Portavillion

Sat 17 July in Gillett Square

ROSY (the ballerina) by German Art & Architecture collective raumlaborberlin is a mobile, bubble-shaped pavilion that will tour the capital from May to September, transforming over fifteen parks and green spaces and playing host to a dynamic programme of events by London's leading cultural organisations, including Sadler's Wells, Tate Modern and the Roundhouse.

In the afternoon, the bubble will be filled with delightful music from local musicians. During the evening, the Portavilion bubble will come alive with projections on its surface and films will be screened along with music.

4pm - 6pm: Faces

Artists Rod Morris and Heather McDonough set up a portable photographic studio in public spaces to record members of the public in a variety of locations throughout East London.
They photographed people in Spitalfields Market as part of Photomonth 2009, and have now been commissioned by London Transport Museum to photograph 600 people as part of their London Underground Uncovered Exhibition celebrating the opening of the East London Line. They have made portraits of 100 people from each of the six boroughs through which the line passes. A digital gallery of each community is on show at London Transport Museum until March 2011.
Rod and Heather propose to photograph 100 people in Gillett Square, Dalston, as part of the Portavilion event for Hackney Museum.

Inside/Outside Cinema 4pm-11pm

spacebusterRosy
SpaceBuster by raumlabor, New York City, 2009 c: Alan Tansey / ROSY for Portavilion by raumlabor, London 2010. C: UP Projects

For one evening only in Gillett Square, Raumlaborberlin's Bubble pavilion Rosy the Ballerina will be transformed into a temporary cinema presenting films from Hackney Archives and Dalston’s Rio Cinema; artists’ animations brought to the programme by the Drawing Room; a film about the first British feminist and Hackney resident Mary Wollstonecraft by Hackney based Fragments& Monuments Film and Performance Company, and a dance-film exploring Dalston’s public spaces, made by local residents and East London Dance. The bubble will also come alive with experimental projections on its surface by VJ Fat Butcher and Fragments & Monuments.

4-6pm: From Button Hooks to Butter Paddles a workshop led by Hackney Museum

Explore objects from the Museum’s handling collection and tell us about your stories and our mysterious objects. Create your own Olympic medals and be part of a short film that captures Dalston’s unique spirit.

Hackney Museum is running Mapping the Change, a project that sets out to record the changes in the borough of Hackney in the lead up to the 2010 Olympics. They are collecting memories, experiences and responses to the greatest historic change in Dalston since World War Two.

6pm-9pm: Music performances by local acts

9pm-11pm Short Film Screenings

For further information please click here (Up Projects web site)