Friday Night Music with Mataio Austin Dean & Ula Taylor-Reilly

Friday April 24th
Doors at 6.30pm; Music starts 7.30pm.

Join us for an evening of music and folklore with Mataio Austin Dean and Ula Taylor-Reilly.

Mataio and Ula will perform a short set of traditional English folksongs, interpreted through a radical, decolonial, feminist lens. They will discuss their research on the songs as part of the performance.

Mataio, best known as a member of the traditional music group Shovel Dance Collective, is an artist, musician, poet, and activist from Portsmouth. He focuses primarily on folksong from the South of England, seeing the performance of the songs as part of a decolonial process: centring notions of locality, solidarity, and international exchange, while rejecting totalising, imperialistic, nationalistic structures of Britishness and whiteness. Born to a Guyanese mother and an English father, his work also explores, through oral and visual culture, the darkly intertwined histories of Guyana and England.

Friday Night Music is our series of relaxed drinks evenings featuring a short musical set followed by food and socialising. Come before 7.30pm to enjoy the performance, or after 8.15pm if you just want to join us for supper and/or drinks. Entry is free after 8.15pm. The bar is open for drinks until 11pm.

After supper, there'll be a chance to learn some classic folk tunes and sing along with Mataio and Ula.

Tickets are reduced for Kairos Community Members. Community Membership is automatic and free for anyone who has attended at least three talk or discussion events, at least one of those in the last nine months. The Coupon Code to book will be on the next Community Membership email. If you can't wait, email us at events@kairos.london.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm. Performance starts at 7.30pm. Break for supper at around 8.15pm. Bar closes at 11pm.

£15 Standard; £10 Community Member; £10 Struggling Financially; £10 Under 30s; £20 with Donation; £5 Frequent Visitor and Supporter Members; Free after 8.15pm. Food complimentary.

Before requesting a discounted ticket, please consider sincerely: Are you struggling to meet your basic needs? Would you have to make a genuine sacrifice to buy a full priced ticket? Do you have reduced earnings through a lifestyle choice or rather because you're dedicating your time to unpaid work relating to the climate and nature crises or as a result of structural inequality? If you're struggling to pay even the reduced price please contact us on events@kairos.london.

Please note that most of our events take place in our basement space and we do not have a lift so our venue is not fully accessible. Please get in touch if you have accessibility issues via events@kairos.london.

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