Seize the Day and attend Wellcome Collection’s late event
Wellcome Collection opens late on Friday 2 November for Seize the Day, an evening you will live to remember. Experience a brush with death and explore what death might have to tell us about life through talks, activities and performance. Seize the Day runs from 19.00 to 23.00 and comes ahead of Wellcome Collection’s major winter exhibition ‘Death: A Self-Portrait’.
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you choose to do today? How would you like to be remembered after you die? And what would you like to achieve before you go? Ponder these questions while enjoying stimulating talks, enchanting stories from around the world and activities throughout the galleries.
Enjoy a drink while listening to a Dixieland jazz band, then decorate a coffin, pick up some dance steps in our special 'last dance' class and design your ideal fantasy funeral.
The evening will include:
- activities in the galleries from The Natural Death Centre
- New Orleans jazz funeral tunes from the Silk Street Jazz band
- stories of God, the devil and death from the Crick Crack Club
- tea dance classes from former ballet dancer and teacher Glen Snowden
- ‘Immortal Dream’, a theatrical encounter from Contemporary Vintage.
There will also be a range of speakers:
- Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy blog and library, on facing up to death through art
- David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge, on the statistics of death
- Frank Swain, author of 'How to Make a Zombie: The real life (and death) science of reanimation and mind control' (out next spring).
Join us to embrace the inevitability of death and celebrate while we still can with Seize the Day at Wellcome Collection from 19.00 to 23.00 on Friday 2 November. Entry is free. Drop in any time. Talks will be ticketed, and tickets will be available on the night from 19.00.
About Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection is a free visitor destination for the incurably curious. Located at 183 Euston Road, London, Wellcome Collection explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. The building comprises three gallery spaces, a public events programme, the Wellcome Library, a café, a bookshop, conference facilities and a members' club.
About the Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Collection is part of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. It supports the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. The Trust’s breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. It is independent of both political and commercial interests.