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Live Art Club is a monthly open platform for performance art, taking place on Sunday afternoons at Cafe OTO (Hackney). It is free to attend and free to participate in.

Everyone is welcome to come, to watch, to join in, to present or to perform - we welcome those with years of experience, those who have never tried performing before, those on the run from more traditional disciplines, those who don’t know what-the-fuck-Live-Art-is.

We encourage you to share part of a new idea, an experiment in working with an audience, a way of moving your body, a series of sounds you’re excited by, an unexpected activation of the space, an interruption of tradition, guttural words that want to explode out of you, a re-performance of a forgotten idea and anything else that might look/feel/taste like Live Art.

And we also welcome more unorthodox ‘performances’ - presentations, performative lectures, readings, videos etc.

THINKING ‘WHAT THE HELL IS LIVE ART?’ LOOK HERE: https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/about-lada/what-is-live-art/

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Live Art Club offers artists space to try out ideas within a supportive community. We will provide documentation of experiments (or not - as artists decide). Live Art Club exists as a context outside of theatre, dance, fine art and academia.

We cherish passion, risk and failure. We celebrate indecency, aberration and formal corruption or mutation. We cheer for purity and impurity.

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Artists can perform in 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 ways. Please note this is a low-low-tech project. We have microphones and can play sound. Maybe there are some lights. Maybe a projector. We cannot facilitate performances with complex tech needs, lots of cues etc.

1. Sign up for a slot in advance through a google form. These are allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis and we will never turn an artist away (unless we are at capacity or the work would clearly be better suited to another more traditional context). Slots are 12 minutes, but durational work (up to three hours) is also possible.

SIGN UP HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m_y4QwAyBI3PALLJSv2cuoTuT04J5wXzzz_kz_NMn18/edit

2. Turn up on the day - remaining performance slots will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis on the day. It is OK to come as an audience member and then to be filled by the spirit of performance and decide to do something.

3. The last forty minutes of each session will be given over as a free performance space, for actions to take place in relation to each other, and for encounters to take place. We will agree an etiquette in advance and the space will be facilitated by the Live Art Club team. Anyone - artists and audiences - can participate, though it is totally fine to just watch. We welcome awkward pauses and voyeurs.

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Live Art Club is co-facilitated by Rachel Gammon, Nicol Parkinson, Phoebe Patey-Ferguson, Joseph Morgan Schofield & An* Neely, with support from the Live Art Development Agency (LADA).

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Live Art Club is run by queers.

Cafe OTO is a fully wheelchair accessible venue, with no steps and accessible toilets.

We will help to facilitate other access needs (such as sign language or audio description) if you email or message us in advance to arrange this.

If you need financial support for travel in order to participate, get in touch and we will try our best to help out.

The closest station is Dalston Junction Overground Station (1 minute away), which is fully wheelchair accessible. There are also many buses which stop next to Dalston Junction and are 1-2 minutes away from the venue.

We are always looking to make Live Art Club accessible, and welcome any suggestions on how we might do this.

LAC ARTWORK by the incredible Sweatmother

Email us: [email protected]

Behold, we're back, and with another lineup brimming with exciting music and performance!

Two duos featuring stalwarts of the UK improvisation scene John Jasnoch and Martin Archer, and Matt Wand and Richard Harrison.
More info on Martin's music: https://discus-music.co.uk

Harold & Arthur, fresh from Adelaide Fringe, will be exploring performance and words.

BORK is the brainchild of our own Jack Sibley, and dancer/apocaloptimist Lydia Cottrell. Expect corpse-paint and
soundscaping.

More info on Lydia's work: http://www.lydia-cottrell.com/about

As usual 7.30pm start(ish) £4 OTD.

Eagle Inn, Collier Street, Salford.

Queer, Jewish cabaret collective Homos and Houmous welcomes all northern hebrews, shebrews and theybrews, goys and gals (all welcome). Closet nothing. Covet everything.

We're coming to Leeds for our seventh instalment, as part of our UK tour and we couldn't be happier!

Drag – Comedy - Live Art – Music - DJs – Semitic overtones

DOORS at 7.
SHOW 8-10.30.
MUSIC 10.30-12.

Host: Chanukah Lewinsky
That Ray
Ruth Nicholson
DJ TAMTAM
Open mic

More acts to come.

To start the show with a bang, North London's most unapologetically Jewish family, The Rimmers will be screening their new short film, ‘Personal Shopping’.

£10 well-waged / £7 waged / £4 unwaged
No one turned away for lack of funds. Please opt for a "well-waged" ticket if you can to help subsidise and maintain fair access to arts programming.

Please get in touch if you have any questions or if you're interested in performing/ our open mic slots at [email protected]

Expect more theatre, more schmatz and even more houmous. Your nan with love us!!

Plus also join us on the 22nd March for an open artists forum to explore the position of faith in art and performance. More details to come.

Since 2016 we’ve been schlepping around London with a smorgasbord of drag, comedy, live klezmer, poetry and politics. Hosted by music hall grand dame Chanukah Lewinsky (think Julie Walters on speed), the night began as an open mic at Housmans Bookshop for LGBTI+ Jews to celebrate these two identities which can so often feel at odds. Judaism has a long-standing tradition of camp and queerness and Homos and Houmous is always a raucous family affair; where Bette Midler’s musical stand-up in the bathhouses of New York meets arguments over Shabbat dinner.


UK dates, 7-12pm (lineups vary)
21 March, CLAY, Leeds
15 April, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London
25 April, DINA Venue, Sheffield
16 May, Partisan Collective, Manchester.

Tickets available: https://outsavvy.com/organiser/homos-and-houmous

With support from Arts Council England, Leeds Inspired, JW3 and Manchester Jewish Museumm. Creative Director Dex Chait Grodner, Producer Keziah Berelson.

Please bring cash as we’ll be raising funds for Glasgow’s queer, Yiddish café, די ראָזעווע פּ