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RA - free arts street festival- tomorrow , by Coach on Jul 1, 2016 22:53:11 GMT 1, RA Burlington Gardens Festival
The RA takes to the streets for a vibrant, free arts festival
Special events

Saturday 2 July 2016
12 — 6pm

Burlington Gardens will be pedestrianised for the day with activities filling the street in front of Yinka Shonibare’s monumental artwork ‘RA Family Album’ which wraps our building during construction. Looking both at the past and towards the future, the artwork showcases the RA as an inclusive, dynamic place for artists, creativity and learning.

Artists from the Royal Academy Schools, Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects residencies, and the Brazen Bunch Collective will host installations, performances and activities on the day.

Other highlights include:

Art installations and performances
Breezing through Closer, Fani Parali, RA Schools

Experience a one-to-one performance in a specially designed structure in the street, which contains a dream-like set that forms the backdrop of an intimate moment to be lived, felt and heard.

Tilt, Clara Jo, RA Schools Starr Fellow

A film installation that creates a contemporary parallel of an Enlightenment World, employing current museological digital imaging technologies as devices to penetrate the surface of scientific and artistic objects from the RA Collections and Archives, the Burlington Courtyard Learned Societies and the Imaging and Analysis Centre at the Natural History Museum.

Collective as Family

Alt MFA (Alternative Masters of Fine Art) will be looking at collectivity as family, with Alt MFA members collaborating with each other, their family members and looking at the connections between us.

Based on a mind-mapping exercise developed at Guest Projects, artists Sadie Edginton, Shinji Toya, Anousha Payne, Amy Leung, Johanna Bolton and Nathania Hartley will host a stall with different performative works spiralling off into the festival. Timed performances and happenings will lead you across the site to reimagine the space through participatory artworks.

Plus live art by Zilvinas Vaitiekunas from the Brazen Bunch Collective, created in response to Yinka Shonibare’s Family Album

Samba parade with i=u Join a lively parade led by i=u and the Artful Badger where samba dancers and musicians will lead you through the RA’s back-of-house spaces, at the end of the festival taking you to the RA’s Annenberg Courtyard where the bar will be open until 10pm.

Poetry performances
Poets Belinda Zhawi, Kareem Parkins-Brown and Victoria Anne Bulley will perform works in response to Yinka’s ‘RA Family Album’.

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