A season of live performance transgressing boundaries of form and fantasy through ecological, queer, sonic and liquid logics.
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Rhys Slade-Jones: Artist in Residence / The Mike Pearson Performance Bursary
September - December 2025
An interdisciplinary artist hailing from Treherbert, living and working in South Wales. Their work is a meditation on queer ecologies and the inherently political nature of joy. Bursary established in memory of Mike Pearson (1949-2022).
Anushiye Yarnell: Archipelago Movement
September – December | Mondays, 9.30–11am | £6/£8/£10/£12
Creative movement classes, gentle, adaptable and open to all.
Threshold: YR HWYL curated by Dylan Huw
11 September, 7.30pm | £6/£8/£10/£12
Our regular evening of experimental performance. Expect outpourings and incantations, surges of ecstatic fervour, great releases of euphoria and fury and fire.
Karen Christopher, Tara Fatehi and Jemima Yong: Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz
17 + 18 September, 7.30pm | £14/£12
Interdisciplinary performance exploring deep sea cultures and the environment.
Andre Stitt: The Institution (Revisited)
4 October, 2-7pm | £14/£12
A durational performance investigating memory, its failure and the afterlives of trauma. With artists Sinéad O’Donnell, Jamie McMurry and Charlie Lockwood.
5 October, 12-4pm
Installation open to view, followed by panel discussion with Professor Heike Roms, 4pm
SERAFINE1369: (my body / running wild / this animal) glorious
9 October, 7.30pm | £16/£14
‘I cannot escape it, dancing is always there...’ A group work in process.
Bragod and Rhodri Davies: Autumn Ripens
13 October, 7.30pm | £14/£12
The third in a series of seasonal offerings. With radical harpist, Rhodri Davies.
Nosweithia Vogue: Black Excellence Edition
17 October, 6-11pm | £14/£12
Experience the rhythm of resistance and unity at Cardiff’s Welsh Open-to-All Kiki Function, honouring Black excellence.
Performance Art Land
20-25 October, see website for timings | Free
New site-specific performance to camera works at heritage sites and outdoor spaces in Wales. Featuring Angela Davies, Tsubasa Kato, Li Binyuan, Anushiye Yarnell.
Cŵm Rag: Nos Galan Gay-AF! 2 Ghosted Again
31 October, 8pm | £14/£12
Join an unholy coven of Wales’ fiercest drag royalty as they hex the heteronormative, dance with the devil and serve horror, humour and high camp all night long.
Threshold: Do it Yourself curated by Common/Wealth
4 November, 7.30pm | Free
Our regular evening of experimental performance. Celebrating their new book, which shares their DIY and activist approach to performance-making.
Beth Greenhalgh and Tim Bromage: (Un)conscious Content
14-16 November, 10am, 2pm, 7pm | £14/£12
The first in a series of performances exploring the fluctuating and uncanny architecture of dreams.
Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart: Black Industrial/Noise
29 November, 7.30pm | £14/£12
A radical ‘essay-concert’ reclaiming a post-colonial lineage of techno and noise, within a loosely defined concept of 'Black Industrialism'.
Threshold: Work, Werk, W*rk curated by Umulkhayr Mohamed
6 December, 7.30pm | £6/£8/£10/£12
Our regular evening of experimental performance. Conjuring the communal environments of the workplace and the club to explore where labour is lost and reclaimed.
Bragod: Winter Confines
10 December, 7.30pm | £14/£12
Join us for the final offering in a series of seasonal performances from Bragod. With special guests.
Bopa Rhys: A Crackin Christmas
12 December, 8pm | £14/£12
Enter this wondrously wonky world of Bopa Rhys and join her on her quest to crack open Christmas and interrogate its inner workings.