Members' Late: Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems Curator Talk 

Garden Room, 7-7.15pm

Curator Raúl Muñoz de la Vega gives a fascinating insight into the exhibition, exploring key themes across Carrie Mae Weems' multi-disciplinary work across photography, film and installation, including the challenging of representations of race, gender, and class.

Life Around the Kitchen Table Zine-Making Workshop with Artizine

Conservatory Terrace, 6-9pm

Celebrate Carrie Mae Weems’ work by making your own zine inspired by her extraordinary photographs, interweaving themes of race, class, gender, friendship, love, loss, power and motherhood.

About Artizine

Ioana Simion is a visual creative and arts facilitator, who believes creativity and play are essential for self-development. Ioana started Artizine in 2019, as a platform aiming to connect communities together through zine-making.

Artizine is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to encouraging individuals to be creative through engaging and accessible art-making workshops. All the Artizine facilitators operate on a zero-waste guideline, which explores not only the physicality of reducing materials and embracing new, sustainable ways of making, but also reducing thoughts and creating space for mindfulness and wellbeing through art.

Members' Art Digital Display

Garden Room, 6-9.30pm

See Members' art at this digital display in the Garden Room. 

To celebrate Carrie Mae Weems, we invited Barbican Members to respond to the exhibition themes of: social change, identity, representation.

A curated selection of works will be showcased at our Members’ Late on Tue 11 Jul.

DJs from Sisu Collective

Garden Room, 6-9.30pm

DJs from the collective Sisu will be taking over our Garden Room, so you can enjoy some refreshing drinks from our bar and vibe to a wonderful selection of tracks.

Spinning records on the night is Jacki-E, an established techno and drum and bass DJ / Producer from Northamptonshire. With influences rooted in techno, jungle, dnb and an ethos emerging from the acid house raves and festivals of the early 90's, Jacki-E has developed her own style of energetic and fiery dance music. She hosts radio shows A Darker Wave and Draw The Line and has released tracks with record labels including UPUK Records, Get Physical and Nahual Records. 

Joining her is ((( CLEOPATRA ))) whose distinctive genre-defying sets merge tracks across funky house, soul, acid jazz, electronic, hip/trip-hop, Afrobeat/Brazilian-infused funk and more. Listen to her exciting remixes on Soundcloud.

About Sisu

Sisu is a community providing a platform to educate, inspire and showcase aspiring women and non-binary DJs, producers and behind-the-scenes roles. Their vision is to create educational and inspirational spaces to enhance national and international opportunities, connections and pathways into the music industry. 

Complimentary G&T samples with Sipsmith

Conservatory Well, 6-9.30pm

Enjoy a complimentary G&T sample from our friends at Sipsmith and sip away amongst the wonderful flora and fauna of the Conservatory. While stocks last.

Head to the Lounge to escape the hustle and bustle of the Centre and enjoy a drink from our New York-themed menu. Come down between 5-6pm for Happy Hour and enjoy two of the same cocktails for £15. Sip on a Dark Coffee Martini or try a Rhubarb & Lemon Spritz, our special Members' Week cocktail. Open until 9.30pm. 

Enjoy 20% off in the The Art Gallery Shop on level 3 (open until 8.30pm) and the Barbican Shop on level G (open until 8pm). Just show your ticket or Member's card at the till.