Vout-O-Reenees

Songs from The Underground - book launch
2022-12-21 18:00 - 23:30 (Europe/London)
Songs from the Underground is published by East London Press
An anthology of underground literature featuring some of the greatest cult writers of our time and of all time
Please join us for some Christmas, cheer a glass of wine and a few readings. Last minute Xmas pressie alert…
Stories from
Henry Lawson
Mark SaFranko
John Clare
John D Robinson
Cookie Mueller
Jose Arroyo
Katie Doherty
Omar Khayyam
Gwil James Thomas
Valerie Solanas
Sophie Parkin
Ford Dagenham
Jonathan Swift
Sonia Hadj Said
Tom Buron
Elizabeth Taylor
Joseph Ridgwell
Robert Tannahill
Hosho McCreesh
Marquis De Sade
Ian Cusack
Charles Bukowski
Brian McGettrick
Sasha Henry
Cathi Unsworth
Wat Tyler
Thom Bakelas
Terry Southern
Martin Appleby
Daphne De Maurier
H P Tinker
Holly Parkinson
Richard Brautigan
Cookie Mueller
Jacob Louis Beaney
Li Po
Nizami Ganjavi

Maurice birthday Party + Exhibition
2022-12-17 18:30 - 2022-12-18 00:30

Genera Films Christmas Party
2022-12-16 18:00 - 2022-12-17 01:30
Film networking event with Mark Brennan

Outsider Art by Prof Colin Rhodes book launch birthday
2022-12-14 18:00 - 23:30
Vout-O-Reenees is thrilled to launch the latest edition of Outsider Art by Colin Rhodes, one of our members with a fabulous party because it’s also his birthday – members and guests please do RSVP below . Colin will be curating a show in The Stash Gallery in January from his personal collection! Very exciting.
Outsider art is work created by self-taught isolates, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, folk artists, psychiatric patients, prisoners, and others beyond the imposed margins of society and the art market. Coined by Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English equivalent for Jean Dubuffet’s category of ‘art brut’ – literally ‘raw art’ – and originally regarded as defining a distinctly western phenomenon, the term has come to encompass a wide variety of work produced across the world.

In this indispensable guide, substantially revised and updated with greater coverage of global practitioners, Colin Rhodes surveys the history and reception of outsider art, while providing fresh insights into the achievements of both major figures and recently discovered artists. From now canonical and widely celebrated artists including Nek Chand, Aloïse Corbaz, Henry Darger, Madge Gill and Adolf Wölfli, to contemporary practitioners such as Noviadi Angkasapura, Marilena Pelosi and Shinichi Sawada, these individuals passionately and obsessively pursue the pictorial expression of their vision.

Reviews

‘The best-informed and most lucid account of Outsider Art’
Roger Cardinal
‘Seeks to illustrate, describe, and give coherence to the concept of Outsider Art … Nicely illustrated and well written’
Choice

About the Author
Colin Rhodes is a writer, artist and educator. He has written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and is a specialist on expressionism, primitivism and outsider art. He is author of Primitivism & Modern Art (1994), Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives (2000) and The World According to Roger Ballen (2019), all published by Thames & Hudson. He has worked in universities in the UK and Australia and is currently Distinguished Professor at Hunan Normal University, China.

Celine Hispiche Birthday Party
2022-12-13 19:00 - 23:30
Christmas beano of Soho fun and joy, members of vouts are invited to buy Celine a coupe of bubbles! and enjoy the entertainment of a literary theatrical performances. Happy Christmas

Blow Up! XMAS SPECIAL A night of music and dancing Dj Paul Tunkin
2022-12-10 19:00 - 2022-12-11 01:30
A bona-fide legendary club night, and now in its 28th year, Blow Up was the club at the centre of the early to mid-Nineties Brit Pop explosion, cited as the catalyst and birth place of the BritPop scene, influencing the style and sound of a generation. Blow Up was voted No.4 in Time Out’s Top Ten Clubs of the 90s, described as one of ‘5 Classic Clubs of Our Time‘ by Vox Magazine (alongside The Blitz Club, Shoom, The Roxy) and as ‘The club that changed the world’ by Melody Maker. Describing Blow Up in Time Out’s London Calling book as “the breeding ground of the Brit Pop sound” and in NME’s Original’s Top Ten Britpop Moments.
https://www.blowupclub.com/blow-up-announces-three-nights-at-voot-o-reenees-london/

Members must RSVP. Guests will need to buy tickets.
Ticket link: https://www.wegottickets.com/f/12863

Black Cyclists Network Christmas party
2022-12-09 18:00 - 2022-12-10 01:30

Men Only - An Exhibition by men for everyone. Closing Party
2022-12-08 18:00 - 2022-12-19 18:00
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Men Only –Animus Anima what it is to be a man now.
Curated by Sophie Parkin
I conceived of this show after inviting the group of women in our sept show. Men Only -ANIMUS ANIMA -is in homage to Carl Jung’s understanding of the human condition. If to become whole during our lifetime is our purpose, it is only by joining these two parts of ourselves. Male in the female. The female within the male.
Seriously what’s it like to be a man now? It is hard just to be human.
Pv 10th Nov 6-10 The Stash Gallery @Vout-o-reenees.com.
25% of sales to Papyrus the charity that deals with young suicide. 3/4s of all suicides are male and under 25. This is an unspoken crisis. Many of you know that our family lost my niece Jessie at 25 now 10 years ago. The seismic devastation cannot be underestimated, read Cosmo Landesman’s book!.
But this show is about being a man and how that feels.
with Michael Coles, Solomon Cato, Graeme Dudderidge, Julian Emsley, David Fryer, John Gathercole, Stephen Harwood, Jack Hilton, John Ingledew, Alexandros Maganiotis, Nicholas Moore, Morganico, Paul O’Farrell, Joseph Sakoilsky, Rob Ryan, Chris Spring, Mike Thorne And Gavin Turk (below Err. 2022. )

Above Graeme Dudderidge 2022 MinnieMe

Big Bucks How to Flog a Dinosaur – Chris Spring

Car 2 by John Ingledew
Please RSVP below….

Give Art for Christmas ART FAIR
2022-12-08 17:00 - 22:00
Artists include
Alice Herrick, Angel Adley, Buttress & Snatch, C.A. Halpin, Carson Parkin Fairley, Charlotte Bracegirdle, Clive Jennings, Cristina Calvache, Daisy Gammon, Harry Pye, KeelerTornero, Mandee Gage, Michael Coles, Olga Suchanova & Sadie Hennessy.

Van Gogh Find Yourself
2022-12-07 19:00 - 23:00
Vout-O-Reenees is excited to present the award winning show Van Gogh Find Yourself on Wed. 7.12.22 @730pm.
Tickets at the door/10 pounds / Art supplies available.

#GetDrawnIn! #VGFY
“The most surprising, engrossing and delighting experience I have ever had on the Fringe.” – Kate Copstick, The Scotsman.
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Winner of the inaugural Spirit of The Fringe award, Van Gogh Find Yourself is an immersive, interactive performance blending storytelling and live drawing. Take a seat at the table and create alongside the master Vincent Van Gogh, draw without judgement, or sit and watch as he shares his stories behind the paintings, tales of kindness, and following your instincts.
#vgfy
@vangoghfindyourself

Jasmines Private 30th bday party
2022-12-03 20:00 - 2022-12-04 01:30

David + Toby Networking Film night
2022-12-02 18:00 - 2022-12-03 01:00
Toby is away but the show must and will go on because its davids birthday!

Miss Baby Sol sings live (Third of her winter residency) Fri 25th Nov
2022-11-25 19:00 - 2022-11-26 01:30
Join Miss Baby Sol at this beautifully intimate venue for her live show. She’ll be on stage doin’ her thing – all original music, written and performed live by Baby – eclectic mixes of music that’ll make you laugh, cry, sing and dance with joy. The show is a musical journey taking you through soul, jazz, funk, dance, dubstep, and more. Come join the fun!- Tickets are only £11. Here…. for future dates… september she smashed it, what a night, anyone who was there will find it had to forget.
November: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/miss-baby-sol-live-at-vout-o-reenees-tickets-413794389157

Stupendous Baby Sol if you haven’t heard her she’s all over Spotify not just for backing vocals for Paloma Faith but her own solo work. She’s a star performer . Listen to this…
https://open.spotify.com/track/53l7Vh23S7rezQhOZNe2G3?si=92a082d0e23a4ac1

Elsa and Matts engagement party
2022-11-19 18:30 - 2022-11-20 01:00
private party to celebrate but members always allowed to drop by to cheer the happy couple who proposed to each other in The Stash Gallery in the summer x
Image by Marty

A Handful of Eliot - music and readings from the works...
2022-11-17 18:00 - 23:30
In celebration of 100 years since the wasteland was published Anthony Green presents ‘A Handful of Eliot’ (readings and music from the works of T.S. Eliot). With Nicola Blackman, Steve Devereaux, Tony Green and Celine Hispiche.

Happy Birthday Graham Digby!
2022-11-11 19:00 - 2022-11-12 01:00
cocktails music dancing cake !

Rob Ryans 6oth Birthday Party Hooray!
2022-11-05 19:00 - 2022-11-06 01:00

closing party 2nd Nov -Related - Unrelated Journeys - work by Keith, Jessica & Hazel Albarn
2022-11-02 18:00 - 23:00
CLOSING PARTY 2nd Nov 6-11 Last chance to meet and talk to the Albarn family about their work. Please RSVP below.
ARTISTS TALK Thurs 13th Oct 7pm – Jessica, Hazel and Keith Albarn Creativity within the Family. Is it passed down through families or genes. what makes us make? With Sophie Parkin asking the questions in the gallery. Please RSVP this should be fascinating. This is now on our YouTube Channel.
Related – Unrelated Journeys
Creation doesn’t just appear from a vacuum. We all owe something to our families and surroundings that make us think in the unique way that harbours creativity within us. This exhibition is about the influences that makes us make. Keith is dad to Jessica and wife to Hazel; they also have a son. Jessica has a daughter who no doubt will carry on the family tradition of creating stuff from her imagination. This is rich soil. All individuals in their work and personalities there is a link in all their work to each other as if art was contagious or a DNA imprint. I have my own interest in Keiths work as I vividly remembered his Fun Palace in the 1960s that my mum used as a backdrop for a kids fashion feature in Nova Magazine when she was Fashion Editor. Photos by David Bailey. The Fun Palace left such a visual impression on me 50 years later I can still recall the colours and excitement, in the same way my daughter talks about going to the Tate Modern to be part of Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project 2003. Some pieces of art mark you for life. If you’re lucky as an artist, you too will do the same for others.
We are proud to show the work of these three artists together.
Sophie Parkin 2022 Below Sophie Parkin in Keith Albarn’s funpalace,1966. photoDavidBailey fashionfeature MollyParkin NovaMagazine
Jessica Albarn is known for her fine line drawings on paper.
She also explores surface using glass clay wax and honey. Sometimes incorporating pressed flowers and insects by creating multi layered pieces.
She has exhibited extensively and created two books.
‘Bee-headed’ and ‘The Boy in the Oak’ a dark faerie tale of which she wrote and illustrated. The story was also made into a short film. Narrated by Jude Law.
Directed by Luke Losey.
Jessica’s collaborations include Helmut Lang NYC for their ‘Spiderling ‘ collection. Which took her spiders to Tokyo with a 3 day live drawing event.
And more recently collaborating with Nick Powell (Musical Composer and sound designer) for her stop Motion Films ‘Creation’, ‘Life after Death’ and ‘Foxy’ whichwas shown recently as part of the ‘Nocturnal Creatures’ festival – Whitechapel Gallery.
Devoted to the Bee she has used her work to raise awareness and pay homage to their plight. Through the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Natural History Museum London and the Art Car Boot Fair.
Jessica has also developed a meadow in Devon to support the Bees and the local wildlife of the area as well as create a space to explore ideas and gather research.
Hazel Albarn’s work in this latest exhibition goes backwards and forwards in time, showing something of the diversity of her experience.
Being ‘hands on’ rather than academic, she has enjoyed all the many aspects of her life, working as an Artist: Teaching, Family-life, Theatre, Educational Workshops [locally and in different cultures], Paper-making, Constructing in natural, found-forms, then more recently, Gardening and for a short time, more Stage and Costume Design.papier mache skin nursing chair by Hazel Albarn
Hazel’s way of thinking has been loosely attached to reality, enjoying the ‘ingredients rather than the recipes’.
Nothing is ever as you imagine, as the memory superimposes over the image, allowing the imagination and emotion to wander with a freedom that is never found in reality alone. ‘I will always be grateful for what life has given me and hope that through my work and teaching I have given back something to those around me.’
Keith Albarn was Course Leader Fine Art at the now University of East London before joining Colchester Institute as Head of the School of Art, Design and Media [1981 – 1997]. Publications include books, numerous articles and papers for art, education and science journals, and broadcasts on radio and television. In the 1960’s he helped form 26 Kingly Street W1, an ‘ideas
factory’ and a ‘happening place’, was the subject of BBC’s ‘One Man’s Week’, a contributor to ‘Tomorrows World’ and ‘Late Night Line-Up’, briefly manager of ‘Soft Machine’, and developed ‘Ekistikit’, a modular architectural system that was used to build two ‘Fun Palaces’ in the 1970’s.
He has exhibited throughout his career, most recently at the Minories in 2003, “Pattern and Belief” [see also www.patterandbelief.com ]. Currently, planning a follow up.
Whilst in Colchester he was active in many of the local arts organisations, as a trustee at the Minories Gallery, the Colchester Arts Centre, the Film Workshop and Trinity Street Artist’sStudios which with help from the Borough led to Cuckoo Farm Studios. He also helped set up, with the Borough, the Colchester and District Visual Arts Trust , leading to Firstsite and the planning for a new building which eventually came to pass after he left.
Keith has been researching pattern since the 1970’s when he led the research, design andmanufacture of the exhibition for the first ‘World of Islam’ festival at the Institute of Contemporary Art in 1974, reworked as ‘Islamathematica’ for the Museum Vorlandenkunde,
Rotterdam in 1975. He also designed the exhibition ‘Illusion in Art and Science’ that was alsoshown at the ICA in 1976 and in New York in 1977 and which led to the book ‘Illusion in Natureand Art’ by R L Gregory and G H Gombrich. He was co-author of the books ‘Language oPattern’ for Thames and Hudson in 1974 and ‘Diagram – the Instrument of Thought’ also for Thames and Hudson in 1977, and contributed to ‘Teaching Art and Mathematics’, StanleyUnwin, 1991.
Keith’s work complements and expands the current work on visual perception and associated value structures. His work is inter-disciplinary, connecting neuropsychology, mathematics, and cultural anthropology. He is looking at pattern as a psychological phenomenon, in perception and in cognition, with its own neural correlates and its own physiology as universal natural and
cultural phenomena from pre-historic, across cultures to the present day.

HAlloween.... Fancy Dress Party
2022-10-29 19:00 - 2022-10-30 19:00
It is also Charlotte and Corinna’s birthday. we will be getting up to all sorts of ghostly fun, join us in breaking the chains of the past and moving forward with the help of a few incantations and group spells. Witch will you wear ? what will you wear ?its fancy dress and a prize to the wickedest costume.

Goodbye Easy Street - A Musical comedy by Julie Burchill
2022-10-27 19:00 - 23:30
Julie Burchill Has written a musical comedy show and its coming to Vouts! Music by Robin Watt additional words by our own Jim Owen. Staring Deborah Kearne + Temisis Conway
Tickets available below starts at 7pm doors open 6pm non reserved seats so come early. small food plates available & cocktails.

Happy Birthday 61ers...
2022-10-22 19:00 - 2022-10-23 01:00
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
