EVENTS
Friday Evenings
Visitors enjoy evening opening in the Grand Entrance (click image for larger version)
The V&A is open late every Friday night. Come and visit our major exhibitions and galleries, enjoy a drink with friends or take part in a range of talks and events which are detailed below. The last Friday of the month is Friday Late, our themed contemporary event night.
Talks
Our Friday night Lecture Theatre programme features big names from the world of design, art and culture. Talks start at 19.00 and last approximately 60 minutes.
Music in the Norfolk House Music Room (click image for larger version)
Music
Free concerts by musicians from the Royal College of Music are performed on Friday evenings in the Norfolk House Music Room, from 18.30-19.00 and 19.05-19.30. The musicians range from flute and harp duos and guitar duos, to string and wind quartets, and vocal quintets. Concerts run during the Royal College of Music term time. For a specific performance programme, call +44 (0)20 7942 2525 the day before.
Supported by The Radcliffe Trust
The Norfolk House Music Room is a part of the V&A collections. The original panelling and ceiling came from the music room of Norfolk House, which was the London Town House of the Dukes of Norfolk (demolished in 1938). It provides an atmospheric and intimate setting for listening to music. Cool and contemporary sounds also add to the ambience in the new cafe on Friday evenings.
The music programme runs every Friday except the last Friday of the month. See the listings below for details of forthcoming concerts:
Friday 20 June 2008
An evening of music co-ordinated by Paul Banks
Friday 04 July 2008
Salmagundi ensemble (clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello & piano
Programme will include the world premiere of a new work by James Stephenson
Friday 11 July 2008
Jonathan Parkin (clarinet) and Sebastian Stanley (piano)
Programme will include pieces by Romantic and 20th century composers
Friday 18 July 2008
Iva Lokajickova (recorder) and friends
Programme will include Baroque chamber music
Special Events
An occasional programme of special events runs on Friday evenings in the Lecture Theatre and other spaces.
My Motown Memories: featuring DJ Norman Jay MBE
Friday 4 July
A special evening dedicated to the writers, musicians and songs that put Tamla Motown at the cutting edge and heart of a transatlantic soul scene.
V&A Screen: Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Paul Justman, 2002 (PG)
Seminar Room 1
17.45 - 19.45
The story of the Funk Brothers, the Motown musicians who were behind numerous number one hits. They were drawn together in 1959 from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene and helped shape the Motown sound from its origins in Detroit to its demise in Los Angeles during the 1970s.
£4.00, no concessions
DJ Norman Jay MBE & Live Band Burning Inferno
The John Madejski Garden (Café if wet)
20.00 - 21.45
DJ Norman Jay MBE
Join soul master and DJ Norman Jay MBE, as he lays down your favourite Motown tracks. For your live musical pleasure sing and dance to Burning Inferno as they take you on a journey of legendary 60s Motown whilst you reminisce about an iconic period in music history.
Tickets to VIP area £8.00 (including drinks reception). Under 18s £4.00. Advanced booking is strongly recommended.
Call 020 7942 2211 or email bookings.office@vam.ac.uk
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund
Shopping
Late nights at the V&A provide our customers with a totally unique shopping experience in a calm and relaxing atmosphere. Late night shopping at the V&A is also a social occasion, once you have shopped to your heart's content, why not enjoy a glass of wine with friends or sit back and listen to the live music delighted with your purchases?
Eating
The Café is open until 21.30, with suppers served from 18.30.