New blog post! Peter Brathwaite, @EllenRMcDougall & Kit Green discuss "degenerate music" in Nazi Germany, & what it means to retrieve and restage - in the 21st century - the voices of those who fell foul of the regime. #EffigiesOfWickedness The Gate stagingdecadence.com/blog/effigies-…

We made a film! A taste of some promiscuously-sourced histories: ancient Roman actor-emperors, ethereal plays of the 1890s, countercultural bohemians in the 1960s, the culture wars in the 1990s, through to performance makers in our own day. stagingdecadence.com/films 1/4

I am part of this FREE 47mins long Staging Decadence documentary. A survey on #decadence and #decadentperformance with CUNTemporary #DeepTrash and more awesome speakers/performers. Arts and Humanities Research Council funded - thanks to Adam Alston Fan Riot

LADA is delighted to have physical and digital items from our archive included in the exhibition 'Out of the Margins: Performance in London’s institutions 1990s – 2010s' at Whitechapel Gallery💥 🔗tinyurl.com/3mbwb3r9

New blog! Ada M. Patterson & Rachel Hannon discuss colonialism, nonbinary identity & Barbadian folk culture. “I imagined this village, which was so afraid of change it stayed still... so much so that it crystallized, turned swampy and sunk into a mangrove” stagingdecadence.com/blog/ada-m-pat…

Next Friday join R Justin Hunt, Gareth Cutter and me for FREE TRANSFER - an evening of sound and performance at Five Years 🎂 “Shuttle across the horizontal zone”. 6-9pm. Free entry. More info fiveyears.org.uk

My article on Zizi (AI deepfake drag thing) and the wonderful work of Jake Elwes alongside All About Me and other amazing drag artists is available Open Access as part of an exciting queer special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review. Drag, AI, queer futures and hope: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Recently, #LADA has been through a period of significant change and upheaval, but we are now pleased to let you know that a new exciting phase is beginning! With the help and support of LADA patrons, the former Board of Directors has now been replaced: zurl.co/Mki4

October at a glance

Staging Decadence book is now out. Congratulations Adam Alston 🥳 I am very much looking forward to reading it Staging Decadence

Extracurricular… Next Saturday in Kings Cross. All welcome! Central Saint Martins Lethaby Gallery #sideshow

Open Mic Night next Monday at Siorai Bar London with myself, Amita Nijhawan and MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. Doors 6.30pm. Free entry. All welcome! 💄💋🎤

Tonight, all welcome, students get first dibs 🎤💄💋

Opening tomorrow in Kings X. MA art programme interim show. On til Sunday and free entree. Central Saint Martins

Eight poor copies (electric speech) ☎️ Hello? Something wot I wrote on the work of Devon based artist Dr Beth Emily Richards out now | Intellect - go.shr.lc/3QeQx7S

This weekend I’ll be at Offprint at Tate Modern distributing free copies of a little publication I’ve made, along with some brilliant books and editions from colleagues and students. I’ll be there this afternoon and Sunday. Come for a gander! Tate offprint.org