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CHAIR!
Thu 3 & Fri 4 Sep | Timings TBC | Queen’s Market Square, East Ham, E13 9JJ
What to Expect: Audio Description | Easy Read Information | Join In | Speech free
Tickets: This event is FREE, just turn up.
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A joyous participatory performance that celebrates the act of sitting down and taking up space.
Created with local participants, this poetic and playful performance celebrates our right to freely accessed outdoor spaces to relax, work and dream. Framed around an array of brightly coloured chairs plus everyday and surreal objects, CHAIR! reminds us that everyone has the right to sit down.
Queen’s Market Square, Green Street, East Ham, E13 9JJ
For exact location please click on ///bared.stand.locker. What3words is an easy way to identify precise locations. What3words is available to download as an app or access on the web.
Public Transport: Upton Park (District, Hammersmith & City, Buses)
Geraldine Pilgrim has been creating site-sympathetic shows long before such work became fashionable. She uses the architecture and history of a place – imagined and real – as both inspiration and narrative. The nature of her work is transformative – for audiences, participants and the communities local to the sites.
Her many highlights include 2015’s Well at Dagenham’s former Sanofi pharmaceutical factory, 2016’s Flight at Lake Windermere in Cumbria for 14-18 NOW and 2017’s The Missing Passenger for the National Railway Museum in York. Her participatory performance Handbag, originally commissioned for the Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre, has toured sites across the world for the past 13 years.
Promotional photography will take place at this event.
If you do not wish to be featured in our content, please ask one of our volunteers (easily noticeable in their pink t-shirts) for a “no photography” sticker.
CHAIR! is supported by Culture Within Newham, Without Walls, Arts Council England and FESTIVAL.ORG.
ACCESS
- Show Access
- Site Access
- Easy Read Guide
Speech Free – This show has no speech or text
Join In – There is a moment at the end of the show where you can choose to join in
Easy Read Information – available on site and to download in early July
Full accessibility information coming early July
Free. Just Show Up.
Assistance Dogs Welcome.
Level Access
There is level access across the site.
Access Viewing Area
A staffed access viewing area for disabled audience members will be marked with a sign or flag. Space for wheelchair users, companions and seating with and without arms will be available.
The viewing area will have volunteers and staff available throughout the event.
Accessible Toilets
Queens Market
Blue badge parking
Queens Market Car Park, Selsdon Road, Upton Park, E13 9BA
Drop-off point
Green St, London E13 9AU
Accessible Transport
Forest Gate is the nearest station with step-free access. The 330 and 58 buses go from Forest Gate to Queen’s Market. Please note Upton Park does not have step-free access.
Contact
For Accessibility questions, contact [email protected] // 07899 893 935
Full access info coming in early June.
