Events: 2025

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26 Apr 2025

Illuminate Dreams: Sculpt 'n' Sip

Homegrown Festival 2025

Use clay to bring your aspirations to life in this pottery session with a twist.

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Group of young people on stage, with arms raised, during mid-performance.

26 Apr 2025

Originals - The Tribes:
A BAC Beatbox Academy Scratch

Homegrown Festival 2025

Encounter new tribes through beatbox and hip-hop theatre. A brand new performance from BAC Beatbox Academy.

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26 Apr 2025

NO SIGNAL:
Purgatory’s Hottest Drag Ball

Homegrown Festival 2025

A no-phone club night and drag show. With the help of the club’s drag fairy guardians, your wishes will come to life through community, improv, chaos and theatrics. 

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Female presenting person is sitting at a table, resting their chin in hand. They have several microphone and voice recorders positiioned in front of them, and a vase of slightly wilting flowers on the table next to them.

1 May–2 May 2025

A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here

ThisEgg

A solo show about censorship and freedom of expression.

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A patchworked face is surrounded by little cut outs of the artist, a dark-skinned black woman. Everything is blue.

2 May–3 May 2025

DEAD DAD DEATH CULT

Samra Mayanja

A (mostly) solo performance exploring how we fill the paternal void; blending live art, character comedy, and confessional theatre.

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Catherine, played by Jack Boal in drag, is a white, old lady with blonde curly hair - she is wearing a pink dressing gown and jogging bottoms, with brown fluffy slippers. She is slumped in a chair, taking a drag of her cigarette, watching television. There is a puff of smoke travelling in the gap between her and the television.

3 May 2025

Catherine (Work In Progress)

Jack Boal

An explosively tender show on the state of care in England.

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Two figures wearing overall. They are drenched in water. They have their fingers in the other's mouth and are looking away from each other.

3 May 2025

50 Ways to Kill a Slug

Dre Spisto & Joana Nastari

50 ways to Kill a Slug celebrates queerness, ugliness, and uselessness, exploring the slug as a political symbol of resistance.

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Two figures laying face down on the floor side by side in identical poses, lightly touching the cap of a baseball hat next to them.

3 May 2025

Ways of Knowing

Emergency Chorus

Emergency Chorus return to the stage with a strange and cloudy choreography, delving into the ways we predict and prophesy the future.

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Male presenting figure behind a wall made of a translucent plastic sheet. Their arms are pressed against the plastic sheet, like they are trying to break through. Blood is dripping down the plastic sheet.

6 May–10 May 2025

Goner

Marikiscrycrycry

A live, suspenseful choreography delving into the depths of psychological horror.

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Female presenting figure with a microphone in hand, standing before a long table with several other seated people. There is a slide show presenting projected on a screen behind them. The long table has coffee cups, notebooks and laptops.

17 May 2025

Alpha Go_Lee: Theory of Sacrifice

Open Research Day

Theatre director Natalia Korczakowska (STUDIO theatergallery, Warsaw) invites you to participate in the first stages of reconstructing a momentous GO match as a brand-new theatre piece.

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22 May 2025

Sina Bathaie

Sina Bathaie is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer. Originally from Iran, he is known for his unique style of playing traditional instruments such as the oud and ukulele and bringing an eastern touch to his electronic music.

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Male presenting figure on stage. Their left arm is raised with their hand in a claw. There are several large, flat rectangular blocks arranged around the stage in different positions.

23 May–24 May 2025

Koulounisation

Salim Djaferi

A bold evening of storytelling where language sparks revolution. Co-presented by BAC and Shubbak Festival.

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