Echo Chamber

11/08/2025

🌟 TOMORROW night at The Muddy Puddle 12TH August 🌟
Show starts at 7pm — last tickets on Eventbrite (link in bio)! 🎟️

Co-produced with these brilliant artists, we’re celebrating a magical summer gathering of festivity, togetherness & harvest ✨🌿

Featuring:
🎤 Ffion Aynsley
🎶 Alice Robinson//Olive Gold
🎭 Emer O'Connor
📖 Rebecca Morden
💫 Our Creative Director at Echo Chamber, Radhika Aggarwal
…and the fabulous Ada Camp bringing the flair! 🎩

It’s our third London quarterly show — come support & bring your magic! ❤️🌟

20/11/2024

Next up - my right hand woman, an absolute legend of a storyteller, all-round brilliant actor and dream collaborator! You've got to come and see in her flow 🙏🏽😍🤩

Emer spun tales at her first Mayven festival in Cornwall this May performing alongside and Becca of It was magical and radical and Emer is delighted to bring some Mayven cabaret joy to London & thinks it only fitting that this event can help raise money for the
Palestinian Circus School. In honour of our hosts Emer will be paying tribute to the Feminists and Folk singers of 'Bread and Roses' and spinning a tale collected by Clapham's own Angela Carter.

Not to be missed! 🔥🔥🔥

19/11/2024

Half the tickets are sold for The Mayven on 23rd November! Do join us to celebrate the season with incredible performances including someone I've long admired for their incredible songwriting and performance which digs deep and shares a cheeky smile at the same time. Ticket link in bio 🤩😍

Ffion Aynsley is a London-based musician, song writer and actor with experience working across these mediums in a range of contexts in the UK and Spain. Her relationship with music is rooted in her upbringing in rural West Wales; the landscapes, songs, sounds, voices, stories and melodies of which all feed and inhabit the music she creates.

13/11/2024

We're producing this with our friends Scary Little Girls and at one of our favourite London Pub Theatres who also celebrate their 10th birthday that weekend The Bread & Roses Theatre - do grab your tickets. Profits to be donated to The Palestinian Circus School

After multiple sell-out seasons in Cornwall, the Mayven Festival hits London in TWO WEEKS with a new regular event in association with Olive Gold, Emer O Connor and Echo Chamber ✨

Our aim is to host a quarterly Mayven event, keeping the theme seasonal, moving around London to connect with a wide variety of creative communities.

We invite you to laugh and imbibe with us, and create a sisterly solstice where all kind souls are welcome.

Book your tickets to join us! ➡️ https://buff.ly/3YjBXjZ

10/11/2024

We're thrilled to be co-producing this with such a mega group in such an aligned theatre too! 🤩🤩😍😍
can't wait for your set ☺️🥰

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Posted • Bringing the Mayven from Cornwall to London, Saturday 23rd November! Link for info and tickets in bio ✨️Bread and Roses Theatre Clapham✨️

I've been an artist in every one of the Mayven Festivals produced by and over the years I've seen the most wonderful, funny, beautiful work by a host of bloody marvellous Women. Now a few of us are bringing the Mayven to London. A Quarterly night of music, storytelling, comedy and art. Get your tickets now!

What is the Mayven you ask? That elusive stage in a woman's life between the Mother and Crone. A time of renewed independence, creativity, and giving zero f**ks. If the Mayven could be an event, it would be this. Join us to celebrate the Mayvens who came before us, those yet to come, and most importantly the Mayven inside. 🔥

09/11/2024

Congrats 🤩🤩

We are so happy for this journey you are taking with Baki and loved making the audio version which toured as an installation in UK Theatre's and through Bangladesh
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Posted • NEW photos (credit Polka Theatre) of my intergenerational / 'family' /9+ play, Baki, which means 'the balance' or 'part left owing' in Bengali last month at .

Nicholas Khan playing Grandad and Michael Soukhan playing Grandson, directed by associate Gavin Joseph.

I first wrote Baki as an audio play that toured exhibitions in Bangladesh and England for 's ambitious awards nominated programme in 2022.

It's been so interesting translating something for the ears and mind into something visual and with movement - I have my lovely team to thank for diving into the text and pulling so much more out! Crafting it for children is a combination of reckless fun and meticulous care all at once, and, honestly, i think something great for kids has even more layers for grown-ups!

The audience reaction - tears and laughter in just the right measure - was that, making up the balance, the baki, is such a universal ache that affects us all - wherever we are and whatever our background.

What was particularly special here, that i was so grateful to witness, was the relationship between men - three generations of one family told through the simplest of stories when an old man and a teenage boy stop to have a chat and manage to find a way to find out what matters and help each other get through to the other side.

Thank you to everyone who came and who have helped me in various ways to write and develop this play, which is based on my father's life. thanks Abdul Shayek, .po

08/11/2024

Have you booked your Mayven tickets yet? It’s on at the on November 23rd (Link in bio). We’re thrilled to have Max Turner and Funny Women regional finalist Suse Steed joining this incredible fundraiser! Having returned from Edinburgh Comedy Festival with her solo show, you can also catch her in the Netflix Documentary “The Spiders Web”.

“She had me laughing from start to finish.. leaves you like all art should, questioning the world we live in.”
Women in Comedy Festival

“Comedy that will make you learn as well as laugh” Evening Standard

“Her message, intelligence, storytelling & humour simply boom out into the aether.” Mumble Comedy

13/07/2024

Next up is Oskar who has written and voiced multiple Tastes Like Home pins including 5, 6, 7 & 10 with an interesting focus on Bedfords birdlife 🦢🦢🦢🐦
Check out Meo and Oskar in the second pic at our wonderful recording partner where they laid down their pieces 🥰

A fabulous artist who has put so much of himself and his uniquely quirky and humorous artistry into this process from acting, capturing wonderful photos, to writing, please follow him 🤩

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Oskar Konrad Puanecki is a Bedford - based actor, photographer and writer. His previous projects include Future Arts Leaders, Erasmus+ Creativity and Talent 25.
Some of his recent acting credits include ‘Oh! What a Lovely War’ at the Curve In Leicester (2022) and The 39 Steps at The Place Bedford (2023).
For Tastes like Home, he was inspired by meeting and collaborating with a diverse group of local creatives from a variety of artistic disciplines. He enjoyed collecting memories and using them as source material to write pieces based on Bedfords birdlife and heritage.

01/07/2024

Next up, it's the one and only Des. Her poetic exploration of identity and belonging 'Raindrop' is our Pin 4 which she also voices beautifully. Please follow her as she is also a talented author, illustrator and dancer 🥰 Although our guided walks are now complete, we'll be releasing DIY ways to enjoy Tastes Like Home very soon 👣

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"Hello! I am Desiree. I have been living in Bedford for almost 20 years!
My heritage is glazed in many coats of Italian and Iranian culture. I am a multifaceted artist, over the past nine years, I have become the author and illustrator of three self-published books, contributing to the current literature with underrepresented languages. I painted in oil and watercolour artwork exhibited throughout the UK. I perform and choreograph Classical Indian Dance pieces that tell stories of cultural identity.

Joining 'Tastes Like Home' felt like it was going to be both a professional learning experience and a deeply meaningful self reflection commitment around culture and personal history, contributing to my own line of work. Sharing Bedford's stories and memories through food has been a plunge into my own past within the community, connecting us all to the flavours and traditions that make our Bedford unique and for that reason I am very happy to have applied to this wonderful project."

19/06/2024

Next up we're delighted to share with you the writer and voice behind pin 3. Adie's detailed research and incredible acting talent (on a few other stories too!) are a must to be experienced. Why not join us for our last in this series of guided walks led by our local producer Words Set Free (free tickets- link in bio)
Give a follow and here's more about her 🤩
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Adie Mueller is an actress and theatre maker. Her background is in theatre and the teaching of theatre, but her work has expanded in recent years to performance installation, contemporary performance, movement, film, audio and performance writing. Adie also works freelance across film, commercials and theatre. Recent credits include: Carla in ‘Granny Krampus’ (Amazon Prime), The Stranger in ‘Yellowmeads’ (New Gun TV) and Angela, in Nathan ‘s Ess’s immersive comedy ‘Vegetables’.