STST Word Club | An Image Expressed by the Action of Light

Head down to Staffordshire St for an evening of performances celebrating summer solstice, light and seasonal song. A sun-flooded lineup awaits. Curated by Lu Rose Cunningham.

Word Club at Staffordshire St is a space for collectives, curators and audiences to explore cross-disciplinary writing, from prose and non-fiction, to academia and poetry.

Join us to hear from Blue Pieta, Esmé Hogeveen, Lu Rose Cunningham, Raymond E. Slacker and Sunny Vowles.

Info:
18 / 06 / 2026
19.00 - 22.00

Tickets:
PWYC sliding scale:
£0 unwaged
£5 low-income
£10 general
£15 pay it forward

If you would like to attend but the cost is prohibitive, please get contact info@staffordshirest.com. If you are financially able, please consider choosing a pay-it-forward ticket. This helps keep events accessible to all.

Lu Rose Cunningham | @lurosecunningham :
Lu Rose Cunningham is a writer and curator. Lu’s writing often explores time and loss through recollections in waking and sleep. Cunningham’s art writing has been presented at Leeds Art Gallery; The Hepworth; South London Gallery; Wysing Arts Centre; The Barbican and SIZE MATTERS, Vienna. Cunningham has written for independent journals Pala Press; SPAM; MAP Magazine, Still Point Journal, JAWS, and WORMS Magazine. She is co-founder of London residency The Writers’ Room, supporting practitioners at the intersection of image and text.

Blue Pieta | @bluepieta
Blue Pieta is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, visual art and writing. They were dramaturg for the dance work Thikra: Night of Remembering (2025), choreographed by Akram Khan MBE, which premiered at the AlUla Arts Festival, followed by an ongoing world tour. Blue co-authored the book Autobiography of a Performance (2025) with poet Bhanu Kapil, which contains performance scores, images and essays on their collaborative performances over the last six years. Blue’s artworks and performances have been featured in exhibition programming by The Serpentine Galleries, Courtauld Gallery, Britten Pears Arts, The Place, Royal Court Theatre, Cafe OTO, and The Horse Hospital, among others. Their latest performance score, co-authored with Bhanu Kapil, will be featured in The Glass Mosque (Minerva Projects, NY, 2026), supported by the MacArthur Foundation. They have a forthcoming solo painting exhibition at King's College, University of Cambridge, in Autumn 2026.

Esmé Hogeveen | @paddy____rafferty
Esmé Hogeveen is a writer and editor based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work has appeared in frieze, Artforum, Bookforum, The New York Times, Interview Magazine, Another Gaze, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She organises ORAL METHOD, an experimental reading series.

Raymond E. Slacker | @r_e_slacker
Raymond E. Slacker is a writer and editor working across fiction, theory, and drama. He runs queer bookshop and small press Stretch Books, which hosts the reading series G String Theory.

Sunny Vowles | @sunnylulaha
Sunny Vowles is an interdisciplinary artist from North Somerset, currently living in London. Vowles is interested in the heritage of land-based practices such as hedgelaying, herbology, folklore and storytelling. They centre more-than-human relations, but too include the metaphoric and distancing romantic nature of these kinships as inevitable encounters.   Vowles is currently self-publishing a series of chapbooks online every New Moon from April through to August, titled ‘I must’. They work as a gardener, write with the sunrise, and will graduate from MA Art & Ecology, Goldsmiths this Winter.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available. View our accessibility rider here. 

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

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