Maggie Nicols: The Gathering VIII
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
Join us for an evening of readings and talks to celebrate the launch of Sightlines, a new series of books by Mack looking at architecture from distinct points of view, each taking the perspective of a particular entity, history, discipline, or form of writing.
False Locust Presents: Kenichi Iwasa + Elvin Brandhi + Boy Lucid + aloisius (DJ)
Hoy Chorale is a mobile ensemble of seven musicians, a very small orchestra of markedly post-Catalan and post-American genre founded in 2024 in South London by Oscar G. Guardans (Family Time).
A night of expanded composition where the boundaries between noise, ambience, synthesis, and sonic gesture dissolve
Featuring Borough Council, Anthony Moore’s Exquisite Corps, Shirley Crowe, Al Strachan + Otti Albietz.
Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.
Un/stable series showcases improvised music, with two sets from a string trio formed of Khabat Abas, Ivor Kallin, and Isidora Edwards.
During Purim, truth gets spoken to power, hierarchies inverted and the seeds of possibility are planted. Featuring a satirical rewriting of a brutal biblical story by Rachel Mars and Nick Cassenbaum, and live music from the klezmer band Doikayt.
Re-Enchantment is an interdisciplinary network exploring art, literature, and criticism. With Al Anderson, Chi S. Tsu, Isobel Falk, Jake Roberts and Anna Hartigan
For one night shift only, the Bar is the work of art, the Artist is the bartender, the spectator is the punter
From Greed (1924) to post-apocalyptic cinema, the desert has served as one of horror’s most unforgiving landscapes. This lecture, This lecture, presented by Ken Hollings for Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, traces how the American desert became a site of monsters, mutations, and moral collapse, shaped by atomic testing, exploitation cinema, and low-budget genre filmmaking.
GRAIN is an ongoing series of improvised and experimental music. With live performance from: Ute Kanngiesser & Theo Guttenplan (duo), Theodora Laird, Conal Blake, Caius Williams (trio), Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier (duo)
Music Theatre collaborators Natacha Diels, Ellie Westbrook and James Oldham bring new music, gesture, humour and a general revelling in the mundane
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
An evening of contemporary composition and improvisation, with performances from flautist Tilly Coulton, clarinetist Michelle Hromin, and violinist Zachary Mezzo.
A double bill of performances from Komuna Collective and Plus Minus Ensemble. Featuring works composed by: Michael Gordon, Imogen Davey, Adam Possener, Francesca Fargion, and Oliver Sellwood.
His House (2020) is a ghost story about displacement, precarity, and the inescapable afterlives of empire. This lecture situates the film within a global “horror cinema of precarity” that uses the genre to address marginalised experiences. Drawing on postcolonial Gothic and hauntological theory, it explores how Britain’s imperial and capitalist legacies haunt the film atmospherically rather than corporeally.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
A two day residency from The Sleeves - a duo of Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham - to celebrate the launch of their album.
Often dismissed as gratuitous or artistically empty, gore remains one of horror cinema’s most contested pleasures. This lecture reframes gore as an aesthetic practice rooted in tactility, craft, and collaboration. Tracing the devaluation of gore films and their fandoms, it situates graphic violence within broader artistic traditions and examines practical effects as a form of resistance to digital smoothness.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
French songs, noises, rumors of distant and early musics, short and cruel poems, handcrafted instruments, Radio-amplifiers, circuit bending and other wasted electronic devices. Bégayer is a quintet from the south-east of France.
Mark Pilkington, author of the UFO meta-conspiracy classic Mirage Men, presents a curated selection of his favourite filmic artefacts from the flying saucer era and beyond. Against the backdrop of the longest sustained wave of UFO coverage in the United States since the 1940s—culminating in a series of inconclusive congressional hearings—this lecture examines how moving images shape belief, doubt, and wonder.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
An embodied lecture and participatory sound workshop from MOTHERBOARD (Kyle Kidd) that explores how music, voice, and reflection can become profound tools for queer self-recognition and liberation.
Divine Schism are excited that London-based chanteuse, composer and filmmaker Clémentine March brings her new album to the Horse Hospital on Valentine's Day! With sets from Louise Chennevière and Eva May.
An evening of dark ambient and looped soundcapes with an extended set by Bianca Scout B2B Gazellota, the live sonic world of Siren and a hybrid set by Shauwdii
This lecture, presented by Nedim Hassan for Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies examines how metal fans and musicians were cast as “folk devils” within the 1980s culture wars, and how a cycle of horror films—including Trick or Treat and Black Roses—absorbed and refracted these anxieties.
A 2 night programme brought together by Leisha Thomas aka Alpha Maid, in celebration of her debut album Is this a queue?. Both nights feature the new Alpha Maid band show, alongside a host of a guests: Ben Vince (DJ), Coby Sey b2b Valentina Magaletti (DJ), The Landing Strip, Dr. Yolanda Olhene, and Remi Graves.
A screening of three films exploring the metaphysics of electromagnetic communication, psyops, and conspiracy. Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992), Riar Rizaldi’s Tellurian Drama (2020), and Signal Warfare Research Unit’s T2S.
Bara & Isa spring ep release event - with live sets by Bara & Isa, Verschrin & ant mill, a DJ set by Mara Never + workshop with Bara & Isa and Noa Costello from the Voicing Project.
Amber Joy (aka THE NARRATOR) & Isaiah Hull are raising funds to travel to Nairobi, Kenya, to host a writing workshop titled: THE INVISIBLE WORKSHOP (via their publishing company PIGEON). there will be live performances, dj sets & exclusive merchandise available.
An evening of experimental sound created with traditional instruments - featuring The Greater London Banjo Trio and a duo of guzheng player Zhuyang Liu and daegeum player Dasom Baek.
Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.
My New Band Believe return to The Horse Hospital, with a lineup of Theo Guttenplan, Kit Mosely, Mike O'Malley, Cameron Picton, Cori Rose-Smith, and Caius Williams. Opening with a solo set from Caius.
An evening of contemporary music, featuring the electroacoustic music of Chicago-based Kari Watson and Katinka Kleijn, and James M. Creed.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
Inclusive vocal acceptance and improvisation workshop with Alya Al Sultani.
An evening of music from Robert Stillman featuring Sean Carpio and Crosspiece, the duo project of Theodora Laird and Caius Williams.
Speech Muse is a concert series that invites wordsmiths and musicians to play with words
Experimental music performance from the Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist and composer Patrick Shiroishi with an opening set from Kenichi Iwasa.
Re-Enchantment is an interdisciplinary network exploring art, literature, and criticism. With Amy Tighe, Saffron Morter-Laing, Dan Power, Emily Manock, and Victoria Roskams.
Twelve hours of continuous acoustic improvisation, in 21 overlapping relays, from dozens of London's most exceptional and diverse improvisers.
Amurmur is a platform celebrating memory, enshrinement and archives. For our first event, through readings and budding projects, a selection of artists share their impassioned ways of engaging with the past. Followed by a screening of a film by Ines Barquet and Ximena Prieto, based on an idea by Alexia Marmara.
Hack the planet! Celebrating it’s 30th, a screening of Hackers (1995), featuring costumes by Roger K. Burton on display. With an introduction by The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection.
Hack the planet! Celebrating it’s 30th, a screening of Hackers (1995), featuring costumes by Roger K. Burton on display. With an introduction by The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
A two day residency from experimental songwriter Kiran Leonard. With solo and full band performances on both nights. Friday features support from The Sprigs, and Saturday will feature Olive Wreath.
A seasonal evening of barely-remembered formats and sonic seances featuring glimmers of the ghostly televisual past, psychogeographical spoken word, music and moving pictures.
Isla Greenwood invites us to the Album Launch Party for their album Landscapes of Trust
Presented by Mikatonic, this talk explores how cinematic representations of the asylum and its patients have reflected real-life developments in psychiatry, including the demolition of Victorian institutions and moves toward community-based care in the late 20th century. We will also see how film itself played a role in these developments, with documentary exposés of asylum life like Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies (1967) revealing the real-life horrors of the institution.
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