The Arts Action Festival is coming — and it’s more than a one-day event. It’s a movement.
🗓️ Saturday 25 October 2025
📍 Rich Mix, London
🎟️ Tickets (£12–18) | More info
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What happens when over 80 artists, 50 campaigns, and 9 hours of live performance take over a venue?
The Arts Action Festival is an experiment in collective power. A bold, beautiful, and necessary disruption. On Saturday 25 October, artists, activists and campaigns gather at Rich Mix in East London to reclaim the narrative and revive resistance through art. It’s the launch of a new artivist movement — one rooted in care, creativity, and community action.
Produced by Sibling Arts CIC, this one-day explosion of live music, radical theatre, installations, workshops, panels, protestsongs, and creative interventions asks:
🔥 How do we cut through the noise when change is urgent?
🔥 What do we need to rebuild — and what needs tearing down?
🔥 How do we make activism more creative? And art more political?
🎤🔥 Festival Highlights
🎶 MoYah
Mozambican-born Afro-fusion Hip Hop Artist, MoYah headlines with his 9-piece band — with the same songs that challenged Eurovision norms. Expect decolonial anthems, beats that bang, and lyrics that call systems to account.
💃 Sexquisite’s MY PSSY PAID FOR THIS SHOW***
Sexquisite is a performing arts company that has gained notoriety for their work nationally and are #bookedandbusy. But what happens when you mainly get booked to re-perform s_x work for queer audiences? Join Sexquisite artist’s for a one hour show using poetry, song, and improv music + dance to show you the art they really want to make.
🐉 Enter the Dragon’s Cave
Cellist Jo-anne Cox leads a disabled-led sensory theatre experience. Her “Dragon Cello” becomes a symbol of defiance and beauty in an ableist world.
🏘️ Block the Block
A documentary play charting the fightback of Manchester’s Hulme housing campaigners. A raw look at community resistance against developers and councils rigged against them.
🔥 Also Featuring:
- Palestinian storytelling and resistance art
- Queer & Trans myth-making workshops
- The Bread We Break – exploring Egypt’s revolutionary memory
- Sex Workers’ Opera Exhibition
- ARTIVIST Speed Dating – creative connections and rapid-fire collaboration
- Commemorative candle-making
- Resistance songwriting, political theatre workshops, movement mapping
💡 Why Now?
We’re in a cultural moment where protest songs go viral, but systemic change stalls. Where people scroll endlessly through injustice but feel powerless to intervene. Where even seasoned activists are asking: What still works?
🎤 “We’ve never had more political knowledge, yet people feel frozen.”
From TikTok bans to media monopolies, weaponised algorithms to disappearing public space — the cultural battlefield is real. The Arts Action Festival responds by calling creatives to the frontlines of change.
This isn’t about making art political again — it always has been. From the freedom songs of the civil rights era to visual artists climbing gas rigs with Greenpeace, the counterculture has long been where movements find their heartbeat.
✊ The Mission:
Make Art More Political. Make Activism More Creative. Make Change Irresistible.
Sibling Arts CIC believes in the power of story to shift culture. With Arts Action Festival, they’re building bridges between frontline campaigns, marginalised voices, and visionary creatives.
Whether you’re an artist, organiser, NGO, campaigner, or just a curious rebel — this festival is your invitation to participate in something bigger than a show. It’s a moment of shared imagination. A site of resistance. A launchpad for what’s next.
📍 The Details
🗓️ Saturday 25 October 2025
🕑 2PM – 11PM
📍 Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
🎟️ Tickets £12–18 (concessions available)
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🗣️ “If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution.” – Emma Goldman
Come dance, create, rage, sing, listen, and organise.
Come build the counterculture.
The revolution is collaborative. ✊
#ArtsActionFestival #Artivism #MakeChangeIrresistible
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