Events at The Nest
WHIPLASH No. 8: CALL IN SICK EDITION
For our eighth event we're getting noisy and welcoming:
DEAD NAME - blackened noise punk, London
MONIKA BADLY - pain-jazz noise-techno, Bristol
HOLY WOUNDS - noise/doom metal, Oxford
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: Ora Cogan
Divine Schism welcome Ora Cogan to Oxford for the first time with her truly beautiful songs!
Nowruz Yearn and Feast
Bring in Nowruz with Yearn DJ night on Friday 20th March, followed by a screening and feast on Saturday 21st March
Divine Schism presents: Shovel Dance Collective
A beautiful happening! We’re bringing Shovel Dance Collective back to Oxford on Sat 21st March as we welcome them to The Nest. They played one of our favourite shows of recent years in 2023 and we’re delighted they’re back in town!
Drawing Club x The Nest
Come along to Drawing Club – a fun, approachable opportunity to liberate your creativity through mark-making! Open to everyone; beginners, enthusiasts and artists alike! Each session will have a focus, but by no means is this a class! We encourage getting distracted, making mistakes, collaborating and starting again.
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.
Hannah Lou Larsen - 'Peach Pine Ocean' EP Release Launch Show
With support from Bellz Offbeat and Lane J
F*Choir with YWMP
An afternoon with F*Choir at The Nest
F*Choir is a 70-strong, queer-led ensemble that radically reimagines what choral singing can be - bold, high-energy, full-body music that celebrates collective liberation, joy, and embodied resistance.
Emergency Cabaret
Emergency Cabaret is a night of radical queer performances. We platform experienced artists, showcase emerging talent and curate spaces for queer survival. Cabaret is political, and we put queer community, pleasure and solidarity at the heart of what we do. Let our exquisite underground creatures take you on their journey to build collective rage and hope together, in the face of a world on fire.
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.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY GALA
Come celebrate International Women's Day at The Nest with live music AND an exhibit of feminist writings and artwork!
Divine Schism presents: Mermaid Chunky
Mermaid Chunky. It’s all in a name, sometimes. The danceable, costumed, curiosity rich duo of artists Freya Tate and Moina Moin are as imaginative as they profess. Or, to get more to the point, as we all need them to be.
F*Choir Open Session
Join the next F*Choir Open Session with Bianca Stephens exploring embodied sound and joy.
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.
The First Annual Ciaran Walsh Resistance Celebration
The Battle of Carfax 1936 - When Oxford's bus drivers turned the tide against Mosley's fascists
Speakers, discussion, food and music
Georgian Polyphonic Singing Day Workshop
Please join us for a full-day workshop exploring traditional Georgian polyphonic singing with Holly Taylor-Zuntz at The Nest in Oxford. This day offers an immersive experience in the rich harmonic songs of Georgia — one of the world’s oldest living vocal traditions recognised by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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.
MISSNOMAFEST: 1st Anniversary Special
It's our first birthday! Come celebrate with us as turn up the heat all night long!
Divine Schism presents: Clémentine March + Louise Chennevière + Hannah Lou Larsen
Divine Schism welcome Clémentine March's to Oxford as she celebrate's her new album POWDER KEG!
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.
The Friday Feeling Club
The Friday Feeling Club is back! YWMP presents our friend Nastazia Bazil. Nastazia Bazil will be supported by... you? For the Show and Tell, bring a song, show us your DJ set, share a feeling.
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.
WHIPLASH No 7: NO CHILL EDITION
WHIPLASH is an Oxford live music night centering extreme/alternative genres, marginalized artists, and openly radical politics.
For the seventh event and first of 2026, we are going all-in on queer hardcore, with four acts back to back!
UNCERTAINTY - Bristol
MISGENDERED - Birmingham
TENSION - Bristol
WORRY - Oxford
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.
MISSNOMA vol. 6
Missnoma dj collective are excited to host their next gig at the Nest. They'll be mixing a diverse range of hip-shaking tunes, both digitally and on vinyl.
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.
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.
Post-ORFC Black and People of Colour Caucus run by Land in Our Names
Land in Our Names are delighted to be returning six years later to Oxford with other Black & People of Colour visionaries for our third BPOC Caucus, and our second Post-Oxford Real Farming Conference BPOC Caucus, to fortify our land-based movement! This will be a space of connection and reflection with BPOC growers, farmers, and landworkers. We will open the day with a grounding, introductions and tea and snacks. We will then have delicious Lebanese food for lunch, followed by a short presentation of our Land Vision, activities and a film screening. This event is for Black and People of Colour Only
The Waiting List - Book Launch
Please join us to celebrate the launch of a new book on The Waiting Project project produced by Dr JC Niala, Julia Utreras and Sam Skinner, working in collaboration with @greenpeaceuk, which explores urgent issues concerning access to allotments, land justice and food sovereignty.
WHIPLASH No. 6
WHIPLASH No. 6: I MISS HALLOWEEN EDITION with Cainhurst + Dead Name + Aftercare