Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
First live show outside the USA featuring one-off film pieces and live theatre from the ringleaders of the ‘weird new America’ psych folk explosion.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis
Four intimate 45 minute sessions, readings of your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
