Vout-O-Reenees

Happy Birthday 61ers...
2022-10-22 19:00 - 2022-10-23 01:00 (Europe/London)
Matt Black and Dinez host a birthday to celebrate all the birthdays we all missed during lockdown. Invites and dj’s birthday cakes and vegetarian buffet.

2000 Light Years From Home.... no 2
2022-10-15 19:00 - 2022-10-16 01:00
Do you love to dance?
A new music night that dives into the divine weaving between decades from continents to countries on a spacial audio journey all of its own. For group bookings please call Sophie 07753702910.
TICKETS HERE
https://www.designmynight.com/london/whats-on/clubbing/2000-light-years-from-home-club-night

Jack & Me: How not to live after Loss by Cosmo Landesman
2022-10-12 18:00 - 23:30
Book Launch for Cosmo Landesman pub by Black Spring Press
After the suicide of his son Jack in 2015, journalist Cosmo Landesman set out to write an anti-suicide/ anti-grief memoir that was angry and cynical about the way we look at death, suicide and grief. Where others parents of suicides were motivated to try and do good in the world, Landesman took the do nothing, say nothing and feel as bad as possible option. Seven years later he wonders if he made a terrible mistake. But Jack and Me is more than about suicide – its about a clueless father trying to save his troubled son.
Cosmo Landesman is a journalist, broadcaster and author. Along with Toby Young and Julie Burchill he was the co-founder of the influential magazine The Modern Review. He has written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines including The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. Landesman is best known for his successful dating column in the Sunday Times Style Magazine alongside Dolly Alderton. His cultural memoir Starstruck: Fame, Failure My Family and Me was published to great critical success. He is currently a columnist for Spectator World and Perspective.

“shockingly honest – a tour de force” – Camilla Long

Happy Birthday Cosima
2022-10-01 19:00 - 2022-10-02 01:00
Cosimas Birthday Party

Playtime a short film by Jasper Shah
2022-09-29 18:30 - 2022-09-30 01:00
You are invited to – Playtime Drama | 11 minutes
In this slice of life, Jack learns a friend from school has found success in a passion they once shared – but one he gave up on. Cast: Chris Machari, Toby Osmond, Edmund Fargher
Written and Directed by Jasper Shah
There will be drinks and chatter after film showing at 8 be early to grab a seat.
Jasper has been writing, directing, and producing short films since 2013, beginning with THE FORGING OF A ROMANCE, a silent film shot with just himself and two actors.
In 2015 Jasper’s student film NIGHT JOURNEY won the school’s Best Film award, and his subsequent film VISTA LAKE was nominated for the Gold Movie Awards Best Film of the Month, and went on to screen at the Columbus and Oregon International Film Festivals. His latest film PLAYTIME is the second collaboration with cinematographer Gabriel Stanger, and third collaboration with music composer Sean Clarke.

Vout-O-Reenees 8th Birthday Party saturday members and guests only.
2022-09-24 19:00 - 2022-09-25 01:00
Every year we give a birthday party for Jan’s and my baby, Vout-o-Reenees AND to Honour Slim Gaillard. That Vouts is already 8 is a testament of how extraordinary the last 3 years have been and now the Q, and all that and this government entails. There has never been a time when Vouts is more necessary, more meaningful for our community of artists, creators’, imaginers of new beginnings. On Saturday the 24th from 7.pm we come together, bedecked in the traditional 8th tokens of Bronze, Linen and lace to celebrate by dancing around the maypole, eating cheese and drinking kir Royales and mostly talking, for if Vouts is about anything unsurreal,( the only club named after a dictionary of jive slang for goodness sake!) It’s about conversation, the exchange of words laughter and warmth. It is always the best party of the year. Be part of it. RSVP. Members please bring someone you’d like to be a member wear linen lace or a lot of bronzer! X Sophie photographed by Barbara Hulanicki imagining Vout-O-Reenees with Dick Bradsell at The ICA aged 22 wearing traditional Lace but No Bronzer!.

Toby & David's Networking Night (NOT....)
2022-09-23 18:30 - 2022-09-24 01:00
David Wilkinson (prod of Getting Away With Murder) and Toby Osmond(actor) would like to welcome you to our networking event for the stage and screen industry whether you are in front of the camera or behind it. Please come along if you want to connect and your part of this world, we’d love to have you here.
Please make sure you are feeling well!
Just please RSVP individually per person. Group rsvps will not be considered.

Suzanne Noble Sings The Words + Music of Dorothy Fields
2022-09-16 19:00 - 2022-09-17 01:00
If you like your jazz, witty and sassy, Suzanne delivers in vintage style. Also known for her tiktok Sex Advice for Seniors with Peter Marriott
If they could see me now: The Words & Music of Dorothy Fields tells the story of the only female lyricist to have a career spanning over 50 years, more than 400 songs and taking in collaborations with Jerome Kern (The Way you Look Tonight), Jimmy McHugh (Sunny Side of the Street, I Can’t Give you Anything but Love) and Cy Coleman (Hey Big Spender).
With her brother Herb, Dorothy Fields wrote Annie Get your Gun. Friends with the Gershwins, Rogers & Hammerstein, she had a remarkable career in a male-dominated industry and managed to outlast many of her peers through her skill in wordplay and use of humour.
Jazz & blues singer Suzanne Noble will share the stories behind many of her most famous and less well known songs. Accompanied by former West End pianist/arranger Paul Maguire (Evita, A Chorus Line, Phantom and others), who shares her enthusiasm for the American Songbook and Musical Theatre, they will tell of the highs & lows of one of America’s most influential and prolific lyricists.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/if-they-could-see-me-now-the-words-music-of-dorothy-fields-tickets-411960674467 Only £10!

The Gender Reveal Party - . closing party 28th Sept 6-11
2022-09-14 17:30 - 2022-09-28 22:00
with Gina Birch, Sadie Hennessy, Carrie Reichardt & Jessica Voorsanger
A mixed show of new work by women for men, and women.
Please RSVP as this will be extremely popular.

Painter musician filmmaker Gina Birch presents her view of the naked self portrait, prior to a major one person show and the release of her new album!
‘The catalyst for me to make a painting is usually a combination of something that makes me laugh alongside the seriousness of the subject matter.’
GB arrived in London in autumn 1976 to study fine art. Side tracked from painting by punk, forming The Raincoats, consumed by conceptual art and super 8 film making, it took a good few years to return to Painting.
Blueprint Man by Sadie Hennessy 2022
Sadie Hennessy aka The Mature Lady Artist is a multi-disciplinary artist specialising in collage , printmaking and live events. She has a BA Honours in Theatre, from Dartington College of Arts, and an MA in Fine Art from Central St. Martins. She was Screen Print Fellow at the Royal Academy between 2016 and 2019. She lives and works on the East Kent Riviera.

Carrie Reichardt is an outspoken, politically charged, ceramic slinging artist who leaves a trail of poetry and prose in her wake. Her award winning public work reflects her sustained engagement with people, place and politics, with a focus on marginalized groups – and in particular, women and their hidden histories. In 2013, Reichardt won the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to research ‘How to advance community mosaics in the UK’. Trained at Kingston University, a First Class degree in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan; She was Artist in Residence at Camberwell Art College in 2009, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA 2014 Reichardt is frequently called to speak on the use of craft and art as protest, presenting at Museum of Liverpool, Victoria and Albert Museum, ICA, Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
Artist in Residence- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Public Art Commission- Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Public Art Commission- City North, Finsbury Park

Curly Haired Men by Jessica Voorsanger.
Jessica Voorsanger is an American artist living in London. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and Goldsmiths College (MA Fine Art), and has had one-person exhibitions in London, New York, Edinburgh, Berlin & Turin. Recently she exhibited at Gallerie 33, Berlin; The ICA ; Whitechapel Art Gallery; and also completed a project for Art on the Underground. Jessica’s work explores the concept of ‘celebrity’ within popular culture – through obsession, fans and media representation.

Vincents Birthday Party
2022-09-10 19:00 - 2022-09-11 01:00
Invitation and members only

Susi Osborne Happiness is a thing with Wings - Book Launch
2022-09-02 18:00 - 23:30
Happiness is a Thing With Wings By Susi Osborne
Depressed at the thought of her fiftieth birthday looming and realising she’s stuck in a rut, Joanna consoles herself with gin and chocolate on a regular basis, which only adds to her ever-increasing waistline. She knows she needs to grow some wings (or whatever!) and fly out of her miserable rut if she is ever to feel happy again.
A somewhat comedic encounter in her local supermarket turns out to be just the catalyst she needs to encourage her to change her life. As she starts out on her drama-packed and often hilarious journey of self-discovery, she comes to realise that the old adage is true – you never will be happy until you
learn to love yourself.

Susi Osborne is a Cheshire based writer who likes to escape to Vouts whenever she can.
Happiness is a Thing With Wings is her fifth novel. Susi also runs Northwich LitFest as well as running a business selling all things vintage in an antiques centre.

Charlotte + Nicks Election Birthday Party
2022-08-27 19:30 - 2022-08-28 01:00
This might be a still from Absolute Beginners or it might be a photo from Nick and Charlottes 40th bday bash. I Vote Eve Ferret or Slim Gaillard, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gore Vidal as Prime Minister!. Who are you coming as? if you’re invited you’ll already have saved the date. Cake, classic dancing, cocktails, music.
Usual rules apply to members… otherwise private event. This will be brilliant fun….

Cancelled til further notice -Ukrainian Live Music event with Tatiana Lavskaya
2022-08-26 19:00 - 2022-08-27 01:00
Live Ukrainian Music Benefit for Tatiana professional musician, director, actor now in London. Will be playing some traditional folk music. Please do buy tickets and encourage others.

- Down & Out in Paris & London... Songs from the Garret with Daisy & Paul.
2022-08-26 19:00 - 2022-08-27 01:00
Live Music friday 26th Aug.
The One and Only Daisy… £5 on the door
The beautiful Daisy, artist musician performer, daughter of artist Wilma, recently performed with Martin Greens big shebang with Marc Almond amongst others ,to rapturous applause. She even performed for Jan and my wedding, it did end in divorce but I dont blame Daisy for that!
Singer songwriter performing as a duet with Paul
This picture isnt actually Daisy, its Marilyn but they’res a lot of similarities…

Deixis Press Book Launch
2022-08-11 18:00 - 23:30
Angel Belsey launches two new titles.
On Thursday 11 August, Deixis Press is delighted to host a launch party for two new books:
Hangdog Souls by Marc Joan After Silence by Jessica Gregson
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 works that defy categorization. You can find us online @deixispress (Twitter and Instagram) and at our website, https://deixis.press
Let us know if you wish to attend by click on rsvp. Thanks more details will be added….

The Teenage Self photographs by Sara Leigh Lewis & Iain McKell
2022-08-04 18:00 - 2022-09-03 22:00
Artists talk Wednesday 17th August, Closing Party 26th with live music.
The Teenage Self is an exhibition of two photographers – one male, one female, one in a British seaside town, the other in Auckland the other side of the World. Pictures they took a long time ago, as young people viewing the world in a different way to the way it is now ; to the way they were. I wanted to show them together because of their very separate styles and worlds in the late 1970’s and yet there is so much that binds them. It was such a time of turmoil, where youths seemed to be both lost and finding a voice with Punk and raw anguish.
Photographs are of course as much about the photographer as the subject and these wonderful images all tell stories that we can only project from Iain McKells ‘Saturday Night Fever’,Weymouth, to New Zealand’s Sara Leigh Lewis’ Desperately Seeking Susan. Both take you to a place where hours drag on for days and parents keep calling you back to childhood, when all you want to do is run away and find yourself. Those long slow summer days of careless youth and beauty! Is youth wasted on the young, as Oscar Wilde maintained ,or is it more a rite of passage?
AS FEATURED IN https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/14262/brilliant-things-to-do-in-august
Iain has a book to accompany the show.
Iain McKell Private Reality – Diary of a Teenage Boy £35.
In 1976 aged nineteen while studying at Exeter College of Art I got my self a summer job on Weymouth seafront photographing holiday makers. I saw this as a wonderful opportunity to earn a living but at the same time doing a personal project showing the life of the sea side photographer.
It’s about youth culture and being a teenager in the 70’s. Existential angst was preoccupying my thoughts. As well as the holiday makers I was photographing local people from the town, my friends, family and into the evening with the disco bars fair grounds and caravan parks. I was also experimenting with abstraction through the graphic nature of photography.
The black and white photographs express both desire and despair the sense of un-belonging visceral but ironically I did belong to this place. Growing up in a British sea side hotel in a landscape of arrivals and departures of transient relationships founded on elusive notions of pleasure and escape” It all came together through the lens as I was turning from a teenager to a young adult. It was my right of passage and coming of age and I started to look at the world through the camera.
Central to my practice is portraits, still life and in the moment images creating stories of my personal experiences encountering people on the street, landscape or in an interior using light and composition in an empathetic way. Making the viewer have an emotional connection with the subject and a sense of intimacy. The work is self confessional, investing in the psyche of the human condition and that consciousness was reality. An existential existence created by my internal mind. To think, and to feel the faculty of consciousness and thought and the idea I could use photography to document the self.
As well as this book I had an exhibition of this work at the Turner Contemporary Gallery summer group show ‘Seaside Photographed’ in Margate which was in May 2019. Iain McKell

Sara Leigh Lewis – a denizen of South London, lens woman, documenting the lives of the great, the good and the grotesque. Career started in New Zealand navigating the alternative societies of kiwi punks and hippies. Moved through a documentary reportage style to a ‘crumpled Irving Penn’ portrait using available light and monochrome film.
Sara has a Zine to accompany the show. £15
My parents emigrated to Auckland in 1967.
By 1979, Auckland was a sprawling city situated on an isthmus surrounded by two harbours and known as the ‘Queen City’. Ships docked in the harbour, sailors and tourists would come and go. There was a slightly seedy scene going on downtown and in clubs and pubs. Behind the gorgeous harbours and beyond posh suburbs like Remuera there were areas of urban deprivation in the inner city and the outer suburbs. There were biker gangs like the Mongrel Mob and Hells Angels, pubs were raucous and no place for a lady. Rugby, racing and beer were New Zealand’s holy trinity and New Zealand women had to be tough and assertive. It was a conservative country with a small c, with a way of life that harked back to the fifties. The counter culture had a strong sway on young people. Publications such as the Whole Earth Catalogue advocated living off the grid, drug experimentation, and standing up for a different world view. I remember the little Red Schoolbook, which was passed around, a rebellious vision encouraging nonconformity. Hippy communes had sprung up in the bush, growing weed and hair and espoused peace and love, which New Zealanders accepted with apparent tolerance. We considered ourselves a proudly multicultural nation, integrated and accepting of different lifestyles.
Photography was something my father did, and I started at eleven. I learned to print, and did the usual early experiments with places and people. My first flat had a darkroom which allowed my practice to flourish, and by the time I’d moved to a terraced house in Ponsonby I thought I knew what I was doing. My worldview had shifted with a split and implosion in my family. My romanticism withered and cynicism was like bindweed. I began to question the sun sea and barbecue lifestyle, I watched Johnny Rotten on TV, I saw the Art School Punks in their plastic sandals and fluorescent socks, coloured hair and Attitude with a capital A and then I met Tall Tony, who took me by the hand deep into the music, people’s parties, op shopping and lounge lizardry and the just do it ethos. Tony bought the prints I made in my bathroom darkroom. for 25c and the rest is history.
Scanning and producing these photographs as digital images has enabled me to disguise their flaws while not losing the energy and purity of the in the documentation of this wonderful explosive period of my life.

The Telstar Networking event with David + Toby Never Know who you might meet
2022-07-22 18:30 - 23:30
David Wilkinson Producer Director & Toby Osmond(no Relation to the brothers) Kindly gather their their friends and associates to put this event together , pre covid it was 4 or 5 times a year, now its less frequent so if you are in the game of making films or Tv please do come . Our motto at Vout-O-Reenees is You never Know who you Might Meet…. This time its Ukrainian film directors a whole bunch are coming over. It is always full of interesting people .
Link to event on FB please RSVP Here Below or here https://fb.me/e/1ToTyr3UY
Look who I found in the cloakroom! Boasting Ukrainian colours with Larry Lamb and David Wilkinson

Chris Spring book launch
2022-07-21 18:00 - 23:00
Chris Spring is an artist and writer. He has had solo shows in recent years at The Stash Gallery, Vout-O-Reenee’s (2019), at JG Contemporary Gallery (2021) and at TM Lighting Gallery (2022). He has also curated many exhibitions on the arts of Africa at the British Museum and other venues, most of which featured work by contemporary artists, including: The Sainsbury African Galleries (2001), La Bouche du Roi by Romuald Hazoumé (2007), Social Fabric: Textiles of Eastern and Southern Africa (2013), South Africa, Art of a Nation (2016) with John Giblin, Human Nature: Barthélémy Toguo (2019). His books include Angaza Afrika: African Art Now (2008), (Winner the ART BOOK AWARD for 2009), African Textiles Today (2012), (Winner: Choice (USA) award for outstanding academic title) African Art Close Up (2013) and South Africa, Art of a Nation (2016) with John Giblin. Chris is an ambassador for The Africa Centre, London and a trustee of the October Gallery.

Ted & Pterry is his first novel, a 1970s fable of East London in which ‘dinosaurs’ (both human and real) are endangered by the threatened destruction of their natural habitat at the hands of greedy developers and corrupt politicians bent on creating a ‘Bankers’ Paradise’. But two of the Borough of Beckford’s most ancient inhabitants are not going to take extinction lying down. Rebellion is brewing.
One of those ‘dinosaurs’ is Edward Caldecott, a.k.a. Eddie the Ted, an ageing Teddy Boy who grew up believing he was the reincarnation of the American rocker Eddie Cochran who died in a car crash while touring the UK in 1960. Eddie is torn between living the life of an Original Ted in and around ‘his’ pub, the Samson and Delilah, and holding himself to his vow of ‘shedding the Ted’ when he reaches a certain age, a promise which he made to his long-suffering girlfriend Maureen, who is of Jamaican heritage, when they first met ten years earlier. As the book opens that decision time is fast approaching. Eddie does battle with racist skinheads who he sees as a major threat to his elderly parents, to the safety of Maureen and her twin sons – and to his and the Teds’ way of life.
Dwelling in the realm FANTASY REALISM. It should also appeal to anyone interested in recent urban history, particularly of London, and in popular culture and music history. The book blends elements of comedy thriller, fantasy and the pathos of serious social issues.
Ted & Pterry is the second of a trilogy of books, all set in a fictional east London tower block, Paragon Mansions – ‘The Tower Block Trilogy’. The first, KNITTED, is set in the late 1950s, the third THE LUMINARIES, is set in a dystopian 2066.

Tabitha Birthday
2022-07-08 19:00 - 2022-07-09 01:00
Tabitha Birthday members party with dj’s and dumplings.

XPRMTL Film Club Live
2022-07-06 18:30
FREE! AVANT Garde Art/ ANTI POetry/ film for the surrealist in you.

Goths.... Shadows V111! Dress Up.
2022-07-02 20:00 - 2022-07-03 02:00
Every month Goth night happens at Vouts. Tickets on the door and eventbrite 2nd July Til2am.

Closing Party 28/july Wilma Johnson - Naked Selfie - Life as a Neo Naturist
2022-06-28 18:00 - 2022-07-28 23:30
Come along and enjoy, please RSVP below for the wonderful closing party on the 28th July – show continues until 30th July.
The Stash Gallery is proud to Present the first major show of Wilma’s work, in far too long. Wilma’s paintings are not only original, funny, clever and beautifully painted, they are the lifeforce you long to see when you go to look at art. This artist should be famous and celebrated, why is she not? Wilma is more unconventional than the obvious, more adventuress than the career artist and the spirit shows in her work. Her paintings are receipts for her life.
Wilma Johnson is an artist, writer and founder of the Neo Naturists body painted performance art group. She was born in London in 1960 and lived in Mexico, Ireland and Biarritz before returning to the city in 2016. Her memoir Surf Mama was published in 2011 by Beautiful Books.
Saturnalia at Canary Wharf (5’x4′ acrylic on canvas)Her upcoming solo show at the Stash Gallery, Naked Selfie – My Life as a Neo Naturist is a series of self portraits spanning forty years performing in venues including the Royal Opera House and the Globe Theatre. In each painting she takes on a different persona from Marie Antoinette to Alternative Miss World contestant Miss Surf Mama. The paintings capture classic moments in Neo Naturist history coming full circle from an existentialist beach barbecue on Wapping beach in 1982 to Saturnalia winter solstice ritual at Canary Wharf in 2019. The Stash Gallery is the ideal setting for the paintings as Sophie Parkin has known Wilma since the beginning of the journey seen many of these shapeshifting moments…..

Vout-O-Reenees is 8 - Masked Ball Celebrations
2022-06-25 19:30 - 2022-06-26 19:30
Members +1 only – Its time to celebrate at your very best.
Happy birthday we’ve come a long way baby! food drink music and dancing.
best mask costume competition, now that we don’t need to wear one.
8 th anniversary is typically Bronze. Some come Bronzed or Copper(police) and Tintin.
Members Mixed show will be in the gallery.

Private Hire wine tasting
2022-06-22 17:00 - 21:00

Amazing things Happen Every Day -Vout-O-Reenees Members Mixed Show 16-27
2022-06-16 18:00 - 22:00
PV on the 16th so please RSVP below and bring guests.
The idea of Amazing Things Happen Every Day is that every artist who is a member and would like to put something into the show does so with ONE piece made in Lockdown or after. One piece to represent You and how You feel. please put in something for SALE. Please bring for hanging between the 10th- and 14th midday when we hang. with name date details price.
The show will be on until the 27th so a short period but during the all important Vouts 8th birthday celebrations on the 25th June.

Melissa + Sophie Birthday dress up Party
2022-06-11 19:00 - 2022-06-12 01:00
Come as a Star or something magical of the Universe – however you wish to interpret that! there will be food drink joy and dancing….

CircaPress Summer Party
2022-06-10 18:30 - 2022-06-11 02:00
Expect top entertainment from Tallulah Blue and Fashion Show by designer Nina Doroushi Exhibition by Danish artists Vestholm and Belgian artist Ifa Brand in the gallery .

Please dress to impress! RSVP below.

Shadows of the Crypt - Goth night.
2022-06-04 20:00 - 2022-06-05 02:00
The danse macabre starts here!
Or as Jung would have said, come join us in the dance to incorporate our shadows!
Monthly Goth Night -Pay on the door. Members half price. tickets eventbrite

The Rudy Vees Play Live Comedy band
2022-06-03 19:30 - 2022-06-04 01:30
The poster says it all its funny and its music…. Here’s the link to member Jonathan Kydd’s tickets You dont have to buy if your a member just RSVP below.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rudy-vees-at-vout-o-reenees-tickets-311051482357

Boudoir & Secrets, Vestholm & Brand.
2022-06-01 18:00 - 23:30
Danish photographic artists, Vestholm, and Belgian model turned photographer, Ifa Brand will be exhibited together at The Stash Gallery, in June. Both are celebrating the recent publication of monographs by Circa Press.

Ifa Brand’s, Boudoir, was released late last year, and Vestholm make their publishing debut in June with Secrets.
This is the first time that the work of either photographer has been exhibited in London.
Exhibition: 1 to 15 June
Private View: 1 June, 6 til 10
