An evening to celebrate the release of HOLY BIRTH OF A DRUMMER - an idiot cruise thru the world of the muse (July 2025, TABLOID Press) - a new poetry pamphlet by Vida Vojić. Performances and readings from Vida Vojić, William Joys, Charlotte Dogrose, Lydia Newman, Habib William Kherbek, Kate Ebbitt & Sophia Georghiou.
Doors: 6pm
Tickets £5-10 Sliding Scale
An evening to celebrate the release of HOLY BIRTH OF A DRUMMER - an idiot cruise thru the world of the muse (July 2025, TABLOID Press) - a new poetry pamphlet by Vida Vojić. The night will be accompanied with great friends and fellow artists & writers who will share readings, performances and jolly magic vibes. Possible themes to be explored include: music as alchemy, coming of age in Slough, inner child confessions, breastfeeding, sex magic, taoism and more.... + a drum solo by Vida + a costume by Wiliam Joys + maybe other surprises? There will be a limited amount of pamphlets, zines and books for sale.
See you at the great Horse Hospital! Come rejoice in the HOLY power of sounds and words!
Vida Vojić is a music and performance artist, alchemical drummer and writer, based between London and Gothenburg, and working with a focus on combining sound, storytelling, and subtle set designs to create vibrational performances that connect the immediate with the infinite, exploring themes such as magic, theological frameworks, corporeal histories, alternative conceptions of time and the nature of change.
William Joys will present his new zine Tetanus love, Tetanus sex, Tetanus dream - Sex Life of a School Boy (2025, Sartre25). Through channelling characters, William Joys arouses suspicion around theatre’s, and the arts in general’s, claim for authenticity in favour of ‘artificial’ construction. He performs through layers of subterfuge, and through his own performance he becomes an object, which embodies the prop, the stage, the costume, in order to promote the art of actressing. He is also one half of Sartre25 with Bernard Walsh.
https://www.williamjoys.co.uk/
Charlotte Dogrose is a writer from London.
Lydia Newman is a multidisciplinary artist currently exploring how colonial legacies and global systems shape how we move, relate, and survive. Her practice spans performance, painting, and sculpture and is rooted in soul-led expression as a form of resistance. She uses image, body, and sound to explore personal reckoning and social critique, reclaiming space emotionally, physically, and spiritually, inviting audiences to pause, witness, and remember possible other ways of being. Lydia will be reading from her Sand Suit book (2025).
Habib William Kherbek is the writer of several works of fiction, including Ecology of Secrets (2013), ULTRALIFE (2016), Twenty Terrifying Tales from our Technofeudal Tomorrow (2021), and Fail Worse (2024) all published by Arcadia Missa, as well as New Adventures (2020), and Best Practices (2021), published by left gallery and Moist Books respectively. His poetry has been published by If A Leaf Falls Press, Arcadia Missa, and left gallery. Kherbek’s art journalism has appeared in numerous publications including Flash Art, Burlington Contemporary, Sleek, Ocula, and Spike among other titles. His collected art writings were published in Entropia Vol. 1 & 2 (2022) by Abstract Supply.
https://www.instagram.com/piersgavastoned/
Sophia Georghiou’s writing has been published in The Journal of Creative Writing Research and various poetry journals. Her forthcoming collection Gloria Trillo won the 2025 Eric Gregory Award.
https://www.instagram.com/sophia.georghiou/
Katie Ebbitt is a poet. She is the author of the chapbooks ANOTHER LIFE (Counterpath, 2016), Para Ana (Inpatient, 2019), Air Sign (Creative Writing Department, 2024) and HYSTERICAL PREGNANCY (above/ground press, 2024). Her full-length debut is entitled Fecund (Keith LLC, 2024).