Cobblestone catwalk with some star walkers and walks. Over 100 bespoke fashion garments made by The Gate, using clothing salvaged from The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection. Styled by Alice Fraser, The Horse Hospital Collective, and associates. Makeup by Olivia Wiles (makruar), runway soundtrack by Rat Section.
Un/stable series showcases improvised music, with two sets from a trio formed of Rory Salter, Billy Steiger, and Maddie Banwell.
After a first date sell out, THH hosts Witch Post + special guests for a second round
A unique interaction of film and live performance, where the narrator/performer exists in many different shapes and places.
Dark-edged spoken word, lively talk about concrete buildings and live music for dancing to architecture. With performance from Mira Aroyo (aka Ladytron), live discussion with John Grindrod and Gillian Darley (live version of Monstrosities Mon Amour ). Hosted by Travis Elborough & Stonecirclesampler
An evening of music featuring: Tape-hiss séances from The Clothes; folk tunes and free improvisation from C Joynes; experimental songwriting from Rory JS.
Often dismissed as gratuitous or artistically empty, gore remains one of horror cinema’s most contested pleasures. This lecture reframes gore as an aesthetic practice rooted in tactility, craft, and collaboration. Tracing the devaluation of gore films and their fandoms, it situates graphic violence within broader artistic traditions and examines practical effects as a form of resistance to digital smoothness.
Join some of The Noisy Women Present co-founders; Faradena Afifi, Maggie Nicols & Gwendolyn Kassenaar as part of an exciting lineup from this mixed arts collective!
With Steve Beresford, Dee Byrne, Charlie Folorunsho, Bea Hebron, Ningrui Liu aka Akira, Majik, Jo Morrison, Andrew Ciccone, Anjalika Saga, Bettina Schroeder, Nicky Smith, James A Smith, Felix X Tigersonic, Gardyloo Spew & Julian Woods
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
French songs, noises, rumors of distant and early musics, short and cruel poems, handcrafted instruments, Radio-amplifiers, circuit bending and other wasted electronic devices. Bégayer is a quintet from the south-east of France.
An evening that moves between embodied rhythm, disembodied choreography, and live improvisation, featuring The Drum Also Dances and Breath Quartet
Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.
ONe_Orchestra new is a group of improvising musicians brought together by Caroline Kraabel that welcomes trans-feminine, trans-masculine, and non-binary people, and cisgender women. They explore large-group free improvisation (mostly acoustic) from the perspective of otherness in identities and in music.
Project DIVFUSE is presenting its second off-site event and a first one at The Horse Hospital. Bringing together several artists who have exhibited or performed at DIVFUSE micro project space in Lower Clapton E5 since its doors first opened to the public in July 2021, this evening will showcase sound inspired films.
The Scottish-Welsh-Geordie-Lancashire-Australian supergroup Hen Ogledd will be performing a special 8-hour sound-ritual in the most haunted and wondrous locale of The Horse Hospital.
Un/stable series showcases improvised music, with two sets from a trio formed of Benedict Drew, Angharad Davies, and Alex McKenzie.
Mark Pilkington, author of the UFO meta-conspiracy classic Mirage Men, presents a curated selection of his favourite filmic artefacts from the flying saucer era and beyond. Against the backdrop of the longest sustained wave of UFO coverage in the United States since the 1940s—culminating in a series of inconclusive congressional hearings—this lecture examines how moving images shape belief, doubt, and wonder.
Dublin’s record label MirrorWorld lands at The Horse Hospital with two live performances from Nashpaints & Henry Earnest
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
A festival of disappearing images. Things that can’t be saved. Across disciplines: film, performance, theatre, music, talk.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
The Hotel Presents: Rocheman, Raisa K, Excel DJ, and jb glazer (DJ) to mark the release of Basin by Rocheman.
Elisabeth Klinck is a contemporary violinist, composer and performer based in Brussels. With a background in electroacoustic composition and theatre she navigates through emotional landscapes using intimate sound textures and atmospheric tones. The night opens with an improvised music trio of Barbie Mukoda (flutes), Elien De Schryver (violin), and Andrea Bolzoni (guitar).
Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.
whatever51 hosts a release party of his new album Presence, joined by Eli-O, thirdeye and ijji
A two day residency from The Sleeves - a duo of Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham - to celebrate the launch of their album.
Led by practitioner Hannah Marshall, a participatory improvisation workshop open to all abilities, levels of experience, and instruments.
A series of afternoon underground queer cinema at The Horse Hospital. Nitrate Kisses (1992) is the first feature documentary by Barbara Hammer, a pioneer of lesbian cinema. It weaves striking images of four gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed forbidden and invisible history. Archival footage from the first gay film in the U.S., Lot In Sodom (1933) is interwoven in this haunting documentary. This will be screened proceeded the film, with a live score.
Mindwarcinema present a screening of the cult classic The Arrival (1980), directed by Ruth Norman of The Unarius Academy of Science. The screening will be accompanied by an in conversation between Tanner F Boyle, author of Getting Spooked and The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction) and Mark Pilkington (author of Mirage Men and publisher of Stranger Attractor Press).
For the tenth iteration of Speech Muse, we'll be joined by Neil Luck, Odie ji Ghast, and a duo of Eleanor Tennyson + BJ Holy. Plus, entertainment from REUBEN!
GRAIN is an ongoing series of improvised and experimental music. With live performance from: Tongue Depressor, Marija Covačević, Steve Noble / Caius Williams, Theodora Laird / Grace Black.
The Gathering is monthly residency series from vocalist, dancer and performer Maggie Nicols.
A series of afternoon underground queer cinema at The Horse Hospital. Black is… Black Ain’t (1995) is the final film of director Marlon Riggs. His camera traverses the country, bringing us face to face with Black folks young and old, rich and poor, rural and urban, gay and straight, grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contested definitions of Blackness. Hooked up to an IV in his hospital bed, Riggs takes strength for his struggle against AIDS from the continual resilience of the African Americans in the face of overwhelming oppression. The screening is proceeded by a selection of shorts by video artist Tom Rubnitz.
Live Music from Rotting, Ikologies, Szymon Zdunek, and Form Affinity.
Infant Tree Presents: diatribes & Jean-Luc Guionnet | Zhao Ziyi | [grace+alex] | Agata Genissel
His House (2020) is a ghost story about displacement, precarity, and the inescapable afterlives of empire. This lecture situates the film within a global “horror cinema of precarity” that uses the genre to address marginalised experiences. Drawing on postcolonial Gothic and hauntological theory, it explores how Britain’s imperial and capitalist legacies haunt the film atmospherically rather than corporeally.
It’s time to scream. In ecstasy and agony, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, reaching and giving up
An evening of folk music from Mataio Austin Dean (of Shovel Dance Collective and Les Caravanes) with ensemble, and a solo set from Bianca Wilson (of The Pegwells and Calliope). Austin Dean will be performing an extended, improvised performance (including poetry readings and fragments of other songs) of the Guyanese folk song, August Morning.
A series of afternoon underground queer cinema at The Horse Hospital. Buddies (1985), directed by Arthur Bressan Jr., was the first narrative film made about AIDS. Alongside Buddies, Bressan is known for the documentary Gay USA and a number of pornographic films. The screening will be proceeded by a selection of shorts directed by the video artist and AIDS activist Tom Rubnitz.
A multidisciplinary bill, mixing auto-fictional film, live vocals from the heart and independent performance makers Luisa D Rozo and THE3KAYAS, alongside fine tune slector Nymity
An evening of music with a trio set from John Edwards (bass), Caroline Kraabel (saxophone/voice) and Regan Bowering (drums), and a duo from Mike O'Malley (guitar) and Daniel S. Evans (turntable and electronics).
Glasgow-based trio Taupe have their album launch at The Horse Hospital, joined by Dee Byrne & Cath Roberts, as well as a solo set by Christos Stylianides
Un/stable series showcases improvised music, with two sets from a trio formed of John Edwards, Daniel S. Evans, and Kiran Leonard.
Selling clothing, books, artworks, jewellery, accessories, homeware, merch and more.
Lebanese snacks served throughout the day.
Manchester based Handle grace us with their debut show at The Horse Hospital, alongside duo UH
A double bill of performances from Komuna Collective and Plus Minus Ensemble. Featuring works composed by: Michael Gordon, Imogen Davey, Adam Possener, Francesca Fargion, and Oliver Sellwood.
What remains in the body after COVID-era anti-Asian racism? A multidisciplinary event exploring how anti-Asian hate during COVID registered in the body and how it might be released together with live performances from Ming Chin Hsieh and Angela Wai Nok Hui
Inclusive vocal acceptance and improvisation workshop with Alya Al Sultani.
SONIDERA is a social event that platforms music from the Global South, articulating sonic discourse through carefully selected playlists and a safe environment for dancing and collective enjoyment
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