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Sep—Dec 2019 Welcome

Simon Cane UCL After Dark Executive Director UCL Culture As the nights start drawing in this autumn, we’re turning our eyes to the night sky and thinking about space and all things lunar.

This year celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landings and that giant leap that captured the world’s imagination in 1969. In October we’re working with artists and researchers to explore the ways humans and animals are influenced by the moon, as part of Bloomsbury Festival and UCL’s own It’s All Academic Festival.

This autumn also sees the launch of our brand new Lates programme. We hope you’ll join us after hours for a series of intriguing, surprising and joyful events that use the university Opposite: and our unmissable museums and Image © Matt collections as their backdrop. Clayton Find out more about UCL Culture Cover image: Lates on page 6. Image of the moon taken by the Lunar Orbiter 1967 © UCL Culture NASA RPIF ucl.ac.uk/culture 2 Displays of Power Seeking out stories of Empire at the Grant Museum

Subhadra Das Curator, UCL Science Collections

When the practice of collecting UCL play in the international trade Events in the animals for science was at its height, of living and dead animals? And so was the British Empire. how do colonial ways of working Grant Museum and thinking continue to affect the Our new exhibition Displays of natural world today? Power connects the specimens in 23 Nov 2019 It’s All The Raj, Innit: the Grant Museum to a wider history Once you’ve seen how Empire 19:00 Comedians Decode the Grant of science and Empire, by asking shaped this collection, you’ll never Tickets £10 What’s black and white, black and white, black and one simple question: “How did all look at natural history museums in white? A penguin rolling down a hill. What’s funny about these things come to be here in the the same way again. natural history museums? A lot. Join our comedians to first place?” explore the secrets hidden in the collection. Part of the Being Human festival Come and see how historical teaching and research at UCL fits 23 Nov 2019 Your Museum into the bigger picture of the history 13:00-17:00 Who decides which version of a museum’s history of science and imperial collecting in Free is the true one? Join us for a day of music and talks Britain and beyond. What part did as some of UCL’s neighbours take over the Grant to Displays of Power is at the Grant celebrate the lesser-known stories of the museum. Museum from 19 September 2019 Part of the Being Human festival until 7 March 2020. Entry is free. Find out more at: Image: Anna Betts Pattern design ucl.ac.uk/ grant-museum : Darren Stevens 4 UCL Culture September

1 Sep - 6 Oct 2019 Moving Objects: Voices of Displacement 09:00-19:00 daily Refugees and researchers in London and the Middle Free East reveal stories of people, animals and objects in Octagon Gallery exile: from ancient treasures to the communities and Lates species being driven from their homes today. Join us after dark at UCL for our new Lates programme 1 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 From Gurob to the Getty: The Voyages of an on the last Thursday of the month. Get closer to our 13:00-17:00, Tue-Sat Ancient Egyptian Ship-Cart Model collections with artists, performers and researchers Free Explore the ancient and modern contexts of one Petrie Museum the most important artefacts in the Petrie Museum, and enjoy a drink with us in our unmissable museums including its recent voyage across the Atlantic to Los and galleries. Angeles. Part of Year of Sculpture 2019.

18 Sep, 9 Oct, Werewolf: Live 18 Nov 2019 A new game show fresh from Edinburgh Fringe, Drop-in Book early to avoid disappointment 20:00 which sees favourite comedians lie, manipulate 18:30-21:00 at ucl.ac.uk/culture/lates Tickets £10 and backstab as they try to uncover the murderous Tickets £8 or telephone 020 3108 1000. Bloomsbury Studio werewolves. Expect chaos. £5 concessions 21 + 22 Sep 2019 Open House 10:00-17:00 A rare chance to see inside the UCL Pathology Thu 26 Sep 2019 Egyptomania in the Time of Freud and Petrie Free. Drop-in Museum at the Royal Free Hospital, which is home Petrie Museum of Discover the source of the European obsession UCL Pathology to thousands of human organs, bones and more Egyptian Archaeology with all things ancient Egypt in the 19th century Museum medical specimens. In partnership with the – and its powerful influence on the psyche of Freud Museum Sigmund Freud himself. 24 Sep - 13 Dec 2019 Edward Allington: In pursuit of sculpture 13:00-17:00, Tue-Fri Celebrating the life and work of the acclaimed British Thu 31 Oct 2019 F**k Up Night: A Whole World of Failure Free sculptor, this exhibition explores sculpture’s capacity Octagon Gallery Why is it so hard to talk about when things go UCL Art Museum to transform and be transformed by its surroundings. wrong? Face your fears this Halloween with Part of Year of Sculpture 2019. artists and researchers and embrace failure in all its forms. 28 Sep 2019 The Beatles: Hornsey Road with Mark Lewisohn 14:30 + 19:30 Join Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn to mark the Thu 28 Nov 2019 Displays of Power Tickets £22-£33 golden anniversary of the Beatles’ multi-platinum Grant Museum What can stories about the specimens in the Bloomsbury Theatre album Abbey Road: it was both the end of the Sixties of Zoology Grant Museum tell us about human power and the end of the greatest band of all time. structures? See how their histories shed new light on questions of race, gender, politics and economics. ucl.ac.uk/culture 6 October

5 Oct 2019 Performance Lab: Smorgasbord 12:30-14:30 Learn about the latest research happening at UCL Free. Drop-in straight from the academics working on world- UCL Wilkins Building, leading projects, from cutting-edge science to Haldane Room ground-breaking arts and humanities. Part of UCL’s It’s All Academic Festival.

9 Oct 2019 Plinth III: Making and Meaning 18:00 Artists Helen Carnac and Gary Stevens explore the Tickets £5 link between an artefact and how it’s made. Is it a UCL Slade trade secret? Does the maker wish to amaze - or fool Research Centre us? Part of Year of Sculpture 2019. From contemporary art 19 - 27 Oct 2019 Trellis 09:00-17:00 Explore the paths and waterways of the Queen to the auto-icon Free. Drop-in Elizabeth Olympic Park to discover four new Queen Elizabeth installations developed by contemporary artists Olympic Park together with UCL researchers. UCL is home to three specially commissioned works of art, Image: which are free for everyone to enjoy. Step inside the UCL Sarah Fortais, 21 Oct 2019 - FLOP: 13 Stories of Failure Student Centre to see two sculptures by Turner Prize- Donor Wall, 2019. 10 Apr 2020 It’s something no one wants to talk about, even winning artist Rachel Whiteread and collaborative duo Commissioned by 09:00-19:00 daily though it happens to everyone at some point in their Thomson & Craighead. UCL Culture Free lives. This exhibition shines a spotlight on the subject © Hydar Dewachi Free tours 14:00 on 12, we’d all rather avoid, from ancient societies to modern Outside on the Wilkins Terrace, artist Sarah Fortais has 26 Nov + 10 Dec 2019 medicine. created a striking bronze installation of hands reaching into Octagon Gallery space and in November we’ll unveil two new temporary sculptures by Rachel Ara and Kenny Hunter. 24 Oct 2019 Performance Lab: We The Young Strong 19:00 It’s the 1930’s and teenager Flora Poole is moving to Tickets £10/£5 London. Unemployed and angry, she finds herself Bloomsbury Theatre drawn to Oswald’s Mosley’s British Union of Fascists. Part of Bartlett 100 and the UCL Urban Lab. Jeremy Bentham’s auto-icon is moving to a 31 Oct 2019 Sandi Toksvig: Between the Stops new home at UCL. 19:30 The writer, broadcaster, activist, comic, presenter Tickets £30-35 of QI and Great British Bake Off discusses her long- Find out more about our plans at Bloomsbury Theatre awaited autobiography with a difference, as only ucl.ac.uk/culture Sandi can tell it.

ucl.ac.uk/culture 8 November Free UCL Museum Tours

1 Nov 2019 Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with the Guilty Tickets available from 19:45 Ones ucl.ac.uk/culture/ Tickets £31.75 / £29.70 Dave Alvin from Downey, California and Jimmie Dale museumtours Bloomsbury Theatre Gilmore from Lubbock, Texas bring the sounds of the American West to the Bloomsbury Theatre. Grant Museum of Zoology: Wednesdays 14:00-14:45 (4 Sep-18 Dec) 20 Nov 2019 Plinth Trial: Memory, Context and the Monument 18:00 Artist Kenny Hunter addresses the past and present UCL Art Museum: Free. Booking essential use of memorials. What are they for, what do they Thursdays 14:00-14:45 (26 Sep-12 Dec only) UCL Wilkins Building, represent and how are they are used as sites of Haldane Room reflection? Part of Year of Sculpture 2019. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Fridays 14:00-14:45 (6 Sep-20 Dec) 24 Nov 2019 Count Arthur Strong: 20:00 Is There Anybody Out There? Tickets £25 The entertainer we all know and love wrestles with the Bloomsbury Theatre big questions: Are we alone in the universe? Is there life on Mars bars? 2lbs of potatoes. Packet of ginger nuts. Don’t lose this shopping list. A Party Fit for December a Pharaoh

7 Dec 2019 Adam Kay: ‘Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas Did you know our museums and 19:00 Adam Kay delves into million-selling book This Is theatre spaces are available to hire? Tickets £31 Going To Hurt for a hilarious peek behind the blue Bloomsbury Theatre curtain at Christmas. Book your Christmas get-together, book launch, 13 Dec 2019 - Billionaire Boy film screening or whatever special occasion 5 Jan 2020 From the award-winning West End producers you’re celebrating with us and you’ll not only Evenings and Daytimes of Gangsta Granny and Awful Auntie comes this have exclusive access to our extraordinary Tickets £18.50-31.50 amazing new production of David Walliams’ best- collections and venues – but you’ll also be Family offer: £90 selling story about Joe Spud, the richest boy in the directly supporting UCL Culture and the work Bloomsbury Studio country. we do with artists and researchers.

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10 Free Activities for Families Planning your visit

Over the Moon You’ll find most of our spaces in Bloomsbury, a leafy neighbourhood at the heart of London. The easiest way to discover these venues and activities is by public transport. Then it’s just a short walk from the nearby London Grant Museum of Zoology Underground, Overground and mainline stations. The map on the next Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology page shows how to find us. UCL Art Museum The UCL Pathology Museum in the Royal Free Hospital is open for Sat 5 Oct + Sat 10 Oct 2019 public events throughout the year. Travel to Belsize Park Underground or Hampstead Heath Overground stations. 13:00-17:00 Free. Drop-in. Age 7+ Parking spaces are available for Blue Badge holders. Please visit camden. gov.uk to find out where you can park your car. Remember you may drive Find out more about the moon in ancient Egyptian culture, the through London’s Congestion Charge zone. animals that roam at night guided by the moon, and artists that have responded to the lure of moonlight and its power in All our exhibitions and many of our events are free to enjoy. Where there UCL’s free family interactive museum trail. is a charge, we offer a free companion ticket to all our disabled visitors. Concessions for museum events apply to students; children under the age of 16; senior citizens aged 60 and over; disabled people; recipients In partnership with gobbledegook of Universal Credit; those with refugee or asylum seeker status; and UCL and the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory. staff. Please check individual performances at the Bloomsbury Theatre for concessionary rates. You will be asked for suitable identification.

If you have any additional access needs, please get in touch before your visit and let us know how we can help. Get stuck in at the Grant Museum of Zoology Sometimes our events programme can change. For the most up-to date Fortnightly Saturdays information, visit the UCL Culture website: ucl.ac.uk/culture 13:00-16:00. Free. Drop-in

Explore Zoology Creature Creations Toilets 28 Sep, 19 Oct, 9 Nov + 7 Dec 2019 14 Sep, 26 Oct, Sat 30 Nov & 14 Facilities are located across UCL, including accessible toilets. Half term: Dec 2019 Please ask a member of staff to direct you. Mon 21, Tue 23 + Fri 25 Oct 2019 Wheelchair access Ever wondered how sharp a shark’s Create works of art inspired by There is step-free access throughout the majority of our buildings. tooth is or how many scales a some weird and wonderful animals. For step-free access to the Petrie Museum, please use the DMS pangolin has? Bring your budding Or invent a brand new animal and Watson Building entrance where there is a lift. zoologists and find out! add it to our collection! ucl.ac.uk/culture 12 How to find us

Bloomsbury Theatre Box office: Mon–Fri, 12:00–17:00 and Studio (and pre-shows) 15 Gordon Street +44 (0)20 3108 1000 London WC1H 0AH

Grant Museum of Mon–Sat, 13:00–17:00 Zoology Closed 17 - 22 April 2019 21 University Street London WC1E 6DE +44 (0)20 3108 9000

Octagon Gallery Daily, 09:00–19:00 5 MIN WALK Wilkins Building, UCL Closed 17 - 22 April 2019 Gower Street London WC1E 6B +44 (0)20 3108 9000

Petrie Museum of Tue–Sat, 13:00–17:00 Egyptian Archaeology Mondays by appointment Malet Place Closed 17 - 22 April 2019 London WC1E 6B +44 (0)20 3108 9000

UCL Art Museum Tue–Fri, 13:00–17:00 Auto-icon South Cloisters, UCL Closed 23 Mar – 22 Apr Jeremy Gower Street and 7 Jun – 23 Sep 2019 Bentham London WC1E 6BT +44 (0)20 3108 9000 Disabled UCL Student Centre Daily, 07:00–19:00 access via DMS 27 -28 Gordon Street Watson London WC1H 0AH Building

UCL Pathology Collections Not shown here Royal Free Hospital Nearest stations: Belsize Park and Pond Street Hampstead Heath London NW3 2QG +44 (0)20 3108 9000

UCL East Not shown here Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Nearest stations: Stratford and London Hackney Wick For more information visit ucl.ac.uk/culture ucl.ac.uk/culture 14 UCL CULTURE

About UCL Culture

From art to zoology, Egyptology to performance, science and beyond: UCL Culture cares for the university’s world-class spaces and collections. We are home to the Grant Museum of Zoology, Octagon Gallery, Pathology Museum, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and UCL Art Museum, as well as Jeremy Bentham’s famous auto-icon, the Bloomsbury Theatre and art in the public realm.

Nearly all our venues are free to enjoy and open to everyone. Come on in and play a part in our ground-breaking research and learning at UCL.

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