Expect workshops, film, music and installations responding to the stories told by Sedira in her poetic Duveens Commission. Discover how Sedira keeps history and memory alive as she draws on voices from the Algerian diaspora in Africa through cinema and archive.
Late at Tate Britain is co-curated with Tate Collective Producers, supported by Gucci through Gucci Changemakers London.
Programme
Reprezent Radio
Music
18.00-21.30
Experience the sound of young presented by London based Reprezent Radio. Hear the next big names and grab some food and drink in the Djanogly Cafe.
Souvenir de l'Algérie with Meriem Mecili
Workshop
18.00-21.00
Room 23
Come add to your personal archive with this installation from Meriem Mecili. You’re invited to take part in a portrait experience against a backdrop inspired by traditional Algerian decorative motifs, have your photograph taken and leave with a printed portrait as their own contemporary ‘Souvenir de l'Algérie’.
WANAWAL Listening Lounge
Workshop
18.00-21.45
Manton Studio
Presented in response to Zineb Sedira's Commission, this listening lounge expands the themes of collective memory as sites of anti-colonial resistance. Hosted by the West Asian and North African Women's Art Library (WANAWAL), the Listening Lounge brings together books, films, sound works and archival materials that place the histories of Algeria and Kurdistan in conversation, while tracing wider connections across West Asia and North Africa.
Listening Session with Êvar Huseynî
Workshop
19:00-20:00
Manton Studio
A participatory workshop exploring listening as a method of remembering and archiving. Participants will collectively engage with a series of archival recordings and sonic works drawn from across Kurdistan, Algeria and the wider West Asia and North Africa region. Through guided listening and reflective writing, participants will record the memories, sensations and associations these sounds evoke. These written reflections will be contributing to a living archive.
Memory Mapping with Anita Safowaa
Workshop
18.00-20.00
Play Studio: Our Memories. Our Stories
Drop into Tate Britain’s current Play Studio to meet interdisciplinary artist Anita Safowaa and engage in an exploration of memories and storytelling through conversation and collage.
Play Studio invites visitors of all ages to bring memories alive through making, performance and film inspired by Tate’s collection and Zineb Sedira’s current Duveens’ commission When Words Falls Silent Cinema Speaks.
Green Table Presents...
18.00-21.30
Join Green Table as they take over the Clore Wing through a series of installations and activations inspired by Zineb Sedira.
Green Table Presents: Dear Diaspora,
Installation
18.00 - 21.45
Dear Diaspora is a participatory, projection-based installation that transforms the gallery into a space of collective voice. Extending the thematic concerns of Zineb Sedira, the work reimagines diasporic memory as something active, social, and continuously produced. Via our online open-call, we have collected responses from over 50 countries that reflect on themes of migration, survivalism, memory and resilience.
Green Table presents: Return Without Arrival
Installation
18.00-21.30
Duffield Room
Return Without Arrival brings together 4 London-based artists responding to the complex tapestries of post-colonial memory, migration, and identity. Moving between the screen, domestic staging, photographic archives, and the tactile language of woven textiles, these artists shift focus away from the distant, outsider gaze.
A Room Divided by Kadessi Alassani & Ana Veronica
Installation
18.00-21.30
Duffield Room
A Room Divided is a photographic and installation by Kadessi Alassani and Ana Veronica. Rooted in Kadessi’s Togolese heritage, the work reflects on the lasting impact of colonial rule over Togoland and how the partition of a nation continues to resonate through family, memory and inherited histories. Presented in collaboration with Green Table.
Me sim uma Romani Čej (I’m just a Romani girl)
Installation
18.00-21.30
Duffield Room
Natasha Radu creates a space where everyday objects tell stories of migration, memory, and survival. Her installation, Me sim uma Romani Čej (I’m just a Romani girl), explores her life moving between Serbia and London. Driven by a desire for genuine representation, she explains, “I want to be able to tell my story for once.” Presented in collaboration with Green Table.
The Stories They Carry by Sophie Javadi
Installation
18.00-21.30
Duffield Room
Sophie Javadi explores the closeness and distance she feels towards her father through their shared art form of carpets and artisan rug making. Her father spent his childhood weaving in North-West Iran before emigrating to England in the 1970s, where he built a life around the craft.
Responding to Zineb Sedira’s use of archives and installation, Sophie presents materials from her family’s weaving practice, considering carpets not simply as decorative objects, but as vessels of memory and connection - carrying stories across people, places and generations. Presented in collaboration with Green Table.
here, us, the camera
Film
18.00-21.30
Clore Auditorium
Curated by Maia Ardalla. A collection of contemporary shorts that explore the impact of migration, whether through our own experiences or those inherited from our parents and previous generations. Each film fosters conversations around identity, the home, and belonging across the city and the diasporas that exist within it. Inspired by Zineb Sedira's exploration of memory, the archive, and the reach of La Cinémathèque Algérienne, this collection tells stories of the present while piecing together our relationships with place, permanence, movement, and change. Presented in collaboration with Green Table.
I Carry it With Me Everywhere (2022) Dir: Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah (19 mins)
Cameraman (2025) Dir: Arsalan Motavali (16 mins)
Journey Mercies (2023) Dir: Tomisin Adepeju (15 mins)
Elephant Families (2025) Dir: Elena Escalante (15 mins)
Chelsea College of Arts Spotlight
We have invited 3 Chelsea College of Arts graduate artists to showcase their final works within the iconic walls of Tate Britain. Touching on themes in Zineb’s work the three presented works explore archives, place, memory and ritual.
นะมหาคงคา (Na Maha Khongkha) / To calm the heat in the heart by Grace Sangkakulmala
Installation
18.00-21.30
Clore Studio
นะมหาคงคา (Na Maha Khongkha) listens to the quiet lineages embedded in spoken records, lingering across living spaces and carried by rivers.
Structured around a late-night telephone call between mother and daughter, the work bridges the geographical distance between the UK and Thailand. As their conversation shifts from the ritual preparation of traditional pork blood salad (luu muu) to a spectral encounter on a night-time river, the film acts as a compass to navigate folklore, displacement and maternal affection.
Everything All At Once by Rosa Leeder
Installation
18.00-21.30
Taylor Digital Studio
Everything All At Once is a project based on research into the medieval history of London. It draws on archival material, images, and literature, but is grounded in the experience of being in a place where the layers of history are evident in the architecture all around. The work examines hierarchies of power, and how opposing ideologies have met in the body, often revealing injustice and abjection.
COPYLEFT by Roo Weaver Hill
Installation
18.00-21.30
Room 13
CopyLeft is an piece that embraces manufacture, loop and labour. ReCreation is all, bootleg is archive. It is the result of an ongoing digital project. Feel welcome to explore CopyLeft more intimately on your phone screen, where you can touch, play and repeat at your will.
10 Minute Talks
Talk
Join our volunteer's team for 10 Minute Talks around iconic works in Tate Britain.
Quiet Space
18.00-21.45
Need a quiet room to take a break from the activities happening across the building? Reset your senses and recharge in this calm, access-friendly space, designed for anyone seeking a moment away from the crowd.
Food and Drink
Pop-Up Bar
18.00 – 21.30
Fancy a drink? Head over to our pop-up bar in Room 8!
Djanogly Café
18.00 – 21.30
Grab some hot food and some drinks and enjoy the music in the Djanogly Café. Try out our range of drinks, including a selection of locally sourced beer.
Meriem Mecili
Meriem Mecili is an archivist artist whose ethnographic practice explores family history, Algerian heritage and Amazigh identity through oral and visual histories. By collecting, restoring and recontextualising vernacular archives, she preserves overlooked histories and creates new ways for communities to engage with their cultural heritage.
The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (WANAWAL)
The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (WANAWAL) is a library and experimental archive, curated bookshop, and research studio based at Somerset House Studios. Rooted in a commitment to collective memory as a liberatory practice, WANAWAL creates dialogue between Kurdish feminist thought and broader West Asian and North African histories, recognising these relationships as essential to resisting erasure, borders, and the fragmentation of indigenous, minoritised, and stateless narratives across the region. Through the distribution of stories, perspectives, and materials, WANAWAL seeks to build internationalism through feminist archival dreaming, grounded in the belief that comradeship exists across borders, and that sharing work, knowledge, and anti-colonial imaginings beyond institutional frameworks allows archival practice itself to expand.
@thewanawal
Êvar Huseynî
Êvar is a Kurdish artist and archivist whose experimental practice moves between books, film, photography, writing and mixed media installation. Her work explores how archives shape identity formation, solidarity building and liberation practices, and how communities resist erasure through their own forms of remembering. Grounded in the gestures of collecting, annotating and sharing knowledge, Êvar’s practice considers what archives can reveal about freedom, particularly for occupied peoples and displaced communities.
@evarhuseyni
Anita Safowaa
Anita Safowaa is an interdisciplinary artist who builds storytelling environments through film, installation and participatory work. Her practice explores memory and transformation, challenging dominant historical narratives by centering lived experience and collective voice. She creates immersive, sensorial spaces that spark reflection, encourage conversation and shift perspectives.
GREEN TABLE
GREEN TABLE is a gallery and creative agency that facilitates culture through exhibitions, experiential installations, workshops and talks. We believe artists are living conduits of society and operate with an Artist-first approach to the arts sector. Through our qualitative research methodology, we create activations that reflect the communities and societies we aim to champion.
@greentble
Natasha Radu
Born in Serbia, Natasha Radu is a London-based Balkan Romani interdisciplinary artist who works with photography, archives, and installation. Her practice centres on resisting epistemic violence by reclaiming marginalised histories and visual languages. Drawing heavily on personal experience, Natasha attempts to demystify the stereotypes that surround her identity.
@tash.ra
Sophie Javadi
Sophie Javadi is a British-Iranian artist whose practice explores cultural memory, inheritance and the stories held within objects. Working across textiles, film and installation, she draws on her family’s weaving heritage to examine how craft connects people, places and generations.
@thamescarpets
@sophiejavadi
Maia Ardalla
Maia Ardalla is a researcher and cultural practitioner. Her work is strengthened through partnerships with emerging artists, communities, and young people. Inspired by storytelling and the culture of her upbringing in London, she aims to use creative practice as a mechanism for strategic and socio-political transformation, with joy, sustainability, and an open-source philosophy as key pillars of her approach.
@maia.ara
Grace Sangkakulmala
Grace Sangkakulmala is a London-based British Thai-Chinese artist working across moving image and installation. Attending to folklore, intergenerational memory and horror, her practice subverts fear to cultivate profound stillness. Through intimate storytelling, she disarms the spectral, offering the unfamiliar as a quiet site of shared hospitality.
@thaigrrr_mov
Rosa Leeder
Rosa Leeder is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in London. She runs creative collaborative workshops, and is co-organiser of the 'Intersectional Feminisms' art and activist group. Her practice takes many forms and is shaped by research, but is rooted in a consistent methodology: bringing archives, personal experience and community history together - everything all at once.
@rosa.leed3r
Roo Weaver Hill
Roo Weaver Hill is a person, artist, writer and enjoyer. A recent graduate of Chelsea College of Arts, with a research led practice in sonic, digital and communal ecosystems. A general enthusiast, listener and vibe absorber, whose work digests and regurgitates, decomposes and composes both use less/full ephemera.
@roo_weaverhill_art
