2026
CEREMONY, Future Ritual’s festival of performance art returns for its second edition in Peckham this November.
Intergenerational and international, CEREMONY is a heady gathering of artists and ideas. This year’s programme considers the ways queers, migrants and others who inhabit the outsides and undersides have tended to mystery, ritual and connection in the shadow of Empire and industry. What wild energies and enlivening presences may yet be found, growing up through the concrete?
The programme features: the world premiere of ASCLEPEION by Ron Athey; new commissions by n:u (melissandre varin), Pianka Pärna and Mal Parry; durational works by Julia Bardsley, Dagmara Bilon, gustaf broms, Rona Lee, Lynn Lu and Katharine Meynell; and performances by Tiziano Cruz, Eoin McCaul, Paul Regan and Lois Weaver.
There’s also DISCHARGE, a performance party curated by Martin O’Brien and featuring Shaun Caton, Daniel Oliver + Claudia Palazzo, selina bonelli, Bart Seng Wen Long and Ewan Hindes.
The festival opens with the launch of Dani d’Emilia’s ABSCISSION, a new book which considers how we might navigate endings, identity, metabolic intimacy and planetary crisis beyond the binaries that shape dominant ways of understanding ourselves and the world.
There are discursive events: GRAFTING, for anyone who is (or wants to be) professionally engaged in performance art, and ARTISTS TALKING, a morning of conversation open to all.
And gustaf broms returns to London to offer a 5 day intensive workshop exploring performing with the hidden and feral energies of the city, and Dani d’Emilia explores the practices of ecological reconfiguration through a two day artist lab.
Press enquiries to abstrakt [at] abstraktpublicity.co.uk
All other enquiries to producing [at] futureritual.co.uk
6.30pm | LADA | info | rsvp
Dani d’Emilia: ABSICISSION
conversation + book launch
STUDIO: Future Ritual | info | tickets
gustaf broms: Performated places_urban thresholdsworkshop
STUDIO: Future Ritual | info | tickets
Dani d’Emilia: Practices of Ecological Reconfigurationworkshop
Pianka Pärna + Paul Regandouble bill
Mal Parry + Eoin McCauldouble bill
11am | Copeland Gallery | info | free
GRAFTING connections + conversations
Julia Bardsley +
Katharine Meynell
durational works
7.30pm | Copeland Gallery | info | tickets
Tiziano Cruz performance lecture
doors 9pm | Unit 8 | info | tickets
ASCLEPEION
by Ron Athey
with Carmina Escobar, Federica Dauri, Hermes Pittakos + Myrgon
11am | Unit 8 | info | free, rsvp
ARTISTS TALKING conversations
Julia Bardsley
+ Dagmara Bilondurational works
2pm | Copeland Gallery | info | tickets
FREE(HOLD)
by n:u (melissandre varin)
with Ãssia Ghendir, Echo Morgan, Kelvin Atmadibrata + Sel Kofiga
doors 6pm | Unit 8 | info | tickets
ASCLEPEION
by Ron Athey
with Carmina Escobar, Federica Dauri, Hermes Pittakos + Myrgon
doors 7.30pm | Copeland Gallery | info | tickets
DISCHARGEshort sharp shocks from Shaun Caton, Daniel Oliver + Claudia Palazzo, selina bonelli, Bart Seng Wen Long, + Ewan Hindes
Julia Bardsley, gustaf broms, Rona Lee + Lynn Lu
durational works
7pm | Copeland Gallery | info | tickets
WHAT’S A CHAIR WITHOUT A TABLE
by Lois Weaver
further information
All of our events are ticketed. Tickets are offered on a first/second/third release basis - meaning the lower priced tickets are available first.
There are an allocation of tickets for those in receipt of Universal and Pension Credit available for each event.
You’ll find a day pass option, which gives entry to all events on a given day, on each day’s ticket page.
There’s also a limited number of full week passes available, priced £90/£120.
If you require free access companion tickets, or if price is a barrier, please do contact us.
All events are priced to reflect the costs of putting independent events on in London, and paying artists fairly. CEREMONY does not make a profit.
Please see individual event pages for fuller accessibility information. You can read about what to expect at our events here.
Events taking place in Copeland Gallery and Unit 8 are Wheelchair Accessible. Those taking place in Safehouse 1&2 are not generally accessible, though please do be in touch to request more information.
Regina Agard-Brathwaite - Programme Coordinator
Herbe Walmsley - Production Manager
The festival is presented in partnership with Copeland Park and Bussey Building, Creative Capital, Fierce Festival, Live Art Development Agency and supported with public funds by Arts Council England.
Enquiries: producing@futureritual.co.uk.