Whitechapel Lates: DAYTIMERS

All activity in Gallery 2 is drop in, with no booking required.

6 – 6.45pm – DAYTIMERS: Across Borders 

The DAYTIMERS collective kicks off the Late with a cross-continental DJ set spanning Hindustani classical, qawwali, ragas, and more — weaving together Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Indian musical traditions in a sonic act of solidarity across borders.

7.15 – 7.45pm – Raheel Khan & Amrit Randhawa 

Taking the form of a video essay, Raheel Khan & Amrit Randhawa present the second iteration of their collaborative live audio-visual work. Combining their interests in non-linear narrative, concrete poetry and bootleg culture, the duo respond and expand Hamad Butt’s practice entirely through archive footage and b-side audio. 

8 – 8.45pm – THEMPRESS

THEMPRESS (they/them) will be guiding us through an audio-visual storytelling experience with a specially curated DJ Set featuring their original poetry and visuals. Deep bass, ambient soundscapes, experimental electronic, dubby textures, and rhythmic sounds from South Asia and the diaspora intertwine with autobiographical-art film and poetic-prose fragments.

Created in response to the Hamad Butt exhibition and drawing from THEMPRESS’ lived experiences as a queer, disabled, Punjabi and Mauritian artist from East London, this set speaks to themes of queer futurisms, ancestral memory, grief, remembrance, body politics, liminality, the elements, alchemy, and archiving.

8.45 – 9.30pm – ARKANA ft. visuals by Elsewhere in India

DJ ARKANA will be soundtracking the Late with a set of original remises that interweave UK beats with traditional Bangladeshi samples – expect a high energy and unapologetically Bengali set to bring the evening to a close. 

This set will be accompanied by video work from Elsewhere in India, exploring Indian Futurism/IndoFuturism, alternative histories, and speculative futures, weaving together video game engine cinematics, found footage, effects, and AI generated videos.

6 – 9pm | film programme curated by Meera Shakti Osborne

Drop-in, no booking required.

Meera Shakti Osborne presents a looping programme of short films, showcasing perspectives on health, safety, queer dissident South Asian identities and histories. 

Programme:

Dhiraj Rabha, In the Time of Silence (2025 ongoing), 21mins, India

ZK, Public Acts of Trans Refusal (April 2024), Photography series comprised of 6 images, 9 mins, Pakistan

Shydhah Zaara, Zaara’s Film (2022), 35mins, Sri Lanka

6.15 – 7.15pm | Churnjeet Mahn in conversation with DJ Ritu 

Drop-in, no booking required.

Hear from the authors of the landmark book Desi Queers Churnjeet Mahn and DJ Ritu as they speak to creativity and activism, queer South Asian life in 1980s London, the work behind Desi Queers, and the significance of holding public conversations like this in the cultural and socio-political context of east London today. 

7.30 – 8.45pm | Late Poetry! Presented by Off The Chest 

Drop-in for attendees, no booking required.

If you would like to perform at the open mic, pre-booked open mic slots are available here – limited open mic walk ins welcome from 7.30pm in the Clore Creative Studio on the day.   

Join Off The Chest x DAYTIMERS for an evening of cutting-edge poetry performances and readings. 

Hear poems from Iftikhar Latif (British Bangladeshi writer, Off The Chest co-founder), Arji Manuelpillai (poet, ‘Improvised Explosive Device’, ‘Mutton Rolls’) and Lailah Choudhry (East London poet), alongside the opportunity for YOU to perform your own poetry in a chilled out, low stakes open mic setting. 

Pre-booked open mic slots are available here, but walk-ins will be welcome for any spare slots going on the night. Maximum 3 mins on the open mic so we can keep to time (this is Late Poetry… but not too late!) 

 6 – 9pm | Pop-up art market by Dhaga 

Drop-in, no booking required.

This pop-up art market curated by Dhaga channels Hamad Butt’s boundary-breaking legacy, with the selected artists inviting reflection on desire, resistance, and collective care. Treat yourself to stunning henna by HuqThat, sit for a playful live portrait illustration by Yo-Janda and explore deeply moving artwork and wares by Aaran Sian, Kushiaania, Shaw, Nitesh Tailor, and Raisha Hussain.  

Referencing Butt’s practice and artistic responses to the AIDS crisis in the UK, Dhaga has also brought in the amazing folks at The Love Tank who will be giving away free sexual health resources. 

6.15-7.15pm | Re-imagining the Bengali Photo Archive with Eleni Parousi and Julian Ehsan  

Drop-in, no booking required.

During this drop-in session, join Eleni Parousi and Julian Ehsan to explore images from the Bengali Photo Archive, an archival collection that preserves and celebrates everyday experiences of Bengali community members in Tower Hamlets. Participants will have the chance to create photo-textile interpretations of images, responding creatively to questions of identity and imagined futures. 

7.45-8.45pm | Sexual Health Inequities: Listening, Sharing, Imagining Change 

No booking required. Entry will operate on a first come, first served basis – limited spaces available.

Join Dr Keerti Gedela and Hasan Mirza for an open, interactive workshop exploring sexual health inequities and cultural taboos within South Asian communities. Expect candid discussion, shared stories, and space to imagine more inclusive and empowering services. 

6-9pm | Islamic Geometric Art workshop with Samira Mian 

Drop-in, no booking required.

Join contemporary artist and educator Samira Mian for drop-in workshop rooted in the beauty and precision of Islamic geometric patterns and designs. 

In the session, you will select from a range of templates and grids to draw, sketch, colour, and build out your own geometric patterns and motifs, riffing off those found in the Mughal Architecture of South Asia and beyond.

6 – 9pm | pop-up local and grassroots campaign stalls  

Drop-in, no booking required 

Stop by and find out more about local, grassroots organising and campaigns with pop-up stalls from Nijjor Manush, ROT Collective, South Asians for Palestine, War Child, and Save Soanes Centre.

6 – 9pm | Hamad Butt: Apprehensions

Drop-in, no booking required.

Hamad Butt: Apprehensions is the first major survey of Hamad Butt (b. 1962, Lahore, Pakistan; d. 1994, London, UK). 

One of the most innovative artists of his generation, Hamad Butt was a pioneer of intermedia art, bringing art into conversation with science, whilst also referencing his Queer and diasporic experiences. He offered a nuanced artistic response to the AIDS crisis in the UK, taking a conceptual rather than activist approach. 

Butt’s conceptually and technically ambitious works seamlessly interweave popular culture, science, alchemy, science fiction, and social and cultural concerns, as forms that are simultaneously poetic and provocative. They imagine sex and desire in a time of ‘plague’ as seductive yet frightening, intimate yet isolating, compelling yet dangerous – literally, in some cases, threatening to kill or injure. 

Find out more here. 

6 – 9pm | Popcorn! 

Drop-in, no booking required.

Popcorn! is a new participatory exhibition by artist Jenny Pengilly inviting audiences of all ages to explore the sonic world through our voices, bodies, and props. 

This exhibition is inspired by Foley artists, sound designers who produce the sounds we hear in films, television programmes and video games that can’t be recorded live on set. They often use surprising objects and inventive methods such as bubble wrap in place of popcorn, shaking leather gloves to mimic flapping wings, and snapping  celery to replicate the sound of breaking bones. 

Featuring a playful DIY punk aesthetic characteristic of Pengilly’s practice, the multi-sensory exhibition invites audiences of all ages into an imaginative world that explores the magic of sound and sound effects. 

Find out more here. 

Food and Drink Offer

6 – 9.30pm | Alba Caffe  

Main café space & pop-up bar in Gallery 2.

Alba Caffe will be open all night serving drinks and a vibrant menu of Gujarat street food from chef Kherunnisa Mulla, inspired by the dishes she grew up eating in her mother’s kitchen – think flavourful bites like dahi puri and chilli paneer. Eat and drink your fill in the main Café space or find them at the pop-up bar in Gallery 2.

The main Café space will be soundtracked with a curated playlist by producer, rapper, and DJ Surya Sen, highlighting talent across the South Asian diaspora, stretching across genres including jazz, rap, traditional and electronic, showing the breadth of musicianship throughout the modern age. 

6 – 9.30pm (or until stocks last!) | Dishoom 

Gallery 2 and Clore Creative Studio 

Dishoom-wallas will be serving complimentary masala chai to sip throughout the evening. 

Lailah has been writing for as long as she can remember. A native East Londoner inspired by diversity, she writes about identity, place and space.

@lailahpoetry

Dhaga is the South Asian collective known for curating critically engaged exhibitions and intimate gatherings that people return to – drawn not just by the art, but by the feeling of home they find within it. Through exhibitions, art fairs, murals, workshops, and talk shows, Dhaga creates space for dialogue, experimentation, and visibility within the creative industry for South Asians. 

In just 2 years Dhaga has gained recognition on BBC Radio 6 – a testament to the collective’s grassroots impact and cultural relevance. Their most notable collaborators include Daytimers and Club Kali – two pioneering forces in the British South Asian community. 

With a growing network across digital platforms and irl, Dhaga continues to reimagine what inclusive, South Asian-led spaces can look and feel like today through a distinctly intersectional lens. 

@dhaga______ 

www.dhaga.art

Bombay comfort food — at breakfast, lunch and later. 

@dishoom 

www.dishoom.com 

Julian Ehsan is an archivist, curator, and cultural programmer who champions everyday stories. He works regularly in Camden and Tower Hamlets and co-curated the Bengali Photo Archive. 

@julian__anando 

Thiruda (Avinash Kumar) is a media artist, creative director, and curator, renowned for shaping India’s live visuals and electronica scene. Operating under the artist alias Thiruda since 2007, he creates immersive experiences that blend technology and art. His current flagship project, ‘Elsewhere in India,’ showcases the intersection of generative AI and Indian cultural futures, promoting ‘A.I. for Cultural Good.’ This acclaimed show has been featured at prestigious venues like the BFI London Film Festival, Roundhouse London, Adelaide Fringe, CPH:DOX and various music festivals across Europe and Asia. 

Beyond his artistic practice, Avinash co-founded Quicksand, a pioneering research and futures practice focused on social impact innovation in the Global South. He leads speculative design initiatives, bridging human-centered design, design fiction, and co-design to explore hopeful futures, collaborating with organizations like Wellcome Trust, MSF, and Barbican. He is also a founder-director of UnBox Festival and EyeMyth Media Arts Festival, significantly influencing India’s interdisciplinary design communities. 

Since 2013, Avinash has served as the creative director of Antariksha Studio, a transmedia storytelling collective. The studio, supported by Epic Megagrants and New Inc., creates video games and experiences that celebrate Indian heritage. With nearly two decades of expertise, Avinash and Sri Rama Murthy (Murthovic) merge their experience to craft vivid realms that combine cultural legacy with futuristic scenarios. Their mission is to reimagine narratives using innovative digital mediums.

@elsewhereinindia

We are HuqThat, a creative collective deeply inspired by the art of henna. We hold profound respect for the ancient traditions and cultural significance of the henna plant, which is central to our work and guiding principles. As environmental stewards, we are dedicated to the responsible sourcing of our henna, ensuring that our practices promote ecological sustainability and ethical harvesting. 

Our collective is comprised of artists united by a shared passion for henna art, a dedication that is reflected in the quality of our work. Driven by this love for henna, we offer a range of services, including workshops, henna stalls, and private appointments. 

www.huqthat.com 

Instagram @huqthat 

TikTok @huqthat 

Keerti Gedela is a Consultant Physician and researcher at 56 Dean Street, Chelsea & Westminster NHS, specialising in HIV/sexual health and global health research. She leads global health studies, mainly in Southeast Asia, on health equity in research for the North London NIHR Research Network and teaches at Imperial College Medical School.   

Keerti is also an emerging filmmaker and creative producer, using storytelling and film to centre community voices and challenge inequities in healthcare and research. Her work bridges disciplines to provoke dialogue, build trust, and reimagine structurally aware, responsive health systems. 

www.cultivateconversations4change.org

LinkedIn: Keerti Gedela  

Instagram: @seriousbutterfly_ 

Raisha Hussain is a multidisciplinary artist who is inspired by the connection between spaces and human interactions and experience; she explores this through her abstract expressionist works as well as her installation design and set design works. The artist’s work features themes such as the role of women in the Bangladeshi diasporic community, grief, empathy, desire and decolonisation. 

@raisha_jpg 

Kush is a UK-based freelance illustrator who uses design to explore and reflect on her British Punjabi heritage and its influence on identity and self-expression.  

Through her use of vibrant colour and inspiration from the fashion to the natural world, she aims to create illustrations that resonate with authenticity and whimsy. 

Throughout her career, she has collaborated with renowned brands including Apple, WhatsApp, Penguin Publishing, and in 2023 was the winner of the Diet Paratha x Johnnie Walker Keep Walking Campaign. 

kushiaania.co.uk  

@Kushiaania 

Raheel Khan (b.1992)  is an artist and composer currently living and working in London. A recent graduate from the Goldsmiths MFA programme and currently a resident at Somerset House Studios, Khan’s work sits within embodied sound and expanded assemblage, mostly through installation and performance. 

@raheelkhan___ 

Iftikhar Latif is a writer and poet of British-Bangladeshi descent from East London. His work often refers to the British Asian experience, immigrant family relationships, deconstructions of masculinity , media culture and growing up in the city. He is cofounder and producer of ‘Off The Chest’. He has worked with the V&A for their 2022 ‘Drip Maketh the Man’ project, the Apples and Snakes 2022 Writing Room and was a resident poet at The Sidings in Waterloo Station in 2024.

@yungifto

The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest company (CIC) that promotes health & wellbeing of under served communities through education, community building, research, events, and communication + design. 

@thelovetankcic 

Churnjeet Mahn is a Professor of English at the University of Strathclyde. She researches narratives about travel and displacement through the lens of race and sexuality. In addition to her research, she has worked extensively in the heritage sector including serving on Scottish Government’s project Empire, Slavery and Scotland’s Museums which delivered Scotland’s largest public consultation on race and heritage and recommendations for the sector.  

Arji Manuelpillai is a poet, performer and creative facilitator. He was the 2019/20 Jerwood/Arvon Mentee mentored by Hannah Lowe. His debut pamphlet ‘Mutton Rolls’ was published with Out-Spoken Press and his collection ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ (with Penned in the Margins) was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott prize.

@arjimanuelpillai

Samira Mian is a contemporary artist and educator known for breathing new life into the centuries-old technique of straight edge & compass geometry to recreate geometric patterns from the Islamic Lands. She enjoys working intuitively, reimagining these great patterns with a fresh eye in contemporary colours & styles. She combines her artistic talent with her passion for teaching, offering workshops, courses, and online tutorials to help others learn and appreciate this intricate art form. Samira has gained a reputation for making this complex subject accessible to beginners. Through her educational content and community engagement, Samira continues to inspire a growing global audience interested in the beauty and precision of Islamic geometric patterns. To share this intellectual & beautiful heritage from the Islamic Lands and the immensely satisfying pursuits they involve is a dream come true. 

www.samiramian.uk 

@samira.mian 

Hasan Mirza has been a pharmacist for 12 years, dedicating his expertise to HIV and sexual health since 2016. Working at Barts Health NHS Trust in East London, Hasan is committed to improving health outcomes, especially within the South Asian community. He is a co-founder of The Desi POV – an award-winning digital campaign designed to increase knowledge and awareness of HIV/sexual health within the community. Hasan is passionate about research and addressing sexual health inequalities. 

Twitter/X: @HIVPharmaSis  

Instagram: @thedesipov 

Off The Chest has been creating spaces for poetry since 2019.  Formed by poets Iftikhar Latif and Ella Dorman-Gajic, our mission is to give a platform to poets of diverse backgrounds and celebrate original voices in the UK poetry scene. We do this by holding poetry events and workshops across England and online. We’ve brought our poetry nights to venues like Rich Mix, Omnibus Theatre, Canada Water Theatre in London, and to venues outside of London such as Komedia Brighton and Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds. Our poetry events offer audience members a chance to perform their own poems as part of our renowned open mic, plus features from at least two highly acclaimed poets. Follow us on Instagram via @offthe_chest for more information. 

@offthe_chest 

Meera Shakti Osborne is an art practitioner and youth worker from London. Meera’s work focuses on collective healing through creative self-expression. Their practice engages with accessibility and confidence building in both formal education settings and casual encounters. In recent years Meera has focused on questions around safety, history making, the ethics of collaboration and processes that allow for flexing, glitches and love.

Meera is currently based at Metroland Cultures in Kilburn. Meera the co-founder of ANOTHER WORLD film programme working out of Atlas Cinema. Recent exhibitions include Hold Me Close (The Forest Is Full of Police) Peer Gallery (2024), A Story of a Life, Women’s Museum, Barking (2024), department of Unruly histories, Cubitt Gallery (2023). Recent residencies include The LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award (2023-2025), Research Associate at iniva (2023-2024) Meera has worked with Nottingham Contemporary, Glasgow Zine Library, Stuart Hall Library, Newbridge Project, Peckham Platform, Focal Point Gallery, The Gap Arts Project, The Drawing Room, Reprezent FM, Queercircle. Meera graduated in Design at Central School of Speech and Drama in 2015 and Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Science in 2018. 

www.meerashakti.com

@mso_4rt 

Eleni Parousi is Archive Coordinator at Four Corners Gallery, where she developed and co-curated the Bengali Photo Archive. Her work centres community history, everyday voices, and photographic histories of radical change. 

@eleni_p 

DJ Ritu is a trailblazing broadcaster, turntablist, podcast, radio and event producer. She is the voice of the UK’s definitive independent global music show, A World in London, which just recently got a big-up from Tanita Tikaram in Mojo Magazine! Ritu’s music career spans almost 4 decades, including 22 years at the BBC, co-founding cult label Outcaste Records, signing Nitin Sawhney and Badmarsh & Shri, touring in over 35 countries with her own bands Sister India and The Asian Equation, plus performing at major venues and festivals like Glastonbury, Boiler Room, Fabric, Printworks, Big Chill, Tate Britain and Modern, the BFI, Boxpark, Spiritland, WOMAD, Royal Festival Hall, V&A, National Theatre, Jazz Café, & Trafalgar Square. Ritu’s musical repertoire is richly eclectic, but she specialises in ‘World Music’ genres and western chart music across the decades, incorporating Soul, Motown, Disco, House, Pop, Drum n’Bass & more. She has worked alongside a diverse range of illustrious artists like Salif Keita, Edwin Starr, and Buena Vista Social Club, plus interviewed iconic global stars on her radio shows. Ritu is a pioneer and key catalyst of the 90s Asian Underground scene, opening international doors for diasporic musicians & sounds. A Rough Guides CD compiler and journalist, Ritu is a member of the European World Music Charts Panel and the Mayor’s London Music Board. She is the co-founder of the UK’s longest-running South Asian music club nights – Kuch Kuch Bollywood Nights (25 yrs) and Club Kali (30 yrs). 

The Save Soanes Centre campaign is a grassroots group of volunteers working since July 2024 to get Setpoint London East, an outdoor education charity for children, a secure, long-term lease of the Soanes Centre, their home of the last 30 years, from Tower Hamlets Council. The campaign designs runs educational and arts programming, researches, canvasses across the Borough, and builds connections with other local community organisations and schools.   

@savesoanes 

London-based British-Bengali-born Surya Sen is a Producer, Rapper, DJ and tastemaker. Surya has solidified his growing reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting and talented up-and-coming exports. Surya has recieved support from Radio 1/ Radio 6 / BBC asian network as well as features with Mixmag, NME, The Guardian, Clash Magazine and several others have only bolstered his reputation as a refreshing and intriguing talent.

Rajvi Bhogaita (aka Shaw) is a British Gujarati illustrator and Designer based in NW London. Her work is digital yet incorporates traditional soft textures of chalk and pencils, combined with muted colour palettes to create a tactile feeling of depth, warmth and tranquility. She is inspired by everyday life around her, especially strong confident women, flora and fauna, and childhood nostalgia. Her goal is to promote a peaceful, empowering and free-spirited state of mind through her illustrations.

Instagram @shaw.22 

Tik Tok @thatartistshaw 

Amrit Randhawa (b.1996) is an artist and designer based in Manchester, working primarily with typography and image-making under the moniker, Taxi Cab Industries. Randhawa’s outputs often re-contextualise ordinary language and everyday symbols, rooted in the misunderstandings that can arise from the limitations of communication. 

@taxicabindustries 

Aaran Sian (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working at the intersection of visual art, community engagement, and social justice. Their work envisions radical, speculative futures and (re)claims spaces and narratives through the lens of Queer and Trans People of Colour. They work across murals, exhibitions, spatial design, visual art and creative facilitation. 

Aaran’s bold, expressive visual art blends collage, illustration, and poetry, creating dream-like, layered compositions where Trans, Gender-fluid and Nonbinary characters are centered, embodying power and magic.  Their artwork often draws on the experience of navigating cities and structures, awakening erased histories and ancestral connections to envision queer infrastructure — weaving together poetry, text, and collage, often created collectively with Queer and Trans communities, to shape a shared visual world. A visual universe of soft resistance and a deep defiance of dominant histories. A core theme of their work expresses that Queer and Trans People of Colour are constantly rewriting what it means to live, thrive, and belong — offering transformative visions for radically inclusive futures. 

@aarancyan 

www.aarancyan.org

The ‘South Asians for Palestine’ coalition draws together groups that are South Asian-led in Britain in solidarity with the Palestine national liberation struggle against apartheid, settler colonialism and national oppression. 

@southasians4palestine 

Nitesh Tailor is an interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and educator. His work considers how archives are and can be recreational, transient spaces, and why imagining them as such can prove useful in the creation of anti-colonial pathways into the archive. Exploring mediums such as food, textiles, and performance, he creates educational experiences which investigate themes of community, resistance, and faith. In 2024 he founded Sahani Saani, a food learning programme which engages people in the culinary histories of Western India and the Swahili Coast through suppers and workshops.  

@nitesh_tailor99

THEMPRESS (they/them) is a DJ, artist, writer, presenter, educator & cultural producer from East London. The ‘curated chaos’ of their genre-fluid and anti-disciplinary approach connects sounds and stories through the dualities of release and reflection. Their practices and passions are rooted in queer liberation, ancestral honouring, holistic healing, resistance, embodiment, nature, the cosmos, worldbuilding, and infinite curiosity for alternate futures through intentional co-creation.

As a DJ, THEMPRESS’ high energy club sets craft dynamic journeys spanning techno, jungle, global bass, footwork, and all ends of rhythmic rave exploration. With a decade of experience in radio, the airwaves provide space for their research into music history and passion for conceptual storytelling across jazz, ambient, poetry, dub, hip-hop, and experimental electronic. THEMPRESS has been making waves with standout sets at Glastonbury, Boomtown, Printworks, Fabric, Drumsheds, Field Maneuvers, Dour, and Body Movements. They hold long-standing residencies on Voices Radio and Netil Radio, and have hosted guest shows on NTS, BBC Radio 6, Rinse FM & Foundation FM.

A true community spirit, THEMPRESS is co-founder of Queer POC bass rave collective BUMPAH, a facilitator at the Good Night Out Campaign, and part of collectives Riposte and Pink Islands. Off the dancefloor, you can find them advocating for positive change for queer, disabled, and global majority communities as a renowned speaker, interviewer, and host. They are Community & Education Manager at Voices Radio, where they established the DJ Workshop Programme in 2022. THEMPRESS’s educational work has been featured with the Southbank Centre, Resident Advisor, Crack Magazine, Beatport, IMS Ibiza, and a range of conferences, broadcasts, and grassroots spaces.

@thempress._

War Child brings hope for a brighter future to children whose lives have been torn apart by war.

We operate in 14 countries, providing life-saving essentials, education and ongoing, specialist mental health support to children and families who have lived through the trauma of conflict.

True to our mission, War Child has teamed up with graphic artist Anthony Burrill to bring HOPE to life.

Share a message of hope on a postcard containing wildflower seeds. We will be collecting these across Summer 2025 and planting the messages to create a very special garden – planting seeds of hope both literally and symbolically.

They will also be displayed in an online gallery at warchild.org.uk as a source of inspiration for anyone who needs them.

Support War Child to sow seeds of hope and remind the world that even in the darkest places, hope is still possible.

@warchilduk

Manny, aka Yo-Janda is a creative who loves exploring his upbringing and identity through his art. With a background in graphic design and illustration, his distinctive style combines abstract lines and playful character-driven visuals. 

Manny has worked on projects with brands such as Dishoom, Cloth Surgeon, Topologie and Khao Suppers and loves to illustrate live portraits at events. 

@yo_janda 

Founded in 2020, DAYTIMERS is a creative collective born via the internet, in the midst of a global pandemic-induced lockdown. Having started as a way to carry on the message of the daytime parties of the 80s and 90s (in which DAYTIMERS get their name) – where young British Asians skipped school to dance to bhangra, garage, and jungle in community spaces. 

DAYTIMERS is now at the forefront of something fresh and exciting, showing the power of a community and its collective energy by championing the UK’s South Asian diaspora, extending far beyond the subcontinent alone. With sold-out shows across the country, DAYTIMERS have created a dent in a space that needs it by supplying ongoing fresh talent, styles, and sounds. By engaging in community events, streams, radio shows, releases, fundraisers and festivals DAYTIMERS are always looking at ways they can continue to push their message and uplift South Asian artistry, not just in nightlife but outside of it as well.

Previous collaborations include working with the Royal Albert Hall, Somerset House, Jazz Cafe, Roundhouse, the V&A, Fabric, and Horniman Museum,(add some more non- London focused things e.g Brighter Sounds? + also self-led grassroots tings) among many other offerings they’ve produced that everyone can attend and participate in. 

@daytimers_uk