Live Events
Live events give us, artists and audiences the chance to experiment
Our live events programme of festivals, tours, one-off events and think tanks allows us to explore new ideas as producers, marketers and fundraisers. As a team we’re culturally curious, and are always interested to find out how, why and where our ideas will work - or won’t, and our events give us the chance to do just that.
Our live programme is, in effect, the hub team’s ‘creative laboratory’. Here’s some info on some of our experiments…
Coming soon to a port near you (well, if you live near the Black Sea!), the hub’s SEAS Club, goes ashore in Odessa, Varna and Mangalia, as part of the SEAS project, showcasing the best of Baltic talent, and featuring sets from the best DJs on these national scenes. While we’re there, we’ll also be searching out artists to take part in our 2009 North Sea odyssey. Find out the latest about our travels and clubbing tales by subscribing to our blog.
To date Phrased & Confused, our music and spoken word project has taken in two national tours. This year, we’re taking our Phrased & Confused festival tent to the Summer Sundae Weekender, and will be commissioning four spoken word artists to create new work specially for the festival. Find out more here
Our Fertilizer festival, which each year showcases ‘Good Shit from’ a particular country, introduces the best new international talent to UK audiences, and develops our national and international networks. At the moment, we’re working up our ideas for Fertilizer Poland with our co-producers, Sound UK. You can read our blog here.
Our sides are still aching and we’re still scratching our heads after April’s Insulting Cabaret, which we produced for international writers’ organisation, International PEN, as part of its Free The Word! Festival. The line up featured some of the most soulful readings and most incisive comedy we’ve heard in a while – real food for thought.
Previous live experiments include Exhibition Road Music Day; The Bays, Barbieri and Torn tour for the Contemporary Music Network, the DN-Asia conference, produced in association with Watermans Arts Centre, and a Performing Arts Showcase for the British Council.
Live Events
» Fertilizer Festival Music festival showcasing good shit from around the world
» Phrased & Confused Tour that asks ‘Which Comes First? The music or the words?’
» The Bays, Barbieri and White Improvised electronica tour for CMN
» Movimento Portuguese dance and live art festival
» Accidental Powercut UK’s leading electronic artists - unplugged
» Exhibition Road Music Day Production of London’s first ever Fête de la Musique event
» DNAsia showcase and conference focused on South Asian arts in the UK
» British Council Perfroming Arts Seminars gathering of international arts managers