Booking fees
£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.
Programme
Larry Gottheim’s Harmonica (1971) begins the series with an abstract exploration of repetition and rhythm, mirroring the meditative focus found in Davis’s painting. Edward Owens’s Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967) frames moments of familial closeness with Baroque lighting, illuminating the quiet grandeur in intimate gestures. Similarly, Charles Burnett’s When It Rains (1995) portrays a community's resilience through a jazz-inflected story of connection, capturing monumental strength in small acts of care.
Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena Harold’s Chelsea Drive (2025) celebrates decades of Black student life, style, and joy, each frame a step in documenting cultural history. Chick Strand’s By the Lake (1986) assembles a collage of found images and sounds, transforming the discarded into something monumental, much like Davis’s reinterpretation of space and perspective.
Rhea Storr’s Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical (2020) delves into the collective brilliance of Junkanoo, reimagining cultural representation through experimental techniques. Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Reluctantly Queer (2016) layers textured visuals with a deeply personal letter, confronting the monumental weight of identity and diaspora.
Closing the series, Paige Taul and Olula Negre’s On Sunday (2023) expands a single day into a meditation on family, memory, and Chicago’s landscapes, highlighting the everyday as a space of quiet grandeur.
