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The Sick of the Fringe presents Care & Destruction

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Photograph of the atrium at Wellcome Collection showing people lying on beds in the foreground attended by people wearing nurses uniforms and people watching in the background.
Sick of the Fringe, Michael Bowles. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Join a weekend of performances and conversations exploring care and destruction. Choose from a programme of events created by artists who are looking at health and social justice at a time of great and nerve-racking societal change.

The events at Wellcome Collection are part of the wider The Sick of the Fringe programme, which also takes place at The Place and Camden People's Theatre.

Dates

Past

Past events

Saturday 6 April 2019

  • Performance
As Far as Isolation Goes
Ground floor Atrium
Drop in to experience a newly commissioned work by artists Basel Zaraa and Tania El Khoury about the health experiences of refugees. This performance will use painting, touch and sound to connect you with the emotional and mental health hardships faced by people in detention centres and will evolve over the weekend.

  • Discussion
The Situation Room
Williams Lounge
Get involved in this performance and discussion by Lois Weaver, which takes place around a table reminiscent of the War Room from Kubrick’s 1964 film ‘Dr Strangelove’. You can share what is worrying you, from the personal to the geopolitical, then discuss, listen and come up with playful solutions to the issues at hand.
  • Relaxed

  • Discussion
Care and Destruction of a Childhood
Henry Wellcome Auditorium
Hear from poet Lemn Sissay as he discusses the care system, drawing on his own childhood and recent Channel 4 documentary ‘Super Kids’, where he helps young people in the care of their council to express their experiences through poetry.
  • Speech-to-text

  • Performance
An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting
The Forum
Join Laurence Clark as he tackles important issues like how best to balance crutches on his son’s baby walker to make him look like a Dalek. His “incredibly mischievous” stand-up show explores what it means to be a father with a disability. BSL interpretation will be provided during the Saturday 6 April show.

  • Performance
Our Other Body
The Studio
Watch Boaz Barkan “dig” into a living naked body in an intimate and playful performance about internalised racism and how we carry it with us in our bodies. BSL interpretation will be provided during the Sunday 7th April show.
  • Relaxed

  • Performance
I Tried To...
Reading Room
Experience a new piece of experimental performance work by Travis Alabanza called ‘I Tried To F*ck Up the System But None Of My Friends Texted Back’. You’ll join Alabanza’s internal dialogue and reflect on loneliness, intimacy and the secrets you didn’t think you would ever say out loud.

  • Performance
White Feminist
Henry Wellcome Auditorium
Watch Lee Minora in character as talk-show host Becky Harlowe as she gets you laughing and thinking about gender, race and privilege. You’ll be the live studio audience for a playful, satirical show.
  • Relaxed

Sunday 7 April 2019

  • Performance
As Far as Isolation Goes
Ground floor Atrium
Drop in to experience a newly commissioned work by artists Basel Zaraa and Tania El Khoury about the health experiences of refugees. This performance will use painting, touch and sound to connect you with the emotional and mental health hardships faced by people in detention centres and will evolve over the weekend.

  • Discussion
Soaps & Society
Henry Wellcome Auditorium
Join the audience as Brian Lobel hosts a panel conversation with the ‘Hollyoaks’ team and series consultant Gary Carter to get a behind-the-scenes take on how they produce, cast and write stories about health and diversity, and how they work with charities to impact wider society.
  • Speech-to-text
  • Relaxed

  • Discussion
Who Cries Wins
Williams Lounge
Join a discussion about artists making autobiographical work on pain and trauma. Martin O’Brien, Mele Broomes and Amelia Stubberfield will open up conversation about the tense line between raising visibility and exploitation, and ask whether there is such a thing as competitive trauma.
  • Relaxed

  • Performance
An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting
The Forum
Join Laurence Clark as he tackles important issues like how best to balance crutches on his son’s baby walker to make him look like a Dalek. His “incredibly mischievous” stand-up show explores what it means to be a father with a disability. BSL interpretation will be provided during the Saturday 6 April show.

  • Performance
Our Other Body
The Studio
Watch Boaz Barkan “dig” into a living naked body in an intimate and playful performance about internalised racism and how we carry it with us in our bodies. BSL interpretation will be provided during the Sunday 7th April show.
  • Relaxed

  • Performance
I Tried To...
Reading Room
Experience a new piece of experimental performance work by Travis Alabanza called ‘I Tried To F*ck Up the System But None Of My Friends Texted Back’. You’ll join Alabanza’s internal dialogue and reflect on loneliness, intimacy and the secrets you didn’t think you would ever say out loud.

  • Performance
White Feminist
Henry Wellcome Auditorium
Watch Lee Minora in character as talk-show host Becky Harlowe as she gets you laughing and thinking about gender, race and privilege. You’ll be the live studio audience for a playful, satirical show.
  • Relaxed

Need to know

Location

This is a large-scale event with several different activities. Check specific sub-events for their locations.

Multi-part programme

This is a large-scale event with several different activities, which may include drop-in sessions, scheduled performances, workshops or talks. Check specific activities for details and to see if you need to book a ticket or just show up. Spaces for drop-in activities are limited and may run out if we are busy.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 0 2 0. 7 6 1 1. 2 2 2 2

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About your collaborators

The Sick of the Fringe

The Sick of the Fringe is a strategy, an ethos, a community, which makes the world safe (or safer) for challenging art and challenging realities. The challenges we are particularly interested in fighting include inequality, inaccessibility, elitism and mediocrity. We fight on behalf of artists, audiences and the public good, each in different ways.

DH Ensemble

The DH Ensemble is a deaf- and hearing-led theatre company who will provide BSL interpretation for select performances at the Sick of the Fringe festival.