A Long Table on Fragility, Festivals, Funding and other F-words… One Year On

Please join us on Friday 7 June 2024 at 7pm for the event A Long Table on Fragility, Festivals, Funding and other F-words… One Year On, presented by LADA and Peopling the Palace(s) Festival.

Amidst arts funding cuts, venue closures and a cost-of-living crisis, it has rarely felt more daunting or less sustainable to make and present work. In response to this new era of precarity, Peopling the Palace(s) Festival invited one year ago the Live Art community – academics, producers, programmers and artists, both emerging and established – to come together for a day of discussion, care and performance.

This June we meet again, to continue this conversation and reflect on where this moment finds us.

This event is the last of a series of LADA Long Table events with Lois Weaver, running from February to June. Exactly ten years after the Long Table on Live Art and Feminism held at the White Building in Hackney Wick, Lois Weaver returns with an invitation to think collectively about what it means to gather again after some extraordinary years of distance and separation, to explore some of our griefs and possible grievances, and to imagine new directions and possibilities.

A Long Table on Fragility, Festivals, Funding and other F-words… One Year On is co-produced by LADA, the Department of Drama of Queen Mary University of London, and the Air Supply Collective.