Chats Palace

This May, Funkaari Live returns with an evening inspired by the emotional landscape of the four seasons- moving through transition, stillness, joy, longing, and renewal. 🍃 Blending Hindustani classical music, featuring tabla, veena, and vocals, with poetry, this special edition invites you into a reflective live experience centred around connection, mental well-being, and shared presence. Through intimate storytelling and layered performances, each season becomes a way of understanding the shifts we move through within ourselves and with one another. Rooted in Art A Wish’s mission to foster belonging through art, Funkaari Live continues to create culturally rich community experiences while uplifting South Asian voices and creative expression. Join us at Chat’s Palace for an intimate evening where music is not simply heard, but deeply felt. ✨ Please note that doors open at 17:00, please arrive before the show starts at 17:30 to respect our performers. Sunday 31 May 17:30-20:00 Chats Palace Ticket link in bio, limited early bird tickets available!

Announcing our Industry Weekender, bringing together artists, curators, filmmakers, critics, programmers, producers, and community organisers for two days of dialogue across film and performing arts. Foregrounding exchange as both critical and social practice, the Performing Arts Industry Day brings together artists from across the UK to explore performance as a space for reflection, experimentation, and resistance through talks, open-mic pitching, and a networking party with DJs, games, and gogo dancing. Turning toward queer and Asian cinema, the Film Industry Day brings together filmmakers, curators, critics, exhibitors, and grassroots collectives to explore storytelling, exhibition, and the challenges shaping contemporary film culture. Through talks and conversations with UK and international guests, the programme creates space for dialogue, exchange, and new connections. Seapkers include @absentobject , @pearpiesyrup , @socratesdlr , @hiddenkeileon , @kakilangarts , @shayshayshow , @bittenpeachuk , @platformasia , @easternmargins , @chisenhaledance , @queercircle , @rich.rahad , @juwairiyyah_wali , @cici__peng , @maj_kor , @bigbigbigturtle , @tranne_boleyn , @tgirlsonfilm , @klassiki.online , @otherness_archive , @dariusshu_ , @yarliallison , @riverrcao , @seowfilms and many more. 🎭 Industry Day: Performing Arts, Sat 23 May, 12:00 @chatspalace 🎬 Industry Day: Film, Sun 24 May, 12:00 @britishfilminsitute Pay what you can tickets available via link in bio.

The Draggies Awards Show is BACK! Join your gorgeous, bonkers hosts @natfunni & @aidenstrickland for a night of fabulous prizes, inflated egos, and fundraising for the trans community at a time when they need it most. 15th June @chatspalace Check out the link in bio for access info, and how to vote! 📸 @dylanrobertsphoto

QUEER ART FAIR Artist call out to sell their work! Opportunity to sell your affordable and investment pieces in our new and exciting Queer Art Fair set to take place on 23rd August at Chats Palace! Submit your interest in the link within our bio! . . . . . #queer #trans #artist #queerart #artfair

This November, experience one of the most spiritually connected bands on the UK live circuit. Held By Trees carry the living DNA of their influences, Talk Talk, Mark Hollis, Pink Floyd with a debut album, Solace, that featured eight Talk Talk alumni, won wide critical acclaim, and earned BBC 6 Music support from Guy Garvey and Stuart Maconie. Solace charted at #4 on the Official Indie Chart, driven by a groundswell of press and fan support. Now, don’t miss their only London show this autumn at Chats Palace on Friday 13th November. Expect spellbinding, improvisational post-rock from musicians who’ve shared stages and studios with legends. Tickets are limited, secure yours now.

🎂 ELOP TURNS 30! 🎂 We’re throwing a big ol’ party to celebrate 30 years of elop providing vital mental health and support services to London’s LGBTQIA+ community. Join us on 27th June at Chats Palace for a spectacular fundraiser variety show packed with the BEST comedy, drag, and cabaret talent ✨ Hosted by the phenomenal @king_len_blanco , with even more amazing acts still to be announced. Get your tickets now: link in bio!

Not long left now! Grab your tickets through the link in our bio, and if you can’t make it please feel free to donate to our GoFundMe. We appreciate every single one of your donations ⭐️📷 #uwl #networking #event #london #showcase

East London Pride X HUNKDOWN 24 June at @chatspalace from 7PM 🐎 A night of line dancing raising essential funds for gender affirming care, classes taught by Mads from @bootslinedancing ! Book tickets now on OutSavvy! . . . . . #trans #linedancing #transcommunity #queercommunity #eastlondonpride

📣 @princesspeace_ joins us on May 29th at @voiceboxldn Storyteller, poet and co-founder of @atinuda.eco , we cannot wait to welcome Princess back to the VoiceBox stage. You will not leave unmoved! TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE TO BOOK 🗓️ 29.05.26 📍 @chatspalace : 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, Hackney 🎟️ Ticket link in bio ⏰ 7:30pm 🎤 Pre-book to perform 👥 Or just come to watch 📝 Or sign up on the night for a slot 🎙️ VoiceBox is London's Queer Open Mic platform for ANY discipline. This is a community space to share work at any level of development

📣 Very excited for @thejeanmikhael to join us on Friday May 29th at voiceboxldn! With incredible vocals and vulnerable, storytelling lyrics, Jean-Mikael will take us on a pop and R&B journey like nothing else London has to offer right now. TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE TO BOOK 🗓️ 29.05.26 📍 @chatspalace : 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, Hackney 🎟️ Ticket link in bio ⏰ 7:30pm 🎤 Pre-book to perform 👥 Or just come to watch 📝 Or sign up on the night for a slot 🎙️ VoiceBox is London's Queer Open Mic platform for ANY discipline. This is a community space to share work at any level of development

You heard us…get your tickets today!! ✨💅🏻🫶🏻🪩#comedy #cabaret #comedynight #london

Two weeks to go to the launch of Invisible Rainbows at @chatspalace ! /event/34459/invisible-rainbows-book-launch And I need help with something: the playlist! So what are good songs which are space themed or space related or tenuously linked to space?