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A MAJOR NEW EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE PAST 50 YEARS OF BLACK CREATIVITY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND.  Beginning with the radical Black filmmaker Horace Ové and his dynamic circle of Windrush generation creative peers and extending to today’s brilliant young Black talent globally, a group of 110 interdisciplinary artists are showcasing their work together for the first time, exploring Black experience and influence, from the post-war era to the present day.  "★★★★★ The abundance of great work make this unmissable" Evening Standard  Get Up, Stand Up Now | Exhibition Trailer  Watch "Get Up, Stand Up Now | Somerset House" on YouTube https://youtu.be/6CHFZpDQsY8 In this multi-sensory experience, historic works and new commissions sit alongside items from personal archives, much of which has never been seen by the public before, tracing more than half a century of collective history. Curator Zak Ové – whose father Horace was the creator of the first feature film by a Black Br...

Exhibition: Get Up Stand Up Now - Somerset House From 12 Jun 2019 Get Up, Stand Up Now  is a major new exhibition at Somerset House celebrating the past 50 years of Black creativity in Britain and beyond. The exhibition explores migration, psychological and social borders, the body and participation, power and resistance. During its run, the  Somerset House Studios  summer programme will expand on these themes, bringing together artists and creatives whose work comments on what it means to be Black today. Going beyond the representation of Blackness as a “celebration of culture” or as a homogeneous cultural identity, a programme of music, performance, DJs and drag will create space to discuss the sometimes difficult or uncomfortable issues around Black diasporic experiences in relation social and political conditions of their making. The hope is to bring a broad audience face to face, listening and in dialogue with Black artists, and in doing so, chip away at the collecti...