter 7.30pm Katherine Araniello: The Dinner Party Revisited† 8pm Claire Cunningham: Guide Gods Wednesday 3 September 10.30am the vacuum cleaner: Workshop 2pm Claire Cunningham: Guide Gods 3pm the vacuum cleaner: Workshop 4.30pm Stopgap Youth Dance Workshop 6.30pm Robert Softley Gale: If These Spasms Could Speak† 7.30pm Vital Xposure: Let me Stay 7.30 – Sue Austin: Flying Free 11pm 8pm Claire Cunningham: Guide Gods† 8pm Perception of Difference: Survivors’ Poetry Reading

FREE Visual Arts

p25

£15* Performance p4 £15* Performance p5

FREE Workshops

p37

£15* Performance p5 FREE Workshops

p37

FREE Workshops

p38

£15* Performance p6 £15* Performance p8 FREE Visual arts p33 £15* Performance p5 FREE Performance p7

Thursday 4 September 10.30am the vacuum cleaner: Artist talk 10.30am Be There at the Start 2pm 2pm 3pm 3pm – 5pm 4pm 6.30pm 7pm – 9pm 8pm

FREE Talks &

p37

FREE Talks &

p35

debates debates

Vital Xposure: Let me Stay £15* Performance the vacuum cleaner: FREE Talks & debates Artist talk† Robert Softley Gale: If £15* Performance These Spasms Could Speak Jo Bannon: Exposure £8* Performance

p8 p37 p6 p9

A Celebration of Integrated FREE Workshops p38 Community Dance Robert Softley Gale: £15* Performance p6 If These Spasms Could Speak Jo Bannon: Exposure £8* Performance p9 Michelle Ryan:Torque Show £15* Performance p10

*No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online; £2.75 over the phone.

Friday 5 September 1pm Diverse City’s Young Performance Company 1pm Tom Doughty & Adrian Lee 2pm 2.30pm 3pm – 5pm 4pm 5.30pm 6pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 7pm – 9pm 7.30pm 10pm

Michelle Ryan + Torque Show Diverse City’s Young Performance Company Jo Bannon: Exposure

FREE Performance p13 FREE Performance p11 £15* Performance p10 FREE performance p13 £8*

Performance

p9

Diverse City’s Young Performance Company Touretteshero & Captain Hotknives Stopgap Dance Company: The Awakening Michelle Ryan + Torque Show Touretteshero & Captain Hotknives Jo Bannon: Exposure

FREE performance p13

Chisato Minamimura & Marc Brew† Unlimited Unleashed

£15* performance p15

FREE Performance p12 FREE Performance p14 £15* Performance p10 FREE Performance p12 £8*

Performance

p9

FREE Performance p16

*No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online; £2.75 over the phone.

Saturday 6 September 12 noon Jo Bannon: Exposure – 2pm 12 noon Juan delGado: Artist’s talk 1pm Stopgap Dance Company: The Awakening 1pm The Human Factor: British Sign Language Tour 1.30pm Unlimited Voices: Talking Dirty 2pm Edmund the Learned Pig 3pm Stopgap Dance Company: The Awakening 3pm Dancer: Ian Johnston & Gary Gardiner† 3pm Unlimited Voices: Shifting Identities 4pm – Jo Bannon: Exposure 6pm 4.30pm Unlimited Voices: Happy to be me 5pm Dance on Film 5.30pm Marc Brew Company (i)land 6pm Edmund the Learned Pig 6pm Stopgap Dance Company: The Awakening 6.30pm Dancer: Ian Johnston & Gary Gardiner 7pm Heart n Soul’s The Beautiful Octopus Club 7.30pm Wendy Hoose

£8*

Performance

FREE Talks &

debates

p9 p26

FREE Performance p14 £12* Visual arts

p34

FREE Talks &

p36

debates

£15* Performance p18 FREE Performance p14 £15* Performance p17 FREE Talks &

debates

£8*

Performance

FREE Talks &

debates

p36 p9 p36

FREE Visual Arts p34 FREE Performance p16 £15* Performance p18 FREE Performance p14 £15* Performance p17 FREE Performance p19 £15* Performance p20

Sunday 7 September 11am 12 noon 12 noon – 2pm 12 noon 1pm 1.30pm 2pm 2pm 3pm 3pm 4pm – 6pm 5pm 5pm 5.30pm 6pm 6.30pm 7.30pm

The Angels of Kaos Choir Learn how to sign, sing and dance to Happy Jo Bannon: Exposure

FREE performance p39 FREE Workshops p39

Marc Brew Company (i)land Stopgap Dance Company: The Awakening Performance of Happy Owen Lowery: Poet in the City Marc Brew Company (i)land Caroline Bowditch: Falling in Love with Frida Stopgap Dance Company: The Awakening Jo Bannon: Exposure

FREE performance p16

Touretteshero: Backstage in Biscuit Land Marc Brew Company (i)land Wendy Hoose† Stopgap Dance Company: The Awakening Caroline Bowditch: Falling in Love with Frida† Graeae Theatre Company: Reasons to be Cheerful

£8*

Performance

p9

FREE Performance p14 FREE Performance p39 £8* performance p21 FREE performance p16 £15* Performance p22 FREE Performance p14 £8*

Performance

p9

£15

Performance

p23

FREE performance p16 £15* Performance p20 FREE Performance p14 £15* Performance p22 FREE Performance p24

exhibitions and installations Tuesday 2 – Sunday 7 September 10am – 10pm Juan delGado: The Flickering Darkness (Revisited)

FREE

Visual Arts

p25

Tunnel of Love: Heart n Soul

FREE

Visual Arts

p27

The Unlimited Story: An Exhibition

FREE

Visual Arts

p28

Unlimited on Screen

FREE

visual arts

p30

Your Slogan Here: An Exhibition of T-shirts

FREE

Visual Arts

p30

Lea Cummings Exhibition

FREE

Visual Arts

p29

Sue Austin: Flying Free

FREE

Visual Arts

p33

Tuesday 2 – Thursday 4 September 10am – 10pm Luke Pell & Jo Verrent: Take Me To Bed

FREE

Visual Arts

p32

FREE

Visual Arts

p33

Friday 5 September 4pm – 10pm Bekki Perriman: The Doorways Project

Saturday 6 – Sunday 7 September 10am – 10pm Bekki Perriman: The Doorways Project

FREE

Visual arts

p33

*No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online; £2.75 over the phone.

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Site Access Southbank Centre is accessible to all and level access is available to all of our venues.

Southbank Centre has excellent public transport connections.

Tube: Waterloo and Embankment

Accessible toilets are available across site, including high dependency facilities.

Buses: Waterloo Bridge, York Road, Belvedere Road & Stamford Street

Accessible information points will be on site distributing both programme and access information.

Guide dogs welcome

Rail: Waterloo, Waterloo East & Charing Cross

Other available services: • Quiet room

Sound enhancement systems available in all venues Limited free blue badge parking in the Hayward Car Park alongside conveniently located drop off points.

• Wheelchair loan • Friendly, helpful hosts •A ssistance for blind and visually impaired visitors •A ssistance for Deaf and hearing-impaired visitors • I nformation in alternative formats, including Braille • Helpful map and signage

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