EA Festival x Battersea Power Station: Avatars of Style
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Control Room A, Battersea Power Station
Avatars of Style is a one-day festival featuring interviews and panel discussions with creative leaders in Art, Fashion, Food, Writing and Lifestyle and will take place on 17 October 2023 in Control Room A of Battersea Power Station, an iconic space not ordinarily open to the public.
If you purchase a ticket to Kitchen Confidential, The Future of Museums, Fashion - Past, Present & Future or Lagos x London, you will have the option to go on a complimentary short private tour of Battersea Power Station but note that places for the private tour are first-come first-served, extremely limited, and ticketed. Note that the places in the private tour are reserved for paid Avatars ticket holders only and that you will have to show both your paid Avatars ticket and tour ticket before gaining admission to the tour. You can book your free tour ticket when purchasing your Avatars event ticket. Tours will take place at the conclusion of each hour-long event, thus, 12 noon, 2 pm, 4 pm and 6 pm. Tickets are £15 (plus £2 booking fee) and can be purchased here.
Programme
The Future of Museums: Tristram Hunt, 1 pm, 17 October
Tristram Hunt, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, arguably the world’s best-known and most ambitious museum brand, and founder of EA Festival Joanne Ooi will have a wide-ranging discussion about the art and museum industry, including the expansion plans for the V&A, the impact of the pandemic on art appreciation, how politics have changed both art and the art industry, and the pros and cons of technology, not to mention sustainability, repatriation, funding and many more fascinating issues at the intersection of Art, Commerce, Collecting, History and Aestheticism.
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Fashion - Past, Present & Future, 3 pm, 17 October
This panel discussion featuring social media influencer and writer Susanna Lau (aka Susie Bubble), pioneering sustainable fashion designer Patrick McDowell and Jing Daily editor-in-chief and veteran fashion journalist Jing Zhang will examine how the culture and business of fashion have changed over the past decade. Among the subjects to be discussed include new business models, sustainable design and the impact of social media, politics and technology on fashion.
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Lagos x London, 5 pm, 17 October
A panel of three Nigerian-British cultural influencers, Evening Standard food critic and author of ‘Settlers’ Jimi Famurewa, curator of Nigeria’s pavilion at next year’s Venice Biennale and writer Aindrea Emelife, and ‘Africa is not a Country’ author and journalist Dipo Faloyin will tell us about the burgeoning influence of Nigerian culture on not just London but the globe, and what accounts for its remarkable efflorescence in the past few years.
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