Event:To Shift a Stone: Finissage
Join us to mark the ending of one part of the exhibition ‘To Shift a Stone’.
Across 2023 – 2025, artist Sophie Mak-Schram explored how power is experienced, shared, and challenged within Amgueddfa Cymru and Chapter Arts Centre.
Working with activists, community workers, artists, and museum staff, Sophie developed collaborative ‘tools’ that challenge and reimagine power structures.
The resulting two-part exhibition, To Shift a Stone, focuses on categorisations at National Museum Cardiff and forms of assembling at Chapter.
To Shift a Stone closes at Chapter on 1 February: you’re warmly invited to assemble with the exhibition, artworks and collaborators one more time.
(To Shift a Stone at National Museum Cardiff will remain open until 15 February 2026.)
Programme
Saturday 31st January
10.30 – 11.30am Held Fast Running Club
Who can run freely, and safely, through public space?
This running club invites you to join us to run between Chapter and National Museum Cardiff with an artwork, and with each other.
Free and for all levels of experience, but booking is advised.
11.45am – 12:15pm Performance in the Main Hall of National Museum Cardiff
(more details to be announced)
12.30 – 1.30pm In-Conversation at National Museum Cardiff
With Sophie Mak-Schram [artist], Nick Thornton and Steph Burge [Amgueddfa Cymru] and Sim Panaser [Chapter] where they reflect on the work they have done together.
2 – 3.30pm Closing performance and procession starting at National Museum Cardiff and ending at Chapter.
Sound, song and stones will cross the distance between National Museum Cardiff and Chapter. Led by Rubie and George H. Wale using artworks from the exhibitions, in collaboration with Sophie Mak-Schram.
Meet us in the exhibition [Gallery 14] at National Museum Cardiff to join, sing and hold along.
3.45 - 4.45pm performance at Chapter
(more details to be announced)
Sunday 1st February
Chapter
2pm Screening: Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024)
Free screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon (Jazmin Jones, 2024), a film that resonates with Sophie Mak-Schram’s approach to engaging with history, seeking precedence and the power of imagining otherwise. Seeking Mavis Beacon follows filmmaker Jazmin Jones and Olivia Ross of Black Girls Code as they search for the black woman depicted on The Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software.
Free but booking required, more details here.
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