Nights & Rituals

Kissing Futures

KISSING FUTURES is a night set out to question the possibilities for the times to come. Given the current environmental, political and social climate, young people are given many reasons to fear what the future holds. This is a night to reinvent these expectations and empower each other to make a change.

Klimastreikfestival, 2019
Dancing: Vanessa Wüst, Laura Burgener, Simea Cavelti, Neil Höhener

KISSING FUTURES, LONDON 2019

An unholy matrimony celebrates new possibilities for the future. Join us for two nights across utopia where we’ll explore the dreams and visions of everything that is and could be. Livia Rita, her gang of creatures and a range of emerging artists will guide you through two surreal wedding ceremonies framed by performance, music, dance and fashion. Pick your night, pick your poison, pick your cure and join a ceremony that might seal our future with a kiss. All you have to do is say I do.

Photos by Michele Baron, Performing: Joanna Nastari, Cara Baldwin, Hannah Benson, Jean Ocidio, Bianca Darkwoods & Cosmic Caz.

The Brexit Wedding

The Brexit Wedding was a one-in-a-lifetime evening event which happened in September 2017 in response to the Brexit Referendum.

IN THE NAME OF LOVE, we’ll start the future shady underground dealings for exchanging passports.
Brexit is breaking our hearts - this is a beautifully broken attempt to repair a failing but fixable geopolitical bond.

We’ll turn the meaning of a wedding upside down. At heart, this Brexit Wedding will reinvent and consecrate new identities: Moving on from traditional, neatly restrictive binary categories like British and Continental, Man and Woman, Husband and Wife, Straight and Gay. We will mark the day of Brexit with a tornado of creative, resistant and youthful force.

Photos by Rowan Kassab

Artists involved: Nwando Ebizie, Tim Cowbury, Edythe Woolley, Virgin Xtravaganzah, Brigitte Aphrodite with QuietBoy, Marina Garvey Birch, Taylor Callum Danson, Hannah Benson, Cara Baldwin, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Martins Baumanis, Eleni Papaioannou, Rowena Cox Wilmot, Vera Stadler, Jonathan Grieve, Ama Josephine Budge, Inja Radman, Ela Zum Winkel, Hugh Hathaway, Anjali Prashar-Savoie, Stella Kun, Sarah Louise Renwick, Claudia Graham