Museum Late: All Over The Place

13 February 2025

Join us after hours at the Museum for an evening of art, live music and performances inspired by our exhibition, Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place. Explore the artist’s interventions throughout the Museum, enjoy the music, films and fashion performances, and get involved with our workshops and talks. Food, drinks and snacks are available from our Courtyard Kitchen café and our Courtyard shop is open all evening.

Read on for more details of the evening's activities and book your free tickets.

In collaboration with Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts and Cambridge AntiRacism Forum.

CSVPA showcase

Throughout the Museum, 6.30 - 9pm

In response to our exhibition 'Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place', students from several of the CSVPA courses including Fashion, Graphics, Fashion Branding and Communication and more, will be exhibiting their works throughout the galleries alongside the artist's interventions. Amongst the armour in gallery 31, make sure to have your photograph taken in front the students' unique backdrop.

Practice Lab

Seminar room, 6.30 - 9pm

Drop into our informal ideas workshop and check out a series of presentations, panels, conversations and more happening throughout the evening. Explore the themes of the exhibition – such as the social, cultural and political constructions of race – through the lens of our everyday experiences and the legacy of colonialism and transatlantic enslavement. Led and facilitated by Cambridge AntiRacism Forum, with contributions from Dr Isabelle Higgins and students from the Sociology Society.

Live Stitch

Gallery 3

Get hands-on and start stitching! Contribute to a large scale textile-based creation in this live, interactive audience artwork. All the kit and materials you'll need to get involved will be provided. Led and facilitated by CSVPA.

Sounds and visuals

Galleries 3, 16, 17 and 26, Courtyard café.

Take a walk through the Museum's galleries and courtyard spaces and stumble across sound art pieces, visual projections, live drawing exercises and more - all facilitated by BA and MA students from CSVPA. Put pencil to paper and join in with the drawing activities in gallery 17 or experiment with textiles draping in gallery 3. And don't miss the sound bath happening at various points throughout the evening downstairs in gallery 26.

Live performances

Galleries 26 and 33

CVSPA's performing arts students take to the stage for live performances across the dramatic marble staircase downstairs in gallery 33 as well as round the corner in gallery 26. Keep your eyes peeled for their ad hoc artworks displayed throughout the Museum during the Late event.

Food and drink

From 6.30pm, a selection of food and drinks will be available at our Courtyard Kitchen café. Choose from a range of soft drinks, wines, beers and more, as well as snacks, and meals from the menu below.

Available until 8.45pm

Sri Lankan vegetable curry - £9

Red lentil dhal, Bombay potatoes, Bombay mix and green chutney, fragrant rice (vegan)

Chicken shawarma - £10

Tahini yogurt, pickled red onions, Khobez flatbread

Pulled pork shoulder - £10

Brioche roll, Korean BBQ sauce, sesame and kimchi

Vada pav - £9

Spiced potato patty, flatbread, red chili peanuts, garlic and mint chutney (vegan)