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Hallowe’en Takeover

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Past
  • Free
  • Session
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Event in Wellcome Collection's Reading Room, Thomas S.G. Farnetti. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Join a celebration and exploration of Hallowe’en, with spooky activities and entertainment in the Reading Room and Viewing Room.  

There will be two creative workshops, a tour, a documentary film screening, live music and a discussion. You can drop in any time between 16:00 and 20:00.   

This event isn’t recommended for young children. 

Our galleries, library, café and shop are all open until 20:00 on Thursdays. 

Dates

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Past

Past events

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  • Workshop
Design Your Own Tarot Card
A drop-in workshop with Polly Pol Bodetto.
  • Audio described

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  • Workshop
Create Spooky Images and Stories Using Inkblots
A drop-in workshop with Rosie Wassi and Becks Bryant.

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  • Gallery tour
Dance of Death Tour
Join a tour exploring medieval dancing plagues and find out what dancing skeletons can reveal about art history.
  • Audio described

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  • Performance
Lim Orion and Clementine Blue
Live music from Lim Orion and Clementine Blue.

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  • Screening
‘Witches – Old Religion, 1972, featuring Ruth Wynn Owen’
Documentary film screening from Offbeat Films.
  • British Sign Language

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  • Discussion
Reflect on Hallowe’en
Join Sarah Dabbs and Rosie Wassi for a conversation where you can share your thoughts about the film, reflect on Hallowe’en, or even tell a ghost story.

Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Reading Room on level 2. You can walk up the spiral staircase to the Reading Room door, or take the lift up and then head left from the Library Desk.

Drop in

Just turn up to this event. It's likely to have room for everyone.

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

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About your contributors

Black and white photograph of the head and shoulders of a young woman with short dark hair and round glasses. The woman is looking up and to the right.

Polly Bodetto

(she/her)
Facilitator

Polly is a Visitor Experience Assistant at Wellcome Collection and an art historian who loves the history of trade routes, collage making, and occultism.

Becks Bryant

Becks Bryant

(she/her)
Facilitator

Becks is a library assistant at Wellcome Collection and a zine-maker, with an interest in the history of the occult.

Sarah Dabbs

Sarah Dabbs

(she/her)
Facilitator

Sarah is a Visitor Experience Assistant at Wellcome Collection, a medical doctor and a writer. She loves all things medical history, especially around medieval concepts of medicine, Georgian and Dickensian London, and maritime folklore.

Rosie Wassi

Rosie Wassi

Facilitator

Rosie is a Visitor Experience Assistant at Wellcome Collection aiming to inspire and encourage deep thinking, feeling and connection around collections and exhibitions by relating them to social, cultural, political and environmental issues of the day. Her goal is to empower individuals and groups from all walks of life to share their thoughts and lived experiences, and maybe even to collaborate on change-making.

Clementine Blue and Lim Orion playing music together

Clementine Blue and Lim Orion

Musician

Clementine Blue and Lim Orion create their own soundscape using saxophone loops and analogue synthesisers. Drawing inspiration from Harold Budd, Suzanne Ciani and natural phenomena, the duo keeps exploring an imaginary landscape.