Thu 26 Feb, 6.30 - 8.30pm
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
Access requirements
Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking;
Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
This event takes place in Assembly Room at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the ground floor.
This event lasts approximately 2 hours. Attendees are encouraged to take as many breaks as they need during the event.
You must book a ticket to attend the event.
If you require British Sign Language interpretation for this event, please let us know by emailing us at access@whitechapelgallery.org.
If you have particular access requirements, please let us know in advance of the event (preferably 2 weeks prior) and we will endeavour to make suitable provision.
Transport
To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Live Recording
Please note: we audio record all events for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive and possible future online publication via Soundcloud. This recording will also form part of Nabirye’s on-going research and elements may be incorporated into a future larger artwork.
Join artist Anna Maria Nabirye and some special guests for an intimate evening of film and conversation.
As part of the development of her project The Funnest Room in the House - which celebrates and shares stories of the Black diaspora and their kitchen memories – this event explores how fiction and the moving image can reveal a hidden archive of Black British diaspora life.
Exploring the rich history of Black British film and television, Anna Maria invites audiences to reflect, remember, and connect – bringing to light histories and experiences that are too often left undocumented.
This event is co-produced by Nicky Childs and was developed in collaboration with Artsadmin as part of the accompanying public programme alongside Anna Maria Nabirye’s wider project, The Funnest Room in the House.
Anna Maria Nabirye is a multi-disciplinary artist and performer initiating projects and collaborating across visual arts, photography, performance, fiction, documentary, theatre, screen, social practice and fashion.
Recent works includes co-directing The Hero’s Journey, a sold out audio led promenade show commissioned by Home Live Art for Knotty Festival, The Unlikely Walking Club an interdisciplinary walking intervention commissioned by Charleston Trust for The Festival Of The Garden, Motherhoody (Albany) & award-winning short film One Prick At A Time (King’s College London) with Jess Mabel Jones. Multimedia visual arts work Up In Arms – which centres around conversations on the complexities of interracial friendship, co-created with Annie Saunders, this social practice work formed, an exhibition, 3 channel film and performance, commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion and produced by Artsadmin (2023). Anna Maria is currently co-writing the book of this project and has just completed a writing residency with Cortex Frontal focusing on this publication.
Nabirye has a long-standing collaboration with Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler Ruptures (London Film Fest/Home/Delfina Foundation), Everything For Everyone And Nothing For Us (Mirror City-Hayward), Hold Your Ground (FVU) & Deep State (FVU).
Nabirye co-founded and co-runs Afri-Co-Lab, a creative community dreaming space in East Sussex, they collaborate with many organisations including Home Live Art, Charleston Trust, De La Warr Pavilion, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery and the V&A. Acting credits include the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Almeida, Film4, BBC1 and BBC2. As an educator and director Nabirye has worked with Yale School of Drama, National Theatre Institute, Mountview Academy, LAMDA and London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Junior Artists
Anna Maria was awarded a scholarship for the Peter Marlow Foundation creative retreat residency to further her photography practice.
The Funnest Room in the House is a portal back to ancestral homelands of the Black diaspora, celebrating the kitchen space as an archive that charts the many journeys of the diaspora to the UK.
The Funnest Room in the House takes inspiration from the kitchens of Nabirye’s childhood and those of the diaspora. Intimate spaces that were individual to each family’s life but were also a performance of collective culture, containing expressions of ancestral homelands and nostalgia for back-home mashed up with British culture.
