Artsadmin’s Autumn 2024/Winter 2025 season

From city-wide celebrations to the sheer joy of queer imagination, our touring programme will traverse the globe to bring bold, radical work to new communities, contexts and cultures:

Station House Opera‘s legendary city-scale moving sculpture Dominoes will be transforming urban environments in Poland and Canada this September. Hundreds of volunteers and audience members in each location gather together to create a moving sculpture made of thousands of breeze blocks, setting off a communal celebration across the city for one day. Malta Festival is staging Dominoes in Poznan on 7 September, followed by The Bentway in Toronto on 22 September.

After a brilliantly received tour to Poland, Norway and Bristol this Spring, Cade & MacAskill’s joyous tale of love and transition, The Making of Pinocchio, will head to Switzerland, France, Finland and Belgium. See it at La Bâtie in Geneva from 6-7 September, Gessnerallee in Zurich from 27-28 September, Actoral Festival in Marseille from 4-5 October, Moving in November Festival in Helsinki from 13-14 November, Festival d’Automne in Paris from 22-30 November, or at Théâtre Les Tanneurs in Brussels from 5-9 December. If you didn’t get to see it in the autumn, you can catch a screening of the digital version at Colchester Arts Centre on 26 March.

Legendary choreographer and filmmaker Rosemary Lee is bringing Moving Worlds, her programme of dance films, to The Place in London on 14 September. After this, Moving Worlds will be touring around the UK, supported by the Rural Dance Touring Initiative. See it at DanceEast in Ipswich on 16 September, Glasshouse Arts Centre in Stourbridge on 24 October, Allendale Village Hall and Felton Village Hall in Northumberland on 26 and 27 November respectively, and Frittenden Memorial Hall on 15 February.

And Sentence, a film by Rosemary and Hugo Glendinning, filmed in the Court Room at Toynbee Studios, is available to watch digitally as part of Dance Umbrella, from 9-31 October.

Meanwhile, at Toynbee Studios, we’ve got a packed artist support programme of free sessions, talks and events to help artists at all stages of their careers build a more sustainable practice:

We’re re-igniting our partnership with Raze Collective to bring you another series of Queer Clash Mornings, starting on Thursday 12 September from 11am-1pm. This series will specifically hold space for QTIBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Intersex and Questioning, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) queer creatives to get together, exchange, chat and network. There’ll be a different QTIBIPOC queer creative co-hosting each session, starting with multidisciplinary artist and founder of The Blacker the Berry, Jesualdo Lopes.

Morning Producers returns after its summer hiatus to provide space, time and peer-to-peer support for freelance producers and self-producing artists. Come along to Alba Caffé from 10am-12pm on the first Wednesday of the month, from Wednesday 2 October onwards, and join Artsadmin’s producers for a coffee and a chat.

Starting in November, we’ll be hosting DYCP Homework Club to provide a supportive environment for folks working on their Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grants. Every Tuesday from 12 November until the application deadline, the artist support team will be in Toynbee Studios from 6.30-9.30pm, holding space for you to work, discuss your ideas and ask any burning questions.