No more scrolling through endless event listings! We're back with our Hot List, a weekly selection of thoughtfully curated events for those curious minds eager to explore the art & culture scene in London in the days ahead.
LATE OPENING
TATE MODERN LATES: ZANELE MUHOLI
TATE MODERN
Southwark I 27 September 18:00 - 22:00
Tate Modern Lates returns with an evening of music programmed by Global Roots, along with artist-led workshops, talks, and film screenings celebrating the Zanele Muholi exhibition.
The event will feature a series of five films exploring the experiences of Black LGBTQIA+ women and non-binary individuals in the electronic music scene. Artists, writers and curators will also give a quick but deep dive into their creative practices and journeys.
All event information here.
Note that some events will require (free) ticket booking, available to collect from 17:30 outside the Tanks Studio, Blavatnik Building Level 0, on 27 September.
THEATRE
THE OTHER PLACE DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER ZELDIN
NATIONAL THEATRE
Waterloo I 27 September to 9 November
Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father.
Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister’s sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demands justice for the pain she carries.
Amid the debris and the new extension, guilt, grief and greed battle it out in the family’s competing dreams of their future. When we are faced with the suffering of others, even those closest to us, can we look away?
All event information and tickets here.
LATE OPENING
V&A EAST INBETWEEN: A LATINX TAKEOVER
UCL EAST MARSHGATE
Stratford I 28 September 17:00 - 21:00
V&A East’s live programme back2back amplifies diverse local and global stories through live performance, films, installations, talks, hands-on workshops and more. Encounter the in-between spaces of east London’s Latinx creative scene as they takeover UCL East in celebration of their heritage and communities. Throughout the night expect everything from DJ sets to spoken word, photography to live art, and more, served alongside food and drink with a Brazilian twist.
More information and (free) tickets here.
IMMERSIVE
FRAGMENTS OF A PANORAMA: ARTIST & CURATOR TOUR + LIVE AV PERFORMANCE
AREBYTE GALLERY
Cannington I 28 September 13:30 - 14:30
Fragments of a Panorama delves into India's past, present, and imagined futures, offering an exploration of cultural preservation and innovation in a rapidly evolving technological world. It explores cultural heritage, digital technology, and speculative futures through film, interactive experiences, video games, and sculpture. Traditional South Asian sounds are combined with futuristic elements to create immersive auditory landscapes, while 3D video games, motion-captured dance, and AI-generated art.
All information and (free) tickets here.
LATE NIGHT DJ'S
SOUTH BERMONDSEY FESTIVAL
AVALON / MOT / ORMSIDE
Bermondsey I 28 September 19:00 - 7:00
South Bermondsey Festival returns for its third edition; an independent, community festival run between the three grassroots music spaces of Ormside Projects, Venue MOT and Avalon Cafe. Taking place along the Surrey Canal Road, it brings together local live acts and DJs at beloved community venues for a big 12-hour dance.
All information and tickets here.
ART SHOW
JULIANA HUXTABLE: HEADS & TAILS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR ICONICITY
PROJECT NATIVE INFORMANT
Bethnal Green I 2 October to 2 November
Through painting, photography, text and video, Juliana Huxtable has defined a singular aesthetics of language that often plays into a digital, Tumblr-ised visual identity, a kind of collaged rap and visual rapture. Huxtable’s practice offers a key critical voice on identity, as well as, specifically, her own identity as a black trans woman. Her work comments on different forms of reality through the lens of her personal structural experience.
All information here.
FILM
BRIXTON COMMUNITY CINEMA X BAESIANZ: LIQUOR STORE DREAMS
SPANNERS
Loughborough Junction I 2 October 19:00
In collaboration with Brixton Community Cinema, Baesianz is screening So Yun Um's introspective documentary Liquor Store Dreams to mark the transition from East and South East Asian Heritage Month to Black History Month. The daughter of Korean migrants, Um probes her parents' experiences, aspirations and biases as liquor store owners in South Central LA, amidst racialised crises of police brutality and homelessness. With love, persistence, and outrage, Um employs her hand-held camera to confront tensions between diasporic generations and communities of colour, reckoning with cultural dogma and both structural and internalised racism through the arena of a family-run shop floor.
Baesianz is a London-based collective and platform that celebrates Asian artists from all over the globe.
All information and tickets here.
WORKSHOP
CLUB DES FEMMES I ZINE MAKINGWORKSHOP: TRACING EXPERIMENTAL FEMINIST IMAGINATIONS
FOUR CORNERS
Bethnal Green I 4 October 19:00
Collective Club des Femmes presents a film programme and workshop, celebrating and continuing the work of the Women’s Media Resource Project, a feminist media collective operating out of the Rio Cinema’s basement in the 1980s. Meet the programmers and archivists of this project, create a zine with our workshop hosts, and watch a selection of feminist experimental punk shorts.
All information and tickets here.