LONDON DECOMPRESSION
Docklands, East London
November 16th, 2024
Tickets are sold out.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
This year we invite you to become Masqueraiders, uniting the creative power of deception with the mischievous immediacy of a ‘raid.’
Subvert gender roles and embrace fluidity. Combine deception, illusion and disguise with hidden layers of authentic identity. Explore the global masquerade traditions and connect to ancestry, community and mythology.
LONDON DECOM 2024
From the loving, devious imaginations of our co-creation team comes a community experience to transform your reality. From 7pm on, come explore:
Theme camp takeovers, mind-bending artwork, workshops, and performers (incl. aerial and fire!) spread throughout a massive venue, both indoors and out!
OUTDOORS:
A huge courtyard with a tented dancefloor, including bars, art and performances.
A full schedule of events between 7-10pm, including live music, fire and aerial performances, and hidden surprises. Transform yourself with our makeup artist and stylists, get ready to walk the runway, or connect with friends over poetry and around the fire pits.
From 10 pm, outdoors ‘goes quiet’ but remains active, with a silent disco, the heated Cwtch chillout tent, Hot Mess’s fire art, our Haven cafe, and walkabout performances until 5am.
INDOORS
Six (6!) incredible main rooms and lots of smaller spaces for you to explore!
Celtic Chaos opens the Hot House from 7pm for workshops and mythical magical live music. From 9pm we open the entire indoor venue! Enjoy our performance showcase, a late night cabaret, multiple dance floors, and an abundance of art and experiences!
This year we present spaces run by Trashfence Sparklephonies, Solar Punks, Mooncows, Lust in Space, Celtic Chaos, and the Decom team!
CO-CREATED MAGIC
CREATE
Focus on the figurative meaning of ‘masquerade’ and invite the creation of deception, illusion and disguise whilst delving into themes of authenticity and hidden layers of identity. Co-create the night—on the runway, the dance floor, round the fire—YOU are the night. YOU are the performance.
CONNECT
The Masqueraide, rooted in drag and queer performance and the art of misdirection, is a chance to connect with the different masks we all wear, to subvert gender roles and embrace fluidity. Discover your hidden self. Take a chance.
CHANNEL
Music makes magic moments even more magical. Whatever else happens at Decompression, the beats are always there. Channel the global masquerade traditions that for centuries have connected participants to ancestry, community and mythology.
AN INCLUSIVE SPACE
FOR EVERYONE
London Decom is explicitly anti sexist anti racist and underpinned by consent. This is unbelievably serious, and makes our events unbelievably magical.
Read the principles, learn them, they will show you the way.