This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
Join us for a special evening as Pride and Prejudice is brought to life through words and music by Leora Cohen on violin, Paul Wingfield on piano and narrator Penelope Rawlins.
The American-born Jewish conductor and composer Carl Davis, wrote the music for dozens of films and more than one hundred TV programmes. His score for Pride and Prejudice is particularly memorable – Davis captured the novel’s most salient themes and values through evocative quotations from and subtle allusions to resonant works by major composers contemporary with Jane Austen’s work. Davis was subsequently commissioned to produce an abbreviated version of his score, for violin and piano, with a spoken narration, written by Gill Hornby. The resulting compact and highly effective musical entertainment vividly recreates the popular nineteenth century musical genre of melodrama. This concert is a tribute to Carl Davis, who died on August 3 2023.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
A white far-right party leader.
A black Caribbean diplomat.
And a white Oxford-educated Home Office government official.
They all give a speech. On the same day, at different times, in various locations.
They all give a speech about the one million people who migrated from the Caribbean to Britain between 1948-1973 (The Windrush Generation) and the scandal that followed in 2018.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
This June, we are delighted to present the ethereal works of William Cai, Chinese painter whose feather-light strokes immortalise the beauty of nature.
William Cai is an internationally renowned artist, accomplished in both freestyle brushwork (Xieyi) and fine detailed brushwork (Gungbi). His work has received many awards and been collected by museums all over the world. In the early 1990s, he was hired by the Victoria and Albert Museum to teach Chinese painting, and has since taught the discipline at various art institutions in the UK.
Jazz in the House 2024: Elaine Delmar
Elaine Delmar is joined by Barry Green and Simon Thorpe for a night of classics at Lauderdale House.
Award winning Elaine Delmar has the enviable reputation as one of Britain’s finest jazz singers. She continues to set the standard for sophisticated rich-toned interpretations of the great standard composers such Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, George & Ira, George Gershwin Irving Berlin, Michel Legrand and Stephen Sondheim. Few understand and express the repertoire with such dynamic simplicity.
She will be accompanied by two of the great names of British jazz, Barry Green on piano and Simon Thorpe on double bass.
Programmed by Blow the Fuse.
Performers
Elaine Delmar – Vocals
Barry Green – Piano
Simon Thorpe – Bass
Tickets
Standard £15.50
Unwaged Concession £12.50
(This concession applies to guests with disabilities and those not in work. There are no senior concessions for Jazz in the House)
Under 35s Concession £8
(Limited Numbers)
Times
Doors Open: 7:30pm
Concert Start Time: 8pm
Tickets can be purchased here.
A must-see solo performance inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince”. Fragility. Vulnerability. Storytelling through sound. Original songs and instrumental music composed and performed by Luba Hilman. Directed by Nelli Chernetskaya.
Tickets and more information:
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/walls-of-boxes/
Contact: 020 8340 5226
Tugging at the Sea
LegalAliens Theatre
Sat 6 Jul & Sun 7 Jul at 7:30PM
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/tugging-at-the-sea/
Following the success of Ali In Wonder(Eng)land, LegalAliens Theatre returns to Jacksons Lane with another surreal, hilarious, yet deeply touching piece devised and created by 25 participants in their free classes for refugees and migrants. Using fragmented narrative, physical theatre, songs, and direct testimonies, Tugging At The Sea prompts audiences to recognize the absurdity of propaganda against asylum seekers. Collaborating with visual artist Bern O’Donoghue, the stage will be adorned with paper boats, celebrating shared humanity. 
Elin Harries & Asako Ogawa
Tugging at the Sea
LegalAliens Theatre
Sat 6 Jul & Sun 7 Jul at 7:30PM
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/tugging-at-the-sea/
Following the success of Ali In Wonder(Eng)land, LegalAliens Theatre returns to Jacksons Lane with another surreal, hilarious, yet deeply touching piece devised and created by 25 participants in their free classes for refugees and migrants. Using fragmented narrative, physical theatre, songs, and direct testimonies, Tugging At The Sea prompts audiences to recognize the absurdity of propaganda against asylum seekers. Collaborating with visual artist Bern O’Donoghue, the stage will be adorned with paper boats, celebrating shared humanity.
East London Shakespeare Festival is heading to Lauderdale House with sparkling rom-com Much Ado About Nothing.
Sun-soaked mischief & romance under the Mediterranean stars. Set against the luxurious backdrop of a modern-day Messina, this opulent tale is brimming with wit, trickery & mischief with heart coming out on top. With ELSF’s trademark contemporary twists and turns, high-energy party numbers and audience participation. A family friendly night!
The East London Shakespeare Festival (ELSF) merges the contemporary culture of London with the inspirational storytelling of Shakespeare’s plays in outdoor parks and community spaces across London. They launched in 2021 with a magical, riotous, sold-out production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (receiving an Off West End Award Nomination for Best Company), an 80’s inspired Twelfth Night in 2022 and another Off West End Award Nomination for Best Company Ensemble for Romeo & Juliet in 2023. A festival vibe will be encouraged with gates opening an hour before the show, so bring a picnic and why not sign up for a mask-making workshop run one of our in-house-party-goers (actors) – make your own mask and be part of the masked party!
Parental Guidance – the play features kissing. The show is directed by Rosie Ward. The producers – and co-directors of the East London Shakespeare Festival – are: Ursula Early & Rosie Ward.
East London Shakespeare Festival is heading to Lauderdale House with sparkling rom-com Much Ado About Nothing.
Sun-soaked mischief & romance under the Mediterranean stars. Set against the luxurious backdrop of a modern-day Messina, this opulent tale is brimming with wit, trickery & mischief with heart coming out on top. With ELSF’s trademark contemporary twists and turns, high-energy party numbers and audience participation. A family friendly night!
The East London Shakespeare Festival (ELSF) merges the contemporary culture of London with the inspirational storytelling of Shakespeare’s plays in outdoor parks and community spaces across London. They launched in 2021 with a magical, riotous, sold-out production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (receiving an Off West End Award Nomination for Best Company), an 80’s inspired Twelfth Night in 2022 and another Off West End Award Nomination for Best Company Ensemble for Romeo & Juliet in 2023. A festival vibe will be encouraged with gates opening an hour before the show, so bring a picnic and why not sign up for a mask-making workshop run one of our in-house-party-goers (actors) – make your own mask and be part of the masked party!
Parental Guidance – the play features kissing. The show is directed by Rosie Ward. The producers – and co-directors of the East London Shakespeare Festival – are: Ursula Early & Rosie Ward.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Pomp and Cirque-umstance No 3.1 by Ella the Great
Richard Melanin The Third is a showman. Even in his own home. He can make magic in mundanity and splendour in simplicity. But he’s been saving his greatest stunt for a rainy day…
Internationally acclaimed clown Ella The Great “lights up the stage” (Scotsman) in an inventive debut-hour of visual comedy and circus, which sheds new light on the visionary mind of one of London’s most beloved artists.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair by Luke Rollason
Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason ,Let Down Your Hair Trumpets: parp parp parp paaarp!
Fringe favourite and Disney Prince heartthrob of Extraordinary (Disney+) Luke Rollason descends from his ivory (fairtrade) tower to glisten your eyes with this monument to creativity and fantasy. Take a swan dive into this physical comedy fantasia of Kings and Clowns, and one absolutely hideous duck.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Troll by Marie Kallevik Straume & Anna Marie Simonsen
Troll is an “irresistibly silly” (★★★★ The Guardian) two-troll clown comedy about connection, scape(goat)ing and being misunderstood. Fed up with years of misrepresentation, villainization and exclusion, two trolls find themselves at Jacksons Lane, ready and desperate to tell their side of the story and the truth about those three goats.
Inspired by Norwegian folklore, Troll is a critically-acclaimed comedy and heartwarming mash-up of music, storytelling, audience interaction, physical theatre and clown.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Lost Cabaret: A cacophony of clowns by Lost Cabaret International Clown Collective
★★★★ ENTERTAINMENT NOW
“Lost Cabaret is a magical world to be utterly treasured”
A ridiculous clown variety show featuring the visually absurd, the whimsically witty and the wildly beautiful.
Foolishness wrapped in a warm hug, Lost Cabaret is an alt-comedy garden of enchantment that began in London circa 2012 and was instrumental for the growth of many clown artists that you all love today. Lost has bloomed in venues all across the world, selling out festivals from Edinburgh to Adelaide and loads of cities in between.
Edinburgh Fringe Previews
Three bold and hilarious performances that are destined to take over Fringe this summer.
Ironing Board Man
Jody Kamali
Saturday 20 Jul at 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/ironing-board-man/
Jody Kamali is Jeremy Irons in IRONING BOARD MAN!
One man. Eight ironing boards. One epic soundtrack. Watch in awe as Jody cleverly transforms these everyday household items into the tools of an epic, action-packed Hollywood romance. Ironing Board Man is an inventive physical comedy show that “demands applause” (The Scotsman).
Nominated for Best Comedy Show Buxton Fringe 2022 and Best Show Brighton Fringe 2021.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Tomatoes Don’t Fly by Jose Parra
Ignacio has discovered something that could change his life forever. But he doesn’t know how to tell his partner Maria. As he prepares a tomato soup at home, he enters another dimension where he becomes both a children’s clown in crisis and an inspirational speaker. Ignacio will learn something that will help him take the next step in his life.
Edinburgh Fringe Previews
Three bold and hilarious performances that are destined to take over Fringe this summer.
Fame Hungry
Louise Orwin
Wednesday 24 Jul at 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/fame-hungry/
FAMEHUNGRY is a helter-skelter nose-dive into the TikTok universe, the attention economy and what it means to be an artist now. Fusing performance art and very real and very live TikTok Experiences, join award-winning performance artist Louise Orwin as she cosplays as a TikToker in a real-life experiment hunting for fame and fortune.
This exhibition explores five different ways of investigating and photographing the urban environment.
This exhibition explores five different ways of investigating and photographing the urban environment.
London Clown Festival
We’re delighted to be a venue for the acclaimed London Clown Festival for the first time. Here are six shows that are influenced by mime, circus and physical comedy. Don’t miss this eclectic mix of performers who embody the principals of this timeless art form from countries all over the world – this is clowning for the 21st century.
Mel McGlensey is Motorboat by Mel McGlensey
WINNER: Best Comedy weekly award Adelaide Fringe Festival 2024
Batten down the hatches and seal your porthole! It’s time for the silliest, most outrageous, naughty and nautical show ever made about someone who is part boat, part woman… and full clown.
Come with Motorboat on a sea voyage of self-discovery, silliness and stupidity.
This exhibition explores five different ways of investigating and photographing the urban environment.
Edinburgh Fringe Previews
Three bold and hilarious performances that are destined to take over Fringe this summer.
Silly Little Things
Trygve Wakenshaw
Saturday 27 Jul at 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/silly-little-things/
After a seven-year hiatus from the Fringe, Trygve Wakenshaw returns with his new hilarious mime-clown-comedy show. Light and silly, absurd and Dada, and a sort of autobiographical, introspective look at all the silly little things that can make or break a friendship.
Trygve Wakenshaw is an award-winning and internationally-recognised mime clown. In 2015 he was nominated for Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and in 2017 he sold out at the Fringe with Trygve Versus A Baby.
This exhibition explores five different ways of investigating and photographing the urban environment.
This exhibition explores five different ways of investigating and photographing the urban environment.
This exhibition explores five different ways of investigating and photographing the urban environment.
This exhibition explores five different ways of investigating and photographing the urban environment.