[LAF] {Disarmed} FW: Special Events

[Joy Wood]

From: ana.horton at wallacecollection.orgTo: joy_helbin at hotmail.comDate: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:01:27 +1100Subject: Special Events







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Launch of Vivienne Westwood's Art Manifesto, Active Resistance to Propaganda
Saturday 1st December at 2pm
"The most important thing about this manifesto is that it is a practice. If you follow it your life will change. In the pursuit of culture you will start to think. If you change your life, you change the world." - Vivienne Westwood
Join designer Vivienne Westwood to launch her new manifesto, Active Resistance to Propaganda. Based on the premise that art gives culture and that culture is the antidote to propaganda, the aim of the Manifesto is to encourage all intellectuals in the fight against propaganda. The manifesto reading will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions.
The manifesto sees 25 characters from literature, art and history, including Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Aristotle and Whistler, meet. Through their dialogues the message of the manifesto becomes clear. Alice will be read by Georgia May Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, and Vivienne Westwood will direct proceedings, narrating as ‘Active Resistance’ herself. The other roles will be taken by members of the public.
By the end of her journey Alice concludes “Every time I read a book instead of looking at a magazine, go to the art gallery instead of watching TV, go to the theatre instead of the cinema, I fight for the active resistance to propaganda.”
We urge you to join the debate, not forgetting you get out what you put in.
The Wallace Collection provides the perfect setting for the official launch of Active Resistance. Westwood is a huge fan of the collection particularly the 17th century Dutch paintings and 18th century French works which she views as the peak of artistic achievement. Key pieces in her fashion collections have been influenced by artworks in the Wallace Collection, including Boucher’s Madame de Pompadour, an 18th Century Boulle mirror and Watteau’s fête galantes.
 

 



 


 

To book tickets please contact
Hayley Kruger Administration Officer (Education)020 7563 9551
booking at wallacecollection.org
Ticket Price: £12 (£10 Concessions)
There are a number of speaking parts. If you would like one of these please tell us when you book. Speaking parts will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS ADULT CONTENT
 



 

 
 
 

 

 



 


 
  
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