Artist Talk: Gayle Chong Kwan

Thursday 14 June, 6:30pm
Learning Space, Rivington Place
Admission free

Exploring themes of the local and the journey
Gayle Chong Kwan and Emily Druiff, Director of Peckham Space in conversation with Tessa Jackson OBE, Chief Executive of Iniva.

This talk will explore the artistic commission Double Vision at Peckham Space (25 May - 29 July 2012) and how this new artwork is a departure for the artist into the realm of 3D.

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Gayle Chong Kwan, Double Vision at Peckham Space, 2012

Social Archive Two: Fluctuating Economies in Shoreditch

Saturday 23 & 30 June 1-5pm
Thursday 5 July 6-9pm
Around Rivington Place
£5 (£3 concessions)

Contribute to this film project
Contribute to the creation of short films in workshops led by Undocumentary (artists Shiraz Bayjoo and Jessica Harrington).

Participants will record the stories of people living and working in Shoreditch as it is affected by fluctuations in the City and Olympic regeneration projects. Films will be screened in an exhibition at Rivington Place from 12 -21 July 2012.

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Overview of Shoreditch, 2012, © Shiraz Bayjoo/ Undocumentary

An exciting new venture is launched
Iniva Creative Learning is born out of Iniva's long history of producing learning materials that draw on the work of diverse and international artists.

We produce and distribute art focused learning resources for use by teachers, counsellors, therapists and parents who are seeking new ways of supporting young and vulnerable people to make sense of their lives, experiences and emotions.

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Stuart Hall Library - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Collection

Stuart Hall Library
Rivington Place

The complete published works of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
This new collection donated by Professor Gates includes The African American National Biography, The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Series, and Africana: the Encyclopaedia of the African American Experience and other critical and cultural theory titles. It will be available to Library visitors by the end of June.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

For more information contact: library@iniva.org

Prof. Henry Louis Gates talks at Rivington Place in 2010

What's going on elsewhere? Autograph ABP

Roma-Sinti-Kale-Manush
25 May - 28 July 2012
Rivington Place

Autograph ABP presents Roma-Sinti-Kale-Manush, a group exhibition examining the condition of Roma people in Europe and surrounding countries. This project challenges many preconceived ideas about the Roma, critically questioning the forms of discrimination that have affected the Roma people for centuries across Europe.

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Nigel Dickinson, David, his brother and brother in law, at the dinner table for Orthodox Catholic Christmas meal, Belgrade, Serbia. 7 January 2004

What's going on elsewhere? The Institut Français

Masterclass with Nicolas Philibert
Sunday 24 June, 4.15pm
£10 (£8 concessions)

Director of Être et avoir and Nénette amongst others, Nicolas Philibert is a documentary maker whose approach is based on the ethical question of filming the Other, of what limits and distance there should be in relation to the subject matter.

He will give an exclusive cinema masterclass, illustrated with film clips, on his approach and much-acclaimed work.

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