Purple Light Up

Welcome to Purple Light Up at the British Museum, an exciting day of disability-led performances, workshops and tours to coincide with International Day of Disabled Persons.

Tuesday 3 December 2019 10.00–16.30

Free, drop-in or book to reserve a seat

Generously sponsored by the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation Timetable 10.00–11.00 13.30–13.45 Touch tour Captain’s Duties Designed for blind and Performance by Stopgap visually-impaired visitors. Dance Company senior All performances which Room 4 dance artist Chris Pavia. include spoken word will Ticketed Room 21 be BSL-interpreted. Drop-in 11. 3 0 –12 . 0 0 Music performance 14.00–15.00 City Lit and Royal Deaf-led, BSL Academy of Music Eye-opener Tour Percussion Orchestra. The Enlightenment gallery, Great Court (south-west) led by Chisato Minamimura Drop-in (no voice over). Room 1 11.30–13.30 Ticketed ‘City of Heroes’ Workshop With ActionSpace artist 1 5.00–15.30 Thompson Hall. Poetry reading Great Court (south-east) By creative writer Kuli Kohli. Drop-in Room 33 Drop-in 1 1.30–16.00 Contemplation space 1 5.30–16.15 A place to take a break Music and storytelling while experiencing the Korea Performance by musician collection in a new light. Baluji Shiravstav OBE. Room 67 Room 33 Drop-in Drop-in

1 3.00–15.00 Clever The Way It’s Moving Interactive film projections with ActionSpace artist Mark Lawrence. Room 67 Drop-in

Egyptian sculpture galleries Room 4

Korea The Korea Foundation Gallery Room 67

Mausoleum of Halikarnassos Room 21

Enlightenment gallery Room 1

China and South Asia The Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery Room 33 Map

This map shows the Level 2 95 67 locations of the main Level 2 areas and facilities in the Only down to 33 North Level 2 Museum. You can pick stairs up a map of the whole Museum at the Information Desk in the Great Court. Level 1 33a 33 33

Level 1 Only up to 95 and 67 North Level 1 stairs Montague Place entrance Montague Level -1 Café 33b

North stairs Level Up to 24 and Great Court or down -1 & 0 to the Montague Place entrance

Level 0 30

West 24 26 27 stairs

Level 0 29a 29b East stairs 20

21 18 19 9 4 1 Level 0 Level 0 22 18b

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10 7 4 1 18 15 Great Court F

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South Grenville 13 6 stairs Room 2

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2a Pizzeria 55

Level 0 Main entrance Forecourt Great Russell Street Café

Families Desk Great Court Toilets (weekends and Lift Restaurant F school holidays only)

Accessible toilet Café Cloakroom Level access lift

Baby changing Information Desk Audio guide

Tickets & Shop Stairs Membership Desk Events

Touch tour Percussion Orchestra Join us for a volunteer-led The Percussion Orchestra is Touch tour consisting of nine a music project at City Lit for sculptures in the Egyptian adults with learning disabilities sculpture galleries. This tour is in collaboration with the Royal designed for blind and visually- Academy of Music. The project impaired audiences and is a aims to create and perform unique opportunity to get ‘up original compositions and break close and personal’ with some down societal assumptions fascinating ancient objects around disabilities. Purple Light in the Museum’s collection. Up will see the Percussion Orchestra perform a selection of pieces from the last few years and new work in progress.

‘City of Heroes’ Workshop Clever The Way It’s Moving Thompson Hall often sketches at Mark Lawrence’s art is museums and galleries, getting experimental and ever-evolving. ideas for his own complex Working across many media, panoramic paintings. He says Lawrence projects footage of “we live by rules and regulations his paintings and collages and that say you can’t do this and you explores ways of engaging with can’t do that. In my paintings I the projections. For Purple Light am trying to tell people how this Up, Lawrence will be inviting makes me feel ”. Purple Light Up people to interact with his will see Hall hosting a workshop immersive film projections. in which visitors can add their hero stories to Hall’s hero story illustration, creating a ‘City of Heroes’.

Hall and Lawrence are both Studio Artists at ActionSpace, which supports artists with learning disabilities. Captain’s Duties Deaf-led, BSL Eye-opener tour Chris Pavia was the first of The Enlightenment gallery the current dancers to join the Chisato Minamimura will lead Stopgap Dance Company in an introductory tour of the 1997, as a trainee, and is now a Enlightenment Gallery in British Senior Dance Artist. For Stopgap, Sign Language (BSL) with no Pavia recently choreographed voiceover. The objects she will The Awakening, making him explore are housed in the King’s the first learning-disabled Library, the former home of choreographer in the UK to the library of King George III. create work for national touring. They provide an introduction In 2019 Pavia choreographed to the Museum and its collection, The Journey Between as an showing how our understanding independent artist. He will of the world of nature and be performing a new piece, human achievement has Captain’s Duties. changed over time.

Poetry reading Baluji Shrivastav OBE Kuli Kohli is a creative writer, Multi-instrumentalist Baluji poet, mother, wife and full-time Shrivastav OBE is one of the council worker. She was born world’s leading composers and with cerebral palsy in northern sitar players. He has performed India and moved to England at and recorded with some of the an early age. Kohli says “Writing greatest tabla accompanists and has opened up all sorts of has worked with artists including possibilities for me as I struggle Stevie Wonder and Shakira. to express myself because of Shrivastav will be performing a my disability”. As part of Purple selection of pieces, intertwined Light Up, Kohli will be sharing with storytelling. her popular and deeply moving stories and poetry that has taken her to Liverpool, Berlin and London in the past year. Shop Audio guide Discover a unique range of Discover more about over souvenirs and gifts online and 250 objects with an audio in the Museum shops, including guide (£), available in the Great jewellery, books and homeware. Court in 10 spoken languages. britishmuseum.org/shop Free British Sign Language and audio description guides Eat are also available. Explore Enjoy food and drink in the the Museum together with Museum restaurants and cafés. our digital family guide (£). To make a restaurant reservation Sponsored by Korean Air visit britishmuseum.org Join in online Seating @britishmuseum There are benches and a limited #PurpleLightUp number of portable stools in the Great Court. Seating is available in selected galleries and most special exhibitions. Follow the Museum, share your photos and review your visit on Hands on desks TripAdvisor and Facebook. The Museum runs daily drop- in object handling sessions in selected galleries (11.00–16.00). See the free map or ask a member of staff where to find the desks.