Family Open Day 18 May 2024
Chisenhale Art Place invites you and your family to a fun-filled, art-packed day celebrating culture and community in Bow this Spring.
Family Open Day
Saturday 18th May 2024
12pm-6pm
Free, all ages welcome
Chisenhale Art Place invites you and your family to a fun-filled, art-packed day celebrating culture and community in Bow this Spring. Take part in interactive art & dance workshops and meet artists connected to our three organisations: Chisenhale Gallery, Chisenhale Studios, and Chisenhale Dance Space.
Full Programme:
All events across the building are free to enter and are on a walk-in basis. Keep an eye on this page as we add more information in the run up to Family Open Day.
Chisenhale Dance Space
13:30 – 16:30
Join our regular Saturday Children’s Class teacher, Olly Otley, for a fun, relaxed afternoon of family dance, play and games. With a playlist full of your favourite tunes and opportunities for all the family to move, shake and shimmy – its a chance to burn of some energy and get a taste of what our regular classes are like. Who knows, you might even catch the dancing bug!
We’ll also be announcing some special contemporary and south asian dance performances – so stay tuned!
Chisenhale Gallery:
12:00 – 18:00 Drop-in artists workshops and exhibition
14:00 – 18:00 Drop-in regular tours of Rory Pilgrim’s solo show
Chisenhale Studios:
Chisenhale Open Studios is back!
At Chisenhale Studios, members of the public will be given the opportunity to explore, chat with artists about their work and take part in various activities hosted by our members throughout our 40 artist studios.
12:00 – 14:00 Community Lunch- free light lunch including samosas.
13:00 – 14:00 SEN Quiet Hour with drawing activities.
14:00 – 18:00 Open Studios
14:00 – 15:00 Open Studios tour with Sara Heywood
16:00 – 17:00 Open Studios tour with Sara Heywood
For the SEN quiet hour, please feel free to arrive early. Before attending, please RSVP to the SEN Quiet Hour by emailing andy@chisenhale.co.uk so we can best accommodate you.
Artists involved: Alicia Paz, Amikam Toren, Andy Ridley, Charlotte Mew, Cole Robertson, Dan Turner, David Buckley, Diana Taylor, Diane Martin, Edward Chell, Edwin Mingard, Gabby Laurent, Giles Thackway, Henrietta Armstron, Hilary Rosen, Ingrid Kerma, Jeremy Hutchison, Jo Mitchell, Jo Stockham, John Fuller, John Peter Askew, Jon George, Joy Girvin, Karen Russo, Kate Hardy, Kevin Dunbar, Kevin Harrison, Kirsty Harris, Kumbirai Makumbe, Lee Maelzer, Malcolm Jones, Mark Fairnington, Marta Bakst, Matt Calderwood, Merve Iseri, Monika Oechsler, Nadine Mahoney, Nic Cheveldave, Nicholas Johnson, Nick Deveraux, Nigel O’Neill, Richard Layzell, Sam Hodge, Sarah Kate Wilson, Sean Dawson, Vincent Milne, Will Sheridan.
Studio 4:
As part of Open Studios, artists from across our 40 artists spaces will be presenting work in Studio 4. The resulting exhibition will connect with Chisenhale Studios’ legacy as an incubator of established and emerging artists since it’s conception in 1980, when a group of artists and dancers from Butlers Wharf found a new home at Chisenhale Works, the site of a former veneer factory.
Held within the studios themselves, Studio4 for the first time will offer a united selection of artists work from across Chisenhale Studios. The exhibition will invite collectors and viewers to reflect on the diverse group of people, from founding members to newer additions, who have occupied the building for the past 44 years.
All works in the exhibition will be for sale.