P R O J E C T S
PROJECTS & COMMISSIONS
NIGHTGARDEN FESTIVAL (2021-present)
Audio-visual Festival
Secret Location, Greater Manchester
NightGarden is an audiovisual festival set on the grounds of Vicarage Gardens, an ex-garden centre amid a broader industrial landscape in Trafford, Manchester. The one-day event features a program of eclectic sonic and visual artists exploring themes of biodiversity, material culture, human resilience and radical futures. Founded in 2021, the event has become a recurring festival of performances, live visuals, DJ sets, installations, workshops and procession with a focus on inclusivity and multi-generational collaboration.
Within the realms of psych, jazz, experimental and electronic, musicians such as Stealing Sheep, Shunya, Marco Woolf, Caitlin LM, Wildforms, Matters & Un.procedure have all been lovingly curated as part of the NightGarden programme.
"an affordable and inclusive audiovisual adventure in the depths of nature and yet a stones-throw away from the city centre" - Creative Tourist
PSYCHIC DANCEHALL (2025)
Electronic & Experimental Music Festival
Dubrek Studios & The Wardwick, Derby
Psychic Dancehall Festival makes its debut at Derby’s The Wardwick and Dubrek Studios on March 22nd, 2025, bringing avant-garde electronic and experimental music to the Midlands.
Kikimora Records have been invited to contribute to the line-up as guest curators, bringing a national line up of imaginative music makers to Derby. Taking over Dubrek Studios, Kikimora's selections for Psychic Dancehall include An-Ting, Monoxide Brothers, Zolatec, Soborgnost & hellocatfood, The Silver Field, Wildforms & Rosie Tee.
"Psychic Dancehall festival is shaping up to be an unmissable snapshot of UK electronic and experimental music." - Under The Radar
With thanks to funding & support from:
WOODLAND GAMES AFTERPARTY (2024)
WATERFLOWER + BINGO + DJs
Birmingham Brewing Co, Stirchley
17th August 2024
The Woodland Games is Stirchley's answer to the Olympics! An irreverent nature-themed festival organised by residents, workers and friends of Stirchley, South Birmingham. Fully solar powered, from the bars to the sound stage. The festival explores ecology and celebrates our local green spaces through costume, sculpture and performance.
Kikimora were commissioned to curate and deliver an immersive, botanical afterparty at Birmingham Brewing Company. We programmed the eco-futurist musician Waterflower from Latvia who performed a mesmeric set with mushrooms, plants and synthesisers. There was also a fun-fuelled Bingo game and plenty of dancing, all encompassing an ecological theme.
We'd like to thank funders Avanti West Coast and Central Co-op without them this project wouldn't be possible.
SUPERNORMAL FESTIVAL (2024)
KIKIMORA NIGHT CREATURE WORKSHOP
Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
2nd - 4th August 2024
Supernormal is a three-day, experimental arts and music festival taking place at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. Independent and uncompromising, it champions multi-faceted, exploratory art and music from the underground, margins and fringes to impart inspiring and engaging encounters beyond the everyday and the expected.
Kikimora were invited to bring our classic Kikimora craft corner to the festival on the Sunday afternoon! We invited festival-goers to craft their own 'Night Creature' headdresses, inspired by otherworldly folkloric beings and using foraged materials and plenty of neon...
