S.E.X: Thursday 19th May

Tara Fleur 'Woman of Bones' presents 'S.E.X' an erotic salon with s.e.x.y feature acts and open mic (pre booked only) at the sublime VFDalston. 'A salon is a space for audience and performers to delve into a theme. Our theme is eroticism within the arts. Crossing all artistic genres, we have created a censorship free, sexy, underground space where performers can explore 'erotica' in their work'

It's dime to dust off your kinky! S.E.X is back in town!

Featuring The king of erotica 'Ernesto Sarezale' The divinely dirty 'Becky Fury' And the darling of erotic performance 'Rene L'Amour'

Also a very special guest performance by 'Jane Francesca Fae'

Poets! Performers! Fetish Artists! Musicians! Comedians! All welcome!

Contact womanofbones@mail.com to secure a spot (Ltd 5 min open mic available) or post request below. Please not all performances must be exploring an aspect of erotica.

£5.00 entry on the door 18+ only

Come along and lets make Thursday a S.E.Xday!

Event page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/1726697117574102/

WET SATIN PRESS: THE FUTURE IS RADICAL!

WE HERE AT VFD LOVE THIS PRESS AND THEY JOIN US FOR A SPRING PARTY THIS WEEKEND (23/04/16) WET SATIN PRESS IS A PUBLISHING COMPANY

CREATED BY REBA MAYBURY IN 2015

WET SATIN PRESS WILL CREATE PUBLICATIONS ABOUT THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE INCLUDING :

perversion, worms, fetish, women, being a woman, passion, being a man, control, power, sex, identity, hating the tories, integrity, guttural emotion and boredom.

Check their site out below and Facebook

http://www.wetsatinpress.com

https://www.facebook.com/wetsatinpress/?fref=ts

Niijournal: One to watch

Next month Niijournal  launches in London. Niijournal is a printed publication exploring the issues of empowerment and representation within race.

Featuring inspiring work from buzzing creative minds such as Ib Kamara, Devin N Morris, PC Williams and many more, Niijournal will be a mixture of politically charged art and editorials, moving literature and provocative journalism for all. The sole purpose is to educate, not irritate.

THEY WILL BE CELEBRATING AFTER THEIR LAUNCH AT VFD, COME JOIN US A CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF NIIJOURNAL DJ - THE FABULOUS IB KAMARA GUESTLIST - First 20 people free entry - RSVP FOR GUESTLIST- INFO@NIIJOURNAL.COM

£3 BEFORE 11pm £5 AFTER 11pm

CHECK OUT THEIR EVENT BELOW

https://www.facebook.com/events/1709112049330210/

Anal House Meltdown: Saturday 14th May

ANAL HOUSE MELTDOWN BACK AGAIN AT VFD :))) DJ's

GHL PLEASE PREM DEEP TWIN PEAKES

10pm-3am

Event page below

https://www.facebook.com/events/851392718322411/

Rad Festa: Friday 13th May

Calling all the spooky bitches!We've got an announcement! Its gonna be spooky! Right so here we are darlings its Friday the 13th and we’re bringing you a holiday bonanza we are bring you Halloween! We are you bringing you Halloween in the summer! Yes we are darlings! Summers just begun but we want you to remember all things dark all things scarry hunnay. Yes we wanna have blood pouring down our faces yes we do! In the small little cave we call vfd screams will be heard of pure horror darlings yes there will! So come be sacrificed into the night darlings and lets hope for some bad look :P

Performances: Kevin Le Grand Lady Vag aka Edythe Woolley

Djs: Kevin Le Grand Alexandre Simões DISCO SMACK 's Josh Quinton

in case of emergency dial 666

Niijournal Afterparty: Tuesday 10th May

COME JOIN US A CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF NIIJOURNALDJ - THE FABULOUS IB KAMARA GUESTLIST - First 20 people free entry - RSVP FOR GUESTLIST- INFO@NIIJOURNAL.COM

£3 BEFORE 11pm £5 AFTER 11pm

Event page below

https://www.facebook.com/events/968722783247453/

Burning Down the House: Purple Rain: Saturday 7th May

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PURPLE ONE THIS MONTH! DO IT FOR PRINCE. GET HERE EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT. '80s / NEW WAVE / DISCO / GLAM / SYNTHPOP GLITTER / SWEETS / FAMOUSLY FLATTERING 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!

WHAT BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE

WHEN 10PM-3AM Saturday 7th May

WHERE VFD, 66 Stoke Newington Road

HOW MUCH £5 – advance ticket link coming v soon

POST YOUR REQUESTS ON THE FACEBOOK WALL!

https://www.facebook.com/events/957821104336936/

GAY VINYL LONDON w. ARCA NKISI LSDXOXO JESSE KANDA NO BRA: Friday 6th May

GAY VINYL LONDON is back!!! THE AMAZING NO BRA IS IN TOWN WITH BJORK COLLABORATOR ARCA FOR HIS SECOND TURN ON THE DECKS IN OUR BASEMENT. NOT TO BE MISSED! with DJ sets by

ARCA!!!!!!

NKISI (NON RECORDS)!!!!!!

LSDXOXO (QWEEN BEAT/NYC)!!!!!

JESSE KANDA!!!!!

NO BRA!!!!!

EVENT PAGE BELOW

https://www.facebook.com/events/1688582478082070/

RAD FESTA presents: Dzi Croquettes ft Lavinia Co-op: Thursday 5th May

As a warm up to our friday the 13th party, we have something really special for you as Rad Festa brings you their first ever film night for a very special film. Dzi Croquettes follows the raise and fall of the incredibly over talented troop of queer performers from Brazil .They used their art as a political weapon against the oppressive dictatorship regime of the 70's. With their biting wit , perfect choreography and representation of gender in all its forms they of course became a cult hit over night. Their path eventually leads them to Paris and international super stardom and destiny .....

This film is a must watch for anyone one who is interested in performance history , queer history and theatre history.

What could be better than spending a Thursday night indulging in a piece of fabulous history darling.

And we are extremely excited as Lavinia Co op will be gracing us with her presence!!!!!

Also RAD FESTA’s very own Kevin Le Grand will be performing!!

And a fabulous little disco with Alexandre Simões!!

Plan for the evening: 7.30PM Doors open 8.00PM Documentary

£5

Check out the trailer

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYoHkaQOT8w[/embed]

Spoken Word: Wednesday 4th May

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.

Event page below

https://www.facebook.com/events/269551656714638/

VFD Film Night No.2: Refugees: Tuesday 3rd May

The second in VFD’s new series of film nights looking at various relevant social & cultural issues. On the 3rd of May we will be looking at the current refugee/migrant crises in Calais & Greece. ✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈

Calais volunteer and filmmaker Behnam Taheri will show a series of shorts. He will give insight into filming in the Jungle from working and filming the Good Chance theatre project; to engaging creatively with the refugees and the sensitivity need to film people in this volatile atmosphere.

https://www.facebook.com/GoodChanceCalais.2015/?fref=ts

Olly Bennett Morrison has recently spent time in Greece making a film about the refugee crisis there. We will be screening a 10 minute preview of the documentary which is due to be released in the next couple of months.

We are also going to be talking about the Refugee Community Kitchen with one of its organisers Steve Bedlam who will talk about the practicallities of running the operation. A team from the VFD Film Night are also looking at making a film with the RCK. Our fundraising enterprises will be used in part to get get down there and have cash to buy the food we’ll bring with us.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/RefugeeCommunityKitchen/

Doors at 8pm, programme starts at 8.30pm.

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£3 ON THE DOOR!: All profits go to Good Chance, a theatre space in the jungle where residents can express themselves artistically or verbally, or just to escape & have some fun: http://goodchance.org.uk/ & Refugee Community Kitchen in Calais.

Sunday~Funday: May Day Madness: Sunday 1st May

"MAY~DAY MAY~DAY! There's just not enough FUN in the world, what are we going to do?" Calling all FUN enablers! Your bank holiday weekend needs you! It's a FUNmergency!!!

Back again for another mind altering visit to the underbelly of the weekend SUNDAY~FUNDAY is your go-to Sunday night queer performance night 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 contageously 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 we're getting back into our pagan roots and remembering how to party like 18th centurary Plough Boys with a MAY DAY MAY-POLE MORRIS-DANCING EMERGENCY!!! Yes, that's right, it's May Day! The first official day of Summer, and to celebrate we're coming at you with a confusing mix of ye olde folklore, nostalgic pop/dance/mashup disco tunes, oversized transvestite morris dancing background dancers, apt drinks specials and all the shenanigins one can expect from a naughty bank-holiday dance-party. Feel encouraged to dress-up, drag-up, or just turn up.

!!!WARNING!!! Spontaneous nudity is a common side-effect of SUNDAY ~ FUNDAY!

Event Page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/1783550928540064/ 9:00PM-LATE, £5 on the door Message Maxi More for guestlist

Straight Nasty: Saturday 30th April

East London’s favourite pop party returns for its monthly slot at Vogue Fabrics, ready to put a SMILEY SMILEY CAROL SMILLIE smile on your face ☺ The dust from last month’s party has just settled so its time for a spring clean and a spruce up. Straight Nasty glambassador Lawrence Llwewlyn-Bowen will be stencilling the shit out of Vogue Fabrics so your juicy ass can dance in a haven of terracotta sponge effect textured wallpaper. Dress code: Exaggerated cuffs.

♡ CLICK GOING FOR £3 GUESTLIST ♡ 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

--- '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 30 APRIL V**** F****** DALSTON 10PM-3AM £3 'Going' Guestlist / £5

With resident DJs TR!NNY & $U$ANNAH JE M'APPELLE ROCHELLE & GG BEAR RHYS' PIECES

For updates and event photos be sure to 'like' STRAIGHT NASTY here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/951893871596180/

Miss. E//Part 2: Friday 29th April

It's back after its successful dance floor last month. ////////LAST TIME WAS SO GOOD WE JUST HAD TO DO IT AGAIN////////

//////////CELEBRATE THE GENIUS OF MELISSA ARNETTE ELLIOTT/////////

/////////NOTHING BUT MISSY AND TIMBO AND PARTY JAMS//////

///////////DJ'S ROCKY MILK, RANDY & MONICA, FROSTY KNUCKLES/////////

/////////FRIDAY 29th APRIL!!!!////////

//////////1 QUID BEFORE MIDNIGHT 5 AFTER////////////////

Event page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/503338613184254/

Spoken Word: Wednesday 27th April

Our weekly Spoken Word Open Mic event. 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.

A Wet Satin Press Party for the Spring: Saturday 23rd April

The wonderful Wet Satin comes back for a Spring session at VFD. Lot's of Special Guest DJ's, stay tuned.

Event page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/210605555983335/

http://www.wetsatinpress.com

The "I Do" Disco ST GEORGE + THE BRIDEZILLA: Friday 22nd April

#IDoDisco London’s best worst wedding disco returns to celebrate the most matrimonial medieval myth - St George and the Bridezilla! This month Anna (Metronomy) DJ's.

Strap on your armour. Mount your steed. Sharpen your lance. Prepare to meet and (metaphorically) slay the capital’s fiercest bridezillas on Dalston’s dankest underground dancefloor.

You know the story: insane wedding games, frighteningly cheap cocktails, enlightened guest DJs, and SO MANY ABSOLUTE BANGERS you’ll want to get married/never get married.

It’s more fun in a white dress, but we don't judge. Promise.

***£3 all night if you click 'going' (brides love social media). CLOSES MIDNIGHT THURSDAY 21 APRIL***

/// BOWIE /// QUEEN /// MADONNA /// WHITNEY /// CHER /// TURNER /// ENYA /// ELVIS /// THECURE /// THESMITHS /// DOLLY /// PATTI /// ARETHA /// CYNDIA /// PETSHOPBOYZ /// MARIAH /// BRITNEY /// JLO /// DESTINYSCHILD /// TLC /// KELIS /// AMERIE /// CIARA /// MISSY /// BEY /// RIRI /// AZEALIA /// KANYE /// WILEY /// SKEPTA /// BIGGIE /// MCHAMMER /// SNOOP /// WUTANG /// OUTKAST /// JAYZ /// N.O.R.E /// SHAMIR /// BIEBER /// TAYLOR /// ETC ETC

£3 whenever if you come in an ACTUAL WEDDING DRESS. Otherwise... £3 before 11. £5 after that. And as always we'll give you your very own "ACTUAL" WEDDING RING either way.

Don't forget to like our page for bliss and photos: www.facebook.com/TheIDoDisco/

Twitter: @TheIDoDisco Insta: @theidodisco

Event page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/1684911391747972/

Shellac Discotec: Saturday 16th April

Shellac Discotec is the brand ~*schpanking*~ new party on the block celebrating the diverse talents of our favourite local laydieez She’s a queer little party for the nancy boys, the butch queens, the femme hussys ~ the sisters unabashedly doing it for themselves

Shellac Discotec is for the gals with freshly shellacked talons, nervously bitten tallons, and DIY sparkly tallons.

All welcome ~ big looks applauded!

✿ gurlz on the dex ✿

E L L E S (Legendary Children)

D A N C E A R M S T R O N G (Disco Spritz)

C H A K A K H A N ‘ T (2gurlz1cub)

✿ capri sun tropicana disco beatz ✿ freaky lil groove tunes ✿ all round pumpy vibes ✿

Host ✿ Victoria Sin ✿

Art Installation ✿ Ella Lynch ✿

£3 before 11 / £5 after

10pm-3am

Event Page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/115773495484745/

Bum.p//Spring Sesh: Friday 15th April

BUM.P // SPRING SESH Darling buds of bae, it’s time for you to dust off those tanks and get turnt.

Once again bringing you the finest selection of DJs in London for what is pitched to be the dance sesh of the season.

JAMES PHILLIPS JACQUI POTATO JONJO JURY

The Triple Threat

So get ready to get down And OBVS COME

VFD 66 Stoke Newington Road 2200 - 0300 £5

Event page here

https://www.facebook.com/events/498114577065155/

Spoken Word: Wednesday 13th April

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/