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.
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
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.
