Friday 3rd May 6pm -1am
Goods Shed and SVA John Street
Welcome to Bealtaine Dew, a seasonal celebration brought to you by MEGA MEGA and the Mermaid Chunky Family.
We have been known to throw all kinds of happenings upon a traditional Gaelic festival date but never before have we thrown a party for Bealtaine, the May day slaying celebration of the beginning of Summer!!!!
Also the one and only time of year that the morning dew contains magical properties, so prepare to revel and roll on our audio-visual slopes of moisture. Dress code - magic dewy maiden.
In general, this night will be filled with live in-the-round musical shows, films, performance art and club DJs.
Performance times and places
SVA John Street 6-8pm
Free and open to all
The night will begin at SVA 6pm with Joicey DJ’s and a live performative installation and show by renowned sculptural costume collective Vomiton in John Street Gallery.
Procession from John Street to Goods Shed 7.55pm
A short and frantic 5 minute musical procession down to the Brunel Goodshed
Goods Shed 8pm -1am
Ticketed and 18+
Arrive at 8pm to hear the music of Island Girl, Plumm and Mermaid Chunky which will be performed in the round with a surround sound system!
Alongside these happenings will be sculptures and live drawing installations from Ruby Dunsdon, Scarlett McNally and Amber Kimberly.
We will also be screening some special films by fashionista Milligan Beaumont and vivacious arts collective ‘Rabbit Man’ as well as displaying textile work by stone carver and letter extraordinaire Sobby Joy.
Lastly, leading us into the first of the summer will be club DJ sets from SVA based collective JOICEY, bringing you breaks and beats to send you into a euphoric state. If you have a hand held instrument please bring to join in the musical procession
Once again, the dress code is magic dewy maiden rolling on a hillside, or dewy, globally creatures in general.
The event at SVA from 6-8pm is free and open to all
The event at the Goods Shed is ticketed and is 18+ and non refundable.
SPECIAL TICKET LINK FOR UNDERS 18’s
IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 PLEASE EMAIL office@sva.org.uk answering the following questions ...
Let us know a bit about yourself, how old you are, why you'd like to come to the event and what you enjoy about SVA - this helps us know that everyone will be chill and respectful and will come to the night to enjoy the art and music. Once you've sent this email then we will add you to the Mould membership under 18 list and send you a special ticket link - this membership will enable you to know about more events that you are able to come along to in the future.
Tickets:
Early Bird: £8
Middle Bird: £10
Late Bird: £12
MERMAID CHUNKY
Heading the thriving DIY music scene of “New Weird Britain”, Mermaid Chunky are an audio visual duo made up of artists Freya Tate and Moina Moin. Bathing in milkmaid serenity and improvised chaos, the duo boast of pumping trance rhythms, sad Easter time chicks and arousing sax solos. Catching their live performances may cause havoc on your retinas as they are often accompanied by euphoric sculptural visuals and an entourage of sweating puppy’s in frills.
Their journey has seen the duo collaborate and play with the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Comet is Coming, Alabaster DePlume, Stealing Sheep, Snapped Ankles, Anchorsong and more. After taking off with their first album VEST, developed and recorded at SVA and London's Total Refreshment Centre, they are secretly heading towards some surprising new announcements on the horizon. All are to be revealed on the 3rd May at Bealtaine Dew, Brunel Goodshed.
VOMITON
Vomiton Collective , Lorenzo Roberston, Miriam Craddock, Kiera Saunders and friends, Co-founded the paper máche costume team, whose motto is ‘art made from rubbish isn’t rubbish art.’ The vomit creative release was inspired by the stockpiling panic surrounding supermarkets at the start of the pandemic. The absurdity of fast-paced food consumption in plastic packaging, naming our Vomiton characters Aquafaba, Mary pea-kins and Haggis Mantis.
Our more recent works surround performance themes of clowning, the fool, and the anonymous, Our last art performance was the ‘Birth of Mirth’ - Inspired by the anonymous painting ‘concert in the egg’ supposedly by Hieronymus bosh. The performance included a giant talking egg and hilarious technical faults.. In true Vomitonounmous style. Later we discovered our performance made its way to tik-tok and we went viral with comments like “that's enough for today.”
Love Vomiton
PLUMM
Plumm is a vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader hailing from South London with proud Welsh heritage.
Her song - You Are The One Live - is the title track for Apple TV's newest hit series ‘Liaison’
Plumm is a genre-bending, stage strutting chameleon; dining with both light and shadow.
After playing at BBC Maida Vale Studios with Moses Boyd for BBC 1Xtra, championed by BBC Introducing London, and playing with Taylor McFerrin in Hackney; Plumm has just sold out at The Jazz Cafe with her Led Zeppelin band. She is being claimed as one of the most creative and exciting singers coming out of London.
Last year she featured on the theme tune for TV show 'Ragdoll' on Alibi with Moses Boyd and became a Future Bubbler under Gilles Peterson.
Live, Plumm's shows have created a buzz within the ever growing London scene with her varying arrangements; a full force eclectic Rock/Jazz band, an electronic duo; Plumm x skttrd - a buffet of live loops and drum machines blurring the line between DJ and live improv as well as being part of larger collectives such as Levitation Orchestra. Plumm is also SOAS alumni with a degree in Ethnomusicology and a specialism in North Indian Classical music.
Plumm’s self released EP “Chameleonic” is a homage to exploring genre and being a hybrid in this time. Her new single Stranger is out now
Catch her as Jamz Supernova’s ‘After Dark Discovery’ and Clash Magazines “one-to-watch”
Recent performances; The Royal Albert Hall, Glastonbury, Boomtown, We Out Here Fest, Great Escape Festival and PunchDrunk
Island Girl
Incredible old time folk traditionalist. Think banjo’s and spoons and swooning.
JOICEY
Womxn DJ collective based at SVA - rolling around 24/7.