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The Road Festival 28 – 30 June 2019 This weekend will see a celebration in the spirit of the Great Exhibition of 1851, with a host of partner institutions from around South working together to delight and inspire visitors both in the museum and on Exhibition Road. All events are free and drop-in unless stated otherwise

Throughout the Festival Designing the V&A as she brings her unique perspective as an Saturday and Sunday, 11.00 – 12.00, invertebrates expert to the V&A’s collections. The Museum of Food 13.00 – 14.00 and 15.00 – 16.00 This tour will explore our complex relationship Saturday and Sunday, 11.00 – 17.00 Blavatnik Hall, Level 0 with insects and challenge preconceptions of Exhibition Road (South) our own lifecycles, from metamorphosis, to Tour: Join this architectural tour of our South Special Event: At the Great Exhibition Road entomophagy and finally to the more macabre Kensington site which will help you navigate the Festival’s Museum of Food you can experience feeding habits of insects. Museum. One of our fantastic V&A Volunteer how artists, designers and scientists are Guides will take you through the history of our Natural History Museum: 19.30 – 19.55 and 20.30 reimagining the way we think about and buildings, in a tour that focuses on the setting – 20.55 experience food. for the collections, rather than the collections Meet by the giant ground sloth (Megathrium When the V&A was founded as a Museum of themselves. americanum) in Fossil Way, Ground Floor Manufactures in 1852, one of the most popular (adjacent to Wildlife Photographer of the Year displays was the Museum of Animal and Food Friday 28 June entrance) Products, complete with waxed models of meat Friday Late: Food for Thought Join Natalie Kane, Curator of Digital Design that showed visitors what was good and bad to 18.30 – 22.00 at the V&A, on a journey through the digital eat. Across the museum museum. This tour will uncover methods of Now, in 2019, the V&A is looking at food once digitisation, how the digital has helped realise Special Event: Our personal and cultural more, with its headline exhibition Food: Bigger complex projects, and what intangible heritage relationships to food help shape what and how than the Plate. From gastronomic experiments means to us in times of constant change. we eat, and our food-based traditions sustain a to urban farming, this exhibition explores the sense of community and shared heritage. Yet the politics and pleasure of food. Saturday 29 June way we eat is also having a significant impact For the Great Exhibition Road Festival, the V&A on the environment. How can we preserve our Joy of Sound has collaborated with Imperial College, Royal emotional connections to food while protecting 10.00 – 17.00 College of Art, Design Museum and Institut the planet? This Friday Late, navigate the Art Studio, Sackler Centre for arts education, Français to similarly show how our collective supermarket aisle to explore how food can both Level 0 choices can lead to a more sustainable, just and sustain and be sustainable. Experience the Display: Experience this interactive display of delicious future. synchronised movements of dancers and dough, Joy of Sound bespoke musical instruments and and play with your food to question your own Plant Orbiter instrument access devices. Open to participants culinary choices. Examine your connection to Friday 18.00-22.00, Saturday and Sunday 10.00 of all ages and ability. No musical experience dining rituals and confess your food waste sins – 17.45 required. Come join us and be inspired! as we question the (shelf) life of our plates. Blavatnik Hall, Level 0 Accompanied by two free one-hour workshops at Some activities are timed and on a first-come first- 12.00 and 15.00, advanced booking recommended Installation: Explore the Plant Orbiter by artist served basis. Programme timings will be announced on Nick Laessing, an automated rotating system for 21 June 2019. Pop-up Performance: The Fruit and Veg food production, which reflects on the role of Bridget Harvey: Fashioned from Nature Resident Olympics technology in local urban food production and 11.00, 13.00 & 15.00, duration 45 minutes speculates on food scarcity solutions. Open Studio 18.00 – 20.00 The John Madejski Garden, Level 0 In the 1970s NASA investigated the possibility Residency Studio, Sackler Centre for arts Performance: We’ll be putting the skills and of growing plant food in extra-terrestrial education, Level 1 talents of our contestants to the test as we put environments and discovered that plant growth them through their paces. Who will win ‘Most accelerates in anti-gravity conditions. Though Open Studio: Come and meet our resident maker, curator and activist Bridget Harvey and Sustainable’? And who will be a rotten loser? since discarded by NASA, this research has been Through these gruelling games, silly songs and appropriated by marijuana growers to maximise learn more about her practice and views on clothing as political choice and empowerment fruity friends, Wonky Table Theatre Company production for indoor cultivation. Drawing on will really get to the bottom of what we eat. the NASA research, the Plant Orbiter tests this through choice, using skills of repair-making and collaborative working. Inspired by the exhibition FOOD: Bigger than theory of anti-gravity growth by creating an the Plate. automated rotating system for food production. Curator Exchange Tours This is a deaf-friendly performance, with spoken English V&A: 19.00 – 19.25 and 20.00 – 20.25 Presented in collaboration with the Delfina Foundation and British Sign Language within the performance. and with the support of Arts Council England Meet in Japan, Room 45, Level 0 Please note, in the event of bad weather this activity Join Beulah Garner, Senior Curator of Coleoptera will take place in The Raphael Cartoons, Level 0. (Beetles) at the Natural History Museum, Enjoyed this event? Tell your friends! victoriaandalbertmuseum V_and_A vamuseum #ExRdFest vam.ac.uk greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk

From 2D to 3D: Architectural discovery with 12.00 – 13.00 Tomorrow’s wardrobe presents Live Music Brunch the RIBA 13.30 – 14.30 Designing happy cities 12.00 – 13.00 11.00 – 17.00 15.30 – 16.30 Mars: Should we stay or should we Gamble Room, V&A Café, Level 0 V&A Workshop Tent, Exhibition Road (South) go? Performance: Join us for the Royal Albert Hall’s Workshop: We are putting architecture centre Advanced booking recommended ‘Live Music Brunch’ series, taking place at the stage of the Future Cities theme with 2D and for each session V&A for the first time. Performing today will 3D drawing activities, drawing inspiration Day in the life of… Exhibition Road be Josh Geffin, a folk singer-songwriter from from the buildings of Exhibition Road and 12.00 – 17.00 Dorset now based in . With songs that the architectural collections of the V&A+RIBA Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre for arts explore the human condition and find solace in Partnership. Join the RIBA to design and explore education, Level 1 nature, his heartfelt singing has been likened to your city of the future. You’ll look around you to John Martyn and his dextrous fingerpicking to find ideas from the buildings on Exhibition Road Talk: A festival edition of Imperial’s Day in the Bert Jansch. He has performed at Royal Albert and discover architects’ past plans for futuristic life of… series. Short, lively and personal stories Hall, South Bank Centre and Barbican Centre. buildings and cities – many of which were reveal Exhibition Road’s dynamic community He has released four records including an EP never built. Guided by artists and RIBA staff, and give a better idea of what happens behind of traditional folk songs and his latest, the you’ll make a mini booklet to create your own the scenes! These talks are aimed at teenagers meditative instrumental album Hum & Glow. record of your futuristic ideas, in pencil and 3D thinking about their future careers. Treat yourself to a delicious meal from the café drawings pens. 12.00, a volcanologist and sit back and enjoy Josh’s performance. Please note, in the event of bad weather this activity 12.45, an Interior designer Ideas Exchange: Day 2 will take place in the Sackler Centre for arts education, 13.30, a Museum interpreter 12.00 – 16.00 Level 0. 15.00, a Beetle curator The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, A Feast for the Eyes 15.45, a musical physicist Level 3 11.30 – 12.15 Royal Albert Hall presents Afternoon Tea with Talk: This series of panel sessions will see Seminar Room 3, Sackler Centre for arts Live Music experts from different worlds come together. education, Level 4 14.00 – 15.00 Hear from scientists, designers, artists, Talk: The advertising of food and drink is as Gamble Room, V&A Café, Level 0 campaigners, economists and more on much a staple of poster production as salt and Performance: Join us for the Royal Albert Hall’s contemporary issues, thinking about creative pepper is to the dinner table. Join V&A curator of ‘Afternoon Tea with Live Music’ series, hosted for solutions and how arts and science can tackle prints Zorian Clayton in a whirlwind slideshow the first time in the surroundings of the V&A’s problems together. of the pictorial delights and audacious concepts Gamble Room. Performing at this concert will 12.00 – 13.00 Why we eat what we eat of international food posters through time, be Southern Senegalese artist Kadialy Kouyate. 13.30 – 14.30 Tackling ocean plastic from land covering the formation of the advertising Kadialy Kouyate’s kora playing and singing style, 15.00 – 16.00 Creativity and AI industry, wartime rationing, and classic and both as a soloist and in ensembles, have been forgotten brands. greatly received in venues and festivals around Advanced booking recommended for each session Meet the Designers! the world. Head down to the café, treat yourself 12.00 – 17.00 to a cream tea and relax into the afternoon. Pop-up Talk: Plant Orbiter 14.00 – 14.45 Residency Studios, Sackler Centre for arts V&A LGBTQ+ tour Blavatnik Hall, Level 0 education, Level 1 16.00 – 17.00 During this Open studio session, tailored Meeting Point, Grand Entrance, Level 0 Talk: Join artist Nick Laessing as he talks about his Plant Orbiter, an automated rotating system specifically for families, artists and designers Tour: Join this V&A Volunteer Guide led tour for food production, which reflects on the role of will share their experience of life in the creative which explores gender and sexual identities technology in local urban food production and industries. Children will have the opportunity through a selection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, speculates on food scarcity solutions. to take part in a few light touch activities, see transgender and queer related objects in the projects the artists and designers are working V&A’s rich collections. Presented in collaboration with the Delfina Foundation on, as well as ask Qs about what it’s like to have and with the support of Arts Council England a job in the arts. Sunday 30 June V&A Female Voices tour With Matteo Menapace, Videogames resident, V&A Families: Imagination Station 15.00 – 16.00 and Bridget Harvey, Fashioned from Nature 11.00 – 17.00 Meeting Point, Grand Entrance, Level 0 resident. V&A Workshop Tent, Exhibition Road (South) Tour: Join our guides in these special tours and Ideas Exchange: Day 1 Workshop: Contribute to a collaborative explore the V&A’s outstanding collection to 12.00 – 16.30 magazine made by art collective Fallen Fruit, uncover the contribution of women to art and The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, using collage making and storytelling. Everyone design. Each of one of these V&A Volunteer Level 3 is welcome! Fallen Fruit are part of the V&A Guide-led, non-scripted tours, highlights the exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate. leading role of women as patrons, muses, Talk: This series of panel sessions will see creators, business partners and more experts from different worlds come together. Please note, in the event of bad weather this activity Hear from scientists, designers, artists, will take place in the Sackler Centre for arts education, campaigners, economists and more on Level 0. contemporary issues, thinking about creative solutions and how arts and science can tackle problems together.