Join Natifah White in creating a page for a collective zine.
Share your story through collage, drawing and writing. Bring photographs, flyers, tickets or other personal items and materials that evoke a memory (a piece of fabric, a colour, a texture, a pattern or an object) that connects you to spaces of movement, music and gathering. Together we’ll create pages that become part of a collective digital zine and a growing community archive.
If your item is precious or sentimental, we encourage you to bring a photocopy or printed version so you can still contribute your story while keeping the original safe.
Part of Touch The Floor, a Dance Umbrella event curated by Anthea Lewis exploring the history and evolution of Black British social dance and music cultures. Through talks, movement, music, making and participation, it celebrates the informal spaces where people gathered, connected and created community.
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Natifah White
Dance Artist
Natifah White (she/her)
Dance Artist
Nottingham (UK)
Natifah White is a dance artist from Nottingham who is currently applying movement principles to reimagine archive and library systems.
She describes her work as a referential web spanning performance (credits include: Seke Chimutengwende, Florence Peake, SERAFINE 1369 and Elinor Lewis/Joe Garbett) and a personal practice based on guiding questions.
A question anchoring her work right now is: ‘How do we take the immaterial into the material?’ (ref. Joseph Zeal-Henry). She uses this to reimagine archive/library systems, thinking about how these structures might be experienced and circulated through movement and collective stewardship. Her approach is relational – she’s interested in learning from others, building on existing practices, and finding ways to carry that work forward.
These enquiries extend into her digi-practice, thisishappening, which experiments with archiving as an “amplifying practice”, using crediting, repeating, and sharing as “strategies of solidarity”. (ref. Archival Textures)
Touch the Floor
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In-person Free
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The Common Space Curated by Natifah White, Dwayne Church Simms & Anthea Lewis
A welcoming place to gather, connect and exchange ideas
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Sitting in Limbo A conversation with Dwayne Church-Simms
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24 Oct 2026, 6pm - 11.30pm
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Memory in Motion
An evening of stories, dancing, music and participation
Venue & Access +
Venue
Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Grn Rd,
London E1 6LA
Access information
Rich Mix is an accessible venue, which aims to ensure their events are accessible to as many people as possible.
For access bookings, please call the Box Office to book on 020 7613 7498 or email [email protected]. These are not currently available to purchase online.
Rich Mix offer:
- Step-free access via a ramp at the main entrance on Bethnal Green Road
- Lifts provide access to all gallery, performance, and cinema spaces
- Wheelchair bays are available in all three cinema screens
- Accessible toilets are located on the Ground, 1st, 2nd (next to Screen 2), and 4th floors
- Box Office, Stage, and Studio spaces are equipped with hearing loops. Most hearing aids can connect by switching to the ‘T’ position
- Infrared hearing systems are available in The Studio and in cinema screens. Headsets can be provided on request.
- A portable FM radio system with neck loops and headsets can be provided on request
- Rich Mix accept CEA cards, which allow disabled guests to bring a carer free of charge
There are four accessible toilets in venue with RADAR locks:
- On the ground floor near reception / The Stage / Streetside
- On the first floor by the Cinema Bar and near the Gallery / Cinema
- Outside Screen 2 (2nd floor in the cinema)
- On the fourth floor near The Studio and The Mix space
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