Golden Slumbers Tour: Margate

Event Details

Our brand new outdoor show, Golden Slumbers, will premiere as part of POW festival in Margate on Saturday 8 March to celebrate International Women’s Day.

  • 08/03/2025
  • Turner Contemporary
  • 10am - 4pm

Free

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A group of performers in white costumes surround a golden bed with white linens. The red circular logo "POW Thanet" logo overlays the image.
  • 2 women in yellow maids' outfits stand round a brass four poster bed as a woman sits in the bed screaming.
  • A woman in a yellow maid's outfit dances next to a brass four poster bed.
  • A woman with short brown hair wears a chain mail waistcoat and roman helmet with white feathers. Her fists are clenched and she wears a serious expression. She stands next to a brass four poster bed.
  • A woman in white with brown hair grimaces with her fist clenched as she pulls a brass four poster bed. Two women dressed as maids are bent over tending to someone in the bed.
  • A woman with short blonde hair sings into a microphone while holding a mandolin. In the foreground is the blurred back of a man playing a double bass.
  • A woman with white hair yawns and falls asleep in a fluffy white and brass four poster bed. She is pushed by a woman wearing a Roman helmet with white feathers.
  • 3 women wearing golden umbrellas on their heads and white draped outfits stand in the background. White drapery from a four poster bed hangs in the foreground.
  • 2 women dressed in white push a brass 4 poster bed, while audience members look on.
  • A woman with short white hair stands with an arm outstretched holding a white feather duster. She is wearing a maid's hat and a white top and trousers. There is a sign in the background that says 'End the Silence'.
  • 3 women dressed in white push a brass 4 poster bed. A white haired woman in the foreground, holds her finger to her lips.
  • 5 women dressed in white, push a brass 4 poster bed while a woman lies in the bed fast asleep under white sheets.

Event Info

Building on the Welsh concept of Cwtch – a loving hold – Golden Slumbers is a highly visual and physical outdoor show exploring the endless cycle of labour experienced by women through their lives, and celebrating everyone’s right to a little rest and recuperation.

Gathered around a feather-filled golden bed, a vibrant mix of Movers and Musicians celebrate the endless toil, the juggling of priorities, the thankless tasks, alongside the joy and strength of friendship and community founded in the everyday muck of life.

Liberace meets your mum sprinkled with a handful of Cwtch!

The first performance will take place at ARK, Cliftonville’s Cultural Space, at 10am on Saturday 8 March followed by a workshop at 10.30am for all to take part. In the afternoon, we head over to Turner Contemporary for outdoor performances at 2.30pm (outside The Droit House) and 3.30pm (on the Terrace outside Turner Contemporary). Performances and workshop are FREE of charge but can be booked here. The performance is 20 minutes duration.

Golden Slumbers is generously supported by Arts Council England, POW Thanet, Ideas Test, Beee Creative, Gulbenkian Arts Centre and University of Kent School of Arts.

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