Future Ritual is a practice of gathering, curating and organising. We collaborate with artists to create contemporary expressions of performance and ritual, working to support the emergence of new and more attuned cultures. 

We are based in Peckham (London) and work from STUDIO: Future Ritual.


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STUDIO Residents wanted, deadline 31 May

Join our community of practice at STUDIO: Future Ritual, a new space for gathering, performance and embodied practice in Peckham.

> full call out
> about STUDIO

DISCHARGE
Saturday 18 July

A sanctuary of sickness with short sharp performances, hosted by IKLECTIK (Peckham).

> event info + tickets

Watch Our Work
 
Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
> watch










Julia Bardsley, #1. M[Eye] Abyss i[DEA], Peopling the Palace Festival, 2025. Photo by Claire Nolan.



an intensive workshop with Julia Bardsley, Peckham (London), Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 October 2026

> Tickets: £300 // £250 concession






How can slow process + analogue experimentation re-enchant our creative processes?
Engaging with practices of slow cognition + radical adaptation, Julia Bardsley invites participants to enter an abyssal world.

  • Abyssal – of or like an abyss: immeasurable; unfathomable

  • Abyssal - of the ecological zone along the deep ocean floor

This workshop reimagines the black box (theatre, camera, mind, and eye/i) as a sanctuary, a positive space for finding alternative ways of doing + making. What unknown hunches, pleasures + discoveries can be found in the dark? 

 Emerging from her current research project, The Abyss System, the workshop draws on Julia’s extensive experience working with the interplay of performance, pinhole photography, video projection, sculptural objects, psychological garments + hybrid personae.

Working with the fading autumn light, we will construct + inhabit a black box abyss, a site of strange speculative agency + analogue experimentation.

The week will involve mapping + modelling our creative processes, forming new performative beings + forging collaborative + coexistent choreographies.

The abyss methodology investigates the creative process as an act of conjuring + of cultivating the conditions for wonder – into | out of the dark.


> collaborators: Julia Bardsley


who is this for?

We welcome those at any stage of practice, including those who are relatively emerging, those who have practiced for many years, and those who are returning to a practice.

We will experiment with theatrical and photographic modes of thinking, though you do not need to be a theatre maker or a photographer.

The workshop is for those who welcome slowness, and are open to experimentation, process and discovery.

accessibility
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 during the workshop, please let us know on the info form when making your booking - or write to us with any questions.

> further accessibility info


to participate





The workshop is priced £300 for the week (£250 concessions). To access the concession price, use the code ‘concession50’ at checkout. There is the option to pay a £90 deposit, with the balance payable one month before the workshop.  

There are a limited number of further subsidised places available, please write to us to enquire about those if you would not otherwise be able to take part.

The number of participants will be limited to 15 artists. 

> Tickets: £300 // £250 concession

Please note that deposits are non-refundable if you have to cancel your place.

However, if you have paid the full amount and need to cancel your place we will refund you the balance (price minus deposit), as long as cancellation is more than 4 weeks before the workshop (22 September). Cancellations less than 4 weeks before the workshop are non-refundable.
key info
14.30 - 21.00, daily

Bussey Building, Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST

If you have any questions, please contact Future Ritual:
producing@futureritual.co.uk
Julia Bardsley, medea_DARK|ROOM, SPILL Festival, 2013. Photo by Andrew Poppy.