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Asylum Chapel, Caroline Gardens, Peckham. Image courtesy of Maverick Projects.
ALMANACa monthly performance art gathering
Sunday afternoons at Asylum Chapel, Peckham
Dates: 28.09, 02.11 & 07.12.2025
Tickets | Expression of Interest for Artists
The series is intended as a way of providing a social space for London’s performance art community to meet (and expand!) and as a regular platform for performance artists to make work. We hope ALMANAC can be a useful space for artists and audiences, especially in these lean times.
This series takes place in Asylum Chapel, a gorgeous, evocative Georgian space, resonant with ideas of time and memory, and practices of sanctuary, belief and justice.
Each event will feature performances from three artists, programmed through invitation and open call. If you are interested in presenting work at ALMANAC, there is more information below.
The first three events are planned for Autumn 2025:
> Sunday 28 September, 3-6pm
> Sunday 2 November, 3-6pm
> Sunday 7 December, 3-6pm
The performances will take place in Asylum Chapel, Peckham. Queens Road Peckham (Overground and National Rail) is a 10 minute walk away and the area is well served by buses on the Old Kent Road.
Address: Caroline Gardens, Asylum Rd, London SE15 2SQ
Access: there are several steps leading into the venue. There are no accessible toilets onsite.
Please direct any queries to producing@futureritual.co.uk.
Sunday 28 September
Asylum Chapel, SE15 2SQ | Tickets: £6/£12/£18/£24
Julia Bardsley
SPELL: an intensity for | from The Abyss SystemA venatic presence conjures, organises + activates materials generated from The Abyss System #1. - transmitting particles back into the dark.
Artist Bio: Julia Bardsley
What to expect
There will be three performances (15-30 minutes) with a break between each one. Further information on the performances will be shared below.
Everyone will have an individual wooden chair. The Chapel is an old, stone building. We suggest dressing appropriately for the weather.
Drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be available on a donation basis. There is an option to donate in exhcange for drinks tokens when booking tickets.
There are two toilets at the chapel.
Often, it seems that we need to wait for funding to make anything happen.
In the spirit of independent culture, we are organising ALMANAC without funding - the costs of the event (artist fees, venue, production and documentation) are met through ticket income.
Tickets are available on a Pay What You Can basis. There are a limited number (20) of £6 tickets available for each event.
We hope most of our audience are able to pay £12 or £18, supporting the lower price tickets and helping us meet the costs of putting the event on.
There’s also a £24 option for those feeling flush!
Asylum Chapel, Caroline Gardens, Peckham. Images courtesy of Maverick Projects.
open call
ALMANAC will be programmed through both invitation and open call. If you are interested in performing at ALMANAC, please read all the information below and then share an expression of interest via the google form below.What kind of work are we looking for?
While we remain committed to action-led performance art and embodied practices that engage with ideas of ritual, land, and mystery, we intend to hold our curatorial focus a little less tightly with ALMANAC. If you have felt in the past that, in terms of aesthetics or form, Future Ritual was not the right platform for your work, we would still be interested to hear from you.
We want to present mixed bills of artists of all levels of experience.
The Asylum Chapel space is resonant and has a particular presence. In making curatorial decisions we will be thinking about how potential works work with (or rub against) its energies.
What are the limitations?
Given the event format, we are looking for pieces that are 15-30 minutes long. If there is enough interest in presenting durational works, we may look at a special durational event in the future.
There is almost no tech in the space. There will be natural light (in the earlier parts of the event, fading to darkness later), plus low, warm light in the space. We are also considering uplighters. Projection is possible.
The Chapel is in a residential area, so live, amplified sound (including microphones) are not allowed by the venue. Recorded sound (at a low level) is permitted. The space has a great sonic resonance and echo for vocals.
We will discuss materials and objects with artists in advance.
What can we offer?
We can offer an honorarium of £150 per performance (though if we do really well on tickets there may be the scope to increase this).
We can offer artists a day of studio space in Deptford ahead of the performance.
All performances will have high quality photographic documentation.
Process: Expressions of Interest
If this all sounds good, please complete this expression of interest form. As we are imagining ALMANAC as a recurring event series, there is no deadline for this. We will be reviewing EOIs on a rolling basis and will try to write in good time to confirm if: we are able to invite you to perform; if we’d like to keep the conversation open for a future programme; or if your idea doesn’t feel like the right fit for ALMANAC.
Submit your Expression of Interest