Trigger Warning: this exhibition and its description include references to rioting, racism and police brutality.
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Relaxed Sessions
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Fri 18 Oct 2024, 10.00-12.00
Sat 02 Nov 2024, 18.00-20.00
Free / Pay What You Can
Lancaster Rooms
New Wing
We are hosting two Relaxed Sessions for anyone who would like to explore Imran Perretta: A Riot in Three Acts in a calm and comfortable environment, including people with autism and other neurodiverse needs, as well as their siblings, families and carers.
To ensure that Imran Perretta: A Riot in Three Acts is as welcoming and calm as possible, we:
- Limit the number of visitors in the session
- Turn off/lower elements of AV in the space.
- Provide a visual story to help you plan your visit, available soon.
- Provide Access Packs – available at Imran Perretta entrance. These contain: Noise cancelling headphones, magnifying glass sheets for reading any printed text, a large print guide and a stress ball.
- Run regular disability awareness sessions with our staff
- Provide a safe/calm space to help assist visitors who may be overwhelmed due to the new environment. This will be in G16.
For any questions about these sessions, please contact visitor@somersethouse.org.uk or for general ticketing enquiries please call +44 (0)333 320 2836. Lines are open between 09.00-18.00- Mon-Fri, 10.00-18.00 Sat/Sun/Bank Holidays.
Please be aware that we do not offer refunds or exchanges as per our terms and conditions of sale.
We want our events to be as accessible as possible, therefore this exhibition is Pay What You Can. We are asking visitors who are able to do so to consider making a donation to support the work of Somerset House.
We look forward to welcoming you to Somerset House.
We’re sensitive to the fact that while this subject matter is important to explore, it may be triggering to some audiences. Our visitor experience team have been briefed to direct visitors who may feel triggered by the work to the decompression room located near the exhibition; a separate, dedicated space to reflect, with suggested resources for help and support. For further support, we’d also like to highlight the following resources:
Healing Justice https://healingjusticeldn.org
Resist and Renew https://resistrenew.com
Radical Therapist Network: https://www.radicaltherapistnetwork.com
The Black, African and Asian Network (BAATN): https://www.baatn.org.uk
A Riot In Three Acts (2024) is commissioned by and developed in residence at Somerset House Studios. The score, A Requiem for the Dispossessed (2024), is co-commissioned by Somerset House Studios and the Manchester Camerata, by arrangement with NEWFORM MUSIC. Supported by d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape.
Header image credit: Detail from a viral photograph of a person jumping from a burning building in Croydon that appeared on newspaper front pages on 9 August 2011. Photo: Amy Weston/WENN.