YEAR OF THE DRAGON: ZARA JOAN MILLER / THEODORA LAIRD / PHOENIX YEMI (TRIO) + ANASTASIA FREYGANG + MO DAFA + THEA JEFFERY SANDS

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With voice, text and fire: Theodora Laird , Phoenix Yemi and Zara Joan Miller will perform a new work for three voices, t o celebrate the launch of Miller’s poetry book Year of the Dragon published by TACO! Thea Sands will respond to the text through food: prepared, performed, swallowed. Anastasia Freygang will play a solo set and Mo Dafa will play music over the night. To reserve food with your ticket please email thea@cafeoto.co.uk (food not included in the ticket price) Year of the Dragon (TACO!, 2026) someone is driving between two fields someone else is feeding the baby you're at the buffet 24 hour buffet Written in the Year of the Dragon, Zara Joan Miller's long poem traces fire across a year. Moving through the experience of becoming a mother, it repurposes rage and tenderness as forces of transformation. A radical re-centering that calls into question wider meanings of home, security, faith and survival in the face of global imperialism. A year of feeding fire, of dousing and soft loving. Food tokens can be collected and paid for by card on the door Sample Vegan Menu: £12.5 YEAR OF THE DRAGON FOOD Courgette & Potato Pakora w. pear, tamarind & mint chutney (gf, ve) Saag Tofu w. sticky garlic aubergine, pickled chilli (gf, ve) Carrot, Saffron & Ginger cake (ve) ( CONTAINS NUTS ) SPECIAL DRINKS Black Cardamom, Mint & Juniper Tonic - £3.5 Make it boozy add tequila, whisky etc - £6.5 Warm Smoky Almond Chai Locally sourced organic produce from Growing Communities Pakora & Saag Allergens: mustard, sulphites, soy Cake Allergens: NUTS, gluten, sulphites May contain traces of all major allergens due to the size of our kitchen Zara Joan Miller is a British/Iranian artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her writing often situates itself in communal time(keeping) and space before taking root in the private body. BLUE MONDAY was published by JOAN Publishing in 2022 and her second book of poetry Year of the Dragon is forthcoming with TACO! Recent solo performances draw from ongoing research into abjection, lactation and personal ancestry. Her work has recently been presented at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Barbican Centre, Maximilian William Gallery, Les Atelier Claus, Horse Hospital, In Vitro, Default Den Haag and has appeared in motor dance journal , Fieldnotes journal , Hotel , Another Gaze and Worms Magazine . Blue Monday was also released as a duo LP with Ute Kanngießer on New York label Reading Group in 2023. zarajoanmiller.com Theodora Laird is a vocalist and multidisciplinary artist. Releases under her solo project ‘feeo’ have received critical acclaim. Theodora's practice has involved in tandem with an interest in situating narratives within freely improvised music, specifically through frequent involvement in the GRAIN residency.