
Festival
Whitechapel Lates: Black Obsidian Sound System
20 Mar 2025
For the first of our once-a-season specially curated Lates, join artist collective and Black Queer/Trans-led sound system Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) for an after-hours programme of live DJs, performances, audio experiences, and workshops.
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Barbershop
B.O.S.S. Barbershop with Kellonkutz
20 Mar 2025
Paying homage to the sounds and communion within the barbershop, Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) invite Kellon Bubb into the heart of the gallery to be their Barber-in-residence for the evening, offering free cuts sound tracked by a history lesson of your choice.
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Workshop
Sensing the Studio with Ajamu X
20 Mar 2025
A photographic ‘play-shop’ with Ajamu X, encouraging participants to approach their image making through an emphasis on process and production. By foregrounding aesthetics, experimentation, risk taking, sensuality and pleasure, participants will develop a more embodied and nuanced dialogue in relation to the sensual-material attributes of their photographic practice.
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Talks
Big Ideas: Caleb Femi in conversation with Rohan Ayinde
£5
27 Mar 2025
Join award-winning writer and director Caleb Femi in conversation with artist and poet Rohan Ayinde as they speak to poetic sensibilities, Blackness as a foundation and site of experimentation, and contemporary ideas around masculinity.
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