Henry Moore After Hours

Rambert School

Live dance performance

Fuelled by innovation and creativity, Rambert School is a world-leading centre for ballet and contemporary dance training. For over 100 years, the school has nurtured influential dancers, choreographers, producers, and directors through its FD/BA Hons programmes and youth courses.

This dance piece responds to and collaborates with the work of Henry Moore, exploring themes of ritual, solstice, natural forms, and the body as landscape. Through grounded movement and interconnected choreography, the dancers reflect on our shared existence and the enduring importance of human connection.

Dancers: Fergus Graham, Marit Gudde, Sam Larsen, Jaheim Nelson, Kitty Newton and Bebel Orrow

Working Class Creatives Database

Co-curators of multi-media live art performances, sketching and sculpture-making workshops

Working Class Creatives CIC is an arts organisation challenging class-based barriers in the creative industries. It creates space for working-class creatives to connect, share knowledge, and access opportunities.

The organisation envisions a creative industry where working-class voices are equally represented, valued, and influential, ensuring creatives from all backgrounds can thrive and contribute meaningfully to the arts.

Music performance and DJ set by Brian d’Souza

Plants Can Dance (and Mushrooms Sing)

Brian d’Souza is an award-winning sound artist, DJ, producer, and live performer. His work blends global field recordings with electro-acoustic techniques to create immersive soundscapes that explore the relationship between sound, nature and wellbeing.

Plants Can Dance explores the creation of music from plants in Kew’s Temperate House using bionsonification—a process that converts bioelectrical signals into sound via a modular synthesizer. Beginning as a live immersive performance, it gradually transforms into a global electronic DJ set, transforming living plant data into dynamic, evolving music.

Sketching workshop with Sylwia Narbutt

Who Is There? Uncover the Hidden Characteristics of Plants and Objects
Sylwia Narbutt is a London-based artist whose practice explores painting and drawing as ways of entering wild, hidden, and overlooked spaces.

In this imaginative drop-in workshop, discover the stories behind selected plants and objects, from traditional uses and symbolic meanings to myths, legends, and folklore. Experiment with a variety of drawing materials and simple sketching techniques to develop observation, imagination, and expressive mark-making. Take home your own unique drawing at the end of the workshop.

This drop-in workshop will run throughout the event.

Sculpture-making workshop with Zivarna Murphy

Make Your Own Moore-Inspired Clay Miniature
Zivarna Murphy is a research-based conceptual ceramic artist whose work explores coastal erosion as a metaphor for human loss, layering clay with textures inspired by shells, rocks and fossils collected from the East Yorkshire coastline.

Create your own clay miniature inspired by Henry Moore, the Kew landscape and the natural forms of rocks, fossils, and shells. Learn simple techniques before experimenting freely with clay and natural texture tools to shape your sculpture. Take home your own clay miniature at the end of the workshop.

This drop-in workshop will run throughout the event.

Multi-media live art performance by Lucie Kordačová, in collaboration with Kristyna Farag

Incantations
Lucie Kordačová is a visual artist from the Czech Republic based in Sheffield, UK. Her site-responsive practice spans sculpture, installation, moving image, textiles, costume and performance.

Immerse yourself in a multi-sensory experience blending sound, film, live performance and sculpture. Through ritualistic elements, the performance explores Lucie and Kristyna’s Slavic roots, and draws inspiration from solstice celebrations. Throughout the evening, a performer and small sculptures will appear intermittently in the space as acts of maintenance, care and growth.

Full programme line-up is coming soon.

• No under 18s permitted. This event is strictly for adults only. If you are lucky enough to look under 25 please be prepared to show proof of age at this event.

• To enter Kew Gardens and view Henry Moore: Monumental Nature before After Hours, please enter between 4.00pm and 7.00pm via Victoria Gate, Elizabeth Gate or Lion Gate. Please have your After Hours ticket (either printed or shown on your phone / tablet) ready to show at the gate and later at the Temperate House.
• Admission after 7.00pm will only be via Temperate House Gate.
• After Hours starts at 7.00pm in and around the Temperate House and will finish at 10.30pm. If you are in the Gardens before this time, please make your way to the Temperate House for 7.00pm and present your ticket (either printed or shown on your phone / tablet) at the entrance.
• All guests must exit via Temperate House Gate, which will open from 7.00pm until the end of the event.

• Last entry is 9.30pm. 

• For the safety and security of everyone, we will carry out full security checks at the entrance gate. Your belongings and your person may be searched so please bring only what is essential to your evening.
• There is no cash point on site. Food and drink can be purchased by card at the bars and food stalls.