Atchin Tan – Travelling Through Art

Name: Atchin Tan - Travelling Through Art
Start: 2024-10-26
End: 2024-10-26
Location: Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum

Saturday 26 October 2024 to Sunday 5 January 2025 | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum

A visual journey through time of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities, co-curated with members of the communities.

Works by Turner, Munnings and Gainsborough will hang alongside newly commissioned artworks by Romani artists, some of which demonstrate skills from endangered crafts. Hear oral histories, traditional Romani storytelling, poetry and music, and leaf through family photograph albums, while discovering how Romani identity has been portrayed through time.

This exhibition at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum is part of the Vardo Project based at Worcestershire County Museum at Hartlebury Castle. It has received funding from the John Ellerman Foundation and the Elmley Foundation.

This exhibition is free to visit; no booking is needed. Plan your visit to the Art Gallery and Museum.

What’s On:

Enjoy an exciting series of talks and events alongside the exhibition.

Opening day | 26 October

Saturday 26 October 2024, 10am – 4pm.

Celebrate the new exhibition by visiting on its opening day! Storyteller Richard O’Neill will be performing Colours of My Wagon at 11am, 12noon, and 1pm (free and suitable for all ages).

Saturday Talk | It’s Kushti to Rokker Family Connections (It’s Good to Talk Family Connections), Saturday 2 November

Saturday 2 November, 11am – 12noon.

Kelly Horsley, descendant of Beulah (Freedom) Smith, whose portrait by Dame Laura Knight is exhibited in Atchin Tan – Travelling Through Art, discusses her family connections, and Romani heritage and culture in this hour-long talk.

£6.50. Find out more and book your place.

Bite-size Talk | Romani Arts, Tuesday 12 November

Tuesday 12 November, 2 – 2.30pm.

Be introduced to the autumn exhibition, Atchin Tan – Travelling Through Art, by Georgie Stevens, Vardo Project Curator.

£4.50. Find out more and book your place.

Storytelling | Colours of My Wagon, Saturday 16 November

Saturday 16 November 2024, 11am, 12noon, 1pm.

Colours of My Wagon is a storytelling and woodcraft performance by Richard O’Neill which brings to life the ever-changing and adapting culture of Romani people. Performances at 11am, 12noon, and 1pm (free and suitable for all ages).

Find out more.

Saturday Talk | The Baby and the Snake, Saturday 23 November

Saturday 23 November, 11am – 12noon.

A screening of The Baby and the Snake will follow a short introduction to the film by the director Corrina Eastwood. Following the screening there will opportunity for audience members to ask Corrina questions about the film, her identity and wider practice.

£6.50. Find out more and book your place.

Storytelling | Colours of My Wagon, Saturday 7 December

Saturday 7 December 2024, 11am, 12noon, 1pm.

Find out more.