Join us for a relaxed open mic/listening evening in conjunction with Titaness’s exhibition Love is a state of mind at San Mei Gallery.

This free and informal event is open to everyone to share music, stories and poetry that matters to them, with food and games. Co-hosted by artist duo Titaness, Vinyl Memories and ADP, It aims to encourage intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue through collective listening and storytelling.

What to bring?

• Bring your vinyl records to listen to!

• Yourself if you want to perform. Open to all. Just speak to an organiser on arrival.

Schedule

7.00pm – Vinyl Memories listening to records / Food available

8.00pm – Open Mic

9.00pm – Open Decks/dancing/hang out/listen to music

If you want to perform

Everyone is welcome to take the mic. Please let us know beforehand (rufus@sanmeigallery) or simply rock up at 7pm and let us know you want to perform.

This event is supported using public funding from Arts Council England. Free, with donations welcome on the night.

Biographies

Vinyl Memories is hosted by local community organiser Michelle Killington, who has hosted a number of listening events in Brixton over the last four years, keeping music culture of the BAME community alive.

The Artistic development programme (ADP) nurtures under-represented local artist’s by providing mentoring, within a safe creative hub by enabling the artist’s creativity, to grow, by assisting with professional and personal growth. By providing a mentoring space, and resources necessary to ensure the artist can gain financial independence from the art of performing. ADP provides access to regular rehearsal and creative writing time whilst exposing the individual artists to other like minded artists, who will provide positive feedback. To encourage the researching of other great musicians of the past and present from whom the artists can learn from. Also by providing and facilitating a space where guest speakers from the industry can provide examples of their own journey. ADP encourages young people with a passion for the performing arts to be protected to stay on course to encourage young people who may be at risk of engaging in anti-violence activities, by being occupied in a space where only positivity and development is created. Instagram: @_artdp

Titaness is an artist duo comprised of Maria Joranko and Tiffany Wellington. Their collective interdisciplinary practice is shaped by their dual interests in memory, opacity, and love, explored through storytelling, sculpture, sound, and performance. Infusing their personal experiences and lineages with localised and diasporic viewpoints, they explore the potentialities of storytelling to weave alternate worlds.