Turner Lates
Entry
Free
Date
Fri 5 Sep 2025
Time
5.30–9pm
Location
Turner Contemporary
Rendezvous, Margate
Age
Recommended for visitors aged 16 and over
Join us for an ethereal evening of art, live music, film, workshops and more that asks: How can we draw from the past to reimagine the future?
In the Sunley Gallery, experience a live performance from Mantawoman—a singer-songwriter and scholar who treats the yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer) as an interface for exploring magical dimensions of queer/transcultural existence.
As dusk falls, experience Anna Boghiguian's thought-provoking exhibition, 'The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories' in a different light.
In the Foyle Rooms, discover a curated selection of powerful short films by emerging filmmakers from the Southeast, including Tilly Wallace, Matt Smith, Russ Etheridge and Aasaf Ainapore.
Against the Clore Learning Studio's ocean window, playworker, writer and artist Zelda Solomon will lead a drop-in workshop inspired by the tarot in Italo Calvino's 1973 novel The Castle of Crossed Destinies.
With delicious food cooked up by The Curry Mistress, drinks by Louie On Sea, as well as Latin dancing on the terrace as the sun goes down, we've got your night covered. Come and celebrate the end of the summer season with us!
Programme
Sunley Gallery
6.45–7.30pm: Mantawoman performing live with Geoffrey Papin
Clore Learning Studio
5.30–9pm: Workshop with Zelda Solomon
Foyle Rooms 1 & 2
5.30–9pm: BFI Network South East Film Screening showing Traces / New Atlantis / Armstrong / Peregrine
The Terrace
From 5.30pm: Latin Dance
Louie On Sea
From 5.30pm: Food by The Curry Mistress
About the films
Traces
There is a photograph of a child left on the moon, a golf ball, flags, a lost glove. When the glamour of space exploration fades, what remains?
Credits
Director: Tilly Wallace
Producer: Markus Ovre
Executive Producer: Thomas Wightman
Editor: Markus Ovre
Screenwriter: Tilly Wallace
Sound: Markus Ovre
New Atlantis
While exploring an abandoned building, two friends discover a recording of a woman who claims to be the last citizen of a lost Utopia.
Credits
Director: Matt Smith
Producer: Rhian Smith
Executive Producer: Thomas Wightman, Niamh Coogan
Editor: Matt Smith
Screenwriter: Matt Smith
Director of Photography: Matt Smith
Production Designer: Rhian Smith
Sound: Simon Clode
Composer: Matt Smith, Keir Vine, Alex Hyland
Principal cast: Katie Smale, Benjamin Aluwihare, Alana Ramsey, Oliviero Papi
Armstrong
A woman secretly watches her crush from across the factory floor. The moon disappears. Things start to fall apart. With the world breaking into pieces like a giant jigsaw puzzle and her crush’s life in danger, our heroine struggles to hold herself together. How will she solve this moon mystery? Time to go out on a limb and take matters into her own hands. Armstrong is a film about strength that plays with the building blocks of the universe.
Credits:
Director: Russ Etheridge
Producer: Ayndrilla Singharay
Executive Producer: Thomas Wightman
Screenwriter: Ayndrilla Singharay, Russ Etheridge
Sound: Mutant Jukebox
Composer: Mutant Jukebox
Peregrine
When a boy is pushed by his father to steal a rare peregrine egg, he finds strength in the natural world to stand up to his father, and experiences his first sense of freedom.
Credits
Director: Aasaf Ainapore
Producer: Anu Anderson, Frank Macpherson
Executive Producer: Thomas Wightman
Editor: Heppie Collins
Screenwriter: Aasaf Ainapore
Director of Photography: Ronnie McQuillan
Production Designer: Sasha Webster
Sound: Antonios Moutzianou
Composer: Arron Croft
Principal cast: Finlay Herarty, Matthew Fraser-Holland
About the Artists
Mantawoman
Mantawoman, aka Reylon "Manta" Yount (they/them), is a Californian singer-songwriter, scholar, and one of the world's premier players of the yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer).
Manta toured internationally with the Silkroad Ensemble, playing venues such as Lincoln Center and Tanglewood, and became the first yangqin player to feature on a GRAMMY-winning album (Sing Me Home, 2016).
In 2017, they won a Marshall Scholarship and moved to London, where they completed two master's degrees in music. From 2019-2023, Manta co-founded and co-directed the contemporary music collective, Tangram. In 2023, Manta was awarded the inaugural Southbank Centre Studio Residency and Jerwood New Work Fund.
As a genderfluid, multiracial Chinese American, Mantawoman treats the yangqin as an interface for exploring magical dimensions of queer/transcultural existence. Drawing inspiration from Daoist philosophy and marine ecosystems, Mantawoman makes heartfelt songs in a style they call "hypnopop," with a sound reminiscent of Joanna Newsom and Perfume Genius.
Geoffrey Papin
Geoffrey Papin, a French musician, producer, and sound engineer born in the early 1990s, studied Acoustic Physics at l’Université du Maine (FR) and jazz at Jazz à Tours. In 2017, he moved to London to further his music career, later establishing his own studio, L’Aurore, in Margate (UK) in 2020.
Zelda Solomon
Zelda Solomon is a writer, playworker and artist facilitator. They have an MA in Race, Media and Social Justice from Goldsmiths and an undergraduate degree in art history. Zelda specialises in neurodivergent-affirming play practices and enjoys putting poetry in strange places. Their recent collection 'Leafings' was published with Earthbound Press in February 2025.
