Celebrate the launch of Dee Jumbie Dance: A Resurrection. A gathering to invoke and honour the ancestors.

Call When You Reach explores racial trauma, in an effort to overcome the burden and weight of whiteness as it impacts Black bodies.

An in-person gathering at LADA  celebrating the launch of Taroni-Cividin: Performance, Video, Expanded Cinema (1977-1984)

An in-person gathering at LADA  featuring Kelvin Atmadibrata in conversation with selina bonelli. This event is part of LADA’s Intersect series and is curated by performancespace.

Drop in to an all-day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, feminism, and the arts. Beginner Wikipedians encouraged!

An in-person gathering at LADA  featuring Jamila Johnson-Small in conversation with Daniela Valz Gen. This event is part of LADA’s Intersect series and is curated by performancespace.

Common Salt is a performance around a table – a ‘show and tell’ – exploring the colonial, geographical history of England and India.

Drop in to an all-day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, feminism, and the arts. Beginner Wikipedians encouraged!

A gathering to support ‘extreme performance artists’, considering strategies for managing safety, risk management, fees and techniques, and to support programmers and producers in understanding the specific needs of your work.

An Activation Day for migrants, people of colour and allies working in the cultural sector, aiming to connect and build a movement able to resist the government’s Hostile Environment Policy, and to work towards a cultural sector for us all to thrive.

Join us for LADA’s second annual Festive Fair on Sunday 8 December.

The premiere of Nando Messias new performance work – ‘The Pink Supper’.

A fundraising gala to celebrate the Live Art Development Agency’s 20th Anniversary.

Join us for a rare opportunity to explore the amazing network of community run gardens in Bethnal Green

To mark the launch of ‘Elastic City’ please join Todd Shalom on an improvised, participatory walk through Bethnal Green

A project by Theatre of Research & LADA for Manchester International Festival 2019

An evening with artists readings of extracts from significant books held in LADA’s Study Room

A day of discussions around kickstarting and maintaining a Live Art practice

‘SE LA JOUER / PLAYING UP’ is a special public play-in of PLAYING UP for the OFFTA Montreal Festival

Bringing together a panel of artists and curators from the 1980s and current landscapes

Public ‘Play In’ of Playing Up in Norwich

A gathering questioning practices of care, and imagining alternatives grounded in collective action and solidarity.

A one-day symposium looking at the importance of regional art school education in alternative arts

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of EDGE 88 we are holding a special event in one of the original locations of this seminal performance art festival, St James’s Church, Clerkenwell in London.

Over 15 exciting stalls run by local artists, activists and social action groups

A workshop considering issues relating to the historicisation of 1980s Live Art and contemporary parallels

A workshop considering issues relating to the historicisation of 1980s Live Art and contemporary parallels

PLAYING UP will be presented by The Substation, Australia and Melbourne Fringe

Public ‘Play In’ of Playing Up in Kuopio, Finland

Marcia Farquhar is having a major survey of her work

You are invited to Scottee’s ego-fuelled variety show

A mass Live Art play-in for all ages in the Turbine Hall.

A live performance installation in men’s toilets, devised and performed by Orion

A major transnational event exploring questions of negotiation, exchange and representation in contemporary collaborative arts practice

A series of pop-up exhibitions and performances that take place in a van

Bringing together women of colour to explore what it is to find a sense of place as we navigate a world where we rarely hear our stories

LADA is delighted to be participating in two events looking at the prolific US performance artist Karen Finley.

Live Collision is hosting a selection from our Study Room with a focus on issues of race, migration and displacement

Public ‘Play In’ of Playing Up at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Public ‘Play In’ of Playing Up at Tate Britain

Ongoing holiday activity for kids and adults to play together

A series of Study Room Sessions with Phoebe Patey-Ferguson

A programme on the social, legislative, scientific and ideological constructions of criminality

Considering archives and legacies of influential artists who have recently died – Ian Hinchliffe, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Lol Coxhill and Roger Ely

Launch events for the Southeast Asian performance collection

A collaboration between LADA, Sibylle Peters of Theatre of Research and Tate Families & Early Years

Exploring the significance of blood in performance

A festival brunch and discussion in collaboration with LADA, Folkestone Fringe and ]performance s p a c e[ as part of WAKE festival in Folkestone