Be part of an extraordinarily glamorous Late Shift Extra event at the National Portrait Gallery, curated in partnership with Contemporary Vintage.

For one night only, the National Portrait Gallery will be transformed into the ‘NPG Film Studio’, inspired by the Golden Age of Hollywood and our current exhibition Glamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits.

Pick up your ‘NPG Studio’ contract and enter the Glamour Factory. Visit their seven star-making departments to be transformed into a Hollywood icon. Put glamour under the microscope with Guerilla Science and look behind-the-scenes to uncover how the Golden Age of Hollywood was manufactured and how image continues to be manipulated today.

Dress code: Black & White

Free tickets will be required for some activities and will be available in advance – please check regularly for updates.

 The programme of events includes:

THE BROKEN HEARTS COCKTAIL LOUNGE 18.00 – 22.00

See and be seen with a cocktail at the Late Shift Bar as The Broken Hearts DJs spin tracks from the 20s to the 50s inspired by their Peppermint Candy show on Jazz FM. Be dazzled as our debonair compere David Piper presents the evening’s cabaret:

19.30 - The Bees Knees, 1920s flappers

20.00 - Miss Annabel Sings, 1930s chanteuse

20.30 - Fabulous Russella, a 1940s take on a 21st century RuPaul

21.00 - Millicent Binks, a 1950s burlesque super-starlet

Department 1: IMAGE IS EVERYTHING Vintage Visage, 18.00 – 21.00

Be transformed into a glamorous screen siren or matinee idol in a make-up transformation with cult British make-up brand Illamasqua. Simply book in with the Illamasqua receptionist for your beauty appointment.Illamasqua will be showcasing their A/W 11 collection 'The Theatre of the Nameless.

What is Beauty? 18.00 – 18.45, 19.00 – 19.45 & 20.00 – 20.45 Drop in to meet Danny Rees from the Wellcome Library and explore physiognomy. Is there any truth in the symmetrical ideals of beauty?

Vintage Drawing Class, 18.30 – 19.15 & 19.45 – 20.30 Turn heads in this stylish drawing class. Introduced by Nina and Issidora of Nina's Hair Parlour; drawing led by Susan Wilson with a discussion led by Professor Mark Pagel.

Is Gender an Illusion? 19.15 – 19.45 & 20.15 – 20.45 Clinical psychologists Dr Polly Carmichael and Dr Victoria Holt explore notions of identity and unpick the confusion of chromosomes.

Department 2: MYTH MACHINE Walk of Fame, 18.00 – 20.45 Step out of the chorus line to receive your new film star name and sign your handprint with a flourish on the Walk of Fame.

Department 3: READY FOR YOUR CLOSE-UP Strike a Pose, 18.00 – 20.45 Find the perfect angle and learn how to hold a smouldering pose with Anna Berlyn in the black & white ‘NPG Photography Studio’. * Tickets available from 18.00 on the day

Only Skin Deep? 18.00 – 20.45 Be amazed as the ageless magic of retouching is applied to enhance images of a Hollywood starlet with Pavla Kopecna of Ladbury PR and Gisela Torres, fashion photographer.

Department 4: IMMORTAL DREAMS Immortality Tour, 19.15 – 19.45 & 20.15 – 20.45 Join this specially created tour exploring notions of life, death and immortality with Dr David Gems (Institute of Healthy Aging, UCL) as he explores the Gallery from a scientific angle.

Department 5: SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Vintage Twitter Bureau, 18.00 – 20.30 Be all atwitter @NPGGlamour with our specially appointed Vintage Twitter Bureau. Write your own scandalous headline in 140 characters or less on our vintage typewriter. Secretariat governed by High Heels and Reprobates.

Department 6: POWER DRESSING The Glamorous Debate, 19.00 – 19.45 Is glamour really in the eye of the beholder? Our glittering array of experts explore the power of fashion. Chaired by Pamela Church-Gibson (Reader in Cultural and Historical Studies, London College of Fashion,) with panellists Ted Polhemus (anthropologist and writer), Grace Woodward (stylist and fashion broadcaster), Semir Zeki (Professor of Neuroaesthetics, UCL) and Janty Yates, Academy Award-Winning costume designer, Gladiator. * Free tickets required, please see website nearer the time for details.

Department 7: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT Top Hat, 20.05 – 21.45 Head to the movies to see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers gliding cheek to cheek across the silver screen in the box-office hit Top Hat directed by Mark Sandrich, 1935.