Vout-O-Reenees

Wedding Sara + Nick
2021-12-11 16:00 - 2021-12-12 01:00 (Europe/London)
Celebrations

Exit 6 Xmas party
2021-12-10 18:00 - 2021-12-11 02:00
Short film Xmas party

A Saltless Gathering.... pick'n'mix
2021-12-09 19:00 - 23:30
Thursday 9th December, 7pm is still on the calender instead it will be a social for writers and thinker, talkers and listeners, musers and amusers. Come hang with the writers…

Salty Solstice has been postponed until the spring at Vout-O-Reenee’s – A fine selection of Salt authors will be reading from their work. Join Simon Okotie, D. J. Taylor, Julian Stannard, Venetia Welby, Chris Emery, Bibi Berki, Peter Daniels, Samuel Fisher, Daniel Hardisty and more for an evening of Saline merriment hosted by the inimitable David Collard.

Salt is one of the UK’s foremost independent publishers and has changed the landscape of contemporary British literature. ‘In a publishing world where everything seems to be about agglomeration, it’s cheering to see a company making a sustained case for the power of the small and the singular. I have been surprised and delighted by so many of Salt’s books over the years. It has compelled me to read outside the box. Watching its list grow and develop has been an unpredictable pleasure.’ Claire Armitstead, The Guardian

London’s best bookshop Burley Fisher will be there to make sure all your bookish needs are met. Everyone deserves a Salt book for Christmas, so please come and enjoy the very best of indie publishing and bookselling. Hear some singular fiction and poetry, chat to the authors, stock up on Xmas presents and celebrate Salt with a Salty Dog or, for the very festive, a tequila shot…

No entry fee but please consider making a donation to the excellent Trussell Trust.

Adah Parris Entertains .....
2021-12-02 19:00 - 2021-12-03 01:00
Adah’s The Birthday part 2

The National Sculpture Prize 2021 Awards
2021-12-01 18:30 - 23:30
To Book free tickets – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-sculpture-prize-2021-award-ceremony-tickets-198863785937
The NSP has established itself as a cornerstone of the fine arts ecosystem, supporting and elevating emerging outdoor artists by providing a platform for new talent. In a change to previous years, the competition is open to all aspiring sculptors and no longer requires applicants to have attended an art school with the funding increased from £1,000 towards fabrication of artworks to £2,500 for each successful application.
The theme for this year’s prize is Outthinking the Future and two winners will be chosen from an initial shortlist of ten. The first, decided by a panel of distinguished experts, will be awarded a £10,000 cash prize plus a £5,000 investment in an additional original sculpture. A further “People’s Choice” winner decided by exhibition attendees, the public vote winner will win £5,000.
This year, for the first time ever, the public vote will take place in person only. Sculpture park visitors are invited to come down, view the exhibition and vote for your favourite to win the £5000 cash prize.
The winners will be announced on Monday 1st November 2021 and the prizes will be awarded at a special event held in London on Wednesday 1st December.
The Ten Finalists:

Emma Louise Moore A level closer to time
Emily Woolley, A small ocean swallowed
Lucy Gregory, Rose tinted
Jonathan Michael Ray,Large boulder the size of a small boulder
Gus Skottowe, Rituals of the Technium
Thomas Merrett, Listener
Tom Waugh, I am not a robot
Richard Paton, Gravity begins at home
Henrietta Armstrong, Throwing bones
Laura Such, Plane sight

2021 Judging Panel:

Adrian Locke,chief curator, Royal Academy of Arts
Gavin Turk,artist
Dianne Harris, curator, Kinetica Museum
Alastair Smart,arts editor and art critic, The Telegraph
Deborah Curtis, founder, and creative director, House of Fairy Tales
Andrew Logan, artist
Sophie Parkin,artist, writer, owner of Vout-o-Reenees / The Stash Gallery
Helen Buckley, curator, ArtFinder
Michelle Charles, artist
Molly Parkin, artist, novelist, fashion editor, broadcaster
Jessica Wetherly, artist, historic NSP winner
Polly Morgan, artist, taxidermist

Find out more

Please forward this VIP invite link to your professional colleagues, press, artists, critics, curators and people in the art world who would like to come to the NSP award ceremony in London on 1st December.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-sculpture-prize-2021-award-ceremony-tickets-198863785937

Shadows of the Crypt.....
2021-11-27 20:00 - 2021-11-28 02:00
Its dark outside, time to dress up, come on down and flaunt your inner Goth. 8pm-late It’s spooky!
Ticket link here… members 20% discount…. ‘voutsred’
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shadows-of-the-crypt-v-tickets-202992364627

Patricia Highsmith, Andrew Wilson & Five Strangers!
2021-11-26 18:30 - 23:30
Book Launch and literary talk
Andrew Wilson, author of Beautiful Shadow, the first biography of Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol), talks about Highsmith’s life, her newly published – and at times shocking – diaries, and her influence on writing his own thriller Five Strangers. Five Strangers has just been published too.
Signed books will be available!

Sour-puss the opera - Book Launch
2021-11-25 18:00 - 23:30
’Sour-Puss: The Opera’ tells the sometimes fictional, sometimes emotionally biographical story of a woman grappling with her own sexuality and sense of self, created over a period of four years. Consisting of photographs and drawings, the project was born out of the unlikely friendship between the two collaborators – artists Diogo Duarte (34) and Jessica Mitchell (55). The ’Sour-Puss’ is a character based on real-life Jessica and real-life Diogo, resulting in a composite of both collaborators’ life experiences.
With its nihilistic undertones, a sour looking woman seems to be consumed within her own private rituals and absorbed in contemplation of her own body, so much so that sometimes it’s as though she fails to imagine anything exists beyond herself. In the series, ‘Sour-Puss’ borrows Jessica’s body and face to take us on a literal and metaphorical journey that is fundamentally marked by shaming, isolation, staining and an absurdist search for meaning and connection.
The photographs and the drawings remind us of the escapist journey we imagine a closeted lesbian might make, in desperate pursuit to break free from the quotidian, the ‘normal’, the expected, so that she can at last catch a glimpse of who she might really be.
Please RSVP Here…
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sour-puss-the-opera-book-launch-tickets-188873374347
members RSVP below

Avrils Bday Party 21 again again and again...
2021-11-20 20:00 - 2021-11-21 02:00
invitation only.

Dafydd Jones The Dangerous Sports club
2021-11-19 18:00 - 22:00
The inventor of Bungee Jumping and other wild escapades on sea, skis and air David Kirke’s daring do world in the 70’s and 80’s.. Extended through popular demand until the 19th Nov. Last chance to see, so do come and enjoy these surreal and marvellous photographs by Dafydd Jones.
Surreal Ski Race, box of prints. 30 ten by eight fibre prints of the Dangerous Sports club ski race that took place in St. Moritz annually for three years in the eighties by Dafydd Jones.
If you would like to know more about the charismatic characters this is a start The Muddled Legacy of Oxford University’s Dangerous Sports Club | Vanity Fair
Dafydd Jones, award winning Photographer, has been shooting the rich for 40years for the likes of Tatler His book Oxford The last Hurrah was published in 2020.

Sue Hubbard -Swimming to Albania - Book Launch
2021-11-17 18:30 - 23:00
Book Launch.
Wednesday 17th November
6.30- reading starts promptly at 7.15
Sue Hubbard’s fourth long awaited collection Swimming to Albania from Salmon Press Ireland.

Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist, art critic, broadcaster and lecturer. She has published three collections of poetry, Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon), Ghost Station and The Forgetting and Remembering of Air (Salt).

She was the Poetry Society’s only ever Public Art poet, responsible for the poem Eurydice at Waterloo. She’s published a collection of short stories Rothko’s Red (Salt), Girl in White (Cinnamon Press) and Rainsongs (Duckworth, Overlook Press, US, Mercure de France and Yilin Press China) of which the American Library Association said: “Hubbard deserves a place in the literary pantheon near Colm Toibin, Anne Enright and Sebastian Barry”.
She will be in conversation with the poet and sculptor, Stephen Duncan, followed by a reading.
This reading will start promptly at 7.15

DODO INK SALON - A Literary Social
2021-11-04 18:30 - 23:30
‘The Dodo Ink Salon is a party for authors, reviewers, agents and publishing folk to drink, chat books, make friends, be merry. It has been running since 2014 and has become popular due to its friendly atmosphere – a party where anyone can approach anyone to chat and connect.’ Dodo ink is a publishers.
Here are some Authors and a publisher chatting in the 1970’s
from R-L Barbara Hulanicki, Publisher Desmond Briggs, Molly Parkin, Fenella Fielding.

The Dangerous Sports Club Exhibition - Daffyd Jones
2021-11-03 18:00 - 22:00
Please RSVP below, as there are limited spaces.
The Dangerous Sports Club was co-founded by David Kirk, Chris Baker, Ed Hulton and Alan Weston.
‘The Dangerous Sports Club, a group of adventurers and extreme sports pioneers based in Oxford and London, were active from the late 1970s for about ten years, during which they developed modern bungee jumping and experimented with a variety of other innovative sporting activities’
Like skateboarding with the bulls in Pamplona or skiing a grand piano down St.Moritz. This exhibition is curated by Dafydd Jones and includes his extraordinary photographs, vintage originals, as well as other images from Kirks collection, taken before Dafydd started documentation of the likes of Hugo and Hubie below on the skiing piano.
Surreal Ski Race, box of prints. 30 ten by eight fibre prints of the Dangerous Sports club ski race that took place in St. Moritz annually for three years in the eighties.
Surreal Ski Race, box of prints. 30 ten by eight fibre prints of the Dangerous Sports club ski race that took place in St. Moritz annually for three years in the eighties. by Dafydd Jones.
If you would like to know more about the charismatic characters this is a start The Muddled Legacy of Oxford University’s Dangerous Sports Club | Vanity Fair
Dafydd Jones, award winning Photographer, has been shooting the rich for 40years for the likes of Tatler His book Oxford The last Hurrah was published in 2020.

www.dafjones.com

Shadows of the Crypt....Halloween Goth night
2021-10-30 20:00 - 2021-10-31 02:00
Halloween for the only regular Goth/ new romantic night in town DJ’s and dancing.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/halloween-at-the-crypt-tickets-189188908117

Ticket sales are password protected ‘Vampire’ Reduced 20% for Vouts Members ‘ReduceV’

This is Sophie Parkin in her new Romantic stage photo by Barbara Hulanicki C1981

Is Anyone there? Halloween Mask Party 7-late....
2021-10-29 19:00 - 2021-10-30 01:30
Vout-O-Reenees invites you to join us for a spooky Masked night of fun. There will be DJ. food, best mask prize, dancing + rituals to herald the joys of a new season. And the annual ghost tour. Giles Abbott will be telling us a masked tale at 8pm. Come and celebrate in your best dressed surreal imagination. Members + guests.

Adah Parris is 50!
2021-10-28 19:00 - 2021-10-29 01:30
Hard to believe I know but she is as old as a flower and as young as the Universe. We will celebrate!

Book Launch - The Story of The Skids by Jonny Hannah + Richard Jobson
2021-10-27 18:30 - 23:30
If you love Hannah or The Skids….Please RSVP for this joyous occasion as we are still being cautious on numbers.
JOEY JOLSON MEETS MONSIEUR MCHULOT BEHIND LOCHORE INSTITUTE…
What does Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Tatlock & The Dunfermline Communist Party have in common?
They all appear in the Story of the Skids, a brand new book, written by Richard Jobson, & embellished by Jonny Hannah, which is having its London launch at Vout-O-Reenee’s on Wednesday Oct 27th, from 7pm.
Treat your good selves to a copy of this handsome volume, published by St Jude’s (a free screenprint with every purchase), & join the two Fifers for a wee blether about all things No’ Bad, including TV Stars, Yankee Dollars, Specky Potter & Sandy Muir.
You’ll visit the Cowdenbeath Working men’s Club, bump into a bunch of Wolverhampton Skinheads, & rub shoulders with Cocteau & Redon, amidst page after page of explosive punk-rock colour, where every page was drawn in seconds & every word was lovingly hand lettered…
‘It’s more than no’ bad’ – Stevie Cologne
‘I read this book & was no longer scared to dance’ – Pano the Hell’s Angel
‘Explosive’ – Tom Bomb
The ideal Christmas presents for those old Punk parents!
Only RSVP guests will be let in.

Genera Films Party
2021-10-21 18:00 - 2021-10-22 00:30

Publishing Party/ Book Launch with Deixis Press
2021-10-16 18:00 - 23:30
On 16 October, Deixis Press is delighted to host its formal launch, along with the launch of its first two books: Siôn Scott-Wilson’s Some Rise By Sin and Richard Gadz’s The Workshop of Filthy Creation.

Deixis Press is an independent publisher of fiction, usually with a darker edge. While we lean toward literary fiction, we also love beautifully-crafted genre fiction—as well as work that defy categorization. Our aim is to discover, commission, and curate works of literary art. You can find us online @deixispress (Twitter and Instagram) and at our website, https://deixis.press

Be A Good Boy - Sam Kydd The unpublished memoirs...book launch
2021-10-14 18:00 - 22:00
What did you do during lockdown?
Jonathan kydd went into the attic and found this treasure trove of his father. Imagine? And this is the result. Please do come along and hear Jonathan Kydd who’ll do a small hilarious reading no doubt and talk about his wonderful father the actor Sam Kydd who appeared in more films than Ive had hot dinners. Cant wait to read this! Excellent christmas pressie for mum!
Signed copies available

Happy Birthday Party Diane HH
2021-10-09 19:00 - 2021-10-10 02:00
Private Birthday do for a member, other members always invited.

Cheli Mula - Performance Spiritual Ritual for Autumn
2021-10-06 18:30 - 23:00
Transcending New Moon, Flower and Forest Ritual
Cheli Mula and Samantha Tamang, both artists and alternative health practitioners, have brought together a unique experience of,
“Healing Ritual as a Performance Art” -The commonality between the two being transcendence!
Flower Shower: Bring a bunch of flowers of one color for your ritual. These delicate flowers of your choice will help you process and put away the old and welcome the new.

Forest bathing: Can’t go to the forest? We have brought the forest to you! Immerse your senses into this age-old practice that restores our physiological and psychological health. Our forest bathing experience features an Avant-grade/steampunk technology, Bol d’air.
limited space

Transcendence by Sophie Parkin oil on canvas

Corinne 30th Birthday - Private party
2021-10-02 19:00 - 2021-10-03 02:00

Maria Teresa Gavazzi - ASTRAVAGARI: paintings rambling in an imaginative zodiac of constellations
2021-10-01 18:00 - 2021-10-30 23:30
The Stash Gallery would like to invite you to see Maria Teresa Gavazzi solo show: Before she leaves Britain for good and returns to her homeland of Italy. This show has been extended!
ASTRAVAGARI: paintings rambling in an imaginative zodiac of constellations
PV: Friday, 1st October, 6-11pm
The Stash Gallery, Vout-O-Reenees,
The Crypt, 30 Prescot Street,
London, E1 8BB Please RSVP below limited numbers
The show starts as a playful digression on astronomy: constellations transformed into familiar toys sitting on cardboard carts that come and go across abstract colour fields. But this compositional simplicity, the delicate humour, even the exhilaration in the gesture of painting and the ensuing wonder at the resulting broad, fluid brushmarks can hardly conceal the painful dialogue between desire and frustration, the search for an interlocutor that will activate the self.

So what started as a homely, private zodiac takes on a universal appeal. There are large pastel-coloured canvases as well as smaller diptychs, paired dominoes whose relationship remains unresolved despite the linking threads. If these connections are emphasised, in fact, they also exist to set distances -as in the myth of the bull in fierce pursuit of a forever elusive banderilla, or the melancholy tale of a rooster and hen facing each other across the net of an empty tennis court.
Among other themes explored by Gavazzi in her digressions are travel and the fetishistic value of fashion. In a series of small canvases bold fashion statements are turned into dangling amulets with an extra-dimension provided by photographic collage inserts. As Gavazzi works her way through free mental associations, shuffling and shifting meanings and undoing conventional words through images of the apparently ordinary, the objects represented come to life, engaging the viewer in an irresistible tête-à-tête.

Maria Teresa Gavazzi was born in Milan in 1950. She spent her childhood in Saõ Paulo, lived in Italy for many years and currently lives in London. She has an MA degree in Painting from the Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan and in 2018 she graduated in Social Anthropology (MA Migration and Diaspora Studies) at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. In 2019 she walked from Rome to London and has published a book of her encounters on the via Francigena.
Over the years, she has embraced painting, collage, photography, installations, videos, performances and interactive projects. Gavazzi’s work has been exhibited in Europe, Great Britain and Japan. It has been displayed, among others, at Herrick Gallery, Red Gallery, and Viktor Wynd Fine Art in London, Galleria Il Milione in Milan, at the International Biennial of Photography in Turin, the Magazzini del Sale in Venice, the Nederland Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, the Osaka Triennale, the Book Photography Festival and at the Benaki Museum Pireos Annexe, Athens.

A percentage of the sales of this exhibition will be donated to Task Force for Cystic Fibrosis, a research project lead by Fondazione Ricerca Fibrosi Cistica-Onlus to find a cure.

Michael Coles Exhibition cancelled - Unforseen circumstances
2021-09-30 18:00 - 23:00
THE MUSEUM OF THE CHURCH OF BLEEDING GUMS
Is having to be moved to a different venue Updates will be posted into News, Instagram and here.
Gallery open wed-sat 6-10pm 07539357070

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Shadows of the Crypt - Goth Night 9 til late
2021-09-25 21:00 - 2021-09-26 02:00
If you love all that is Goth this night is for you!
Expect to be met by people who appear as Goths, goth music and a general gothy vibe and we dont bite!
Dress up in your own Goth way.
This event is usually sold out . there will be a couple of tickets on the door but please pre book if possible.
Tickets Here – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shadows-of-the-crypt-2021-tickets-170265818647 members discount with – voutsreduce

Mother of Goth

Re-Verse Polari-ty -Nicholas Moore & Rupert Goldsworthy
2021-09-24 18:00 - 23:30
“Re-Verse Polari-ty”

Stash Gallery presents “Re-Verse Polari-ty” a two-person exhibition featuring new works by artists Rupert Goldsworthy and Nicholas Moore. The show runs from September 2nd to the 25th. The private view will be on Thursday September 2nd from 6-11pm.
Nicholas Moore and Rupert Goldsworthy met in 2018 at a birthday party in downtown New York. They became friends and found they had a shared interest in their work in using popular signage, rock music ephemera, and imagery drawn from old commercial print advertising.
Although their subject matter begins at a similar place, the art they make varies in the handling of materials and intent.
The title of the show “Re-Verse Polari-ty” is a nod to the secret gay slang language of the 1960s and its deliberate reversal of spelling (e.g. riah= hair spelt backwards) for further ironic and dissonant resonance.
Moore’s work has a playful aesthetic. It often includes details drawn from his youth such as toys or kitschy flowers surrounding votive objects. These, combined with the texts (often song lyrics) evoke a sense of the passing of time and a yearning to recapture a lost innocence. Although there is undoubtedly joy abundant in the work, there is also an underlying sense of melancholy.
“Nicholas Moore’s art is surprising, lucid, fussy, symbolistic, and sincere. At times impulsive, sometimes reactive, British native Moore manages all of the above by letting his instincts guide him.”
D Dominick Lombardi, Huffington Post
Rupert Goldsworthy became known in the mid-Nineties for organizing artist-run gallery projects first in Berlin and then in Chelsea, New York. Goldsworthy’s paintings and installations address taboos (political and emotional) using post-Pop methodology. His concerns include the Cold War, gay social history and the iconography of Seventies counterculture.
Holland Cotter, art critic for The New York Times, writes of Goldsworthy’s work: “Sharp, dark, hard to pin down but definitely there. Names of suicidal rock stars, student radicals, celebrity drugs, Black Panthers, gay clubs and aged movie queens with sad, twilight histories bounce off each other and interconnect like fragments of overheard conversations. And while the textual melange – blasts from the past plus cultural arcana – makes fun ‘reading’, it also has a distinctive moral texture.”

Richards 70th Birthday Party
2021-09-23 19:30 - 23:30
Private Members only

The Surrealist Picnic Ball - Vouts turns 7!
2021-09-11 19:30 - 2021-09-12 02:00
Vouts turned 7 in May but what with this and that, ups and downs, hot and cold… we have delayed until September 11.
Seven is supposed to be about an Itch so MM made famous, and Im not surprised because Wool and Copper are the symbols, imagine wearing a dress knitted from copper wire or a copper kettle knitted jumper? well imagine away my beauties for the more surreal, the bigger the birthday prize.
We will be having a picnic ball with a disco or do I mean a disco ball with a picnic? We will have a ball. We will have a disco and a picnic…. so I want you all there in the most incredible outfits.
7.30 until late. RSVP below Members plus 1 guest.

Roberta is 30! come and celebrate
2021-09-04 19:30 - 2021-09-05 01:30
Dirty flirty thirty…. only a couple of these words correspond to the wholly original designer and courageous member of Vouts, friend to all that is Beat, Roberta Dolinska!
You are Invited to Robertas birthday to dance drink and eat cheese!

Buy her a birthday cocktail large enough for a watering can and she’ll be happy. Ask her to dance and she’ll be ecstatic! This might be your last time as she now lives in Edinburgh and will soon be flying off permanently to the states….
