Upcoming
DRYHUMP
DRYHUMP is back and is going Thermoelectric!
Forget about your energy bills York, cause for you we are turning up the HEAT. We are Pumping through a fabulous mix of carnage and cabaret at the perfect pressure to get you S-W-E-A-T-I-N-G.
Flooding into the North to blow your socks off are some of the finest, fittest, filthiest old boilers from around the country.
So shut the valve, slam the stopcock, close the loop and slide into our grimey little paradise.. This is York GODDAMMIT... We are getting hot and heavy with YOU this February.
Info
DRYHUMP is an evening of queer cabaret performance produced in collaboration with CLAY. It is a relaxed performance so please feel free to move about, grab drinks and get involved. We encourage you to cheer in support but also respect the performers and acts 👏
Doors at 7 and show starts at 7.30pm the event will end at 11pm... it is a school night after all 😇
The evening will contain nudity, mess, audience participation, foul language and sexual reference. You're welcome 😈
Tickets are pay-what-you-can, full lineup and booking details here.
Like This - Workshop
A workshop for creatives who want to build a wider online audience for their work.
SLAP (Supporting Live Art and Performance) present 'The Work Of Art' in partnership with York Creatives. A workshop series for artists and creatives practicing any art form and at any point in their career.
These workshops will cover all aspects of the 'business side' of being an artist. In the current climate it is becoming essential to be able to promote your work and understand how to manage a business, to have a sustainable career in the arts.
This practical workshop will equip you with the tools to start making engaging social media content to promote your work across multiple channels.
This workshop will cover:
Discovering your unique 'niche' to stand out online
How to find an online audience for your work
How to make shortform video content
Creating a social media strategy that is fun and not hard work!
Places are free but you need to book.
The workshop is taking place before York Creative Drinks, so do stay around afterwards to meet other creatives in the city. If you want to stay for the Creative Drinks make sure to book your place! Learn more.
SIN: After Hours Event at York Art Gallery
Join Mediale for this special chance to see the Sin exhibition after hours at York Art Gallery; experience live music and workshops from the incredible All Hands On Deck, and take an alternative tour of the exhibition with multi-disciplinary artist Lydia Borkkvlt.
All Hands On Deck DJS
Join the All Hands On Deck djs, a diverse collective that hosts open deck parties and DJ workshops for people who identify as women, non-binary and trans, though everyone is welcome to this event.
Expect an evening of eclectic dance sounds and rhythms, with a specially selected set responding to the Sin exhibition themes.
DJ Workshops
First come, first served on the night.
All Hands On Deck present beginner DJ workshops. Come try your hand at playing out in a welcoming, inclusive and low pressure environment.
Sin: Alternative Exhibition Tours by Lydia Borkkvlt
First come, first served
Hourly: 18.15pm, 19.15pm, 20.15pm
This is not a traditional exhibition tour! Join Lydia Borkkvlt for an alternative tour and discussion of the contemporary placing of the concept of sin in our digitally-connected world. Rediscover 'sinful' everyday behaviours and what 'sin' means to you.
Immersive Assembly Vol 2: Bodies & Geometry
Immersive Assembly is an international, multidisciplinary residency that is focused on new work, new innovations and new paths to sustainability for the media arts sector. The residency brings together a cohort of international artists, technologists and cultural influencers to learn, share, network and play.
Immersive Assembly Vol.2 is a pilot programme for the developing cultural partnership between York and our fellow UNESCO City of Media Arts, Viborg and is supported by Arts Council England and the Danish Embassy in London. Join us to meet this Volume’s amazing cohort, see their prototypes from the residency and network with cultural practitioners.
The panel debat is hosted by Kirk Johnson and invites the artist to discus and talk about their experience and the prototypes they are showing at Viborg Animation Festival. After the panel the audience is invited to visit the artist’s prototypes; ‘ALT+R’ and ‘Mind-Body-Map: Atom’. You will also get the chance to meet the York-based artist, Kit Monkman, who is exhibiting “People We Love” at Viborg Kunsthal
Image Editing Workshop - Leeds 2023
mage editing with GoDaddy Studio is the third in of a series of creative digital storytelling workshops in partnership with LEEDS 2023. LEEDS 2023 are excited to be working on a monthly series of free workshops in partnership with 100% Digital Leeds that aim to make creative software training more accessible to Leeds communities.
Image Editing with GoDaddy Studio
Continuing the workshop series, the next workshop will be on the Image editing platform GoDaddy Studio, which will enable you to edit images for anything from presentations to social media. The workshops will cover all the basics to enable you to feel equipped to explore GoDaddy Studio further after the workshops.
Led by Artist and marketing genius Lydia Cottrell, the workshop will talk you through all the basics of the software, from opening a project and adding images, to simple editing, adding effects and exporting your work to then be uploaded and shared to any platform you want. Lydia will also signpost to other free resources to continue learning the software in your own time.
The workshop will be interactive, where you will follow what Lydia is doing on your own laptop as they take you through a step-by-step guide of using the software. No previous experience is necessary, we just ask you to come with a laptop and be eager to learn something new with the rest of the group!
Like This - Workshop
What does it take to have influence? (...social media for artists)
A social media workshop that will explore what it takes to have influence. Especially focused for artists to develop a creative way to create and curate online content for a range of social media platforms. The workshop will delve into the world of content creation, brand association and how to grow an engaged audience.
Discover how to take the perfect image for online consumption, find out what your online persona is and learn how to develop an online voice that is and extension of your artistic practice, instead of just reducing your work to a series of little squares.
Led by Lydia Cottrell (aka @borkkvlt), who is a Social Media specialist for the creative industries. She focuses on a holistic and artistic approach to developing social media strategies for artists and creative projects. She uses her interest in online space to support arts organisations in Leeds and the surrounding areas. Lydia is the communications and engagement manager for Compass Live Art, Chair of Morley Arts Festival, the Director of SLAP York and Digital Communications Coordinator for Contemporary Visual Arts Network. She has led and supported Social Media Campaigns for arts organisations of all sizes.
These skills workshops have been made possible thanks to funding from the Postcode Neighbourhood Trust
Doomsday Books - Manchester
Presented by Word of Warning + Contact
Manchester’s twenty-first micro-marathon of the bizarre, the bold + the beautiful takes over the brand new Contact in a journey of live performance…
Artists
Ayzmar · Helena Ascough · †Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton · Kelvin Atmadibrata · Lydia Cottrell · Maryam Hashemi · Miray Sidhom · ‡Mitzee · Sebastian H-W · Simon Carroll-Jones & Wayne Steven Jackson
Participating artists subject to change; Rowena Gander is unable to appear.
†For 12noon-2pm entry only. ‡For 2pm-4pm entry only.
Our annual platform for live art + contemporary performance, this 21st Emergency is necessarily a bit different — full programme notes are here.
Doomsday Books - Online
What can you make when your kitchen table is the stage + your camera is the audience? 7 artists, 7 commentaries on where we find ourselves: a beta-test platform for new work.
PROGRAMME (RUNNING ORDER) Voidance Company · Underneath the frying pan… Slowly but surely the rage builds up, coconut rum or baileys, knife or fork, saucepan or plate… Confused, demented, wandering round and round, finding NO answers by NOT sitting down OR STANDING UP……waiting for Ken. Performed by Julia Griffin · Music: In C - Extension (Simple Mix David Lang Remix) by Bill Ryan & Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble Loïs Soleil · In between the lines you are a poem A choir of selves recites a love poem in this interactive self-portrait by artist and poet Loïs Soleil. Here, language is not just a tool to express ourselves with, but a medium in and of itself. Miray Sidhom · THE BREAD WE BREAK A journey through a landscape of sourdough hills and flour rain. A hand leads the way from the forests of Oxfordshire to the streets of Cairo… Weaving memories of a childhood in Egypt and frank conversations with her mother, Miray questions bread’s cultural symbolism in religion and revolution. Commissioned by Contact · Music: Inshad by Soliman Gamil Avital Raz · A Woman’s Voice Is Her Nakedness ‘A Woman’s Voice is her Nakedness’, some Rabbi said in the 10th century — and that caused millions of women to shut up. Avital explores the effect of male teachings about women on women, and endeavours through distortion to find a woman’s voice. Alice Connolly · Hugs in My Pockets Locked-down in her house, where hugs no longer exist in the way they used to, Alice creates a new kind of hug for herself and the loved ones of all those watching. Mitzee · The ARTIST A comment on Transformation, posing questions around the Queer body and ideas around beauty. “I see myself as an Artist. My body as the canvas and my life experiences as the paint.” Witness, for the first time, the transformation of a Male to Mitzee — getting ready for a performance that is never going to happen. Performed by Mark Powell · Sound scape by Murray Jamieson, featuring vocal samples from Lady Gaga (Paparazzi, Fame) & David Bowie (Fame) Lydia Cottrell · DOOMSDAY BOOKS Our future hangs in the balance sheets, it’s accrual world and we can depreciate it together. Standing at the ledger the earth, let’s get fiscal as we liquidate our assets. Account me out and calc-u-later. A performance that accounts for the end of the world, based on the Rapture Index and Religious Eschatology. Hosted by Peader Kirk.
Like This - Online Workshop
MARKETING "LIKE THIS" WITH LYDIA COTTRELL
Lydia Cottrell is a Leeds based dancer who admittedly spends a lot of time on the internet, especially social media.
She is leading a workshop as part of East Street Arts Guild conversations programme in which she will explore what it takes to have influence.
Guild Conversations is a programme of workshops, talks, webinars and facilitated conversations
programmed by East Street Arts. The programme equips the artist-led sector with tools and resources by connecting them with artists and arts facilitators.
Lydia will be running four sessions each lasting an hour for discussing how artists can be creative when developing and curating online content for a range of social media platforms.
Have you ever wondered how to take the perfect picture for social media? Then this is the right session for you! Lydia will help you find your online persona and develop an online voice that is an extension of your artistic practice.
There will be four workshops taking place on the 17 November at the following times:
11am – 12pm
1pm – 2pm
3pm – 4pm
5pm – 6pm
Book your place via the Eventbrite link b
2020 on Mount Olympus
Age range
16+
Price
Full Price: £8, Concessions £5, Arden Students £3
Run Time
2 hours
Theatre and Performance presents
A double bill of new performance
2020 ON MOUNT OLYMPUS made in collaboration with 70/30 Split
Wellness, gains, and Motivation Monday are hard to reach for the ten out-of-work gods living atop the highest mountain.
SKIN HUNGER made in collaboration with Tmesis Theatre
We are wired for touch.
In a world where touch is forbidden, people are starved with affection deprivation.
Source:: https://www.z-arts.org/events/2020-on-mount-olympus-skin-hunger/
Good Neighbours
A digitally enhanced walking documentary
Keep your eyes peeled, things are not what they appear to be. The street needs you! Will you be a Good Neighbour?
Experience an entertaining and provocative personal journey through a neighbourhood in York. Good Neighbours utilises live performance, surveillance technology and chatbot messaging to take you on a weirdly familiar and speculative documentary walk, via your mobile device.
Good Neighbours offers a future vision on how communities create spaces of belonging and alienation through media technology. Based on research into intimate surveillance culture in York, it offers a fascinating localised counterpoint to the usual story of mass surveillance by highlighting the micro-politics of a local neighbourhood.
Created by affect lab (Klasien van de Zandschulp and Dr Natalie Dixon) in collaboration with Lydia Cottrell. Good Neighbours is brought to you as a world premiere by York Mediale 2020.
To learn more about Good Neighbours read Klasien and Natalie’s blog “A Sense of Place”
Creative developer: Arjan Scherpenisse
Design & illustration: Kgabo Mametja & Koos Groenewald
Like This
Post-Goffman, Post-Reality, Post-Internet, Post-on-Instagram.
Like This is a performance lecture that explores what it takes to have Influence. It delves into the world of content creation, brand association and recreations of recreations. The lecture bypasses the creeps, defeats the trolls and confronts the commodification of identity.
Along the way, discover how to take the perfect image for online consumption, find out what your online persona is and learn how to stay trve to yourself when reducing your life into a series of little squares.
This lecture is a part of IRL? full details can be found here - https://www.nscd.ac.uk/events/irl-a-symposium/
Doomsday Books @ CLAY Launch Party
DOOMSDAY BOOKS
Our future hangs in the balance sheets, it’s accrual world and we can depreciate it together. Standing at the ledger the earth, let's get fiscal as we liquidate our assets.
Account me out and calc-u-later.
DOOMSDAY BOOKS will run from 8pm - 10:30pm
Date: September 21st
Doors: 7:30pm
Start: 8pm
Where: CLAY, 1, 2 Regent St, Leeds LS2 7QA, UK
Price: PAYF (see below)
We are kicking open the doors to CLAY for our first party.
The event is Pay As You Feel (PAYF), all funds go to supporting CLAY.
Tickets between £0 and £20 depending on what you can afford.
Atlantis Finale
Hotly-tipped performance artist Lydia Cottrell recreates Atlantis, her one woman space race, for one night only at the NSCD’s Riley Theatre in Leeds.
A Culture Vulture Joint with Leeds Inspired, Atlantis whisks the audience on an interstellar journey and asks some pretty big questions: What did we learn from the race into space? What did we gain by getting there? Can we train for failure, and do dreams really come true? Utilising stage projection, hot dogs and a child-sized paddling pool, Atlantis explores the answers to all these questions and more.
Along the way, Lydia considers the idea we all inhabit a spaceship – Spaceship Earth - and draws a parallel between our planet and the Space Shuttle’s namesake, the mythical island that sank beneath the waves.
The show is provocative, funny and highly kinetic, as you would expect from one half of 70/30 Split (with creative partner Sophie Unwin), who were described by The Guardian as being ‘as touching as they are resolutely fearless.’
“The work is extremely physical," Lydia says. "Mainly the show is about dreams, how hard we work to achieve them, how failure along the way affects us, and what happens when we do reach our goals.”
Atlantis (A Culture Vulture Joint with Leeds Inspired) is at the NSCD’s Riley Theatre, 98 Chapeltown Rd, Leeds LS7 4BH on Friday 20th September 2019. Tickets - £7.00.
Pas De Duh @ Wilderness Festival
Presented by Live Art Bistro…
With a fondness for the satirical, the brazen and the weird Pas De Duh are continuously inspired by the history of burlesque, the music hall and the working mens club. Diving into vaudeville and the grotesque the double act create boldly audacious acts that embody a camp send-up of show business.
Location - House of Sublime
Source:: https://www.wildernessfestival.com/programme/pas-de-duh/?pillar_id=&location=5139241
Sealth & Hafety @ Wilderness Festival
Presented by Live Art Bistro…
Laughing in the face of slips, trips and falls this stunt duo are safety officers with a difference. Sealth and Hafety perform a series of mildly dangerous acts for your viewing pleasure. Watch them unashamedly attempt the impossible, ignore all standard operating procedures and reject the hierarchies of pain prevention.
Do not expect a risk assessment.
Location - House of Sublime
Source:: https://www.wildernessfestival.com/programme/sealth-and-hafety/?pillar_id=&location=5139241
Pas De Duh @ L19 Closing Party
JUICEBOX returns to L19 for one night of cult-queer art-club hedonism with TOMM¥ €A$H and Yves Tumor.
Over the years, LiveArt Bistro have gained notoriety for their take on late-night soirees – capturing the attention of some of the world’s most radical and boundary-breaking performers in the process.
JUICEBOX at Live Art Bistro proves no exception. Housed in the Festival Village, this closing party is set to raise the bar – despite what Leeds has come to expect in the fluid playgrounds of the city’s underground performance/party scene.
L19 Cube @ The Village
Afterparty @ Live Art Bistro
Tickets on sale now.
> leedsinternationalfestival.com
bYOB
bYOB
70/30 Split (UK)
Dressed ready for a riot and dancing distorted folk dances of times gone by; four performers are caught between different notions of masculinity.
bYOB stages contrasting versions of bravado and belonging, and reflects on the rise of nationalism and mob mentality. Four men grapple with their roles in the performance and the world.
70/30 Split is comprised of Lydia Cottrell and Sophie Unwin, a female performance duo who choreograph satirical and provocative dance through words, singing and stomping.
“Cottrell and Unwin are as touching as they are resolutely fearless.”
– The Guardian
Presented at Riley Theatre as part of Transform 19 - A Festival of Powerful, International Performance - transformfestival.org
Tickets - £13/£8 https://transformfestival.org/box-office/
Doomsday Books - Hull
OOMSDAY BOOKS
Our future hangs in the balance sheets, it’s accrual world and we can depreciate it together. Standing at the ledger the earth, let's get fiscal as we liquidate our assets.
Account me out and calc-u-later.
Impending doom, WOW, crisis, WOW, annihilation, WOW, fear, WOW, uncertainty, WOW, rapture, WOW, terror, WOW, Little Rocket Man, WOW, cataclysmic, WOW, obliteration, WOW… wait what did Trump just Tweet… APOCALYPSE WOW!
APOCALYPSE WOW is a day long festival of performance art, activism and happenings that embraces the aesthetics of fear and dismay that we are bombarded with on a daily basis, and reclaims this space as a point of departure.
APOCALYPSE WOW takes liberal influence from its theological source material, then smashes it into more contemporary themes and aesthetics. Everything from Kanye West, Preppers, #Metoo, North Korea, to Cambridge Analytica and, The Windrush Scandal, will feed into an event that seeks to claim power and voice against the mounting existential threats we face. It’s almost impossible to look out of the window these days and not be overwhelmed at how terrifyingly dangerous and unjust everything is. One simply can’t remember the last time a newspaper was picked up and the reader thought to themselves “well things are certainly on the up aren’t they!”
For 14 hours, over 4 floors, you are invited to revel in the Apocalypse with hosts Live Art Bistro and a roster of talent from across the UK.
Full programme TBC!
Source:: http://www.humberstreetgallery.co.uk/exhibition/live-art-bistro-present-apocalypse-wow/
The Dispensary
A SLAP Odyssey
Friday 5th October
5:00pm, 6:30pm, 8:00pm, 9:30pm
Tickets - £3, £6, £9, £12
From the fringes of artistic performance to the fore, York’s leading performance art collective invite you to an immersive experience at York Medical Society.
A SLAP Odyssey is a multi-sensory voyage into the unknown. Enter with an open mind as you explore and interact with the artwork formed for the SLAPover creative laboratory – an intensive week-long residency for collaboration, developing and devising new performances in partnership, that took place during summer 2018. Aaron Howell, Ali Matthews, Fran Bundey, Minyung Im and Roderick Morgan, along with SLAP’s Sophie Unwin and Lydia Cottrell, will guide you through their alternative visions for tomorrow taking in experimental performance, live art, installation and sound.
The evening will also include a specially-commissioned interactive theatre gaming experience by Closed Forum, probing the intersection of dreams, games, reality and anxiety.
A SLAP Odyssey is supported using public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England. With further support from York Mediale and York St John UniversityA SLAP Odyssey will be performed 4 times.
Each performance lasts approx 1 hour.
Tickets prices are per performance.
Show Times
5:00pm | 6:30pm | 8:00pm | 9:30pm
Free Fall
Free Fall
11.09.18
FREE
11:00-17:30
34 Boar Lane,
Leeds, LS1 5DA
On 11th, September, 2018 I will have lived as long in a post 9/11 world as I had lived before it. Now 17 years after the events that unfolded on that day, this durational performance work looks to observe and commemorate the impact and aftermath of September 11, 2001 from social, political and anthropological perspective. We are now at a time in history where the first humans to be born after 11.09.01 are entering into adulthood. For this new generation of adults the events of 9/11 is a history not of their own but one that they have inherited. This performance mourns the loss of my own innocence at the age of 17 and the loss of every millennial of my generation who remembers where they where when 9/11 unfolded. Free Fall offers us the time to revisit the mass trauma of the day as it unfolded in 2001, whilst also looking forward to the possible futures of the next 17 years that will shape and guide the journey of this new emergent generation of adults who did not live through, or have no memory of 9/11. Free Fall uses archival audio recordings from the Howard Stren Show (recorded on the day in, New York) and is accompanied by a set of performance actions carried out by two performers (Adam Young & Lydia Cottrell). The performers circumnavigate space, blindfolded, listening to radios tuning in and out as they try and fail to keep balance and to keep order. The content of the performance, and the audio broadcast within, is graphic and raw and may be difficult for some audience members to be witness to. This performance is intended to be respectful, contemplative and thought provoking, but may also be a trigger for traumas associated with 9/11.
Altr/Altr
A RITUALISTIC HANGOUT FOR A GENERATION WHO HAVE REPLACED THE EVENING FIRES WITH A LAPTOP SCREEN.
Inviting people in to move and be moved and to take a break from their screens to experience something that shifts between performance, seance, guided meditation, cave, rave, yoga class and ASMR relaxation.
An intimate experience to help you forget about or delve deeper into your google search history. A sequence of activitieS, harnEssing the techNology that is carried Daily, a Neo ritUal for the Digital agES.
Come and join us for a moment of alteration and real world connection.
VENUE: Members Suite.
PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES:
Sunday 22 July, 3pm - 3.30pm, 4.00pm - 4.30pm and 5pm - 5.30pm
TICKETS: All events are pay what you decide.
We have introduced a Pay What You Decide pricing policy for Co:LAB shows. The scheme works by enabling audiences to attend shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved prior to a performance. Then on exiting the show, you have the opportunity to make a donation of what you decide you want to, or can afford to pay, based on your overall enjoyment of the performance.
At the end of the performance, you can text, for example, ‘CLAB18 £5’ to 70070. You can choose from £3/£5/£10/£15/£20
BOOK NOW: Online or via the Box Office on 0161 833 9833
Atomic - Preston
Derelict LIVE; an evening of developing work from a range of performance artists + ‘The Black Cat’, a new touring show by Lapelle’s Factory.
Join us in Preston and experience new unusual performance, live arts and theatre. The evening invites audiences to engage and give feedback, in a welcoming and open environment, in order to aid the artist's forthcoming development process.
FREE ENTRY - book online to reserve your place.
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JOINING US AT DERELICT LIVE
(10-20 minute work in progresses)
- Stephanie Cottle: Bus Words
- Avital Raz: My Jurusalem
- Joseph Lau: VIVA: Reverb
- Cabin Fever: Double 0
- Ali Wilson: DEEP
- Cottrell & Mills: ATOMIC
- Garry Cook: The Meaning of Life
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LAPELLE’S FACTORY: THE BLACK CAT 8:30 PM (full show 1hr)
An enigmatic writer has adapted Poe’s original story and handed scripts over to Olwen and Ollie. They’re now taking merciless liberties with the words – like a madman taking out a furious rage on a helpless pet. Meow.
“Clever yet playful, savage yet amiable, this ingenious new play reflects the dualistic qualities of the feline it depicts” Exeunt
More Info - goo.gl/GEGQXs
(With optional post-show discussion 9:30 PM)