LATE at Kettle's Yard
Wednesday 28 January, 6–9pm
Inspired by Harold Offeh’s explorations of identity, learning, play, archives, futurisms, and popular culture in his exhibition Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could be Sweet, students from the Royal College of Art’s MA in Contemporary Art Practice programme will present an evening of participatory workshops and live performances incorporating sound and music.
The Kettle’s Yard shop will also be open for you to enjoy some evening shopping, with drinks available from the Garden Kitchen café.
The event offers playful, dynamic, and immersive encounters for visitors such as a special interactive poetry wall, a zine-making workshop, storytelling, movement-based moments and musical performances as well as a moving image showreel, all throughout Kettle’s Yard.
Event held in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, London, as part of CAP Festival 2026, an annual initiative organised by MA Contemporary Art Practice students. Each edition is developed in collaboration with external partners and institutions, resulting in a diverse programme that may include a symposium, cinema screenings, radio broadcasts, exhibitions, performances, publications, and more.
About the Exhibition
Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet
The first major solo exhibition of Harold Offeh’s work in a UK institution, this exhibition will explore two decades of the artist’s videos, performances and projects that have taken place across the world.
For more than twenty years, Offeh (b. 1977, Ghana) has been making playful, provocative performance and video works that explore subjects ranging from pop culture to identity and conformity.
About Harold Offeh
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Harold Offeh
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About RCA Contemporary Art Practice
Contemporary Art Practice (CAP) at the Royal College of Art, led by Dr. Harold Offeh, is a cutting-edge MA programme that is driven by a post-medium, critical approach to the making and reception of art, where theory and practice come together to form new ways of responding to the contemporary world. The programme supports the development of individual and collective art practice within a responsive and critical context with an emphasis on wider political issues – interrogating art production in relation to urgent socio-political contexts as well as questioning and redefining practice. The students contribution to Late at Kettle’s Yard is part of a broader CAP Festival, an annual programme of art initiated and produced by students, often in partnerships with spaces and institutions. Previous festival editions have partnered with Late at Tate Modern, Camden Arts Centre and Montez Press Radio.
Access
- Loud music will be played throughout this event. There will be a quieter area available on the second floor, however, music will be audible throughout the building.
- The galleries, where exhibitions are shown, and all areas of the Clore Learning Studio (level -1), the Research Space (level 1) and the Ede Room (level 2) are fully accessible.
- We have wheelchair accessible toilets on the lower ground (level -1), ground and first floor (level 1).
- There is a lift giving access to all floors located past the galleries, just beside the Clore Learning Studio on the ground floor.
- Kettle’s Yard welcomes assistance and service dogs in all areas.
- We have large-print versions of the wall text available.
- We can lend visitors small folding seats for taking around exhibitions or using at non-seated events. Please ask a Visitor Assistant for help finding a seat.
