Life Drawing
Thursday 12 February 20266:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£20 - Pay as you go - Cash/Card on the day
Join Suminder Virk for drop in Life Drawing sessions, every Thursday 6pm – 8pm in The Tin Music and Arts Community Space.
Basic materials such as charcoal, pastels, pencils and also paper will be provided.
Please note that these are untaught sessions. You will be working from a model with a range of poses, starting from short and ending with one long pose.
Some refreshments will also be available.
£20 a session – No need to book, just turn up and draw.
For more info email – suminderkvirk@gmail.com
Life Drawing
Thursday 12 February 2026
Cheap Dirty Horse + Ace Ambrose
Friday 13 February 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Advance £8.80 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Cheap Dirty Horse are a big rowdy queer trash folk-punk band from Nottingham. Blending acoustic and electric guitar with banjo, accordion, bass, drums, and sometimes mandolin, they write energetic, joyful protest music. They sing about trans rights, dead billionaires, and the importance of doing the things you love. They sing about grief, octopuses, and stealing shit. Angry, but always empowering.
Support from Ace Ambrose
14+ (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
Cheap Dirty Horse + Ace Ambrose
Friday 13 February 2026
From the Vaults x Central Committee: We are Making a Film about Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter
Sunday 15 February 20265:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Advance £5.50 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter
Doors 5:30pm – Film start 6pm
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher is a film made between October 2024 and now using an instagram account. Over a year of research, social media conversations and creative collaboration, artists Simon Poulter and Sophie Mellor set out to explore what it means to “manifest” a work using social media.
The Instagram account was both studio and meeting place and the project grew accordingly – through research, reading, posts and the gradual response to this. Out of this came an evolving community of artists, thinkers and fans of Fisher’s writing. In the year-long period, all of the parts of the film were made and several shoots took place, notably in Felixstowe and Thamesmead.
The story is built around ‘Professor Parkins’, a character played by Justin Hopper, who jumps out of an early 1900s ghost story into the present day and narrates what has happened, encountering Mark Fisher’s ideas and life.
The film moves through the key ideas that defined Mark Fisher’s thinking – hauntology, capitalist realism, the CCRU, K-punk, and the unfinished concept of ‘acid communism’. In the film we also meet people who knew or worked with Mark Fisher, including Jodi Dean and Andy Beckett.
For students and people coming fresh to Mark Fisher, we recommend his books ‘Capitalist Realism’ and ‘ Ghosts of My Life’. Fisher’s writing is intensely personal but reaches out to successive generations, because he is so good at describing the conditions of late stage capitalism.
At its core, the film project is “de-capitalised” – just a network of people making something together over a period of time. In this way it is a refusal of the market logic that Fisher critiqued, and an experiment in what collective creativity might look like in the 2020s.
The film ends in the room that it is screened in. We ask people to continue the discussion and take forward some of the ideas. The most important ones, that Mark Fisher talked about and enacted, are solidarity and kindness.
From the Vaults x Central Committee: We are Making a Film about Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter
Sunday 15 February 2026
Sink or Swim present Slash Need + The Mall + Hey Budapest!
Tuesday 17 February 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Advance £12 (+ booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Slash Need:
A confrontational, camp and seductive dramaturge. Toronto’s industrial performance art outfit Slash Need have earned a reputation, for putting on high-energy theatrical live performances. The group craft songs that slither, satirize, and scream.
Served up raw, Slash Need’s distinct style of propulsive techno and metallic darkwave serves as the backdrop to an unpredictable, ever-changing, and communal performance piece.
The Mall:
The Mall is music for punks who dance. In the suburban wasteland of middle America, malls exist as decaying artifacts of conspicuous consumption–forgotten tombs haunted by the ghosts of capitalism’s failures. Using sequencers and analog synths, the Mall’s Mark Plant raises the dead to get glamorous amidst decay. Fusing the shimmering, plastic qualities of 80s dance electronica with the punishing, visceral energy of midwestern hardcore, the Mall soundtracks the liminal space between beauty and anger, celebration and cynicism, resilience and destruction. Performances are as ephemeral as kisses in a movie theater in 1987–and more lethal than radiation fallout from a space probe. The Mall experience is spasming, ecstatic technical disaster.
Hey Budapest:
Coventry’s newest Industrial Techno Fiend
14+ Show (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)