I am making work for Mind Your Head Art Cabaret Thamesmead : Wildflower Whoopee! which happens on April 15th
Moorings Sociable Club
Arnott Close
Thamesmead
SE28 8BG
Saturday 15 April 4pm - 9pm
Entry is free, please find all the details to book here
Danzability - Ian ‘Sunnyboy’ Tyson - Jules - Lady Unchained - Marcus Orlandi - Mentalless (Andrew Phoenix & Emma Wesslus) - Miyuki Kasahara - Sarah Doyle - Vibin’ n Marblin’ (Chloe Cooper and Jackie Walduck)
Compèred by Spruce Monkscyth & M’Lie-dee
For Mind Your Head Art Cabaret at the Moorings Sociable Club in Thamesmead we have a delightful and inspiring mix of live performers including visual artists, poets, magicians, and musicians based in Thamesmead, Abbey Wood and surrounding areas. There is a spring theme with an emphasis on growth, nature, and our relation to the built environment. It’s a Wildflower Whoopee! Named after the Wildflower Inn which was once part of the Moorings in its previous life, expect your minds to be blown in an evening of free live entertainment.
Mind Your Head Thamesmead is compered by 80’s TV-personality Spruce Monkscyth and his somewhat grumpy assistant M’Lie-dee, so remember to Miiiind Yoooour Heeeead!
Thank you to TACO & RTM (Radio Thamesmead) for the PA and sound.
The event will be photographed and filmed by Riordan Tyson.
Mind Your Head Thamesmead is supported by a London Community Foundation grant.
Mind Your Head Art Cabaret creates a supportive environment for live performance art, poetry, music, film, and 2/3D multi-medium artworks. Between 2017 - 2020 Spruce Monkscyth & M'lie-dee hosted Mind Your Head 1 to 4 in the basement of the famous Golden Anchor pub in Nunhead and in 2022 hosted 'Sea Creatures' Mind Your Head 5, Seaside Special at the Zuzushii Art Laboratory, a popular arts venue in Hastings. In 2023 Mind Your Head 6 is at the Moorings Sociable Centre in Thamesmead, South-East London. Mind Your Head Art Cabaret is an artist-led project by Calum F Kerr and Caroline Gregory.
Artist Info and Links
Danzability
Danzability offers dance based personal development and inclusive dance classes, workshops and motivational talks. It was founded in 2015 by Kavina Pound and her daughter Bethany Pound Green, who are both living with disabilities. The pair, who also dance with Deptford Freestylers, believe that dance can help everybody live life to its full potential.
https://disabilityarts.online/directory/danzability/
Ian ‘Sunnyboy’ Tyson
Sunnyboy Tyson was a figure in the London Pub Music scene in the late 90s- early noughties before entering retirement in 2008. In 2017, Sunnyboy joined Community Sound, a local community music project and appeared with them in the 50th Anniversary Thamesmead Festival. Subsequently, in 2019, Sunnyboy formed “Old Boys Blues Band”, who only perform in Thamesmead once a year.
Sunnyboy Tyson will be making a rare solo performance at Mind Your Head Cabaret.
Jules
Hailing from Thamesmead, South-East London; rapper, singer-songwriter and spoken word artist Jules depicts her stories and experiences through lyrical rhymes and experimental melodies. Proud of her Chinese ethnicity, Jules is ready to shake up the world of hip hop with her unique tone and style. Her latest EP 'IDENTITY: WHO AM I' is now available to listen to across all platforms!
https://julesofficialmusic.bandcamp.com/
Lady Unchained
Lady Unchained is a poet, a mentor, an award-winning broadcaster, a curator, a TedX speaker, a workshop facilitator, author and a radio host for National Prison Radio and is on a mission to prove that there is #lifeafterprison.
https://www.unchainedpoetry.com/
Marcus Orlandi
Marcus Orlandi is a contemporary artist based in London. He creates work in response to past and present day political and societal stories and movements that are referenced in performance, textiles, drawings and sculpture. He steals from both high and low-brow cultures that range from 1960’s conceptual performance art to professional wrestling and British sitcoms. He has been commissioned by Camden Arts Centre, Bodleian Libraries, Camden People's Theatre, Ty Pawb, Estuary Festival and was a previous recipient of the Kingsgate Emerging Artist Award.
https://www.instagram.com/marcus.orlandi/
Mentalless (Andrew Phoenix & Emma Wesslus)
In what might be the first Comedy-Mentalism duo show ever, you'll get unexplainable magic that will blow your mind as well as comedy, improv and exciting audience participation. A high paced show packed with illusions and humour. Perfect for lovers of both comedy and magic.
https://www.andrewphoenix.co.uk/mentalless
Miyuki Kasahara
Wildflower Oracle with Miyuki: Choose a card, each has a local wildflower on. What message does this wildflower bring? We can find it’s meaning.
Born in Japan and based in Thamesmead, Miyuki Kasahara’s work is research driven and addresses the impact of humans on the ecosystem. How we can find ways to reconnect with a losing grasp of the natural world and stop poisoning it and ourselves. She examines in her work the environmental factors affecting global issues, including that arising from politics and societal change.
http://www.miyukikasahara.com/
Sarah Doyle
“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.” Sarah Doyle’s film “The Flower of Nature" features animated illustrations from a 14th century illuminated manuscript depicting otherworldly creatures. The film is set in Thamesmead and South London's waterways and serves as inspiration for a new performance combining elements of sideshows and "The Owl Service", a book centered around the folklore of Blodeuedd, a woman created by a wizard from flowers.
Sarah Doyle is a UK based artist she has shown her work internationally in Japan, New York and Germany. Solo shows include ‘The Nexus Treatment’ at Space Station Sixty-Five Gallery and ‘Celebrated Sobriquets’ at The Surgery London. Sarah studied Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and MA Communication Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London.
https://sarah-doyle.com/
Vibin’ n Marblin’ (Chloe Cooper and Jackie Walduck)
Vibin n Marblin (Chloe Cooper and Jackie Walduck) make audiovisual performances where Chloe’s marbling responds to Jackie’s music and vice versa, resulting in immersive video projections and mesmeric vibraphone soundscapes.
http://www.chloecooper.co.uk / https://www.jackiewalduck.org/projects-8
