Portals of Return x Ancient Futures: a ritual concert

Siobhan Davies Studios
85 Saint George's Road, London, SE1 6ER (view map)

Saturday 13th September 2025

Accessibility - Accessible Toilets, Complimentary Ticket for Assistant, Quiet Space, Relaxed Performance, Step Free Access, Wheelchair Accessible

Portals of Return x Ancient Futures: a ritual concert

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Doors open 3:30pm
Show starts 4pm

Follow Ava Adjoa, Lauriem, and supporting artists into an immersive sunset concert of musical enchantment, movement performance, and healing ritual.

This concert is our way to honour the wisdom currents and energies that have kept us alive, us, diasporic beings re-opening paths of ancestral connection, worship and alignment after so much was lost and severed across our many lineages. And it is a ritual space for you—an invitation to join us in our reconnection with our homelands, spirit, nature, and the primordial.

Throughout our sunset offering, you will experience Ava’s first EP ‘Ancient Futures’; a harmonic exploration of time, multiplicity, singularity, Ava’s cultures, and pre (and post) human energies…weaved with Lauriem’s ‘Portals of Return’; a selection of tracks from their latest EP ‘Sound Capsule for Homecoming’, singing circles, and devotional songs honouring the waters and winds of truth, peace, change and understanding.

Near the Autumn Equinox…

when the night is equal to the day…

We invite you into a feeling with us

An opening, a seeding

Shared from the heart,

Prayers of awakening,

Dreamt up in community, weaving in service of liberation,

We invite you into a space where ancient wisdom meets the present moment

Sparking up a future where we are already free.

We respond to these times of collapse by calling ourselves back to indigeneity, belonging and trusting in our power as we commune with energies older than war, older than extraction, older than capitalism. Our music is borne by the wind and ocean, tracing the movement of the sun, a re-membering of the Earth-Mother from the inside out, ancestral magic guiding us home. Connection to this ancient magic is our medicine, our way of making sense of it all. Gathering in community and spreading our art in service of liberation is our way of sharing this medicine with you, so we may help each other get to the other side.

Come chill with us, sing with us, rest with us, change with us. There will be cushions, sounds to bathe in, many hearts to vibrate with and a light-filled rooftop room where we can witness the day change into night together.

ACCESSIBILITY: the event is happening on the 2nd floor, and there is a lift available - the whole building is wheelchair accessible.

Location

Siobhan Davies Studios
85 Saint Georges Road, London, SE1 6ER

The Lineup

Lead artists:

Lauriem (they/them) is queer Caribbean musician, award-winning composer and collective sound doula and from Martinique. Their sound is a constellation of vocal loops, tender guitar melodies, and ethereal downloads that have us return to the joy of One. Their soulful, entrancing voice guides into the depths of what hurts, of what must change, of what must be faced, remembered and honoured, whilst offering space for it all to be held. Rooted in radical dharma, Martinican and West African ancestral wisdom, the portals Lauriem opens with their music are about alchemising the heartache, confusion and overwhelm of our times into medicine for liberation. Lauriem is now working on ‘Portals of Return’: a series of sound capsules, singing circles and ritual-concerts that facilitate trans-cultural healing through polyphonic play across London, Paris and Martinique.

Ava Adjoa is an interdisciplinary artist. Ava explores time, indigeneity and groove- in music, movement and collage. Ava uses art as a decolonial statement and an entry point into inspiring futures that gather cultural and spiritual lessons of an ancient past. With over a decade of experience in community art making and wellbeing, Ava sees creativity as a primordial and Godly force that heals us, creates us and is us.

Ava Adjoa’s music layers harmony with electronic sounds, and transcends genres. Ava's movement is mostly improvised- stories told with the body. Ava’s collage clashes reverence with the irreverent, hopefully providing a soft way for viewers to take in the news of the era.

Supporting artists:

Peter Nicholls (he/ him) is a historian, artist and musician of Indian Ocean Creole heritage. Drawing on marine archaeology, archival research, oral histories, music, Creole spirituality and diasporic imaginaries, Peter’s work questions the possibilities of finding and holding diasporic, oceanic and Creole histories in creative, reparative and community-centred ways. His research, publications, creative works and contributions have advanced understandings of history in the South-western Indian Ocean and Thames Estuary. His work has been featured in UNESCO’s Routes of Enslaved People Initiative, and he is Co-founder of The Seychelles Origins Project and the Thames Estuary Sunken Slave Ships Project.

IOCO (Tobi Obisanya) is a curator, artist and healthcare practitioner of Nigerian and Romanian heritage whose focus is experimenting with how art rooted in an indigenous worldview can function as a vehicle for re-harmonising disparate units into an interwoven whole. His interdisciplinary practice is a synthesis of writing, sound design, live performance and the curation of visual art that explores themes of heritage, spirituality and holistic wellbeing. Collaborative projects he has contributed to include Fierce Festival, Ozwald Boateng’s SS22 Fashion Show and the VR Film “Black Star Sanctuary”. His debut EP ‘Ijebu Gypsy’ is due for release in 2026.

Jae Gibbs is a Space Holder, Somatic Companion and Folk Magic Wizard in training. She is deeply devoted to our individual and collective freedom through re:membering the healing and empowering embodiment lineAges alive within us. Jae’s approach is person-centred, trauma-sensitive, ancestrally-anchored and shaped through a decolonising non-dual lens. Her practice honours every being as resourceful, creative and whole, beyond what can be seen with our eyes, spoken with our mouths, touched by our hands. Jae offers one to one and group explorations cultivating rituals of rest, rites of being and passages of play.

Jabez Walsh

Sense Turner

Lydia Newman

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