Location: Society Street, Derry

Time: 12pm - 1pm

BBDB hold weekly performance meets every Friday from 12 noon until 1pm on Society Street, Derry. These performance meetings are followed by lunch and a chat (optional).

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com

Location: online

Time: 1.30pm - 2.30pm

During the pandemic, when gathering in public was not permitted, Bbeyond created online zoom meetings James King and the BBDB, similar to the PS2 online drawing project. The online meetings have continued and offer an opportunity for our global network to connect through performance art online.

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com.

Location: Society Street, Derry

Time: 12pm - 1pm

BBDB hold weekly performance meets every Friday from 12 noon until 1pm on Society Street, Derry. These performance meetings are followed by lunch and a chat (optional).

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com

Location: online

Time: 1.30pm - 2.30pm

During the pandemic, when gathering in public was not permitted, Bbeyond created online zoom meetings James King and the BBDB, similar to the PS2 online drawing project. The online meetings have continued and offer an opportunity for our global network to connect through performance art online.

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com.

'The soup' is an experimental mixed-media contemporary ritual reflecting on current geopolitics via the lens of Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics. Performed and directed by Eleni Kolliopoulou Co-performer: Stratos Papadoudis Editing assistantship: Angeliki Pantazi Technical support: Apostolis Tsatsakos 'The soup' is partially funded by PSi Constellate 2025 and will be hosted by Fournos lab/ Manthos Santorineos Onsite: 3rd June at 9pm, Fournos lab, Athens/ Online: 3rd July at 2pm, PSi Constellate 2025

For the online event on 3rd July, kindly register via this Zoom registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/_1_tVG86R1iLMC90NY7WOQ

Perpetual succour: 'assistance and support in times of hardship and distress.' A search for relief through action from the clamouring voices in our heads. Performance by Rachel McManus.

Perpetual succour: 'assistance and support in times of hardship and distress.' A search for relief through action from the clamouring voices in our heads. Performance by Rachel McManus.

Location: Society Street, Derry

Time: 12pm - 1pm

BBDB hold weekly performance meets every Friday from 12 noon until 1pm on Society Street, Derry. These performance meetings are followed by lunch and a chat (optional).

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com

Location: online

Time: 1.30pm - 2.30pm

During the pandemic, when gathering in public was not permitted, Bbeyond created online zoom meetings James King and the BBDB, similar to the PS2 online drawing project. The online meetings have continued and offer an opportunity for our global network to connect through performance art online.

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com.

As part of the Winnowing Festival with Art Link, the May Bbeyond monthly will take place in Buncrana at Swan Park.

The Artlink project The Winnowing Basket is an art trail presented in May2025 within three parks and commons (Swan Park in Buncrana, Barrack HillPark in Carndonagh, The Bath Green in Moville) across the Inishowenpeninsula in County Donegal, Ireland.

Location: Society Street, Derry

Time: 12pm - 1pm

BBDB hold weekly performance meets every Friday from 12 noon until 1pm on Society Street, Derry. These performance meetings are followed by lunch and a chat (optional).

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com

Location: online

Time: 1.30pm - 2.30pm

During the pandemic, when gathering in public was not permitted, Bbeyond created online zoom meetings James King and the BBDB, similar to the PS2 online drawing project. The online meetings have continued and offer an opportunity for our global network to connect through performance art online.

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com.

p(art)y Here and Now* - live art event with short introduction by Rachel MacManus and with participating guests: El Putnam & David Stalling

Join the audience at the Ulster Museum for a unique experience as Irish artist Amanda Coogan takes to the BEUYS gallery for a captivating performance. Coogan’s work is influenced by her early life, having grown up in a household where Irish sign language was her first language, as her parents were deaf. This connection continues to resonate throughout her artistic practice.

Location: Society Street, Derry

Time: 12pm - 1pm

BBDB hold weekly performance meets every Friday from 12 noon until 1pm on Society Street, Derry. These performance meetings are followed by lunch and a chat (optional).

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com

The Unveiling of Diaphony with Olivia Hassett

Diaphony is a large sculptural installation of over 200 hand-etched blue perspex disks. It will be permanently installed on Hospital Street, in TUH.

Diaphony and the Unveiling of Diaphony are the artistic outcomes of a two-year project of research and conversations with consultant Dermatologists in the hospital.

Location: online

Time: 1.30pm - 2.30pm

During the pandemic, when gathering in public was not permitted, Bbeyond created online zoom meetings James King and the BBDB, similar to the PS2 online drawing project. The online meetings have continued and offer an opportunity for our global network to connect through performance art online.

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com.

‘Ode to the salt in the wound’ performance. Gabija Joctye, the Bbeyond New Commission Belfast School of Art Graduate Awardee for 2024 will make their final New Commission performance as part of the 2025 Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.

Location: Society Street, Derry

Time: 12pm - 1pm

BBDB hold weekly performance meets every Friday from 12 noon until 1pm on Society Street, Derry. These performance meetings are followed by lunch and a chat (optional).

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com

Location: online

Time: 1.30pm - 2.30pm

During the pandemic, when gathering in public was not permitted, Bbeyond created online zoom meetings James King and the BBDB, similar to the PS2 online drawing project. The online meetings have continued and offer an opportunity for our global network to connect through performance art online.

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com.

BBDB hold weekly performance meets every Friday from 12 noon until 1pm on Society Street, Derry. These performance meetings are followed by lunch and a chat (optional).

Location: online

Time: 1.30pm - 2.30pm

During the pandemic, when gathering in public was not permitted, Bbeyond created online zoom meetings James King and the BBDB, similar to the PS2 online drawing project. The online meetings have continued and offer an opportunity for our global network to connect through performance art online.

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com.

CEREMONY is the culmination of a year long programme of activites curated by Future Ritual, exploring art making as a mode of gathering and ritual in this fragmented age.

BBDB hold weekly performance meets every Friday from 12 noon until 1pm on Society Street, Derry. These performance meetings are followed by lunch and a chat (optional).

CEREMONY is the culmination of a year long programme of activites curated by Future Ritual, exploring art making as a mode of gathering and ritual in this fragmented age.

Full event dates: Friday 18th - Sun 27th April 2025

Performance by Kane Stonestreet: Wednesday 25th at 7pm

Location: Copeland Gallery, Unit 9, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, Peckham, London SE15 3SN

The festival will feature new works by Alastair MacLennan, Anne Bean, emilyn claid, Kane Stonestreet,  n:u, Pianka Pärna, Raisa Kabir, Rubiane Maia and SERAFINE1369, along with the UK premieres of works by Marilyn Arsem, gustaf broms, Liz Rosenfeld and VestAndPage.

Amidst the fragmentation of contemporary life and the ossifying effects of capitalism in the metropolis, this five-day programme is imagined as an invitation to cross a series of thresholds, to awaken desire, and to rekindle enchantment.

Alongside these performances, we are pleased to be offering two intensive artist development workshops: Arcane Portals with VestAndPage and On Practice with Marilyn Arsem.

Festival website

Early bird tickets available here

Festival passes available here

126 Gallery and Studios presents ‘Fite Fuaite’ a two-day performance event in collaboration

with Bbeyond. On Sunday the 20th of April at 1pm, the acclaimed Irish performance artist

Sinéad O’Donnell will host a performance workshop masterclass. Participants will explore

concepts of artist meetings, encounters, collaborations and shared spaces. As an artist living

with impairments, Sinéad will show participants how she encounters materials, sites, space

and methodologies through her body and performance practice. She will share her

experiences of working with artists through action art meetings, collaborations remotely and

in person. The workshop will last approximately 40 minutes followed by a break and a chat.

There will be a group action following the workshop that will last approximately 1.5 hours.

This masterclass is open to all abilities, participants do not need to have prior experience of

performance art. Ages 16+ welcome.

126 Gallery and Studios are delighted to announce ‘Fite Fuaite’, a performance event in

collaboration with Bbeyond. The two day event will take place in 126 Gallery and will begin

on Saturday the 19th April at 1pm with performances by Zara Lyness, Sinéad O’Donnell,

Joseph Hendel, Eilís (Elizabeth Curren), Noel Arrigan and Emily Lohan. On Sunday the 20th

of April at 1pm Sinéad O’Donnell will be giving a workshop followed by a group performance,

free and open to all.

Bbeyond Monthly Group Performance

Sat 22 April 2025 in Cityside Retail Park

This monthly group performance that is open to all to join in. The Bbeyond monthly performances have been an open platform for performance art for over 15 years, taking place in various locations across the year.

BBDB hold weekly performance meets every Friday from 12 noon until 1pm on Society Street, Derry. These performance meetings are followed by lunch and a chat (optional).

During the pandemic, when gathering in public was not permitted, Bbeyond created online zoom meetings James King and the BBDB, similar to the PS2 online drawing project. The online meetings have continued and offer an opportunity for our global network to connect through performance art online.

For further details please contact jamestheking90@yahoo.com