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///////////DJ'S ROCKY MILK, RANDY & MONICA, FROSTY KNUCKLES/////////
/////////SATURDAY MARCH 19TH////////
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IT'S BACK!! OHHHH DEAR LORD! RAD FESTA, RAD FESTA, RAD FESTA, RAD FESTA RAAAAD FESTAAAA!
DJS Aphex twink & Pirate Bae (Sean Burns & Poppy Tibbetts) Alexandre & Afonso HRH Princess Julia (Julia Fodor)
PERFORMANCES: Kevin Le Grand Bailor (more to be annouced)
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Spoken Word London is an open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work. Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.
Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.
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Watch a brilliant short documentary upon SWL and some of its regular readers, made by Amelia Hazlitt, here: http://vimeo.com/103176010
And a feature length film of our first anniversary of SWL 'Anti-Hate', made by Timothy Lock, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk-TXhERNHo
You can also read an academic dissertation written on SWL here, by William Barns-Graham, on 'Lost in the Moment: Opening Up Utopian Performance With the Lost Generation at Spoken Word London': https://www.academia.edu/9916694/Lost_in_the_Moment_Opening_Up_Utopian_Performance_with_the_Lost_Generation_at_Spoken_Word_London
SWL host Pat Cash talks about SWL and spoken word in London on Lunar Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwOqqiqeOk
SWL's second anniversary Anti-Hate is covered on Push Pony by Tracy Kawalik: http://pushpony.com/culture/word/
Join us for our first night of Women's Dart's open to all women. Teams of 3, instruction by our lovely staff, a cocktail special and DJ's. Come and throw some sharp objects!
Sign up on the Facebook page below.
Dark Disco Presents:The opening night of our 80's pop party : ATOMIC!
DJ Vasiliki & DJ Shai Rothfeld will play: 80's Anthems - New Wave Classics - New Romantics & Synth-Pop
Friday 11/3 From 10pm till 3am
You might dance to Blondie / Wham! / Yello / David Bowie / The Smiths / Talking Heads / Depeche Mode / New Order / Chaka Khan / Tears For Fears / The Cure / Eurothmics / Iggy Pop / Kylie Minouge / Fine Young Cannibals / Roxy Music / Visage / Erasure / Kate Bush / Sandra / Bronski Beat / Heaven 17 / Bananarama / Duran Duran / Siouxsie & the Banshees / Madonna / Prince / Culture Club / Men Without Hats / Pixies / Joy Division / The Specials / Salt n Pepa / Soft Cell / OMD / Suzanne Vega / Johnny Hates Jazz / The Communards / Level 42 / Yazz / Madness / Belinda Carlisle / Grace Jones / Tiffany / Human League / Pet Shop Boys / Rick Astley!! & Many More... Advance tickets £5 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/349409 Facebook attend list £6
https://www.facebook.com/events/1543406412638934/ On The Door £8 ********* REQUESTS ARE WELCOME *************
Join us for a drink and celebration for our new Window Exhibition You Are Here. Drinks
6.30pm
VFD/Free
Check out https://www.facebook.com/Mascular-Studio-123335157764373/?
You Are here, London based photography studio specialising in male portrait, nude, physique and fine art photography.
https://www.facebook.com/Mascular-Studio-123335157764373/?fref=ts
Its back this weekend.. SHORT VERSION:
Back yet again for another mind altering visit to the underbelly of every ultimate weekend SUNDAY~FUNDAY is your go-to Sunday night queer performance and dress-up dance party at VFD. For those in search of a final moment to saver the weekend SUNDAY~FUNDAY brings the big toys out for one final play with contagiously danceable music, an infamous late-night drag show, ice-breaker/hang-over games, snazzy drinks, ambitious party and costume themes and always a double dose of fun! This time round it's Mother's Day, so Dress like your Mum and Dance like your Dad, thems the rules! 7:00PM-LATE, £5 on the door Message Maxi More for guestlist LONG VERSION
(Sounds of church-bells and birdsong)
Mothering Sunday is a holiday celebrated by Catholic and Protestant Christians in some parts of Europe. It falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter.
During the sixteenth century, people returned to their mother church, the main church or cathedral of the area, for a service to be held on Laetare Sunday. In later times, Mothering Sunday became a day when domestic servants were given a day off to visit their “mother church”, usually with their own mothers and other family members. It was often the only time that whole families could gather together, since on other days they were prevented by conflicting working hours, and servants were not given free days on other occasions. Mother’s Day celebrations take place in almost every culture and country upon the planet, and each have their own traits and customs to celebrate the power, strength and generosity of Mothers.
Taking inspiration from by-gone times, as well as contemporary contextual influences, SUNDAY~FUNDAY is throwing the MOTHER of all parties to celebrate mothers, the mother in all of us and the Mother Church of VFD. Maxi More and her friends invite you into our Mother Church, VFD, to pay respect to the goddesses that protect queer space and shelter each and every creature that visits her.
We also invite you to become Mother’s for the evening, as we all have maternal energy within us that can be utilised to nurture creativity and spread positivity. Come dressed as the ultimate Yummy Mummy, complete with elaborately named sprogs, enormous frappaccinos, fake-furr gillet and uggs. Or perhaps you’d like to become an expectant mother, glowing skin and “baby-on-board” broached?
The night will include the ultimate Mother’s-Day playlist, perfect for reverberating maternal energy out into the universe. Our now infamous late-night drag show will bring together Mother’s of all kind, from the irresponsible, the impossible, even the celestial Mother her self may make an appearance. Yummy Mummy refreshments and pop-up Belsize Park style café will accommodate any gaggle of Mums who may want to swap tips on the best eco friendly recycled yak hair nappies, and macro-biotic Himalayan rice crackers. Also included: try before you buy Baby-Bumps and pre-natal yoga classes, not to mention all our usual games and antics.
So get Dad to look after the kids, or just bring them along too, and get into the yummy Mummy vibe, for a night of maternal mayhem.
Event link below
'And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack,And you may find yourself in another part of the world, And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile, And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, And you may ask yourself: Well… how did I get here?' – David Byrne, 1980
…and you may find yourself in a dark and sweaty basement, covered in glitter, dancing to the best disco, new wave and glam tunes every recorded. And you may ask yourself: why can't every Saturday night be this good?
After our mega Bowie celebration last time around, BDTH is back. Get ready for more…
'80s / NEW WAVE / DISCO / GLAM / SYNTHPOP GLITTER / SWEETS / IN-HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHER
Expect to hear: BLONDIE / KATE BUSH / CHIC / MADONNA / DAVID BOWIE / THE SMITHS / TALKING HEADS / FLEETWOOD MAC / SALT N PEPA / PULP / THE SPECIALS / EURYTHMICS / THE SLITS / DIANA ROSS / SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES / THE CURE / PATTI SMITH / THE HUMAN LEAGUE / INXS / EARTH, WIND AND FIRE / BUZZCOCKS / IGGY POP / PRINCE / PIXIES / TOM TOM CLUB / BANANARAMA / DEPECHE MODE / NEW ORDER / JOY DIVISION / KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND / MADNESS / VISAGE / GRACE JONES & MORE!
9PM-3AM Saturday 5th March
VFD, 66 Stoke Newington Road
HOW MUCH ♥ £5 – advance ticket link coming soon
POST YOUR REQUESTS ON THE WALL! http://www.facebook.com/events/936746289754638/
Get sucked into the second instalment of Disco Vacuum. A night of Leftfield, Italo, Boogie & Cosmic Disco at VFD. Vinyl only selections from Jon Lowe and Marc Raue. £3 on the door. [embed]https://soundcloud.com/discovacuum[/embed]
Details here
After a show at NTS this month we bring you ƸӜƷ/\STRALƸӜƷPL/\NEƸӜƷC|OUDƸӜƷDRE/\MSƸӜƷ ~~~ 23/2 ~ NTS [WBH] 3/3 ~ VFD ~~~ DJ Set [Niche-N-Bump] Flailing Limbs Hulk Holborn [ƸӜƷ] Marylebone Bum [ƸӜƷ] ~~~ /\STRAL PROJECTION///\RT Helena Izett [http://helenaizett.com/] Georgina Umney [https://patterninmotion.carbonmade.com/] ~~~ ♥ 4 /\LLS 7pm-1am
Back again for another mind altering visit to the underbelly of every ultimate weekend SUNDAY~FUNDAY is your go-to Sunday night queer performance and dress-up dance party at Vogue Fabrics Dalston. For those in search of a final moment to saver the weekend SUNDAY~FUNDAY brings the big toys out for one final play with contagiously danceable music, an infamous late-night drag show, ice-breaker/hang-over games, snazzy drinks, ambitious party and costume themes and always a double dose of fun!
9:00PM-LATE £5 on the door Message Maxi More for guestlist
LONG VERSION: ............................................................................................................. leap year n. 1. A year in the Gregorian calendar having 366 days, with the extra day, February 29, intercalated to compensate for the quarter-day difference between an ordinary year and the astronomical year. 2. An intercalary year in a calendar. .............................................................................................................
For one night only SUNDAY~FUNDAY celebrates the occurrence of a magical moment that happens but once every four years, a mysterious and momentous day to celebrate without need for patriotism, territorialism or clouded by religious murkiness. Leap into our leap-day party and live out your alternate desires.
Maxi More and her fabulous friends will be joined by Project Rage Queen, a Los Angeles-based collective of radical queer multi-media artists, as well as a host of other local performance artists and party goers. Together they will equip you with all you need for your journey and assist you in creating and becoming a celebration, transitioning through the normative surface, allowing you to be reborn the other side.
In one special evening we acknowledge and exalt the divine passage our mother earth is making around our sun, whilst she too dances towards her unstoppable destiny on a road we can barely understand, but have grown to know as "time". For it is upon this very eve, that we are gifted a bonus day. A leap-day that allows us all to leap from the normal and drab to the supernatural and carnivalesque.
It is this night that disrupts all others, it blurs out all expected and previous existences. Everything we took as everlasting and unchanging is now gone and for a few short hours, we live beyond our previous selves, on the other side.
MIRROR~WORLD
SUNDAY~FUNDAY invites all 0thers and underlings into the belly of VFD on this special evening to participate in this astronomical carnival and give a big, fabulous and FUN welcome to this day like no other. Come and dance yourselves into a frenzy, allow pioneering performers to transport you into a fantasy, mingle amongst curious, and queer creatures, and fill yourself up to the brim with FUN.
You are encouraged most importantly to have FUN: come dressed as yourself in a parallel dimension, equipped with fantastical time-travelling tools. Turn yourself inside out, wear your hat on your feet and shoes on your head. Learn to talk backwards. Sdrawkcab klat ot nrael!!!
Entry price is a mere £5, which covers the travel costs of going through to the other side and returning safely. Magical drinks specials will be on offer as well as light refreshments and heavy entertainment, all night long!
ALTERNATIVE VERSION
SUNDAY~FUNDAY was born from a desire to have a fun, queer-centric Sunday night parties in Dalston. Bored and frustrated by mass-consumed weekend and holiday culture, SUNDAY~FUNDAY uses imaginative and fantastical themes to thinly veil our true desire to simply create a queer space, open to all to come and celebrate life and all its wonderful expressions. If you’d like to get involved, whether to perform, DJ, help decorate the space, take pictures or anything, we would love you to get in touch with us! Running for the last six months at Vogue Fabrics Dalston, SUNDAY~FUNDAY happens intermittently, turning your glum Sunday nights into FUN and unexpected adventures.
Its their birthday! The fabulously fun monthly club night celebrates with a pregnancy and a party! Cam only took her eyes off the ball for one minute and Tracy's up the duff!
Straight Nasty is back for it’s monthly extravaganza (Tracy Beaker’s Baby Shower) in the Dumping Ground that is Vogue Fabrics on Saturday 27 February – and this time it’s our BIG (1st) BIRTHDAY BASH!
Put down your Frizz-ease and throw on some double demin because tonight it’s all about Trace.
Dress code: Clear Blue.
Click 'Going' for £3 guestlist all night long x
Dani Harmer ♥ Rachel Stevens ♥ Geri Haliwell ♥ Mis-Teeq ♥ Kelly Rowland ♥ Madonna ♥ Jennifer Lopez ♥ Kylie ♥ Holly Valance ♥ Cher Lloyd ♥ Sophie Ellis Bextor ♥ Cheryl Cole ♥ Eve ♥ Rihanna ♥ Cher ♥ Sugababes ♥ S Club 7 ♥ Aly & AJ ♥ Charlotte Church ♥ Carly Rae Jepsen ♥ Steps ♥ Diana Ross ♥ Backstreet Boys ♥ Britney ♥ Nicki Minaj ♥ Cascada ♥ Gaga ♥ Little Mix ♥ Girls Aloud ♥ Loreen ♥ Atomic Kitten ♥ Ariana Grande ♥ Mel C ♥ Mel B ♥ Victoria Beckham ♥ Emma Bunton ♥ Spice Girls ♥ Amerie ♥ Lolly ♥ Beyonce ♥ Althea and Donna ♥ Iggy Azalea ♥ Ciara ♥ Nicola Roberts ♥ Cheryl Lynn ♥ Alexandra Burke ♥ Billie Piper ♥ Mini Viva ♥ Janet Jackson ♥ Kelis ♥ Missy Elliott ♥ RuPaul ♥ The Corrs ♥ Katy Perry ♥ Shakira ♥ tATu ♥ Charli XCX ♥ Venga Boys ♥ Timbaland ♥ Scissor Sisters ♥ Lil’ Kim ♥ Lady Sovereign ♥ The First Wives Club Soundtrack ♥ Lily Allen ♥ Kevin Lyttle ♥ Selena Gomez ♥ B*Witched ♥ Khia ♥ Gloria Gaynor ♥ Christina Milian ♥ ♥ Olivia Newton John ♥ Gareth Gates B Sides (jokes) ♥ Alesha Dixon ♥ Aqua ♥ Azealia Banks ♥ Fergie ♥ Gwen Stefani ♥ Christina Aguilera ♥ Destiny’s Child ♥ M.I.A ♥ Taylor Swift ♥ Shania Twain ♥ Dolly Parton + MORE FABULOUS FABULOUS MUSICAL MUSIC WILL BE DELIVERED, BY C-SECTION, FOR YOUR DELECTATION
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'The kweens of kitsch are giving you an unapologetic pop party ... set to revolutionise your weekend.' - QX Magazine
'Straight Nasty provides a safe space for you to workthrough that repressed Cat Deeley fantasy' - DIVA Magazine
'Straight Nasty is hand on heart the best night out I’ve had in my whole life EVER' - Pigeons and Peacocks
♥ SAT 27 FEB V**** F****** DALSTON 10PM-3AM £3 'Going' Guestlist / £5
With resident DJs TR!MESTER & $U$ANNAH JE M'APPELLE ROCHELLE & GG BEAR SHY CHARLES
For updates and event photos be sure to 'like' STRAIGHT NASTY here:facebook.com/straightnastyclub
A night to bring all the elements of a week of Practical Magik together . With perfomances earlier in the night with doors at 9pm and programme starting at 10pm .
Project Rage Queen Family Firece. House of Health . Maison Des Fous. Transister
Djays Charles Jeffery ( LOVERBOY )Te Te Bang ( Maison Des Fous) Bamboo and April Ashley James (Transisiter)
prepare to be 'glamoured' with our entrancing peformers and enjoy the fun ecclectic beats from our djays .
Door before 11pm £3.00 after £5.00 9pm-3am
After a week of evolving, creating and collecting work / costumes and set during the week Project Rage Queen puts on a night of their own unique cabaret complete . Project Rage Queen present an evening of their mutant cabaret. Their work encompasses visceral performance, psychedelic-surrealist-horror video, trash sculpture, and immersive hallucinogenic installations that are a fusion of 'drag' , 'punk' and high/lo-fi technologies.
Take a look at some of their re worked performances and live material
This is also a shout out to makers , performers and artist who may want to get involved with this evening . Please contact us either on this page or via info@vfdalston.com
7pm-1am
Spoken Word London is an open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work. Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.
Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.
***
Watch a brilliant short documentary upon SWL and some of its regular readers, made by Amelia Hazlitt, here: http://vimeo.com/103176010
And a feature length film of our first anniversary of SWL 'Anti-Hate', made by Timothy Lock, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk-TXhERNHo
You can also read an academic dissertation written on SWL here, by William Barns-Graham, on 'Lost in the Moment: Opening Up Utopian Performance With the Lost Generation at Spoken Word London': https://www.academia.edu/9916694/Lost_in_the_Moment_Opening_Up_Utopian_Performance_with_the_Lost_Generation_at_Spoken_Word_London
SWL host Pat Cash talks about SWL and spoken word in London on Lunar Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwOqqiqeOk
SWL's second anniversary Anti-Hate is covered on Push Pony by Tracy Kawalik: http://pushpony.com/culture/word/
Project Rage Queen screen and discuss their work that centres on identity / gender / mutation and dystopian futures . Please find examples of their work below .
We invite other artists and film makers to present their own short films / performances that deal with PRQ's topics to include sci-fi / fantasy / horror.
Fantastic news we have the young trans woman Josephine Jones performing and showing her film .... more information listed below .
Please contact us either through this event page or at info@vfdalston.com .
Door £3 with proceeds going to artist involved .
LA and San Francisco queer collective take up residence at VFD for a week , their first event for the week is this discussion. During the day they with be creating their own performance / instillation environment .
In the evening they will be sharing a discussion and ideas around the topic of The Mutant and Mutation: celebrating the outsider as an innovator. Individuals who reject conformity are evolutionary anomalies and should be celebrated for their ingenuity and progressive/regressive nature'.
We will have the wonderful Aaron Wright from LADA chairing and steering the conversation .
All welcome !
Door £3 .00 will go to keep our artists fed and warm ! 7pm-10pm
This is a week long artists residency happening at VFD featuring the talents of the collective Project Rage Queen the masters of queer multi sensory mutant cabaret who practice their art in Los Angeles and San Francisco . They will be creating magik while collaborating with queer London based collectives the 'Family Fierce ', 'LoverBoy ' and 'House of Health'.
The programme is as follows
Monday 22nd - Project Rage Queen set up house and welcome donations of material as they create a world in the venue . In the evening they will be welcoming other artists to come and talk about shared matters of interest and practice with the topic up for grabs and as a starting point ...The Mutant and Mutation: celebrating the outsider as an innovator. Individuals who reject conformity are evolutionary anomalies and should be celebrated for their ingenuity and progressive/regressive nature.
Tuesday 23 - A night of sci-fi / fantasy / horror with Project Rage Queen whose own work centres on indentity / gender / mutation and dystopian futures . We are looking for other partners who would want to show short films.
Thursday 25 - Project Rage Queen present an evening of their mutant cabaret. Their work encompasses visceral performance, psychedelic-surrealist-horror video, trash sculpture, and immersive hallucinogenic installations that are a fusion of 'drag' , 'punk' and high/lo-fi technologies.
Friday 26- Come and party with Project Rage Queen and a selection of guests performers and djays to include the Family Fierce and LoverBoy .
Sunday 28 - Sunday Funday with the 'Family Fierce ' and guests to include Project Rage Queen.
Please Note - PRQ will be arriving with nothing and need to set up house in the venue and create their art with donations from our community . They will need air matresses, sleeping bags and pillows . They will need people to take them out and show them all the beauty of east London and where to eat and swim and shower . They will need materials to make their art work , working with items that have been thrown away or seen as rubbish , items to be re purposed and made beautiful in a new light . This is the magik this is the love !
Monthly Dark Disco at VFD this Saturday 20th February! A night of alternative and dark tunes from the '80s and beyond.
New Wave, Post Punk, Goth, New Romantics, Dark Wave, Industrial, Italo Disco, Euro Pop & New Beat.
On the music: * Shai Rothfeld * Vasiliki * INEPT ( ROSA DECIDUA )
Venue: VFD 66 Stoke Newington Rd, London N16
Sat 20/2/16 from 10pm - 3am
Entry: £5 on FB attend list or on the guest-list of our website £4 before 11pm www.DarkDisco.UK
You've seen metallic painted frailty in bystanders, sprinkled moondust on tabletops,slammed sanity in the jaw
Evolved from the undertow, chained to the foreground Another word for desire
Try fitting the depths of your thoughts into a cardboard box, try counter intuition
If you've ever established yourself as an indicator of the times, undresser of tension, purveyor of sincerity
- runneth over
a fan club for the damned
Katrice Dustin, 2016
WE ARE BACK!
LONDON FASHION WEEK CENTRAL ST MARTINS MA FASHION 2016 AFTERPARTY
£5 entry (Obvs free for MA students)
DJS
Alexandre Simões LOVERBOY & special secret guest ^__^
64-66 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB, UK
