Thursday 21 May 2026
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Experience the Art Gallery after hours
Visit our current exhibition, Lives in Motion: Stories of Migration from the 11th Century to the Present Day featuring stories of migration from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.
Gallery tours, 5:30pm, 6:00pm and 7:00pm
Artist film screening , 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Join us for an audio described screening of Come As You Really Are by Hetain Patel, made in 2024, duration 12 minutes. During this hour-long screening the film will be played on a loop to allow visitor to drop in and out as needed.
The film explores the outstanding creativity and passion that people put into their hobbies. Depicting a range of hobbies from across the country from freestyle dance to wild swimming, cosplay, gardening, miniature railways, radio-controlled airplane model making, felting, car modifiers, collecting, miniature pottery, miniature origami and nail art.
The film adopts the artist’s trademark style of combining high-end cinematic production with scenes from the everyday, to showcase ephemeral pastimes and handcrafted objects in a visual language usually reserved for Hollywood films and luxury advertising.
Creative workshop, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Bar and café open
Free, everyone welcome
No tickets required, drop in and join us at any time
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