This September, SET turns 10!
To celebrate, we’re putting together three big days of parties, live music, performances, DJs and plenty of other birthday surprises at our beloved arts and social club, SET Social, in Peckham. SET regulars will be joining us throughout alongside some new faces.
Tickets are £7 per day for SET Social members and £9 for non-members, with 3-day weekend passes available for £14 for members and £18 for non-members.
All profits from the event will go directly to our SET Social fundraiser.
Thursday 10 September | 7:30pm-midnight | Doors from 7pm
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
We’re kicking things off with a big birthday night hosted by Sam McGovern and Erin Galvin, bringing together SET friends and regulars for readings, live performances and DJs. Expect party hats, birthday cake, unapologetic clownery, dance music and a piñata because.. obviously.
READINGS
Daniel Breuer (@shaq_shuka)
Filmmaker and artist based in South London whose work revolves around geography, cartography and walking.
Lu Rose Cunningham (@lurosecunningham)
Writer and co-founder of The Writers’ Room, supporting practitioners at the intersection of visual art and text.
Camille Ralphs
Poet, critic and editor at the Times Literary Supplement, whose first collection After You Were, I Am was published by Faber and McSweeney’s.
Kumbirai Makumbe (@Kumbira.i)
London-based Zimbabwean artist exploring fabulation, myth, Shona folklore and speculative fiction through a Black queer feminist lens.
Tawfik Naas (@torfhick)
Researcher exploring how historic trauma is carried, remembered and transformed through ecological and cosmological systems.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Paulina Lenoir (@paulinalenoir)
Designer turned clown, founder and host of cult cabaret Fool's Moon, and creator of award-winning show Puella Eterna. In the words of The Guardian: ‘Lenoir’s mischievous charm is infectious' .
RACH & SOPH (@sophiekoko @golden_kiwi_fan)
RACH & SOPH (formally SOPH & RACH) are the last two business women left on planet earth. For the past 15 years they have been going into the empty office only to find... each other. What has become of these brave women who refuse to WFH in the year 2069?
Zoe Portela (@zoe__portela), accompanied by pianist Emmet O’Connor (@emmet_oconnor)
Manchester-born, London-based singer, actor and theatre-maker presenting a playful iteration of her new piece WINNIE: a total reimagining of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’… 1970s Butlin’s meets Beckett meets Cabaret.
DJs
movement & friends (@movementatset)
Swapping the dance floor for the DJ decks with fellow movers and closest friends - expect jersey club, baile funk, 2000s classics and songs you know all the words to.
Friday 11 September | 5pm-late
Clock off early and head straight to the bar. SET staff and friends will be taking over the decks until late with classic birthday beats, alongside a tarot reader, magician, balloon artist and crafting sessions.
FULL LINE-UP TBA.
Saturday 12 September | 2pm-Late
We’re starting early with an adult-friendly bouncy castle, face painting, food stalls and a bake sale, plus photography workshops from Negative Space and hat-making sessions.
As the night rolls on, drag performances and live bands take over before SET Social favourite Father Phoenix takes over the decks until 3am!
Across Friday and Saturday, swing by the SET Memory Tree to leave a note or memory from the last 10 years, and stop by the info table for raffle tickets.
FULL LINE-UP TBA.
Part of 10 Years of SET
This event is part of SET’s month-long 10th anniversary celebrations taking place across our London sites throughout September. Come join us for open studios, new exhibitions, free workshops and late-night parties as we mark 10 years of SET.
Explore our full programme at www.setspace.uk/10-years-of-SET