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– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
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– We encourage all visitors to take a lateral flow test before attending events and to wear a face covering during events.
– For more information on health and safety measures in relation to Covid-19, please see: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/coronavirus-update/
About This Event
– This event takes place in the Zilkha Auditorium at Whitechapel Gallery
– You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. Concession tickets are available. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a seat free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
– This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– This event last approximately 1.5 hours. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled during this event.
– An audio recording of the event can be obtained by emailing publicprogrammes@whitechapelgallery.org following the event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Live Recording
This event will be live streamed.
Please note: we audio record all events for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive. This audio material may also be used for our Hear, Now podcast series.
Editor-in-Chief of Vice UK, Zing Tsjeng,is a compelling voice in contemporary culture. Having previously launched Broadly, a website dedicated to covering gender and identity, she is also the author of the Forgotten Women book series as well as host of a BBC Sounds podcast. Join Zing as she shares ideas and insights from her multi-faceted creative practice.
Supported by the Stanley Picker Trust.
Watch the live stream here from 7pm on Thursday 10 March.
Zing Tsjeng is a journalist with over 10 years of experience across print, online and broadcast media as an editor, writer and presenter. She currently acts as VICE UK’s Executive Editor, where she specialises in arts, culture, identity and current affairs, and has written for publications such as British Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out London and more.
As a presenter, Zing has helmed VICE World News short-form video series Empires of Dirt which unpicks the ugly history of Europe’s colonial empires, VICE’s award-winning sex and dating podcast My First Time as well as the BBC podcast United Zingdom, which the Guardian named as one of the best podcasts of 2020. She was also the inaugural presenter for the Women’s Prize For Fiction podcast, produced in association with Baileys.
Prior to her Executive Editor title, Zing launched the UK edition of VICE’s award-winning millennial women’s website Broadly in 2014. She previously launched the online news desk at Dazed as its first News Editor. In 2018, Octopus published her four-book series Forgotten Women, which explores the untold stories of inspiring women who have been marginalised from history.
Zing was highly commended in the British Journalism Awards 2020 as a “one-woman multimedia practitioner” who “‘epitomises the strengths of modern journalism”. She was named one of London’s most influential people in the Evening Standard Progress List 1000 alongside Guardian Editor-in-Chief Kath Viner, and was recognised by Attitude magazine as an LGBTQ trailblazer as part of its Attitude 101 list.
Zing has appeared on BBC News, Sky News, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and BBC TWO’s Victoria Derbyshire Show, amongst others. She has also spoken and moderated panels at events including SXSW, Web Summit, Women of the World Festival, Port Eliot Festival and Isle of Wight Literary Festival.
