EVENTS

Designerama!

A weekend of events celebrating the new Sackler Centre for arts education at the V&A

Explore how design can change the world during the opening weekend for the Sackler Centre. The weekend is full of events and activities where you can explore, and contribute to, the future of design. Contribute to the Celebrity Design Debate, take photographs of your favourite objects, write down your ideas and get hands-on with artists and designers. Be the first person you know to create an art installation with text messages, have the chance to design the future and help us create the largest Chain of Talent in the world!

Friday 24 October —18.30–21.30
18.30–21.00 Flickr Design Challenge
18.30–21.30 Chain of Talent
18.30–21.30 D-Fuse
18.30–21.30 SMS Design Matters
18.30–21.30 Open Studios
18.30, 19.00, 19.30, 20.00, 20.30 &21.00 My Favourite Thing
19.00–20.00 Celebrity Design Debate
19.00–20.00 Hunter Davies: Objects of Desire

Saturday 25 October — 10.00–17.30
10.00–17.00 (F) Chain of Talent
10.00–13.00 & 14.00–17.00 (F) Design the Future
10.30–17.00 SMS Design Matters
10.30–17.00 (F) Drop-in-Design
10.30–16.30 (F) Flickr Design Challenge
11.00–16.30 The Library of Unwritten Books
11.00–12.45 & 14.00-15.45 (F, 11.00 showing) Animation Shorts
14.00–17.30 Open Studios
14.00, 14.30, 15.00, 15.30, 16.00 & 16.30 My Favourite Thing

Sunday 26 October — 10.00–17.30
10.00–17.00 (F) Chain of Talent
10.00–13.00 & 14.00-17.00 (F) Design the Future
10.30–17.00 SMS Design Matters
10.30–17.00 (F) Drop-in-Design
10.30–16.30 (F) Flickr Design Challenge
11.00–16.30 The Library of Unwritten Books
11.00–11.55 Peter and the Wolf
14.00–15.45 Animation Shorts
14.00–17.30 Open Studios
14.00, 14.30, 15.00, 15.30, 16.00 & 16.30 My Favourite Thing
15.00–16.00 Lauren Child - My V&A

F= Family friendly event. Families and other visitors are welcome to eat picnics in Lunchroom 2.

Flickr Design Challenge
Friday 18.30–21.00
Saturday & Sunday 11.00–16.30 (F)
Digital Studio, Sackler Centre
Photograph your favourite V&A objects then post them on the V&A's Design Challenge group on Flickr. Show us our collections as we have never seen them before and let us know what you love most within the Museum. We will show a selection of the photographs on the V&A's website; all will be viewable on Flickr.
Free, drop-in

Chain of Talent
Friday 18.30–21.30
Saturday & Sunday 10.00–17.00 (F)
Art Studio & Lunchroom 1, Sackler Centre
Join artists and practitioners The Make Lounge and Sackler resident artist-jeweller Dorothy Hogg, in creating sculptures, objects, and images to decorate the Sackler Centre Chain of Talent - a giant chain looping through the Centre.  Search the galleries to find your favourite object and use it as inspiration.
Free, drop-in

D-fuse
Friday 18.30–21.30
Lunchroom 1, Sackler Centre
Be surrounded by sound and image as London based VJs D-fuse explore a wide range of creative media using cutting edge technology. They present a specially-commissioned evening of live audio-visual performance combining web, film, print and sound.
Free, drop-in

SMS Design Matters
Friday 18.30–21.30
Saturday & Sunday 10.00–17.00
Lunchroom 2, Sackler Centre
Send us a text telling us why design matters and multi-disciplinary artists Troika will incorporate it into a giant projection.
Free (except cost of texts), drop-in

Dorothy Hogg and Jo Lawrence
Friday 18.30–21.30
Saturday & Sunday 14.00–17.30
Residency Studios 1 & 2
Drop in throughout the weekend, to discover the intriguing world of creative practice and see the development of work by the V&A's current residents, artist-jeweller Dorothy Hogg and new media artist Jo Lawrence.
The Residency Programme is supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Dorothy Hogg is funded by the Crafts Council.
Free, drop-in

My Favourite Thing
Meeting Point, Grand Entrance
Join V&A staff as they lead tours of a particular object in the collection. It may be an outstanding piece of design or merely a personal favourite.
Friday
18.30 London Calling: a wartime radio – Peter Risk
19.00 An Altarpiece in Amber – Jolanta Woch
19.30 Bernini's Sculpture of Neptune and Triton – Sophie Hargroves
20.00 The Asbee Chandelier: from a box of bits to Arts and Crafts loveliness – Donna Stevens (BSL Interpreted)
20.30 Casablanca Sideboard by Ettore Sottass – Emma Davenport and Kaspar Pincis
21.00 The Ardabil Carpet – Birgitte Bodenstein (BSL Interpreted)
Saturday
14.00 V&A's Hidden Spaces: Leighton corrdor long view –   Matty Pye
14.30 Guanyin: the Buddhist goddess of mercy – Beth McKillop
15.00 Water Jewel – Dorothy Hogg
15.30 Constable's Branch Hill Pond – Marilyn Greene
16.00 The Literary Bite of Tippoo's Tiger – David Anderson
16.30 Indian Chintz – Christina Shannon (Audio described touch talk)
Sunday
14.00 The Melville Bed – Jo Banham
14.30 Wyndham Lewis: Blast magazine – Rebecca Reynolds
15.00 Constable's Watermeadows – John Hutchinson
15.30 Bursztynowy Oltarzz Gdanska – Jolanta Woch (talk in Polish)
16.00 La Chaise de Charles Rennie Mackintosh –  Helene Didier (talk in French)
16.30 Anna Rhode's Monument and it`s Conservation – Lisa Wagner
Free, no ticket required

Celebrity Design Debate: Tim Marlow, Michael Nyman, Richard Wentworth, Jenny Eclair, Arabella Weir, Grayson Perry and Jonathan Glancey
Friday 19.00–20.00
Lecture Theatre
Writer, broadcaster and art historian Tim Marlow chairs a panel of celebrity experts who will select and champion objects that represent the best of modern design, including I-pods, Harley Davidson and the Rigby and Pellier under-wired bra! Listen to their choices, then vote for your favourite design. 
Free, admission on a first-come first-served basis

Hunter Davies: Objects of Desire 
Friday 19.00–20.00
Hochhauser Auditrium, Sackler Centre
Join Guardian journalist and collecting guru Hunter Davies in exploring the intriguing and sometimes strange world of collecting, auction houses and car boot sales. He asks well-known and amateur collectors, including Peter Blake, Nicholas Parsons and Roja Dove, what fires their passion and how far they would go to acquire a treasured object.
Free, admission on a first-come first-served basis

Design the Future (F)
Saturday & Sunday 10.00–13.00 & 14.00–17.00
Lunchroom 1, Sackler Centre
Use your imagination and gain inspiration from the V&A's collection to create a radical new design for future fashion, furniture or architecture (or anything else you think we might need in the next century or two!). 
Free, drop-in

Drop-in-Design (F)
Saturday and Sunday 10.30–17.00
Fashion, Room 40
Design your own fashion accessory for a fancy dress party inspired by fashion and jewellery from around the world.
Free, drop-in

The Library of Unwritten Books
Saturday and Sunday 11.00–16.30
Seminar Room 1, Sackler Centre
The Library of Unwritten Books will record interviews with you about your unrealised ideas, designs and plans and publish them to add to a unique library.  In addition to the Library of Unwritten Books back catalogue, a collection of out-of-print titles featuring utopian design and living will also be on display to browse. For more information about the library visit the Library of Unwritten Books.
Free, drop-in

Animation Shorts — Spark!
Saturday 11.00–12.45 & 14.00–15.45 and Sunday 14.00–15.45
Hochhauser Auditrium, Sackler Centre
A presentation of contemporary animation from around the world curated by the V&A's new media artist-in-residence, Jo Lawrence. Subjects range fron the profound to the quirky or humorous and techniques include hand-drawn animation, stop motion, puppetry, live action and computer-generated. Some films include adult content. A family-friendly version of the programme will be screened at 11.00 on Saturday.
Free

Peter and the Wolf
Sunday 11.00–11.55
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
Dir. Suzie Templeton, 2006 (Exempt from BBFC certification)
The classic story of Peter and the Wolf comes brilliantly to life in this animated film, recounting a magical world in which little boys can find the strength and courage to overcome their fears and the ever present dangers that surround them. The screening also includes 'The Making of Peter and the Wolf' and a behind the scenes documentary.
Free

Lauren Child - My V&A (F)
Sunday 15.00–16.00
Author and illustrator Lauren Child is best known for the Charlie and Lola childrens' books and television series. She has won many prizes for her work and Charlie and Lola were awarded a BAFTA in 2007 for best Childrens' Television Show and Script. She talks about her work and her favourite objects in the V&A. Lauren Child will also be avilable to sign books after the talk.
 £8, concessions available, under 16s free
Free, admission on a first-come first-served basis

Later this week ...
Christopher Frayling: The Henry Cole Lecture
"We must have steam, get Cole!" Henry Cole, the Chamber of Horrors and the Educational Role of the Museum
Thursday 30 October
19.00–.00
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, Chair of the Arts Council and Rector of the Royal College of Art, gives the first of a prestigious, annual series of lectures celebrating the legacy of the V&A's founding director. The lecture explores the changing historical role of education within museums and discusses its long-term significance for museums and galleries today. 
£5 (includes drinks reception), no concessions 
Book online

About the Sackler Centre
The Sackler Centre is the V&A's centre for public learning through creative design, inspired by the Museum and the breadth of its collections. It provides new physical spaces for the Museum which include; state-of-the art design, digital and art studios for booked courses and drop-in sessions, residency studios, and seminar rooms for adult programmes including seminars, courses and lectures.

The Sackler Centre has been made possible through the generosity of The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation.

The V&A would like to thank Andrew Hochhauser for his generous support of the Hochhauser Auditorium in memory of his parents, Romain and Ruth Hochhauser.

The V&A is also grateful to:
John Lyon's Charity
The Zochonis Charitable Trust
The Rayne Foundation
The Peter Harrison Foundation
CHK Charities Limited
and other donors