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A virtual festival webspace and dreamy portal into the real-time memories, mixes and magic of a Brainchild weekend.  https://infinity.brainchildfestival.co.uk/ | live 18:00 Friday 10 –  08:30 Monday 13 July While the pandemic continues to prevent us from getting together IRL in the Brainchild field, to connect with strangers and dance our hearts out, we’ve poured…

El Hardwick is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and musician who makes music as Moonbow. You can find all their releases here, as well as check out their extraordinary photography here. El joined us at the festival last year for a live set which went off – the sun-dappled woods came alive with people dancing to…

The work that Mary and Ell make is hilarious and liberating. They have a distinct and utterly joyful theatrical style, driven by an infectious curiosity and a will to start real big conversations by bringing to life the thoughts and experiences of others. They ask all kinds of people all kinds of questions, (notably ‘What…

Our next dose of Essential Remedies comes from our NYC/Berlin homie duendita. It’s fair to say that duendita lives a way of making art that is entirely hers; it is fluid and honest, without preconception or hard limits. It feels like the most natural thing in the world, that her ideas, melodies and lyrics are…

We’re very excited to introduce our new recommendations series, Essential Remedies. Each week we’ll be sharing things that have given members of our creative community joy, strength and new ways of seeing the world. First up is a big hero of ours, Emma Warren.

If you’re a performer looking to share a work-in-progress we’d love to hear from you! Call Out  Hatch is our cosy, rough-round-the-edges mixed bill event for sharing new ideas and works in progress. Whilst we can’t get together IRL, we’ve adapted to a digital format. We’ll be hosting five short performances of early-stage works in…

At our 2019 festival we explored ‘endings’ across the programme – from the end of gender, the planet and to the end of life itself. As part of this we brought artists together in a conversation called ‘Re-Imagining Grief’, asking: how can we support one another through grief, and how does engaging with death change…

Hello world! This message is an important one, so if you are someone who cares about Brainchild, who attends or takes part in any of our projects, please do read on. To anyone who’s asked, we’ve been giving some quite cryptic messages about what’s been going on since last Summer because, in truth, it’s been…

“We look quite fit, actually.” When I meet Mary Higgins and Ell Potter, they have just been emailed production photos from the latest run of their show HOTTER at the Soho Theatre.  “Of course we do!” They apologise profusely for ignoring me as they scroll through the images, transfixed by the screen. I don’t hold…