<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><head></head><div class="AppleOriginalContents"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="column"><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">In a twenty-first century take on its original ethos, the People’s Palace
at Queen Mary University of London opens again, with eight days of
public events for the refreshment of bodies and souls with...
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'">Performances </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">in the newly-refurbished theatre, including work by
leading London artists </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">Geraldine Pilgrim</font> </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">(Handbag) and </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">Simon
Vincenzi</font> </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">(Luxuriant) and by </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">2BoysTV</font> </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">from Canada (Phobophilia].
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">The return of the live art and performance platform, now called
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">(Re)Fresh</font>, </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">including commissions in which younger and older artists
create new works together.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">A series of post-work discussions about </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">Life After Work</font>, </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">in which
artists, activists and thinkers will reflect on the nature of life and work
and how we might imagine their relationship in new ways.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">Films and exhibitions including an on-going exhibition of the
Geography Department’s </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">Poster Project</font>, </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">that recount the history
of the People’s Palace and the installation of the Film Department’s
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">Working Day</font>, </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">a compilation film composed of extracts selected
from the archive of British film.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">On the opening weekend, an </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">Intergenerational Tea Dance</font>, </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">a
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">Social Cinema</font> </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">screening and a launch party, to kick things off in an
appropriate style.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'FuturaCondBold'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ce201b">Peopling the Palace</font> </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">is a collaboration between staff and
students in the Drama, Film, Geography and Media Arts Technology
Departments at Queen Mary University of London and the Live Art
Development Agency. Produced by AiR Project and funded by the
Centre of Public Engagement, Queen Mary University of London.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Futura'; font-weight: 500">Ticket booking
</span></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="SovietPunk" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.airproject.qmul.ac.uk/">http://www.airproject.qmul.ac.uk</a></span></font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="SovietPunk" color="#ce201b"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 500; "> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="SovietPunk" color="#ce201b"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 500; ">Download the pdf of full programme </span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>