Celebrate the vibrant Moroccan ‘new wave’ of The Casablanca Art School with drop-in activities to get involved with throughout the gallery.
Create a collaborative artwork inspired by the urban murals and outdoor exhibitions that took place around Morocco in the 1960s.
Get creative and delve deeper into the school’s applied arts, typography and graphics and learn more about Afro-Berber art and culture.
Dance to Nothern African Berber music with live music sets inside and outside the building.
Enjoy Moroccan street-food and drinks on the café terrace.
Supported by The Barakat Trust
Programme
Display: Something New From Repetition
Kleiner Shames
Location: Loggia
Time: All day
Workshops: Something New From Repetition: Late at Tate Mural
Kleiner Shames
Location: Foyle Studio
Time: 18.30–21.30
Join artist Kleiner Shames for an experimental painting workshop to produce a 3m x 8m collaborative wall mural. Drop-in through the evening and use handmade tools, brushes and extension poles to add or remove from the mural.
Informed by his work Something New From Repetition 2022, which will be on display in the Loggia through the night. This is a three-dimensional exploration of recurring shapes and colours found in Kleiner Shames’ work and the desire for them to break the bounds of the canvas and inhabit the world we live in.
Film Screening: Something New From Repetition: Documentary film
Andy Lawrence
Location: Foyle Studio
Time: 18.30–21.30
Screening on a loop alongside Kleiner Shames’ drop-in mural workshop. This documentary film captures some of the process in creating Something New From Repetition, offering a glimpse into the creative process.
Stemming from a lifetime of influences and infatuations firmly rooted in the subcultures of skateboarding and graffiti, an ethos of community, collaboration and constant evolution inform this ever-evolving output.
Music: Sunset and Sundown Acoustic sets
Berber Diffusion
Location: Gallery 8
Time: 19.00–20.15 - Sunset
Location: Café Terrace
Time: 20.30–21.45 - Sundown
Berber Diffusion are the UK’s first traditional Amazigh band. The Amazigh people, or Berbers, are pre-Arab North African nomadic clans, whose history runs deep under the Saharan sand, defying many attempts at oppression and eradication. There musical traditions have continued into the present day through small groups of travelling musicians who still play at weddings and other ceremonies and celebrations, sharing the stories and poems of their ancestors.
Film Screening: ‘Soundscape x Berber Diffusion’
Location: Foyle Studio
Time: 18.30–21.30
22min21secs, screened on a loop
Soundscape radio interview with founder of Berber Diffusion and lead singer, Abdellah Rais.
Talks: 10 Minute Talks
Various times, throughout the building
Staff and volunteers from across Tate share their personal insights into works from the collection.