Dalston's Arcola Theatre to hold a Valentine's event with a difference

Dalston's Arcola Theatre is to hold a Valentine's event with a difference this weekend.

The Live Art Speed Date event is set to return to the theatre, presenting a warehouse full of the finest artists, theatre makers and performers ready to lay their dates on you. Each artist has been commissioned to create private one-on-one, four minute dates.

The Arcola described, "Upon arrival you are given a Date card (like an old fashioned Dance Card), which you will fill with 'dates'. The dates are distributed through a trading mechanism which resembles a busy day at the NY Stock Exchange, only sexier. Get excited and trade up your date for the one you want."

The event, on Saturday 13th at 8pm, will also include live music and DJ's to entertain those between dates.

The Arcola website describes Live Art Speed Date is more detail. "LASD is a vibrant fairground of private encounters between artist and audience. In a large room artists occupy booths, tables, and dark corners where they perform their four-minute-long ‘date’ to their guest. The audience are given cards for the date they want, and when not ‘dating’ engage in auto-dates and other playful interactions."

"The whole event is highly charged and opens discussions between audience members as to what they have experienced, examines the phenomenon of the encounter, and tests the boundaries of performance. By socialising the event we turn up the heat on what is ‘private’. That ‘privacy’ can be thought of as ownership of the potential experience, thus the dates are commodified. The ensuing market drives anticipation and increases the perceived value of each encounter. As the reports come back from the dates the private encounter enjoys a second, public life as a myth of itself. Ain’t that cute?"

The event costs £8 Adv / £10 Door. To buy tickets visit the website here.

For more information please contact Greg McLaren, 07595397782 greg@stkinternational.co.uk info@stkinternational.co.uk