Co-founded by Chooc Ly Tan and Anne Duffau, Décalé is where sci-fi, queer resistance, and decolonial thinking converge. A club night devoted to otherness and exploring the boundaries of performativity with live music & DJ sets — to be Décalé is to be displaced in space and time.

Décalé was born in 2018 with the support of DIY Space for London. Soon came nights at Ormside Projects (Décalé x Jupiter Woods), Space289, and the subterranean space of Somerset House studios (AGM). Décalé have collaborated with Borealis to ignite Landmark’s adventurous festival, Poekhali!, at Bergen Kunsthall in Norway. In the past year, they partnered with Chinabot for an unforgettable night at The Yard (Décalé x Chinabot), as well as LUNAR LATE: Year of the Queer Rabbit in collaboration with Asia-Art Activism and HYEY collective, celebrating Lunar New Year 2023 at Matchstick Piehouse.

Chooc and Anne are event organisers with experience in the visual arts, club nights and education. Décalé aims to amplify the work of artists from underserved communities who continue to be overlooked, despite their undeniable talents.

Habibti Nation sprang out of a monthly radio show on Balamii. The brainchild of LUMA,

Habibti Nation is a collective and party showcasing underground electronic sounds from South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA – the de-colonial term for the Middle East and North Africa), with a focus on female, non-binary, and trans artists. We are providing a much-needed space for Arabic electronic music.

LUMA started the Habibti Nation after Covid restrictions were lifted in London as a space and platform to represent and celebrate her culture and identity as an Arab-British woman.

Despite growing up in multicultural South-East London, LUMA says, “I rarely heard Arabic music connected to my Iraqi-British identity in clubs or on the radio – only at weddings and parties! So I wanted to provide this much-needed space for Arabs and folks from SWANA living in the diaspora to engage with music from their culture.”

“We want to create a queer utopia where earnestness and head-bobbing to super cool techno is out the window, where you’ve fallen tits-first into a meme, and it’s made you wanna properly dance.”

DOOMSCROLL is all about creating a safe space for pure silliness. It’s where massive bangers and laughs will collide into nightlife, comedy, drag and performance — it feels like 40 open tabs, all playing simultaneously. High on energy. Heavy on sweat.

DOOMSCROLL is a multidisciplinary queer utopia and supersized collaboration between IN BED WITH MY BROTHER (Dora Lynn, Kat Cory and Nora Alexander), GLYSK (Anna Wheatley), Brain Rays, Quiet, Bopa Rhys and Ben Welch. The collective has a residency at Bangface Weekender at Southport Pontins.

They’ve taken over BANGFACE TV with the Wrong Music crew and pumped six hours of high BPM bangers and performative silliness into the festival’s chalet accommodation via the magic of live television. Their latest show included a conceptual DJ set from DJ Corporate Sponsorship — a set repeatedly interrupted by adverts and a non-binary Lucius Malfoy!