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VENUES, INTERVENTIONS AND EVENTS

Creating award winning events and venues since 1997, we specialise in community building, cohesion and understanding, with interventions often challenging people's perceptions and asking how opinions are formed. 

Some pages are being updated June 2021

Musical Theatre (RCSSD)

Musical Theatre (RCSSD)

2013 - 2014

In collaboration with The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Platform-7 events co-produced two MA Musical Theatre student intervention productions responding to Platform-7’s The Tights Ball (Veolia Songs) and Silent Cacophony (John Cage 4’ 33”).

Silent Cacophony

Silent Cacophony

November 2013

Silent Cacophony was a series of live performance installations that took place simultaneously across England and internationally, for Remembrance Day, highlighting the tragic shift war inflicts on people’s lives.

No Man's Land

No Man's Land

November 2012

No Man's Land took place on London Underground & disused Eurostar terminal at Waterloo mainline railway station on remembrance Sunday 11th November 2012, from 11.05am.

Taking place across 10 London underground tube stations, 10 musicians, 10 poets and 10 filmmakers, and in 1 iconic landmark joining an island to a continent were 10 sculptures, creating 11 live simultaneous performances throughout central London.

Tedna Ve (Draw Me)

Tedna Ve (Draw Me)

2011 - 2015

Draw Me / Tedna Vey is a camera obscurer booth that allows people of all abilities to create instant portraits using marker pens for free, often capturing the personality of the subject and leading to a deeper understanding of the relationship between subject and image maker

Re-imagining Ladies Tights

Re-imagining Ladies Tights

2012-2014

Reimagining Tights explores the environmental impact of consumption and disposal of tights and stockings and the role they play in many people's lives.
We have collected 100s of individual stories about tights; let us know yours?

Tapescape Catford | The Intervention II | Deluge

Tapescape Catford | The Intervention II | Deluge

April-May 2021

Intervention exploring the politics of the videocassette in a disused Blockbuster video store in Catford, closed following looting during London riots.

Tapescape Catford: Intervention I

Tapescape Catford: Intervention I

March-April 2012

An intervention in an old Blockbuster Video, closed after being looted during the London 2011 riots, exploring the politics of the videocassette and its impact on the functioning of society, the environment and consumer behaviour.

Up The Line (2011)

Up The Line (2011)

November 2011

Up The Line was a series of short live performance installations during darkness in Margate St John’s Cemetery, inviting visitors to reflect on the outcome of intolerance and racism that was prevalent across Thanet, Kent.

Moonbow Margate

Moonbow Margate

May 2011 - October 2011

Moonbow Margate** was an abstract art performance intervention in a derelict cafe in Cliftonville, investigating the impact of the new Turner Contemporary art gallery and the role art-led regeneration has on a local community.

Up The Line (2010)

Up The Line (2010)

November 2010

The second in the series of investigations into how opinions on conflict and war form, using short abstract live art performances as a medium to engage during a lightening storm in a darkened cemetery.

Taking place in Brockley cemetery during in darkness and a lightening storm, the audience weaved through poets, dancers, musicians and installations along a narrow path, giving a taste of the foreboding that might be sensed when heading to a battlefront.

Up The Line (2009)

Up The Line (2009)

November 2009

Up The Line was the first in series of live experimental art and installation performances that sought to understand how people reach opinion on war and conflict.

Taking place during darkness in Brockley and Ladywell cemetery, a designated nature reserve, hundreds of visitors weaved passed poets, dancers, musicians and installations along a narrow single track path.

Moonbow Jakes Bars and Venues

Moonbow Jakes Bars and Venues

1997 - 2009

Moonbow Jakes Coffee Bars were created in derelict spaces across South East London from 1998-2009, becoming a Mecca for artists, performers academics and creative people seeking a safe, bohemian, relaxed space with live performance, exhibitions, talks, record store and an outdoor theatre.

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