Celebrate Black & Brown joy at Attenborough Late

Attenborough Late’s returns for a evening of celebrating Black & Brown joy in collaboration with whatsthebigmistry.

A fun-packed after-hours art experience the takes over our whole building, the evening will expand upon the engagement work and inspired by whatsthebigmistry’s international project, OODOISM and intrinsically connected to The Empire’s Old Clothes.

Practitioners and performers from the global majority will be engaged, alongside participants from engagement sessions with the African Caribbean Centre create a focussed, vibrant and joyful programme within the main hall at Attenborough Arts Centre, but with interventions and connected elements throughout the venue, including the café, a DJ, the garden area, studio spaces and galleries. Taking place Friday 9 May, 6pm – 10pm, click here to book your pay-what-you-can ticket.

Performers/Artists (more to be revealed):

Priya Mistry – whatsthebigmistry

Priya Mistry is a Midlands-based artist, socially engaged worker and Creative Producer / Curator, working under the pseudonym whatsthebigmistry. Their extensive body of work spans performance, film, photography, visual art, theatre, dance and live events. Their exhibition The Empire’s Old Clothes, at Attenborough Arts Centre, is at once a provocation and an invitation to rethink and rewrite ‘histories’, to demand change and define what it really means to take action against racism. Accompanying this work is a multi-city engagement programme of workshops and events to give space for Black and Brown Joy. whatsthebigmistry have programmed this Attenborough Late and will be your host in the main hall, welcoming you to experience and engage with a joyful blend of talented performers.

Mandeep Dhadialla

Mandeep Dhadialla is an artist-printmaker living in Leicester. Her work draws inspiration from her childhood in Kenya and migrating to England in her early teens. Mandeep’s fascination with exploring how people and the landscape are in an interconnected exchange are reflected through colour and light play. Her current body of work examines the parallels in narrative between plant and human movement, inviting viewers to consider their own experience with nature, and their place in it – making original prints informed by in-situ sketches, and producing large scale paper installations. Mandeep teaches printmaking workshops, exhibits nationally, and is a member of Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester Society of Artists, ArtCan, and CVAN East Midlands Steering Group. At the Attenborough Late, Mandeep will invite you to craft your own paper flower to add to a collaborative, joyful wall of colour.

Mirchi Mob

Mirchi Mob is a South Asian music collective blending the raw energy of UK bass with the rich rhythms of the diaspora. Fusing tabla, poetry, and rap with gritty club riddims and traditional South Asian sounds. Mirchi Mob brings fire to the floor and soul to the mic. Their sound is a spicy collision of heritage and rave culture. Bold, bassy, unapologetically brown.

At the LATEs, Mirchi Mob will be sharing extracts from their new show – from mellow vibes to raising the roof with rave and bass fusion!

Symoné

Symoné is Guinness World Record-holding interdisciplinary movement, cabaret, and performance artist and international performer. Her movement practice combines high heel rollerskating, pole dance, hula hooping, and fire spinning in visually captivating shows. Her work explores themes such as power, gaze, queerness, ritual, and human consciousness.

Symoné is one of the performers who feature in whatsthebigmistry’s work The Empire’s Old Clothes. For the LATEs, Symoné will be performing two sets on pole, demonstrating her incredible strength, creativity and choreographic skills and oozing black and brown joy. Prepare to be mesmerized!

You don’t want to miss out! Join us Friday 9 May, 6pm – 10pm. Click here to book your pay-what-you-can ticket.