In the final year of the first phase of OUTLANDS, we reflected on what we have done and what still needs to be done to provide greater support for experimental art and music, those who create it and those who produce it. We want to reach out to fellow adventurers around the country who live, work, and play across myriad forms of new music, art, and performance. Come along and help guide the ways that this wide, weird, and wonderful field can develop into the new decade and beyond.

We understand that in turbulent and urgent times not everything can be joyous. Yet, we believe we can work together to face these challenges in supportive, creative and enjoyable ways. We are interested in finding out how DIY promoters and producers, funded organisations, artists, audiences, and funding bodies can join up to do more and better stuff, and specifically, how that engagement can be joyous for all concerned (and why sometimes it isn’t).

The event included performances from Natalie Sharp: Body Vice, Godspeed You! Peter Andre (GY!PA), Secret Flight, rf wn, GRST + guest DJ’s and featured key speakers and panellists from the UK experimental scene including: The Quietus / Cafe Oto / Counterflows / Jennifer Lucy Allan / De La Warr Pavilion / Supersonic/Capsule / Qu Junktions / Fat Out / MK Gallery / KARST / Fuse Art Space / Cambridge Junction / Outlands / Arts Council England / Sound and Music