Avalon Cafe

GUCU Strike Fundraiser Thursday 27 June 2024 Avalon Cafe, SE14 6pm – Close Edward George Debussy’s Cakewalk: tonal impressions (a work in progress) + DJs/Music from Bushes @bushis_ Edward George Anneke Kampman @anak_ka £8 suggested donation Special thanks to Robbie Blundell for the great posters ! Tickets in bio

UP this week on the Bermondsey Sunshine strip! 🌞🍉🍹 🔵 Tuesday 25th - EUROS @ AVALON: Match Day 3  ENGLAND v SLOVENIA / None of this reserving tables at overpriced pub business. We’ll be getting out the big projector for this one! With pre-match deals, anthems, cheesie chips and fan favourites Guinness, Tetleys and Avalon Lager on tap! - Pre match pints available from 11am kick off 20:00  🔵 Wednesday 26th - SAOM 14 experiments with sound. DM @saom_ldn for a slot. £7/£10/no one turned away for lack of funds! Performances start 7.30 🔵 Thursday 27th - GUCU Strike Fundraiser  / Edward George  / Debussy’s Cakewalk: tonal impressions (a work in progress)  + DJs/Music from   Bushes  Edward George  Anneke Kampman  - 18:00 - 00:00 @goldsmithsucu 🔵 Friday 28th - Crush / Eclectic, LGBTQ centered night for anyone who wants to dance wildly without judgement and discover their new fave artists * 20:30 - 02:00 
@crush.radio 
 🔵 Saturday 29th - FLOWERS 002 / Day-to-night summer party of dreams <3   Techno, house and sultry trance in a smoky floral paradise xoxo - raising funds for Martha Summers' top surgery fund x * 17:00 - 02:00 
 @flowers.club__

🎈 This week @ Avalon ... celebrating the return of Exchange and EP Launches from Valeria and James Józef. 🌿 📌 Monday 17th - Avalon Chess Club  / Rook no further, your local fortnightly Chess night has arrived. 10 boards, a bar and the sweet sounds of the choir next door.  - 19:00 - 21:00 
 📌 Monday 17th - Avalon Choir  / A fortnightly community choir, singing a variety of songs and styles in multiple harmony. Open access and relaxed, everyone is welcome - just turn up! £6 entry (cash or card).  - 19:00 - 21:00 
 📌 Tuesday 18th - Valeria EP Launch  / Valeria returns to Avalon with their new EP. Expect looped basslines and tripped melodies as Valerias celebrates their movement through electronic dance music.   - 19:00 - 00:00 
@valeriiiaaaaa @ratsaladratsalad @mer.sounds @smaiduskhan 📌 Wednesday 19th - Exchange #5 / Exchange Collective are back to bring another all-star lineup of multimedia improvising . - 20:00 - 23:00 
 @fullpowerrecords @3xchang3collective 📌 Thursday 20th - James Józef - Debut EP "Inward" Release Show  / With a reflective approach to songwriting, London-based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and alternative folk artist James Józef looks to perform an intimate exhibition-style show to announce his debut EP 'Inward' (out on 21/06/24).  - 19:30 - 00:00 
@jamesjozefjamesjozef 📌 Friday 14th - Cafe Exhibition: Catherine Walker PV  / Catherine Walker is a multidisciplinary London-based artist working figuratively. Aiming to reflect and unpick relationships and experience, this exhibition uses the imagery from grapefruits to symbolise the breakdown of relationships and following personal transition of non-linear growth. * Showing 15th June - 30th June
 - 17:00 - 19:.30
 📌 Friday 21st - Thrive Inside music night  / Thrive Inside with us as we raise money for Free to Be Kids who do life-changing work with vulnerable children living in London. Expect summery pop, garage, reggaeton & baile funk.  - 20:00 - 02:00 
 @thrivein_side

This week @ Avalon! 📍 Wednesday 12th - Flo Lines EP Launch, ‘The only thing left is everything’ / Join us for an evening of live music celebrating the launch of Flo Lines's EP The only thing left is everything at South Bermondsey's Avalon Cafe. With support from Fen and Ed Oaks. 19:00-23:00 @flolines @arthur_daviesevitt @ed_oaks @f_____en 📍 Thursday 13th - It’s Your Birthday! / It’s Your Birthday is sonic event featuring performance by e.g. King and Sian Fan, DJ sets by Chaney Diao b2b Juliusz Grabianski and xiaoyu1002 x Tongktongktong. It’s everyone’s birthday party, we celebrate together. 20:00 - 23:00 Artist: e.g. King (@egk.ing ) Caslean (@casleanwong ) xiaoyu1002 (@xiaoyu1002_ ) Tongktongktong (@tongktongktong ) Chaney Diao (@chaney_dms ) Juliusz Grabianski (@jgrab_ ) Curator: Samy Bie (@samybee_ ) and Jennifer Sun (@jsunz_ ) 📍 Friday 14th - Dogbit & friends / South London based Dogbit return to Avalon with distorted electronic pop. Joined by special friends C.P Lyno, James Hurts + Ted Mair (Sculpture Park). 19:00 - 02:00 Saturday 15th - DAYTIMERS Festival Afterparty / Join the rave-up from DAYTIMERS first festival with the finest crate diggers and selectors London has to offer. 19:00 - 02:00 @daytimers_uk @noanunoparty @djgillaldn ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽ Sunday 16th - EUROS @ AVALON: Match Day 1 🏆 ENGLAND v SERBIA / None of this reserving tables at overpriced pub business. We’ll be getting out the big projector for this one! With pre-match deals, anthems, cheesie chips 🍿 and fan favourites Guinness, Tetleys and Avalon Lager on tap!🍻 - 18:00, kick off 20:00

This week @ Avalon we bring you testimonies from Palestine, Toe Rag launch, and a weekend of Angel D'lite, 🍧 BBQs and festival warm ups! 🦐 💎 Wednesday 5th - Rehearsed reading of The Revolution's Promise / Following the call to share Palestinian cultural resistance, we present a rehearsed reading of The Revolution’s Promise. A collection of testimonies from artists across Palestine put together by The Freedom Theater and Artists on The Frontline. -16:00 - 23:30 
 @moi.ko.theatre @thefreedomtheatre , link for tickets 💎 Thursday 6th - The Toe Rag - Dream Work Launch Party / The Toe Rag magazine launches their third issue, themed around Dream Work. All welcome! - 18:00 - 00:00  @thetoerag 💎 Friday 7th - Thempress, Marie Malarie, Angel D'lite: 10 years of Safer Nightlife / Good Night Outs Bday & Safer States Launch - 20:00 - 02:00 
 @goodnightoutcampaign @angel_d_lite @mariemalarie @thempress._  #saferstates
 💎 Saturday 8th - EARTHWORKS: Bluto, Megalashhh, Niix, Cameroni, Bedtime Stories, Refreshments  / 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝  Earthworks pre-festival warm-up with BBQ from 1800 followed by live music from Bluto & Megalashhh. DJs until 02:00 in the form of NIIX and Refreshments. 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝   - 18:00 - 02:00
 @___bluto____ , @megalashhh , @bray.cameron , @jacob_t_ascension , @iitsniix , @refreshments___

🌿✨ It's the season for sunny days laid out on Surrey Canal banks with a lager in hand. 🌱 Junes set to be a beauty, with BBQs,🦐 roasts, Angel D'lite,🍧 festival warmups, afterparties,🎉 palestine fundriasers, Dogbit, EP Launches from Valeria and James Jozef. The return of our family favourites - Exchange, Crush, SAOM and FLOWERS 002! 🌺 ⚽🍻⚽🍻⚽🍻 🥇 To top it off we will be screening THE EUROS! ⚽ with our big projector, pre-match deals, cheesie chips and fan favourites Guinness, Tetleys and Avalon Lager on tap!

This week at Avalon 🌸 Ft. Pyjama Party, Sound Art open mic, Gaza fundraiser gig and another ✨ Sunday Special✨ ✨ Wednesday 29th - SAOM 13 / An open mic for risky, fruity sound art! DM for a slot @saom_ldn 7PM sharp performances start £6 OTD, no one turned away for lack of funds ✨ Thursday 30th - Mrley / Family Unit / Window Pane / fundraiser for Gaza emergency appeal 19:00 - 00:00 @family_un1t @mrley_ @getwindowpaned ✨ Saturday 1st June - PJ: SPACE PYJAMA PARTY / Premium designer cosy space settings brought to you by PJ entertainment, with an array of curated alien artefacts and pumpin extra terrestrial tunes! @pj_entertainment_bizniz 20:00 - 02:00 ✨ Sunday 2nd June - SUNDAY BEST at Avalon Cafe / A hearty sunday roast, followed by an evening of performances, music, raffle and desserts. Hosted by Avalons finest Chef H. Ft. Kitty Fitz, Tall Child, Petals, Bridie, Angel Maze, The Dinner Ladies, Saloplasty + More! 🎉 Roasts from 3 [sold out] Performances from 5 [Outsavvy] @itisjusth

New Cafe Exhibition is up! Nikita Andrewjev ✨ 22 May – 06 June , with the Private View happening this Friday, 6 – 8:30 pm. It’s free and open to everyone ! 🌱 'Human Jungle’ explores the beauty of the irregular form and uses it to explore the human essence, as well as the natural world. Artist - @nikitaandrejev

🌬 Its heating up! Heres whats what this week.... 💌 Tuesday 21st - Songs in Solidarity / An evening of live music from Avalon Choir and friends, in support of Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers 19:00 - 23:00 @ellen.elgar 💌 Wednesday 22nd - Private Dreams Public Nightmares EP release / yuki EP launch party with support from fiscal harm, elenwen and silica @silica______ @paigeoztas (ELENWEN) @ikologies @monroemami1 19:30 - 00:00 💌 Friday 24th - Pareidolia w/ Aria S. L. & Shirah / Celebrate the Bank Holiday as Pareidolia residents and friends soundtrack the caustic banks of the terraqueous Thames dredging acid chug and imploded pop for the intrepid dancer. 21:00 - 02:00 @pareidolia.club @cam__christie_ @emilythomas___ @tabathabv @xpertpir 💌 Sunday 26th - Confessions of a teenage drama queen / Like if your totally irreverent and silly primary school friends threw a rave. Lots of drama and no judgement 2000 - 0200 @fatkidryan and friends all night long

HUGE week ahead! Ft. Glasgows finest, THE LIFE, Midrib,Switch Rising✨, Solidarity Tapes, Cooked Food and Co-ops. 🎈 Monday 13th - Avalon Choir  / A fortnightly community choir, singing a variety of songs and styles in multiple harmony. Open access and relaxed, everyone is welcome - just turn up! £6 entry (cash or card).  * 19:00 - 21:00 
 🎈 Monday 13th - Avalon Chess Club  / Rook no further, your local fortnightly Chess night has arrived. 10 boards, a bar and the sweet sounds of the choir next door.  - 19:00 - 21:00 
 🎈Tuesday 14th - THE MODERN INSTITUTE, LULU THE TOOL, KS.HAM, RIBEKA / Rebi invites  .... 2 of Glasgow's bestweirdest bands L and The Modern Institute and new favourite local Lulu The Tool to Avalon Cafe.  -19:30 - 00:00  🎈Wednesday 15th - THE LIFE / with BADSIP and Clout Farm, DJs @dj_pitch  @madjestickasual   - 20:00 FREE RSVP @ Dice @thelife_ishere @bad_sip @cloutfarmpod   🎈 Thursday 16th - Subexotic / a night spanning the spectrum of dubstep and techno - 20:00 - 02:00  @sublock.dub + @_midrib_ 
 🎈 Friday 17th - Switch Rising / Queer club night with blue ringed baby, speakinginriddles maze, pp, pijit, nou bueno and Tawfik - 21:00 - 04:00  @jakeydeg @stephelles @angel_Maze_ @meki_don noubueno_ @torfhick @njcnjcnjcnjcnjc 🎈 Saturday 18th - Solidarity Tapes x Landfiller : Care & Resistance! Defendant Support Fundraiser / Eclectic, high energy night with live music and DJ's, fundraising for Palestine solidarity activists facing court, legal fee's, house arrest, and prison time for taking direct action against the Israeli war machine. - Come through at 8pm for food, stalls, crafts and drinks - music to start at 9pm. - 19:30 - 02:00 
 🎈 Sunday 19th - NEW CO-OPS, NEW FACES / Sick of the housing crisis? Want to be your own landlord? Come and learn about how to set up a housing co-operative and meet other co-operators. - 14:00 - 23:00 

2pm - Arrive and sign up to workshops ✍️ 3pm - Workshops - You’ll get to learn from people with first-hand experience 📝 6pm - Homecooked food by our very own Sanford Housing Co-op chefs, chats, zine making & film screening 🍜🍿 7pm Afterparty 💃🏻🕺🏽🪩🍻 * BOOK YOUR TICKET NOW!!
 @ldncash @coop_sanford

Plant fair this Sunday! Celtic Saining (herb burning) workshop with @grubbercommunity at 3PM for a £5 donation Sausages (meat and vegan) on the bbq served with caramelised onions from 1PM (£4.50) Cake and drinks all day Plants, zines, compost and more from @the_grove_community_garden @pnkgardenlnd @thefieldnx @bridgehouse_gardens @joshdryden_ @propagate.alright @_s.l.u.g._ @gabmleavey Deptford little farm And us, the Surrey Canal Rd Fruit Commons

UP THIS WEEK @ AVALON ... 🌼 📍 Thursday 9th - D Sanch In The Dance Album Release Party  / South London rapper and singer Danny Sanchez presents D Sanch in the Dance, a celebration of his debut album, It Is What It Is Til It Isn't. Pull up to hear Danny perform tracks from the tape, DJs, more live music and exclusive merch & zine release. -  20:00 - 00:00  @_dannysanch 
(rsvp!) 📍 Saturday 11th - Rebloom / Ambient and deep techno party series, featuring Laura BCR, Shoal, Ario and local residents.  - 16:00 - 02:00 @rebloomlondon 📍 Sunday 12th - Avalon Plant Fair 🌱 / Celebrating and raising funds for SE London’s best gardening projects and local plant enthusiasts, with workshops, sweet treats, orchard tours and a sausage sizzle on Surrey Canal Rd. Ft. The Field, Deptford Little Farm, Grubber, SLUG, British Cactus and Succulent Society (Bromley), Rights for Weeds, The Fruit Commons and more.  - 13:00 - 18:00  @surreycanalroadfruitcommons