Events at The Nest
Sound Engineering Course
We are excited to announce that our sound engineering course is returning from October 2026! You will learn from Ky Acab to mix live sound to ensure clear, balanced audio for both audience and the artists.
FAT MAN'S CHEST: DAY RAVE & FILM SCREENING
Turn out to support Zahra's top surgery fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/zs-top-surgery-fund-duuy5
1-6pm: DJs
7-9pm: Film (18+)
Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/f/27837/
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
Team Drum
Team Drum sessions are open to 18+ women, trans and non-binary people. The sessions are free but RSVP is essential.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Sound Engineering Course
We are excited to announce that our sound engineering course is returning from October 2026! You will learn from Ky Acab to mix live sound to ensure clear, balanced audio for both audience and the artists.
YWMP Safer Spaces Conference 2026
This free conference brings together anyone interested in creating more inclusive, welcoming and accountable spaces in music.
Zine Workshop: Threading the Self and Forming Transnational Solidarities
A Zine-Making Workshop led by South African Artist Collective, House of INVADE-, as part of the Javett-UP /TORCH Collaboration
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
Team Drum
Team Drum sessions are open to 18+ women, trans and non-binary people. The sessions are free but RSVP is essential.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Sound Engineering Course
We are excited to announce that our sound engineering course is returning from October 2026! You will learn from Ky Acab to mix live sound to ensure clear, balanced audio for both audience and the artists.
Fat Man’s Chest Gay-liedh
Turn out to support Zahra's top surgery fund.
Come along for a Highland hoolie with the flamboyant Gay-liedh (ceilidh) band, bringing high-energy traditional tunes and plenty of queer joy to the dance floor! No prior dance experience needed we will teach you all the moves!
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
Team Drum
Team Drum sessions are open to 18+ women, trans and non-binary people. The sessions are free but RSVP is essential.
Safer Spaces Volunteer Training
We’re looking for people to join our Safer Spaces Volunteer Team at the Nest!
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Divine Schism Presents: HMS Morris + My Precious Bunny + St. Cecilia
Outrageous show Oxford as we welcome friends HMS Morris, My Precious Bunny and St. Cecilia to the Nest on Thurs 19th Nov!
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
The Friday Feelings Club: Show & Tell
Take all those feelings from your week and bring them to The Friday Feelings Club! No feeling left behind.
Got a song, a poem, a DJ set, a hidden talent or just something you'd love to share? Our monthly Show & Tell is back! Come along, get on the mic and share a song, share a set, share a feeling... or simply sit back, support your friends and enjoy everyone else's weird and wonderful offerings.
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Divine Schism Presents: Trash Kit
Three deeply creative individuals united by a shared musicality that surges through their bodies, hearts and heads. Their songs, once succinct, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest diary-like nature now tussle more with long-form songwriting, expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals.
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
audiograft 2026
audiograft festival is back with three nights of sound art and experimental music, curated by SARU (Sonic Arts Research Unit) at Oxford Brookes University and OCM. The opening night (Thursday) features a double bill of Loomeweight II for one loom and two singers by Patricia Auchterlonie and Hestor Dart, and a performance by Jason Singh and Tamar Osborn bringing together bio-sonification, instrumental textures and electronic processes. The second night (Friday) presents Liv Fontaine, Rainham Sheds and Lene Vollhardt with hysterical guttural sounds, narratives and movement. On Saturday, the festival concludes with sets from Peiriant, Thorn Wych, Li-Chin Li and Zhou Mengting, moving between folk, post-industrial and virtuoso sheng.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Team Drum
Team Drum sessions are open to 18+ women, trans and non-binary people. The sessions are free but RSVP is essential.
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
The Friday Feelings Club presents: Show & Tell
Take all those feelings from your week and bring them to The Friday Feelings Club! No feeling left behind.
Got a song, a poem, a DJ set, a hidden talent or just something you'd love to share? Our monthly Show & Tell is back! Come along, get on. the mic and share a song, share a set, share a feeling... or simply sit back, support your friends and enjoy everyone else's weird and wonderful offerings.
No pressure, no auditions, just good feelings and good company. Whether you're here to perform or just to watch, you're very welcome. Bring a friend, bring a thing, bring your Friday feelings. 💛
Sound Engineering Course
We are excited to announce that our sound engineering course is returning from October 2026! You will learn from Ky Acab to mix live sound to ensure clear, balanced audio for both audience and the artists.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Safer Spaces Volunteer Training
We’re looking for people to join our Safer Spaces Volunteer Team at the Nest!
Team Drum
Team Drum sessions are open to 18+ women, trans and non-binary people. The sessions are free but RSVP is essential.
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
OCM presents: Lunatraktors/Masal
A double bill of "broken folk" duo Lunatraktors and psychedelic groovers Masal, in the intimate and inclusive space of The Nest.
Lunatraktors is a double act consisting of Carli Jefferson (she/her) and Clair Le Couteur (they/them). Lunatraktors’ 'broken folk' blends Le Couteur’s channelled voices of multiple tragicomic characters with Jefferson's hybrid of tap dance, flamenco and body percussion. Added resonances come from Le Couteur’s free-reed instruments, whistles and analogue synth. Reimagining Anglo-Celtic folk through jungle, drum’n’bass, triphop, art rock and post-punk, Lunatraktors have built up a passionate fanbase at festivals, galleries, museums, theatres and queer cabarets.
English-Turkish instrumental duo Masal blend eastern and western classical influences with experimental electronics. Özlem Simsek peforms on harp, theremin and vocals, while Alastair Johnson generates electronics. Their jazzy breakbeats and psychedelic grooves take the listener on a journey of unexpected twists and turns, from wild stomps to ethereal drops of sound.
Sound Engineering Course
We are excited to announce that our sound engineering course is returning from October 2026! You will learn from Ky Acab to mix live sound to ensure clear, balanced audio for both audience and the artists.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Team Drum
Team Drum sessions are open to 18+ women, trans and non-binary people. The sessions are free but RSVP is essential.
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
FUCHS Last Minute Takeover
A last-minute takeover at The Nest.
Expect hardgroove / bouncy hard trance/ hard / deep & hypnotic techno, brought to you by the FUCHS residents (plus OPEN DECKS for anyone wanting to get involved)
Sound Engineering Course
We are excited to announce that our sound engineering course is returning from October 2026! You will learn from Ky Acab to mix live sound to ensure clear, balanced audio for both audience and the artists.
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Team Drum
Team Drum sessions are open to 18+ women, trans and non-binary people. The sessions are free but RSVP is essential.
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
Solidarity Film Night - The Struggle Continues
Presented by: Oxford International Brigade Memorial Committee
FAT MAN’S CHEST OXFORD: Zahra's top surgery fundraiser
Zahra's top surgery fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/zs-top-surgery-fund-duuy5
Bake sale including items from Pet Gât @petgatbakery
Tattoo flash by @angelic.puppy
Zine-making with Common Books
Gay-liedh
Live Performances by:
Elouiza - Aftercare - Slunk - No Worries If Not - Catkin - Amberant - Ember - The Cloud
Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/f/27821/
Starling Sessions
Starling Sessions - run by OCM and Tandem Collective, a global folk orchestra exploring traditional music from around the world. Each week a different member of the group brings a song/tune to share with everyone.
Team Drum
Team Drum sessions are open to 18+ women, trans and non-binary people. The sessions are free but RSVP is essential.
Monday Hangouts
YWMP sessions open to women, trans and non-binary people aged 14 to 25. We meet weekly to share music with each other, discuss artists we love and their stories, write and play music together, learn and share music skills, playlist together, have guests, eat and hold space for each other.
The Friday Feeling Club
Take all those feelings from your week and bring them to The Friday Feeling Club at The Nest. No feeling left behind.
Share a song, share a set, share a feeling...
Sign up to our Show & Tell to perform at this next Friday Feeling Club.
Safer Spaces Volunteer Training
We’re looking for people to join our Safer Spaces Volunteer Team at the Nest!