Rejection is Romantic: reading series hosted by Emma Firth

with readings by: Ella Frears, Rhik Sammader, Amy Key, Róisín Lanigan and Cecile Pin

Thursday 7 November 2024

Biblioteka x South Parade

Readings by Oliver Corino, Jordan Derrien & Aurelia Guo

Wednesday 18 September 2024

A Night of New Work

with readings by: Eliza Clark, Gabriel Smith, Toye Oladinni & Jenny Scoones

Hosted by Rachel Connolly & Isis O’Regan

Friday 16 August 2024

The London Magazine Launch Party & Readings - June/July 2024 Issue

Tuesday 2 July 2024

In conversation: James Fuller discussing The Cart Before The Horse

Saturday 1st June 2024 (4pm) as part of London Gallery Weekend

Casual Encountersz at South Parade

Saturday 23 March 2024 (doors 7pm)

An evening of readings - Andrew Durbin, John-Baptiste Oduor, Leo Robson, Maddie Mortimer, Momtaza Mehri, Ashani Lewis

Listening Event

Thursday 29 February 2024, 6—9pm
Join us for a drop-in listening event of the exhibition score by Avel Mismo.

13 January 2024 : In the darkroom - Reading Lecture Performance by Anya Gorkova

12 January 2024: Esther Gatón & Lucy Rose Cunningham - Exhibition Walkthrough of phosphorescence of my local lore

Online: In conversation: Lucy Rose Cunningham reflects with Carole Ebtinger and Esther Gatón on South Parade’s latest show phosphorescence of my local lore, on view until 13 January 2024.

Thursday 7 December 2023: night of readings at South Parade

To celebrate the opening of our new exhibition, phosphorescence of my local lore, South Parade is pleased to host an evening of readings at the gallery, with all welcome to attend. Readings will be from artist Esther Gatón and writers Nasim Luczaj, Eva Gerretsen and Lucy Rose Cunningham, who wrote the show’s accompanying text.

Throughout Esther Gatón’s and Carole Ebtinger’s practices, notions of movement and encounter are explored; a sense of attention, time, and intimacy with materials, people and places. Each reading will be informed and shaped by the show, moving with/embodying the material.

Wednesday 8 November 2023: Ellie Pratt in conversation with Fi Churchman, Senior Editor of ArtReview and ArtReview Asia, at South Parade

September 2023: James Fuller, Cleansing Compositions, 2023. Machined Marseille soap - 52 unique bars, individually numbered and wrapped.

Pulled from the depths of the U.S. patent office database - a vast online object - small acts of incidental poetry emerge, severed from their intended protectionist bubbles and rearranged into one, durational and dissolving text that unfolds through 52 unique bars. (Incidentally, 52 weeks sit in a year - a soap bar a week?)

Each soap is wedded to an individual filing, a temporary communion - a short bond with the crisp edges and tooling marks, the strict language of corporate protectionism now infiltrating consumer settings. What doesn’t melt, often dissolves.

13 October 2023 : Casual Encountersz Reading (Ft. Lucie Elven, Emma Firth, Gabriel Smith, Kei Kagirinaku, Alexis Okeowo, Rachel Connolly, hosted by Sammy Loren and Megan Nolan)

12 October 2023: émergent magazine Issue 10 Launch (with live DJ set by NEW YORK)

August 2022: Judith Dean in conversation with Richard Wrigley (moderated by Isaac Simon) 1hr 20m

November 2022: Slicing the Scry - noise and readings event as part of Scrying the Slice, a solo exhibition of works by Tom Hardwick-Allan at South Parade

November 2021: Nat Faulkner Edition Launch, Leaves never grow on trees