Category Archives: upcoming events

Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word. — Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word. Poetesses and/or poets, singers, performers, gather in a semi circle around a music improviser. Reading, reciting, singing or babbling. Spontaneity and dissidence are the rules. Spontaneity and dissidence will be the basis … Continue reading →

Doors 7.30 | music 8pm | £13 / £10 concession | advance tickets https://wegottickets.com/f/20390 At this special concert, join London-based saxophonist and composer Sam Norris as he celebrates the release of Wood/Gold, the first volume of his solo saxophone work, on Jonny … Continue reading →

Live quartet improvisation: Daniel Sonabend – double bass Catherine Pluygers – oboe John Trice – guitar Douglas Benford – tenor recorder / objects Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash Daniel Sonabend is a London-based composer, producer and sound … Continue reading →

Duo 1: Marcio Mattos (double bass) & Steve Noble (percussion) Duo 2: Alex Ward (clarinet) & Steve Noble (percussion) Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash   Steve Noble is London’s leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed … Continue reading →

For the very first time the 2026 European Poetry Festival will feature a night celebrating one of the continent’s most considerable poetic nations, Poland. Featuring Polish poets both residing and writing in the UK and those visiting from Poland, and … Continue reading →

Three brilliant contemporary Swiss poets visit London to present new live works, made for the night, with British counterparts. This will be a celebration of literary collaboration and dynamic, poetic performance, with the Swiss poets and their collaborators joined by … Continue reading →

TONY OXLEY (1938 – 2023) is admired the world over as an extremely influential improvising drummer, band leader and educator. In addition to his drumming legacy, Oxley was also a prolific and very accomplished abstract-figurative painter. Visual art was an … Continue reading →

Gabriel Keen : Keyboard Steve Noble : Percussion Marcio Mattos : Double Bass Paul Taylor : Trombone Mike Walter : Saxophone & Synthesiser Pascal Marzan : Guitar Doors 6:30 | music 7pm | £10 cash on the door

Steve Noble – percussion Alan Wilkinson – saxophone Douglas Benford – tenor recorder/accordion/objects Angharad Davies – violin Marjolaine Charbin – piano/voice Doors 3pm | music 3.30 | £10/£8 donation at the door Angharad Davies Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist … Continue reading →

Talk a Blue Streak: Lila Matsumoto, Vicky Sparrow, Jessica Higgins London Launch for Lila Matsumoto’s third collection of poetry, Talk a Blue Streak published by Monitor. With readings from Lila, Vicky Sparrow, Jessica Higgins. £5 suggested donation. In 1990, a … Continue reading →

Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word. —   Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word.  —  Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word.  —  Dissidences*. Sound, voice, word. Poetesses and/or poets, singers, performers, gather in a semi circle around a music improviser. Reading, reciting, singing or babbling. Spontaneity and dissidence are … Continue reading →

A Shopping Trip to Remember is an experimental concert series devised by Hannah McLoughlin, Samuel Leith Taylor and Shannon-Latoyah Simon. Each edition invites together a wild and ever evolving lineup of artists to share works in progress, live experiments, and … Continue reading →

Jaap Blonk & The Bohman Brothers + The Mycelial Network + Crow & Lady of the Abyss + Eggblood Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a self-taught composer, vocalist, poet and visual artist. His unfinished studies in mathematics … Continue reading →

First public performance by this new duo: Sofia Vaisman Maturana (‘cello) & Graham MacKeachan (hulusi) Doors 3:30 | music 4pm | £10 Sofia Vaisman-Maturana is a Chilean composer, poet, and improviser. She first arrived to London in 2018 to do … Continue reading →

This evenings performance includes longstanding members of the London, Oxford, Sheffield and Liverpool improvisation community – Steve Beresford Olga Ksendzovska Douglas Benford Chris Hill Georgina Brett Martin Hackett Marie Roux Iris Colomb Mario Guarnieri

The Pipa Walkers 琵琶行者 : Ivy TSUI × Eveline WONG The Pipa Walkers 琵琶行者 is a live collaboration between dance artist Ivy TSUI and pipa player Eveline Wong, unfolding as a poetic encounter of movement and sound within an intimate … Continue reading →

Private view: 7th of May 6.30 to 9.30 What is fertility for you? A social expectation? A biological rhythm? A creative urge? How can ideas, relationships and futures be made fertile, with or without having children? What is it you … Continue reading →

After our dear artist & friend Jazmin Velasco left us in 2021, her husband and comrade Colin Moore embraced the loss with a project: to compile, select and present a greatly deserved book covering Jazmin’s extensive and suddenly interrupted art … Continue reading →