Claude Cahun Month: Full programme.
February 1 – 28 2026 at Torriano Meeting House London NW5
Exhibition of photomontage and prints by Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore and a programme of events celebrating and exploring their lives and work.
The exhibition can be viewed on 7 February 2026 6.30-8 pm (Private View) and in the hour before, and half-hour after scheduled events.
Read more about the legendary Torriano Meeting House here.
Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore
Events Programme — February 2026
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Sunday 1 February
5.00 – 6.30 pm
Juliet Jacques, filmmaker and author
Talk on writing practice, followed by Q&A
7.30 pm
Torriano Poets
Guest poets: SL Grange & friends
(Introduced by Juliet Jacques)
Friday 6 February
6.00 – 8.00 pm
Workshop with Sarah Pucill
Sarah Pucill leads a practical and discursive workshop exploring re-enactment as a method for integrating Cahun’s writing and the photographic images she made with Marcel Moore.
Saturday 7 February
5.00 pm Performance Art. Xelis de Toro presents a multilayered intervention on Cahun’s text ‘The Invisible Adventure’ using vocal improvisation, sound poetry, multilingual translation and movement. FREE EVENT.
6.00 pm
Readings from Cancelled Confessions with translator, Susan de Muth. FREE EVENT.
6.30 – 8 pm
Private View
Exhibition of Cahun & Moore photomontages and photographs
Sunday 8 February
3.00 – 5.30 pm
Workshop with Felicity Gee
Felicity Gee (Exeter University), President of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism, will give a short talk on Moore and Cahun’s collaborative practice, followed by a collage workshop focusing on myth and reinvention.
7.30 pm
Torriano Poets
Guest poets: Helga Henson and Shannon Louise Barry
Saturday 14 February
3.00 – 5.30 pm
Workshop & display with fashion designer and artist Ellen Poppy Hill featuring garments from her Cahun-inspired collection (as seen in Vogue, June 2025).
Sunday 15 February
3.00 – 5.30 pm
Rowan Frewin Collage Workshop
Inspired by Cahun & Moore’s ingenious use of a variety of pseudonyms. Artist Rowan Frewin and zine creators Livvy Murdoch and Otto Wates (Another Mask), facilitate the creation of collages on the theme of anonymity.
7.30 pm
Venn Poets
Friday 20 February
6.30 – 8.00 pm
Performance Art DOUBLE BILL
Stella Pearce and William Joys present collaborative, ‘collagic’ reinventions of their repertoires.
Saturday 21 February
3.00 – 5.00 pm
Panel Discussion: Who Is Claude Cahun?
The creative team behind the play, which premiered at the Southwark Playhouse in July 2025, discuss the trials and joys of staging Surrealism and the extraordinary lives of Cahun and Moore.
Featuring:
David Furlong, Director
D. R. Hill, Playwright
Sunday 22 February
3.00 – 5.00 pm
Cixous’s Angst and Cahun’s Confessions:
A Tricky Translation Workshop
With Sophie Lewis and Susan de Muth
Working with selected texts in French, Lewis and de Muth will explore the challenges of translating the work of experimental writers from gendered languages and facilitate participants’ own rendering of the texts into English.
Friday 27 February
From 5.00 pm (UK time) — Online
FREE EVENT
Online Symposium: Adventures in Trans/Queer Modernism
With Jana Funke (University of Exeter) and
Hannah Freed-Thall (New York University)
Saturday 28 February
6.00 – 7.00 pm
FREE EVENT
Book Launch: Uranian Games (1914) by Claude Cahun
Launch of the English translation by Susan de Muth, with readings.
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