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Extra Second London returns to VFD on the 21st February to discuss drugs. We'll have performances from our featured poets, an open mic and an audience discussion. All are welcome to have their say on politics, addiction, or that time you met god in your living room. Doors open at 7.30pm and open mic sign up is first come first served at the door. Entry is free.
Our featured performers this month are Jason Pilley, Jai Andrews, Joe Caplin, Lex Sciore and Charlie de Courcy.
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Contessa Stuto // CUNTMAFIA in London! ♥Febuary 11th, 2017 10PM-3AM at VFD. 5 Before 11PM 10 After
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* - HOSTED BY - * Jada Simone Harri Perillo Bait Kush
Cupid searches for love like the rest of the world. Whether she's seeking it out in the form of a love of the dancefloor or a quick snog in the smoking area, her passions and desires take over her. She is the embodiment of sass; a strong powerful being who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to get it. Join us Friday eve before Valentine's and let your inner cupid out. Who knows, your midnight kiss could be waiting.
♥ DJS ♥ Angelic siren Hannah Diamond Resident cupid Emily Rose England
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Party People! Time flies these days... soon January will be over and you can finally forget about detoxing or being broke and start to wipe away those blues. So get your glad rags, your glitter and your dancing shoes back on and let the Deviate DJs take you on a beat excursion!
DJs will be playing the best in Funk, Soul, Disco, Afrobeat, House, Techno and more. Glitter stations and vibrant decor will provide further indulgences, and all of this in one of Dalston's most revered basements, VFD.
Entry is £3 before 11pm and £5 thereafter. Tickets on the door only.
There's no agenda, no boundaries, so invite your friends, your friends of friends, you ma, your pa and even your weird uncle.
The time has come to Deviate!
We'll see you later...
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.
Tonight! Tune into NTS Radio from 8 - 10pm and hear VFD's very own head witch, Lyall Hakaraia's, QUEER WITCH programme. 'I have long been fascinated with and affected by rites and rituals across all cultures, and the creativity and energy created from them that we call ‘magic’. Being queer I am also interested in the representation of my community in this world.'
Turn on, tune in, witch out http://www.nts.live/schedule/2
Donna Huanca's Scar Cymbals closes at Zabludowicz Collection this week. Learn more about her latest multi-sensory artwork - which references ayahuasca and anal beads - in this piece by The Guardian. Donna is an Bolivian-American artist from Chicago, and this is her first UK commission at the Collection's former chapel (Scar Cymbals is also the first performance-led commission for the space itself).
Scar Cymbals closes on the 18th, so try and experience it for yourselves before it's too late.
The official afterparty will be held at VFD on on Saturday 17th 10pm, with writer Reba Maybury and Emman Debattista (one of Scar Cymbals performers) DJing.
VFD's World Aids Day tribute 1 Dec - 4 Jan
The Window By The Museum Entrance is a three-part window installation presented by Alex Margo Arden, opening on World Aids Day 2016 and continuing throughout the month of December. Through the window period of display, the work exists as a shifting temporary memorial – shoes appear, disappear and multiply. Scaffolding which is used to hold up ceilings pushes at the boundaries of the space while holding up the space. The supporting structures are illuminated by fairground lighting, while piles of empty Ruby Slippers accumulate. Eventually the red glow of this scene is masked by a construction billboard print depicting amassed ruby slippers which encompass the entire window. This is in turn is removed to reveal an array of connected fibreglass bells lying on the ground – until a final chime of a silent bell is heard.
In her installation, Arden directly references Act Up’s SILENCE=DEATH (1987) originally shown in the window next to the entrance of the New Museum. Like Act Up, Arden uses processes of repurposing, reframing and recirculating to underscore their political agenda.
Alex Margo Arden is an artist based in London. Her recent projects include Trailing Off (ICA), You Can’t Smell When You’re Sleeping (Mathew NYC) Interjection Calendar Project (Montez Press), Gathering Place (AND/OR). She recently graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London where she won the Hamad Butt Memorial Prize for exceptional promise. She works across sculpture, performance and smell production.
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Bringing your mammories out of the closet and onto the dancefloor. DON'T STAY IN. COME OUT.
Because we all know the best part of a night is hang times with the gals (or guys) at home, but what if you could bring your bedroom beats (it's cool, we're still listening to Britney when we get ready too) to the big speakers?!
Requests at the ready, come and make mammories with us at Mammory Tapes #2
£3 ADV here / £5 DOOR 10pm-3am
...details coming soon...
Filmed by Alexander ShawEdited by Martijn Ravesloot Starring Lucy Fizz & Alex Clow
REVOLUTION // JOSH CAFFE & THE SUBS Hannah Holland's iconic BATTY BASS RECORDS makes a welcome return back on wax with main man Josh Caffe joining forces with the Belgian production don's THE SUBS (Lektroluv) delivering a slice of deep underground electro techno brilliance.
Join us for a special video premiere for friends and family at VFD
Revolution EP is available to buy on vinyl and digital download here. Featuring remixes from Posthuman and Aerea Negrot.
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DJ SET BY Josh Caffe
ENTRY: FREE
Elliot Reed a Los Angeles based performing artist and musician. He will perform 'Running The Gauntlet: Section V' from an ongoing work of his. Sections I-III were performed as a single work in 2015, Section IV debuted last year at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and Section V will now debut in London. This work is a hybrid reading / performance piece.
Elliot Reed has given presentations at The University of Minnesota, University of Southern California, and Macalester College, in addition to performing at Northwestern University, The Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, The Gene Siskel Film Center, FOKL Arts Center Kansas City, Human Resources Los Angeles, and other venues in Baltimore, Minneapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Tuscon, Los Angeles, Marfa, and Austin TX.
His work is held in the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive collection, and his electronic album ‘Anxiety Magic’ was recently listed in The Wire: Adventures in Sound and Music magazine. Elliot is currently on a January 2017 international music and performance tour, starting in Tokyo and ending in Reykjavik.
6pm - 8pm
Free entry (£3 donation)
We're back! With a healthy dose of reality to banish those January blues. Or make them worse, whatever. This month's theme is social class, and we have a bumper set of features for you including the newly crowned Genesis slam champsion Rashid Nuhu and the fantastic Leyla Josephine who's come all the way down from Glasgow! As always we also have an open mic and the world famous audience discussion.
AND IT'S FREE ENTRY!!
Featuring: Nathan Smith Marika Josef Rashid Nuhu David Judge Marc Livingstone Leyla Josephine
IT'S BACK!!! BIG GIRLS LIVE/// LOADSA DRAG///
SUPERSTAR DJ'S-------- CHAKA KHAN'T/// DANCE ARMSTRONG/// ROCKY MILK/// FROSTY KNUCKLES///
FIVE SQUIDS ON THE DOOR///
'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 ever recorded. And you may ask yourself: why can't every Friday night be this good?
We're back for a new year of BDTH ♥
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!
WHAT ♥ BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
WHEN ♥ 10PM-3AM Friday 20th January
WHERE ♥ VFD, 66 Stoke Newington Road
HOW MUCH ♥ £5 – advance ticket link https://billetto.co.uk/en/
POST YOUR REQUESTS ON THE WALL!
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.
AN EVENING WITH MISTER WALLACE Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, MISTER WALLACE is a multi-disciplinary artist and advocate. The self-proclaimed post-gender artist considers themselves to be a 'Multimedia Cunt', using mediums such as performance, sculpture, and soundscaping to engage audiences in “Werk” that speaks loudly to the social discourse necessary for improving quality of life for marginalized people.
Join us for an exclusive evening of conversation and performance with one of our favourite American queer peers.
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Doors: 7pm (free entry, £3 donation)
If you can't attend either of our Christmas Cracker parties, you can still bid in the auction by emailing info@vfdalston.com - email bids will be announced the day before. FRIDAY 2 DEC AUCTION:
*** A LAP DANCE FROM CHRISTEENE. The magnificent cultural commentator with one foot in heaven and the other in hell, Christeene, will give a lap dance to the hapless winner of this prize. Christeene will give an up-close and personal Lap Dance to you via your Lap Top. Prize also includes signed CD and t-shirt.
*** THE PALE BLUE DOOR - 2 x TICKETS. As the most extraordinary immersive dining experience in London the Pale Blue Door cannot be beaten. Get your hands on a pair of tickets for the most sought after drag diner in town.
*** IN HER GLORY FLORAL ART Kitsch light-up flowers, letters and signs by Nicola Bell.
SATURDAY 3 DEC AUCTION:
*** EXCLUSIVE: BEHIND-THE-SCENES TOUR OF CORONATION STREET - 4 x TICKETS . This prize has not been offered to the public before. Spot a few of your favourite actors as and get to pull a pint at the Rovers. An unforgettable experience for any Street fan and perfect for the Corrie lover in your life. (*Travel to and from the cobbled streets of Media City is not included*).
*** A PAIR OF JEFFERY WEST LEATHER SPANKERS. From the home of beautiful hand-crafted shoes and leather accessories, a pair of leather spankers.
*** STRUTT ARCHIVES - £200.00 GIFT VOUCHER to be spent at the East End's favourite pre-owned designer store and style emporium.
Event decor sponsored by Habitat, Paper Chase and DZD. Installed by Alun Davies Production.
A night of New Order, Joy Division and other Factory Records bands Last year's party was CRAZY!! So many of you came and sadly we couldn't get everyone in, but thank god it's a new year and here we go again! We've also listened to your requests and this time we going to have MORE NEW ORDER THAN LAST TIME EVEN MORE JOY DIVISION THAN LAST TIME and in between (as much as we can squeeze) we'll play great Factory Records & Manchester tunes! Expect: Stone Roses, Happy Monday, James, Inspiral Carpets, A Certain Ratio, The Fall, A Guy Called Gerald, 808 State etc.
We party again in VFD, an underground alternative basement that's concrete with minimalist vibes 66 Stoke Newington Road Saturday the 7th of January 2017 - Start the year with a good party! Doors open at 10pm
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64-66 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB, UK
