// CEREMONY Festival
n:u (melissandre varin)


A devotional live artwork dedicated to the practice of trying again, and again.


KEY INFO
> Saturday 28 November 2026
> 2pm (60 minutes)
> Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN
ACCESSIBILITY
> Wheelchair Accessible

TICKETS
> £12 / £14 / £16
> UC / PC: £10

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FREE(HOLD) // n:u (melissandre varin)

n:u (melissandre varin), FREE(HOLD), 2026. Photo by Devika Bilimoria. 

 FREE(HOLD) is a devotional live artwork at the junction of dance, performance, and ritual. The performance is dedicated to the practice of trying again, and again.

n:u (melissandre varin) gathers artists Ãssia Ghendir, Kelvin Atmadibrata, Sel Kofiga and  Xie Rong (aka Echo Morgan), unearthing tensions faced by those settling in the belly of the colonial beasts.

Guided by spiritual, material and human encounters, the artists engage with ideas of land ownership, liberation, and the inherited, moving intimately with the ghosts of Empire.

FREE(HOLD) reflects on the ways systems of dominance, sick capitalism and accumulation condition and pre-determine our (im)possible relationships to place, land, and belonging.

>  Artist Bio: n:u (melissandre varin)


 Lead artist: n:u (melissandre varin)

Co-creators: Ãssia Ghendir, Kelvin Atmadibrata, Sel Kofiga and  Xie Rong (aka Echo Morgan)

Producer: Future Ritual

Access Support: Gisou Golshani

Press: ABSTRAKT

Commissioned by Fierce Festival and Future Ritual. FREE(HOLD) is supported using public funds by Arts Council England.

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England.