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Tours

Highlight Tours

30 Jul - 6 Sep 2026

Join us weekly for a free highlight tour focusing on specific artwork in the headline exhibition during Whitechapel Lates.

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Backyard Biennial

How to Build a Body

1 Sep 2026

A performance-lecture about muscles and men, exploring building a body as a site to work through disappearing certainties about work, gender, and the roles we think we’re meant to play.

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Backyard Biennial

Demolition Project, by Alisa Oleva and Debbie Kent

2 Sep 2026

A workshop involving a giant map of the city and an invitation to participants to demolish buildings, streets or entire areas.

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Backyard Biennial

Conviviality as Resistance

2 Sep 2026

Unfolding in the Common Rooms, we will spend an afternoon talking, reflecting and broadcasting on the Whitechapel Radio at the close of our Walking, Power, and Inclusion series.

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Photo by Kai Hendry under a Creative Commons licence

Backyard Biennial

Remembering St. Clement’s Hospital

Memorialising and counter-memorialising inpatient mental health care in the East End

5 Sep 2026

A walk celebrating, commiserating and commemorating the 20th anniversary of the closure of St. Clement's psychiatric hospital.

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Backyard Biennial

Imagining Animals

6 Sep 2026

Join us for a day of puppetry, movement and music, presented as part of Imagining Animals at the Tower of London—an invitation for people of all ages to imagine and celebrate animals.

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Past Events

Please note, our café is closed until Tuesday 1 September. You are welcome to grab refreshments from the café next door and enjoy them in our Foyer.