Eternal December: Container by Alan Fielden + Henry Cyer

Eternal December concludes the year with a showcase of the choral performance Container written and directed by Alan Fielden, with music from Tim Cape (Bastards Assignments). The performance will be prefaced by an act from Henry Cyer, with his live solo set.
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Container is a choral performance exploring the violence and tenderness of living through catastrophe. Drawing influence from Robert Ashley’s 'television operas', Container makes use of overlapping poetic narratives and live music to explore alternative treatments of text, voice, and storytelling. Structured yet improvised, with words and phrases iterating, converging, branching, and repeating in a cascade of images and characters, Container uses polyphony to express tenderness, overwhelm, and hysteria.
Written and directed by Alan Fielden, performed with Nat Norland, Clara Potter-Sweet, and Jemima Yong, with music from Tim Cape (Bastard Assignments).
With a full theatrical world premiere at London’s New Diorama Theatre from 2nd-12th April 2025, for the Eternal series the group present an original re-structuring of the work for the church setting.
Henry Cyer is an artist based in London. His work explores forms of otherness within the performer, often via the relationship between self and place. Cyer's debut album Roots of Empathy was released by Loose Trax, sister label of Jolly Discs. The album explores fear as an entity — both personal and impersonal, alien and familiar, real and dreamlike. Cyer's live performances use dimly lit space to immerse the viewer in an intense sonic experience, equally scenic and emotive, as a means towards a shared transcendence. Other projects include The Others, Central Bazaar and The Hotel. Forthcoming works include the films Gaia One and Hackney Marshes.

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Doors: 7pm
Event: 7:30pm
General admission: £17
Limited number of concessions is available on the door. Please contact the organisers for details.
The Eternal series is supported by The Richard Thomas Foundation.
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Alan Fielden is a British-Korean writer, performance maker, and poet. Winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award for Marathon, with JAMS, co-produced by the Barbican. He has been published by Prototype, If A Leaf Falls, Monitor Books, Minor Literatures, Broken Sleep Press. Associate lecturer at RCSSD & UAL Wimbledon. He co-runs arts event series Feature at Cafe Oto.
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Curated by Sasha Elina, the Eternal series of music events and multi-disciplinary situations is a new London-based project that aims to present and support diverse perspectives, communities, and artistic provocations. It welcomes the audience to join a movement that accommodates both emerging and established artists, bridging the classical and the novel. Music, theatre, dance, moving image, sound art, poetry and their crossovers enter the Eternal series, with no limits or genre restrictions.

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