Friday Late: Dalston Takeover

V&A PRESENTS FRIDAY LATE with MasterCard Friday 28 June, 18.30–22.00 Dalston in Hackney is one of London’s most celebrated and yet notorious neighbourhoods. Feted as a hub of creativity, it is also an area undergoing tremendous change, as gentrification follows in the wake of its creative renaissance. Join the first in a series of Friday Lates that will invite London’s creative communities to take over the Museum for an evening, presenting a range of music, art, design, architecture and more. All events are free and places designated on a first come, first served basis, unless stated otherwise. Filming and photography will be taking place at this event. MUSIC & PERFORMANCE Newton Dunbar 18.30 – 22.00 Established in 1966, the Four Aces Club became the home of Black international music in Hackney. Hosting acts such as Desmond Decker and Stevie Wonder, to a later revival as rave club Labyrinth, the venue represented a rich and controversial era in Dalston’s past. The landmark subsequently fell victim to gentrification and is sadly no longer. Reminisce with club pioneer Newton Dunbar, as he spins some classic reggae tunes. JustJam 18.30 – 21.30 A weekly live music showcase with a strong visual aesthetic rooted firmly in Dalston, JustJam celebrates contemporary electronic music by bringing MCs, producers and DJs to a live audience in the format of a live stream. Experience JustJam in the unlikely venue of the Museum, as they bring DJs and live visual sets from founders Tim & Barry, together with DJ Barely Legal, Skinny Macho and Crack Stevens. timandbarry.com dontwatchthat.tv Kristina Records 18.30 – 21.30 Join Jack Rollo from Kristina Records as he plays a curated selection of vinyl from his Kingsland Road-based record shop. Set up as an alternative to the impersonality of Internet, the shop aims to create a community of like-minded music lovers. Events there have included performances by Andres, Comet Gain, DJ Qu, Vic Godard, Beautiful Swimmers, The Horrors, Trevor Jackson and Veronica Falls. kristinarecords.com Arcola Theatre Live 19.00 – 21.30 Housed in a converted paint factory in Dalston and founded in 2000, the Arcola runs one of the most extensive multi-cultural community and youth programmes in East London. Arcola will present work from across the theatre, including their acclaimed Ala Turka Turkish & Kurdish Theatre Group. arcolatheatre.com Café OTO presents lll人 19.30 – 21.00 Dancing in a foundry where they're casting sculptures. Freedom and molten iron. Sound bending to include others. Experience a sound sculpture that will both respond to and clash with the architecture of the building, gradually spilling and spreading throughout the Museum. cafeoto.co.uk llln.org TAKEOVERS Dalston Eastern Curve Garden 18.30 – 21.30 Get a warm Dalston-style welcome. Enjoy hand-crafted objects, made by local children and adults from recycled and found materials sourced in nearby Ridley Road Market, African fabric stalls, and Turkish restaurants. Led by Dalston based artist Laura Halliwell, participate in a Festival of Light lantern making workshop, inspired by the V&A collections. The lanterns will be taken back to the Garden, twinning Friday Late artworks with those created by the Dalston community and forming a shared legacy. dalstongarden.org Fishbar 18.30 – 21.30 Dalston Lane’s Fishbar Gallery presents a range of projects: Dalston Anatomy From the Ridley Road Market to the V&A, a reinvented stall will become a portable exhibition and a temporary photo-booth for the evening. Artist Lorenzo Vitturi together with Irene Fuga will improvise a series of portraits – ready-made objects and materials found in the market will be mixed up to create living sculptures. Come in Please! Founder of Fishbar Philipp Ebeling will showcase a portrait series of local residents, whom he photographed over the course of a year. After many ad-hoc conversations in Dalston with friends and strangers, Philipp decided to invite local residents back into the Fishbar to portray them. Dusk Steals the Daylight Witness Sam ‘AngrySam’ Berkson, on a hearty rant about London, Dalston, gentrification and life in general. Listen to Sam’s first public performance of a series of specially commissioned poetry about Ridley Road Market. fishbar.ph lorenzovitturi.com philippebeling.com ninafuga.com angrysampoetry.wordpress.com Stunt Dolly/Illustrated Nails 18.30 – 21.30 Nestled in the heart of Dalston, one of London's most eclectic and creative hair and nail salons comes to the V&A to deliver buzz cuts, nail art and fringe trims. Good old fashioned everything is the name of the game, as well as giving Dalston a kick up its skinny jean clad backside. stuntdolly.com theillustratednail.tumblr.com Places are limited – please sign-up with Stunt Dolly team in the Sackler Centre to reserve a spot. Mystical Kebab - OPEN Studios 18.30 – 21.30 Enter OPEN studios’ takeaway kebab shop for the evening and create your own skewer from their illustrated designs. With a subtle nod to their East London location, watch artists in action as they illustrate a series of random die-cut stickers and get a taste of Dalston-based studio life. Home to a range of creative practitioners, OPEN provides freelancers with the opportunity to collaborate, learn, critique and evolve, as a group and as individuals. o-p-e-n.org.uk Bootstrap Company 18.30 – 21.30 Providing workspace and support for start ups, social enterprises, charities and businesses since 1977, Bootstrap Company now invite you to experience a typical night on their roof. Overlooking London’s skyline, Dalston Roof Park is an oasis in the heart of Hackney. Enjoy live streaming, short films from in-house film makers, a Printhouse Gallery selection and live music from Bootstrap Campus. Contributors include Ruth Hanahoe, The Film Atelier, David Husky Nwikpo, Ashton John, The Secret Seed Society, Pierre Da Silva, Kuba Nowak, Cultvaters, Merci Marie Café, Field.io, Charlie Doran, Hands Inc., Craig Murray, Matthew Stone and Twenty%extra. bootstrapcompany.co.uk INSTALLATIONS Dalston's Standard 18.30 – 22.00 For one night, Dalston is staking its claim at the V&A. Gort Scott present a standard, announcing the Dalston Takeover and made in collaboration with digital fabrication workshop FABberz lab.ldn. The V&A logo has been transformed by type designer Mathieu Reguer and appropriated into a screen of laser-cut fabric shingles, enlivened by stripes of African wax print fabric from Ridley Road Market. Colourful contrasts echo the many faces and identities of this unique part of London and the Museum's extensive textile collection. www.gortscott.com www.fabberz.com @mathieureguer Collage Dalston 18.30 – 21.45 Architecture duo Stephen Mackie and Seán McAlister bring the experience of real Dalston streets to a space in the Museum. Having surveyed specific architectural elements from all over Dalston, like a door, facade, or brickwork, the pair have collaged them together to create a new structure. The end result is a filmic Dalston streetscape – alien structures with a hint of the sinister. seanandstephen.com Haberdashery 18.30 – 21.30 Inspired by composition, geometry and light, Dalston-based design studio Haberdashery in collaboration with photographer Julian Abrams have used LEDs and polished stainless steel to produce sculptures with varying patterns. Eliminating formal representation and focusing purely on the behavioural properties of light, this collection represents a mesmerising other world of infinite detail and beauty. haberdasherylondon.com WORKSHOPS What We Wore – Live Archive! 18.30 – 21.30 Creating a people’s style history of Britain from 1950 to the present day, ISYS invite you to bring along personal photos and ephemera of yourself, accompanied by a DJ soundtrack from NTS Radio. It’s about people and their personal stories: why they wore what they did, and what it meant to you. Contributions will be scanned and archived on the night, and considered for inclusion in the ‘What We Wore’ book. Every participant will receive a professional quality digital scan of their image. what-we-wore.com ntslive.co.uk muf architecture/art 18.30 – 21.30 Over the last two weeks, muf’s has pinned their cultural map across Dalston’s streets and invited passers-by to add their thoughts and sketches. Discover the updated map at Friday Late as a result of your additions. Since 1994, muf has established a reputation for pioneering and innovative projects that address the social, spatial and economic infrastructures of the public realm. muf.co.uk Da-da-Dalston 18.30 – 21.30 How do you remember Dalston? Using a collection of photographic fragments from both Dalston and the V&A’s collection, join in a game of collage building and consequences, creating an image of a streetscape based on memories, aspirations, and imagination. Taking inspiration from the Situationist mappings of Paris, help architecture practices Gort Scott and Levitt Bernstein, working in collaboration with Online Reprographics, to map Dalston High Street and Ridley Road as it was, is and could be. gortscott.com levittbernstein.co.uk onlinerepro.co.uk TALKS & FILM Dalston Kingsland Panoramas 18.30 – 22.00 Take a walk through Antony Cairn’s silently beautiful photographic panorama shot on a Luftwaffe WW2 Robot camera, consisting of over 650 black and white images of both the east facing and west facing sides of Kingsland Road. antony-cairns.co.uk Dalston Social Archives 18.30 – 21.45 Explore the social infrastructure of Dalston’s diverse community from the unique perspectives of four filmmakers. Innercity Weaver by Luke Forsythe depicts a day in the life of weaver Emily Mackey, whilst B(e)AST @DALSTON SUPERSTORE by Kenny Campbell celebrates the electronic scene and night life of Dalston Superstore. Stall Guys by Flora Menzies and Elena Negriolli explores life as a Ridley Road market stall holder, whilst Dalston Robot by Antony Cairns contemplates Dalston street life. lukeforsythe.co.uk kctv.co.uk littlemenfilms.co.uk antony-cairns.co.uk Aesthetica Magazine Presents 19.00 & 20.00 (50 minutes) Aesthetica presents a reel of short films from Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF) 2012, exploring Dalston and its wider context. Kingsland #1: The Dreamer by Tony Grisoni highlights the community of Dalston and one man’s particular struggles as a recent immigrant to the area. In addition to this, the remaining films (Hurdy Gurdy by Daniel Seideneder, Long Distance Information by Douglas Hart, Sea Meadow by Lily Baldwin and Let It Go by Ashley Dean) seek to embody the energy, capacity for change, and the character of this celebrated location. asff.co.uk Creative Industries or Nandos? 20.00 – 21.00 V&A Senior Curator Kieran Long, Liza Fior from muf architecture/art and guests discuss how you measure the influence of creativity in an area. What more do the creative industries offer to an area over Nandos for example? Staying Power 19.00 – 20.00 Join V&A Curator Dr Marta Weiss and acclaimed photographer Dennis Morris in a show and tell of some of the Museum’s recent collection of seminal photos from 'Staying Power’ – photography reflecting the Black British experience 1950s – 1990s. A partnership project with the Black Cultural Archives (BCA). bcaheritage.org.uk dennismorris.com