Live Art Speed Date - Valentine edition

Event information

A warehouse full of the finest artists, theatre makers and performers ready to lay their dates on you. We have commissioned them to create for you a private one-on-one, four minute date.


****This is a theatre event not a dating service, although finding love is not off the cards****
...Upon arrival you are given a Date card (like an old fashioned Dance Card), which you will fill with 'dates'. The dates are distributed through a trading mechanism which resembles a busy day at the NY Stock Exchange, only sexier. Get excited and trade up your date for the one you want.

When not engaged in an official date, you may indulge in all manner of Auto Dates, fringe dates, and other games that will all end, hopefully, in love. Or something like it. Add to this live music, Dj's and a great party.

LASD is a vibrant fairground of private encounters between artist and audience. In a large room artists occupy booths, tables, and dark corners where they perform their four-minute-long ‘date’ to their guest. The audience are given cards for the date they want, and when not ‘dating’ engage in auto-dates and other playful interactions. The whole event is highly charged and opens discussions between audience members as to what they have experienced, examines the phenomenon of the encounter, and tests the boundaries of performance. By socialising the event we turn up the heat on what is ‘private’. That ‘privacy’ can be thought of as ownership of the potential experience, and so the dates are commodified. The ensuing market drives anticipation and increases the perceived value of each encounter. As the reports come back from the dates the private encounter enjoys a second, public life as a myth of itself. Ain’t that cute?

"pleasingly anarchic...feast of fragments"- Andrew Dickson, guardian.co.uk


Doors open 7pm
Show Starts 8pm