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Bold Tendencies is pleased to announce its 20th Anniversary Season
Euphoria
15 May – 12 September 2026
The longing to transcend oneself – if only for a brief moment – is and has always been a constitutional ache of the human heart. To rush headlong into sensations, feelings and fancies that eclipse the carceral routine of selfhood and self-interest, to glimpse into the embers of a warm and enveloping sublime. Euphoria, an oozy yearn, a bliss-ache, a trembly effervescence that feels like champagne for blood.
Gathering its 2026 Artistic Programme under the utopian impulse of Euphoria, Bold Tendencies explores the high-crests of human emotion as both personal and social force, reaching from nostalgic memories of subtle bliss to full-blown mystical rapture, asserting the possibility of something other: not as a retreat from the world but as a mode of being and being-together that is free, uncompromising and insistently alive.
Visual Arts commissions by:
Andreas Gursky
Emma Hart
Athen Kardashian & Nina Mhach Durban
Tarek Lakhrissi
Louis Morlæ
Live Events programme of:
Monumental Orchestral & Choral Forces
Leading Composers & Choreographers
International Soloists & Conductors
Celebrated Writers & Translators
Acclaimed Cultural Critics & Thinkers
and The Listening Room
Creative Learning initiatives offering:
A Place to Meet, Play & Enjoy
Proximity to Creativity
Transformative Experiences
Skills and Professional Development
with Frank’s Cafe serving seasonal food and drinks everyday. @frankspeckham
Live Events Tickets & Listings on sale Wednesday 15 April.
Bold Tendencies 2026 is supported by Art Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Fluxus Art Projects, Hauser & Wirth, Henry Moore Foundation, Mila Charitable Organisation, Southwark Council and Wavendon Foundation.
Special thanks to the Euphoria Founding Friends & Euphoria Commissioning Circles.
In partnership with Cass Art, Hallett Independent, MarGin, Southby Productions, Steinway & Sons, and Frank’s Cafe.
Anniversary Design Loren Tsang @lorentsang
Original photography by Dan John Lloyd
01 Apr 2026
Last Chance Saloon, 2026
by Emma Hart @emma.hart_
Boldly coloured, raw and animated, Last Chance Saloon presents Emma Hart’s sculptural celebration of the public house: cheers!
Transforming a wooden bar structure into a buzzing visual atmosphere, Hart serves up a crowded clay landscape of drinks, faces and gestures that fizz and spill across the counter.
Reflecting the optimistic summertime of Bold Tendencies and Frank’s Cafe, teo enveloping ‘arms’ of the bar reach around and hug the audience, creating a space to enter and move around.
Standing face-to-face with the London skyline, the installation frames and plays with the city’s panorama, zooming in on and celebrating the communities and laughter found in pubs, bars and informal social spaces across South London, where Hart was born and raised.
Dynamic and vibrant, the installation reflects on how laughter, friendship and hedonism can be joyful forms of resistance. It is a reminder of how we need good times to test out who we are, sometimes maybe slightly louder than usual.
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🌞 🍹 Join us on the rooftop and share a cocktail at Emma’s Last Chance Saloon, anytime before our final public day on Saturday 12 September.
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Photography by Thierry Bal.
02 Sep 2026
‘Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three - literature, culture and vision - are profoundly interwoven’
- Ali Smith
SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER | 7–8PM
THE MAGIC LAMP
Four decades of uncategorisable writing, brought to life on stage - the full-length premiere of a new live performance project with Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.
One of the foremost authors of our time, Okri returns to Peckham, where he grew up, and takes to the stage at Bold Tendencies for this special performance celebrating and illuminating his work across more than 40 years - honouring childhood, coming of age, community and dreams for our collective future.
Performing alongside Okri himself is a cast of local young people, led by poet and Bold Tendencies Facilitator Alfiah Jade Brown. Dressed in Wales Bonner from their 10th Anniversary Collection Jewel. Together, they bring vividly to life Okri’s unique “dream logic” and his enduring question: “what is reality?” The performance explores the political, spiritual and environmental dimensions of his work, bringing his words into dialogue with a new generation of voices.
Tickets still available — link in bio. 🎟️
Photography by Dan Lloyd
28 Aug 2026
Girl Pain by Lily McMenamy
McMenamy’s new performance ‘Girl Pain’ premieres at Bold Tendencies on 3rd September, 7:30pm
A darkly comic, fever-dream lecture-performance and sensuous investigation into the ways a body is seen, performed and desired.
Exploring the bed as a site of contradiction, McMenamy shapeshifts through states of desire, pleasure, rage and vulnerability in a show that moves between confession and fantasy.
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Credits
Performance by @lilymcmenamy
Commissioned by @boldtendencies
Sound by @angel__steele
Lighting Design by @edwardjamessaunders
Costume by @isosceleslingerie
Directed by @miag
Creative Production by @a.l.i.c.e.a.g.e.n.c.y (@jareddavisz and @sara.sassanelli )
Special thanks to @callahead_ @ghostwoodfox Grace Church and Than Hussein Clark
Co-created by Lily McMenamy, Mica Georgis and Sara Sassanelli.
With support from @cabaretvoltaire.ch Glass Castle Foundation and @london_performance_studios
21 Aug 2026
Emii Alrai’s monumental sculpture, ‘Guardian’, first commissioned by Bold Tendencies in 2025, takes up its summer residence on top of Carlton Hill in Edinburgh @emiialrai
The work takes the form of a colossal, fragmented relic inspired by mythical icons of ancient civilisations, in direct dialogue with the unfinished National Monument of Scotland, often called “Edinburgh’s Disgrace.”
Drawing on Alrai’s British-Iraqi heritage, Guardian references Sumerian divine beings the Lamassu, while engaging with histories of excavation, displacement, and empire. Its vivid blue patina and exposed armature evoke both preservation and decay.
Following its commission for Bold Tendencies, the work is built upon and ruptured into ghostly fragments, proposing a monument that acknowledges fracture, and reimagines how the past is held in the present.
Congratulations to @kim.mcaleese @eleanor____taylor and all the team @edartfest for the incredible festival programme and inviting Emii’s work become part of the skyline of the city she grew up in.
Guardian will be looking over the city until 30 August ☀️
Photography by Neil Hanna
19 Aug 2026
Meet the team! 💕
Small but mighty…we’re the team behind Bold Tendencies this 20th anniversary season.
We’re the people behind the live events, leading tours, and hosting creative activities. We’re welcoming visitors, maintaining the artworks, handling communications, and much more - working behind the scenes to make it all happen and make your experience memorable.
Come and say hello! Join a tour led by our Summer Visitor Engagement Team - Chayse, Jordan, Liz, Maraki, Matilda and Noah - every Saturday & Sunday at 3pm.
Pop by the blue kiosk or welcome desk to sign up, or book ahead via [email protected]
17 Aug 2026
SCHUBERT SCHUBERT ~Tonight we are joined by 12 Ensemble, one of Europe’s most exceptional string orchestras, in this one-off double bill. Tickets available on the door.
7-8pm DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
Introduction by Tom Service
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor “Death and the Maiden”
(1824), arr string orchestra
9-10pm PARTYSZENEN
Introduction by Tom Service
Isabella Gellis
PARTYSZENEN (2026) world premiere
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 15 in G major (1826)
@12ensemble @max__ruisi @eloisafleur @isabellagellis @t.o.m.s.e.r.v.i.c.e
15 Aug 2026
Summer plans? We’ve got you covered!
Come and join us - completely open, up in the air.
Explore the 2026 Visual Arts Commissions, join a free Micro-site Tour Saturdays & Sundays at 3pm, pick up Self-led Family Activities, and head to Frank Café for food and drinks. Coffee and toasties are served during the daytime, drinks are available all day, and there are 2-for-1 cocktails Wed-Fri from 5-7pm.
Perfect for a weekend trip or a sunset visit to end the week.
📅 15 May – 12 September 2026
🎟️ Free entry
🕐 Wed–Sun, 11am–11pm
Everything you need to plan your visit - link in bio.
Photography by Dan John Lloyd
30 Jul 2026
Another yin/yang programme from award-winning GBSR Duo, perhaps the most unexpected yet, lands here next Saturday 1 August: American modernist iconoclast Charles Ives, with his infamous Concord Sonata, and electronic New Age pioneer Ray Lynch, with his cult classic Deep Breakfast, which has inspired listeners since 1984. This will be the first complete live performance of the album in its history specially authorised by the artist’s Estate and using six keyboards, guitar, viola, electronics & flute —a fitting tribute to a composer whose life was guided by a simple conviction: “if I didn’t do it, I would be wasting my life”. Music and musicianship not to be missed. 7:30 1/8/26 tickets online
25 Jul 2026
Oona Doherty dances solo with lone trumpet in ‘Almost Blue’ followed by ‘Navy Blue’ performed by OD Works with music by Rachmaninoff and Jamie xx . OD works is Oona’s own company of dancers with us all this week from Marseille. Last few tickets for this Thursday’s performance available online.
21 Jul 2026
Leather Jacket by Oona Doherty, a new commission for this year’s Live Programme. World Premiere Saturday 25 July. There will also be special performances of Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus (23/7) and Almost Blue and Navy Blue (24/7). Tickets via our website. @dohertyoona @trinitylaban
15 Jul 2026
RÊVERIE, 2026
by Tarek Lakhrissi @tareklakhrissi
RÊVERIE is French-Moroccan artist Tarek Lakhrissi’s first public commission in the UK.
Conceived as a colossal butterfly chrysalis, RÊVERIE evokes euphoria not as a spectacle or celebration, but as a contained, pressurised state within the body and mind.
His larger-than-life sculpture lies on the ground, elongated and closed, designed to contain a body without revealing it. Its scale exists between the human and the more-than-human, between a vulnerable body, an architectural shell and a dormant threat.
The armoured shell of the chrysalis is a site of withdrawal and protection, but also of tension and mutation – in which quiescent lifeforms undergo intense metamorphosis and transformation, emerging in a beautified, mature state.
For Lakhrissi this transformation is a site of radical becoming: pop and queer becoming, political becoming and potentially monstrous becoming.
Slowing time and turning inward, the sculpture operates both as a mechanism of self-defense and as a quiet release from reality.
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Visit RÊVERIE free up on the roof until 12 September. See it really come alive as the sun sets 🔆 🦋
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Photography by Damian Griffiths
08 Jul 2026
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