British Museum Announces this Month's Public Programme

In July 2017, the British Museum has a series of events celebrating the exhibition Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave and events part of the Shubbak Festival. There will also be a hilarious members' special event.

For booking: Please visit http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar.aspx or call 020 7370 9990

Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave events

Supported by Mitsubishi Corporation

Film
Miss Hokusai

Saturday 1 July 2017,
14.30-16.15
BP Lecture Theatre
Tickets £5
Members/Concessions £3

This award-winning animated film explores the later years of Hokusai.

O-Ei works with her father Katsushika Hokusai on his great works but has to deal with his short temper and lack of interest in worldly things such as money or society. O-Ei, however, has inherited her father's talent and it soon starts to get her into trouble.

Presented in collaboration with Japan House

British Museum late
The road to Fuji: celebrating Hokusai

Friday 14 July 2017,
18.00-21.00
Great Court and galleries
Free, just drop in, limited seating

Enjoy an evening of performances and activities celebrating the life, art and enduring legacy of Katsushika Hokusai, presented in collaboration with Japan House.

Visiting especially from Tokyo, see Chindonya, musical street entertainers employed to advertise shops and theatre performances, whose roots lie in Hokusai's late Edo-period Japan.

Hear traditional performances by tsugaru shamisen player Hibiki Ichikawa and folk singer Akari Mochizuki, as well as a performance of Ryan Probert's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by English acoustic guitar duo Vickers-Bovey, inspired by Hokusai's prints.

The evening will also include themed craft workshops, a community-led performance by older people from Camden, film screenings of the NHK production The Lost Hokusai (2017) and a pop-up sake tasting bar.

Lecture
Living traditions: Japanese woodblock printing in the 21st century

Saturday 22 July 2017,
13.30-14.30
BP Lecture Theatre
Free, booking essential

Based on material gathered from several years of research, expert printmaker Rebecca Salter RA explains the traditional practice of Japanese woodblock making, with reference to her ongoing collaboration with Sato Woodblock workshop in Kyoto.

Shubbak at the British Museum events:

Performance
Shubbak Festival of Arab Culture: Issam Kourbaj's Unearthed

Sunday 2 July 2017,
10.00-17.30
Great Court
Free, just drop in

An artist installation by Issam Kourbaj.

As part of the Shubbak Festival of Arab Culture, the Great Court will be filled by Syrian artist Issam Kourbaj with hundreds of old hardback book covers placed side by side to cover 60 square meters of floor..

Conference
Shubbak Festival of Arab Culture: Survival of the artist

Sunday 2 July 2017,
10.00-17.30
BP Lecture Theatre
Tickets £15
Members/Concessions £12

Booking:
http://mosaicrooms.org/events/category/exhibitions

A symposium on art in times of conflict and censorship.

The Mosaic Rooms, in association with Shubbak Festival 2017, presents a one-day symposium of talks and performance which asks how art can survive and respond in times of conflict and censorship.

Performance
Shubbak Festival of Arab Culture: Zahra Al-Ghamdi's Inanimate Village

Sunday 2 July 2017,
10.00-17.30
Great Court
Free, just drop in

For one day only Saudi Arabian artist Zahra Al-Ghamdi will be producing a site-specific installation in the Great Court.

This is the first time she has constructed the large-scale floor installation in view of an audience.

Gallery talk
Shubbak Festival of Arab Culture: Living histories

Sunday 2 July 2017,
13.45-14.30
Room 34
Free, just drop in

Curator Venetia Porter joins artist Issam Kourbaj to discuss the stories and multiple histories behind works on display in Room 34 by Fadi Yazigi, Sulafa Hijazi, Azza Abo Rabieh, Jaber al-Azmeh Ammar Dawood, Mahmoud Obaidi, Dia Azzawi and Issam Kourbaj himself.