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

An evening in which some of LADA icons will present illustrated talks about their own icons from popular culture

An evening exploring the Live Art scenes in Switzerland.

This book attests to the rise of the rise of performance art in Latin America in the 1980s, in the context of feminism, HIV-activism, and human right movements.

An evening of short films and performance documentation by artists working around ritual, performance and queer futurity.

An event reflecting on new pedagogical models for performance art.

LADA is thrilled to present ‘Ex Nilalang (From Creature ~ From Creation)’ by multi-form artists Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra, Club Ate.

A two part event, featuring screenings, conversation and readings, looking at Australian Live Art.

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

An evening event in which first recipient Marcia Farquhar, hands over the baton to the second recipient, Stacy Makishi

A performance lecture by Swiss based Brazilian artist Ivy Monteiro

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

Ouch screening programme is being shown at Ruimtevaart Den Haag, The Netherlands

Dr Duckie – aka Ben Walters – in a public explanation of his just-completed PhD on Duckie in the Community

Join us for a day of talks, conversations, actions and sharing at/across/against borders.

A rare UK appearance by Skip Arnold, a significant artist who works primarily in public, durational and/or behavioural actions and “activities”.

We invite you to share ideas about how we might build for future struggles to free art and artists from their dependency on the proceeds of toxic capitalism.

Something Other Live is a night of experimental writing and performance, in support of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.

Save the date for the launch of two new publications showcasing exciting possibilities of Live Art thinking and doing

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

LADA is thrilled to present ‘Soldier of Female’ by the visual and performance artist, filmmaker and musician Kembra Pfahler

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

A screening of films and video artworks by the visual and performance artist, filmmaker and musician Kembra Pfahler

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

hosted by Bonnie Marranca and Claire MacDonald

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

Public ‘Play In’ of Playing Up in Norwich

In a live launch event, Miss High Leg Kick will introduce the newest member of her troupe, Mannequin.

Please join us for an evening with a group of extraordinary artists unpicking ideas about women, art and age.

A book launch and roundtable discussion creating space for radical speculation and reimagining of the future.

An evening screening clips from TV programmes featuring artists from the worlds of performance art and Live Art

As part of their 20th anniversary, the Bristol Art Library is coming on tour to LADA’s Study Room

A compilation of greatest hits by the extraordinary artist Katherine Araniello who died in February 2019

An evening to celebrate the life and Live Art of the brilliant and inspirational artist Katherine Araniello.

Presenting a selection of performance videos, curated by CUNTemporary as part of EcoFutures festival

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

Launch of a new book, which discusses the strategies of visibility, chucking marginalised status out of the patriarchal pushchair

An evening with two artists whose decolonial, queer and anti-capitalist performance practices fiercely trouble the boundaries of the known.

The first in a series of initiatives celebrating LADA’s 20th anniversary in 2019

A look at a range of approaches to documenting performative and participatory work

‘Anne, Richard and Paul’ a moving image work relating to Bow Gamelan Ensemble’s work, ‘White Lightning’ (1987)

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.

We are hosting LoveBethnalGreen’s first networking breakfast of the year

‘Barflies’ a film looking at the pleasures, fears and dangers of being in public ‘en femme’

Representations of the different femininities embodied by transvestites and cross-dressers, the pleasures and fears

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