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Emotions at Wellcome Collection

Thursday 29th October, 2015

20.00-21.00, Wellcome Collection Reading Room

Between 8-9pm on the 29th October 2015 the Reading Room at Wellcome Collection was given over to all things emotional in an event curated by Tiffany Watt Smith.

Highlights included:

– Puppeteer Steve Tiplady running short workshops on the emotional lives of household rubbish
– Artist Sheila Ghelani inviting attendees to explore the ties which bind us
– Dr Elsa Richardson introducing attendees to some of the emotional secrets of the Wellcome library and archives in the Library Viewing Room

And there were Victorian experiments, explorations of emotions like homesickness, loneliness and desire, maps of the world’s emotions and much much more.

The event followed on from a discussion in the Lecture Theatre about human emotions.