Wednesday 1 October 2025, 7.30pm
I Love To Feel is a night created and curated by Theadora, dedicated to celebrating and uplifting women and gender minorities of colour in experimental music. Created to address the lack of representation in the scene, this night provides a unique space where their voices are centred and their creativity is embraced.
https://www.instagram.com/i.love.to.feel/
Damsel Elysium (they/them) is the solo project of UK based multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Djenaba Davis-Eyo.
An alchemist of body, space, object and the metaphysical, Damsel is a holistic world builder using sound, video, performance and other artistic mediums whose deeply intuitive practice crosses the boundary between experimental sound art, avant-pop, performance art, contemporary classical, analog and electronics, blurring the lines of genre, discipline and expectation. Their work explores anticolonial and neurodivergent practice, paradoxes of the manmade and natural world. Working almost entirely with improvisation somatic techniques, subtle energy, ancestral knowledge and the subconscious, They are an architect of hypnagogic activation to draw attention to quantum details and initiate alternative realities. Their multi-medium approach explores site-specific non-performance spaces of history and sacredness. Inspired by contemporary and Fluxus movements, performance becomes ritual and the stage an altar. Damsel’s work has appeared in Tate Modern, Southbank centre, V&A museum and Fondation Beyeler to name a few. Their first record released on AD 93, earning them recognition across a multitude of creative spaces; music, fashion, art, design and even film scoring, they are an avant garde artist on the rise collaborating with FKA twigs, Celeste, CKTRL and working with brands and art spaces such as Gucci, IITTALA and Simone Rocha.
I Love To Feel Ensemble is the performance extension of I Love To Feel. Formed during an opening improvisation at their last Café OTO show in November 2024, the ensemble has since played numerous shows across London and at 3WD Festival. Returning now to OTO, they present a special performance built on structured thematic improvisation, where spontaneity and form meet to create sonic landscapes. Their sound moves through experimental ambient textures with elements of jazz and neoclassical influence. The group features afromerm on vocals and live electronics, abi asisa on live and looping cello and Theadora on piano and synthesisers.
https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/il2f-x-five-fold-voicenote-27-02-25
Hoźaïgha y’Sohnt-Nash is a Guyanese-British composer, multidisciplinary performance artist and model whose work focuses primarily to the interaction between the self and the world – often pertaining to (but almost never explicitly) colonialism, gender, class, ethnicity and other prominent eternal zeitgeist questions of the times. Anecdotes, lived experiences, intersectionalism and interpersonal relationships are at the centre of her artistry, which realises itself through ritual displays, dance pieces, chamber works, piano solos and poetry. Alongside dance and performance, y’Sohnt is a life long pianist, whose first access to understanding the world and performance came through that monstrous instrument – despite other artistic endeavours it remains her first language.
https://www.instagram.com/ysohnt/
