Navigators Art and Performance Presents: A FEAST OF FOOLS II Folk Music and words to Celebrate Old Christmas and Twelfth Night Holiday’s end - the last gasp of Mischief! Welcome to our second alternative end-of-season celebration of Twelfth Night and Old Christmas: packed with live folk music, spoken word and a nod to the pagan and the impish. All at York’s unique ancient Black Swan Inn @blackswanyork! Flushed with Edinburgh Fringe success, Dr Lara McClure sets the scene with some atmospheric storytelling.

Navigators Art and Performance Presents: CO-AUDENATION: A creative exploration of W. H. Auden A new expanded version of our sold-out summer show.. SPOKEN WORD, LIVE MUSIC & PERFORMANCE ART “Born in Bootham in 1907, this “Picasso of modern poetry” became a controversial star of the avant-garde..” Featuring: Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Antony Dunn, Carrieanne Vivianette, Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell, Ian Parks, Jane Stockdale, Janet Dean, JT Welsch, Richard Kitchen, Alan Gillott, Hugh Bernays + more

The Micklegate Art Trail is starting on the 1st June! Pleased to say I have a piece included to be shown at The Blossom Street Gallery, York You can see the work of over 50 local artists in 20+ shops, restaurants, cafes and more all over Micklegate! There will be several informal ‘Launch’ events in various locations on Sunday afternoon - 2nd June The Falcon where there’ll be a chance to explore the trail, meet the artists, a demonstration from @felty_and_fabulous and DJ set from @sola_artofstreet starting at 3pm

The Basement Sessions returns.. LIVE, LOCAL AND LOUD! Navigators Art and Performance presents a very special lineup of local performers selected for their spirit of experimentality and community - and of course for being excellent! The latest in our series showcasing some of the best of Alternative York’s artists and performers is presented in association with the 2024 York Festival of Ideas and celebrates the power of the arts to entertain, connect, provoke, question, enrich, inspire & change.

Continuing on from our last sell-out show.. The Basement Sessions returns.. LIVE, LOCAL AND LOUD! Navigators Art and Performance presents a very special lineup of local performers selected for their spirit of experimentality and community - and of course for being excellent! Starring: THE NEW SOLAR DRONES - adventurous indie band with a prog edge and inventive percussion DANAE - a welcome return by this spellbinding poet and actor from Mexico via York

A FEAST OF FOOLS: folk music and words to celebrate Old Christmas & Twelfth Night Devised by Navigators Art & White Sail Band The final festivity, when lords become servants, beggars rule and convention goes to the dogs. Summon the Green Man! Hail the Lord of Misrule! Featuring Wiccan singer-songwriter Cai Moriarty Alternative folk from Wire Worms Spellbinding verse by poet, architect and musician Thomas Pearson Story & song from

We will be navigating our way down to York Zine Fest this weekend! with a new edition of the Navigators Zine ‘Feast of Bones’ small prints, postcards and some X-mas gifts & good stuff York Zine Fest The Crescent, York This Saturday 16th December 12-4pm Free entry! All welcome! Related Basement Sesssions #1 @ City Screen York Punk/Jazz @ The Basement City Screen Punk/Jazz @ Micklegate Social

I’ll be back to posting some artwork soon. That feels long overdue and very much looking forward to it actually. Most of what I’ve been doing has been personal sketchbook study that doesn’t feel ready for public consumption anyway to be honest. Recent times have been taken up with organising a series of local events at City Screen, Picture House in York with Navigators Art. Last month Punk/Jazz was a really fun night and a lot of folks turned out.

Navigators Art & Performance Presents: In tandem with the Punk/Jazz art exhibition at Micklegate Social PUNK/JAZZ: Contrasts & Connections.. A specially curated performance evening LIVE MUSIC, SPOKEN WORD and COMEDY @ The Basement, City Screen, Picturehouse, York Expect experiments, improvisation and noise.. PUNK/JAZZ IS A STATE OF MIND! FEATURING: THE BRICKS, TELEOST, THINGS FOUND AND MADE (DUNMADA), ROSE DREW, SAETH WHEELER and more! SATURDAY OCTOBER 28th DOORS 19:00 SHOW 19:30 - 22:30

Navigators Art & Performance are back in the water and making waves with a striking new exhibition and live event. A Love Supreme or No Future? Are Punk & Jazz at odds or two sides of a coin? Each can be controversial, uncompromising, confrontational. The best of each is groundbreaking, pushing conventions to the limit. Both can hurt. Both can heal. PUNK/JAZZ explores genres, contrasts and connections through music, painting, drawing, collage, print, words, sculpture and photography.