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Lois Weaver
Answering the Call
4 - 8 May
This intensive workshop looks at purpose, service and ministry in Live Art.
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Martin O’Brien
On Discipline
11 - 15 May
This intensive workshop looks at the ways commitment, repitition and training shape our work.
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Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
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a performance art gathering | next: sunday 17 may
> tickets - £14//£10//£6
ALMANAC is a recurring performance art gathering in London, organised by Future Ritual.
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.
Following three evocative events at Asylum Chapel last year, we are reframing ALMANAC as a space for experimentation - by showing work here, artists are asking questions and seeking insight. In this, we acknowledge the process driven nature of performance art and welcome performances which risk it all, mutating and misbheaving. We hope ALMANAC can be a useful space for artists and audiences, especially in these lean times.
Our events this year take place in Peckham’s Bussey Building, a light-filled former industrial space. Each event will feature performances from three artists, programmed through invitation and open call.
> Sunday 17 May, 3-6pm
> further dates to follow
The performances will take place at Studio: Future Ritual, Bussey Building (yellow stairs), Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
Peckham Rye station (served by the Windrush line and National Rail) is a 5 minute walk away.
contact
Please direct any queries to producing [at] futureritual.co.uk
The studio is located on the second floor of the Bussey Building, a former industrial warehouse. Regrettably, there is currently no lift access to this studio.
There are 44 steps, across 5 flights with between 5 and 10 steps each. There is a handrail along the stairs. There are bathrooms on the same floor as the studio.
If there are other ways we can facilitate your access to the event, please let us know.
> further accessibility info
sunday 17 may
tickets - £14//£10//£6 | featuring Vridhhi Chaudhry, Joseph Morgan Schofield and Claudia Palazzo
Vridhhi Chaudhry. Image courtesy of the aritst.
Vridhhi Chaudhry
Vridhhi C. (b. Delhi, lives and works in Toronto, Canada) is a performance artist and painter working with ritual, mark-making, and durational embodied practices. Their work navigates memory, trauma, and unseen labor through the body and material, positioning the self as witness, participant, and medium. Their research and practice intersect psychology, sociology, and magic realism, and embrace relational aesthetics, inviting audiences to engage in acts of empathy, care, and shared reflection. They have exhibited and performed in Canada, India, and Japan.Joseph Morgan Schofield, with bare feet touching the sky I yearn, Future Ritual, ICA (London), 2022. Photo by zack mennell.
Joseph Morgan Schofield
JMS is a curator, artist and creative producer. At the heart of these entangled practices is an understanding of performance art as a potent, contemporary modality of ritual. He / they draws on queer, ecological and esoteric thought to engage with the lost, the unseen, the forgotten. He understands his performances and films as thin places, as ceremony, as a way of practicing sensitivity, of reorienting attention and touching the more raw edges of experience.
As a curator, Joseph activates spaces for collective encounter through Future Ritual, cultivating intergenerational exchange and artist-led research, experimentation and creation.
Joseph lives in London (UK) but most often works in dialogue with the wet, windy Pennine moors and Cumbrian fells of the English North West.
As a curator, Joseph activates spaces for collective encounter through Future Ritual, cultivating intergenerational exchange and artist-led research, experimentation and creation.
Joseph lives in London (UK) but most often works in dialogue with the wet, windy Pennine moors and Cumbrian fells of the English North West.
Claudia Palazzo, The Last Breath Society workshop. Photo by Marco Berardi.
Claudia Palazzo
Claudia Palazzo is a London born and based artist and dancer working across the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation, alternative cabaret and film using her body as a responsive site to her environment and territory. The work exists somewhere between the nightclub, gallery and street, and focuses on the live experience and a place to be able to shift through, let go and sit/deal with. It is often poetic, feral, meditative and violent in its structure, influenced by roots in nightclub culture, inner-city concrete dwellings and psychophysical training. She seeks to establish charged connections and subliminal feedback loops of understanding with an audience in order to process and harness our collective and individual sense of joy, sadness, resistance, power and endurance. Current research is around absorbing impact, damaged support structures, what can represent us in our absence and repair and rebuild.
Surreal urgency.
On the edge of feral.
With a bassline.
what to expect
There will be three performances (15-30 minutes) with a break between each one.
Seating is a mix of cushions and wooden benches. There are a limited number of chairs with backs. Seats will be prioritised for those with access needs.
Drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be available on a donation basis. We can take donation by card payment at the venue.
The maximum capacity is 50.
about Pay What You Can
Tickets are available on a Pay What You Can basis. There are a limited number of £6 tickets available for each event.
We hope most of our audience are able to pay £10 or £14, supporting the lower price tickets and helping us meet the costs of putting the event on.
There’s also a £20 option for those feeling flush! If you are able to pay this, you’re helping us to keep ALMANAC going into the future.
> tickets - £14//£10//£6
> Future Ritual: Industrial Echoes