WHEN: Saturday 6 December 2025 , 7 PM – 1 AM
WHERE: Gallery 1 and various spaces at Primary
BOOKING: Booking essential, please book here. Ticket options detailed below.
Uncanny Christmas, Primary’s artist-run weird winter party, is back for another year! Our annual fundraiser, planned and executed by our resident community, is now live. This year’s theme is ALWAYS UNCANNY.
Join us Saturday, 6th December, 7pm – 1 am, to celebrate seasonal strangeness at our indoor festival with special guest DJs, themed bars in our artists’ studios, live art games, tarot readings, a far-out photo-booth, our amazing raffle, and dancing into the night.
We’ll be offering more creative activities and experiences than ever, so book your early-bird tickets now (available until 9 November).
All funds raised through Uncanny Christmas support the ongoing maintenance of the building and help keep Primary’s studios affordable and accessible to our resident community.
TICKETS:
Add your tickets and extras to the basket and check out. Be sure to keep your email confirmation for proof of purchase on arrival!
Early bird entry = £10: Book on or before 9 November to grab a bargain.
Standard entry = £13: Book after 9 November online.
Student/ unwaged entry= £10
Group entry (6+) = £10 per person: You can’t party alone, can you? Book for 6+ or more to receive a group discount.
On the door = £15: In case you can’t decide till the night you can still come along!
Pay it forward entry = £13: Gift someone a pay it forward ticket this festive season! Primary will allocate pay it forward tickets within communities based in our neighbourhood.
Anonymous Admirer = £50: This is a fundraiser after all! ;)
Uncanny is a fundraising event. Refunds will only be available in the instance that tickets sell out, and we are then able to reallocate them.
PROGRAMME & ENTERTAINMENT
This year, we’ve got more remarkable music and performances across our bars and dance floors. We’re bringing back our much-loved Uncanny Jukebox B2B2B!
The lineup includes:
Live performances and DJ sets from:
Geiom @geiom_berkane_sol
The Silver Field @thesilverfield
Chimaera @c.h.i.m.a.e.r.a
DJ Formula @rabbort (COMMODORE AMIGA SET)
Krissy K @krissy_k_dj
GULPXL - @gulpxl
Two cocktail bars: The Glory Hole & The Menagerie with pure vibes and disco, serving an array of exotic mixes and blends, we have something for everyone.
The Always Inn will be serving local Blue Monkey beer and builder's snacks.
TG showing photographs and film work with TG grooves and lager.
Entertainment across the building includes: iPad Portraits by Mik Godley, Beam's natural wine bar and grooves, Tarot readings, and the Bonfire of Regrets..
Imran's Curry Bowl served from the Kitchen and Small Food Bakery’s Custard & Crumble Bar
Come early for the mask-making workshop, print your own tote bag and the photo booth and, of course, our famous raffle.
RAFFLE PRIZES INCLUDE:
Free film tickets for Broadway Cinema
£80 voucher for the incredible Cafe Roya
A voucher for Beam
Handmade cushions by @kashifnadimchaudry
Coffee from Agata - Franco Specialiaty Coffee
Book bundle from Moist Books
Plus more to be announced!
ACCESS:
Access to Primary is step-free via our new main entrance on Seely Road. From here there is level access to our playground, ground floor gallery space, Reading Room, kitchen and public toilets as well as independent businesses Small Food Bakery and Beam.
Live performances will take place in Gallery 1 on the ground floor, this has step-free access.
There is no step-free access to our first floor gallery space or independent galleries Forth and TG.
Not all themed bars will have level access.
Primary has an accessible toilet. The accessible toilet does not have a hoist.
Please email admin@weareprimary.org or call 0115 924 4493 with any access inquiries.
Performer and DJ Bios:
GEIOM a.k.a. Hem, (born Kamal Joory) is a Nottingham based producer, live electronic musician and DJ working across tempos, styles, conventions and record labels. As a lynchpin of the East Midland’s scene his Berkane Sol label has provided an outlet for some smashing new music!
THE SILVER FIELD is the sound world of Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby. Voice, tapes, bass, samples, synthesis, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. Using her modular synthesiser and other self-built electronic instruments, she weaves together song-soundscapes, creating a rich and dream-like tapestry of sound.
CHIMAERA is Nottingham’s shape-shifting DJ playing eclectic mixes from entrancing global electronic sounds, hard and fast breaks to slow and romantic afro-funk. chimaera is the co-organiser of @Trancesexuals and hosts Wyrd Wide Web radioshow over on Swing Dash.
RAVI ABBOTT (DJ FORMULA) will be live Mixing 8bit Audio in 4 channels using a music format from the 90s called Modules. Using two Commodore Amiga machines from 1993, no syncing, no modern techniques, just floppy disks and files smaller than a word document.
KRISSY K is a local DJ and producer mixing contemporary sounds with classics from the past two decades who hosts K-Wave, a monthly live show at Swing Dash in Nottingham.
GULPXL are a performance duo brought to you by Pádraig Condron and Charlie Dean. We are best friends who work together because we feel okay exploiting each other without it being weird. Our work is often messy, caring, wet, desperate and not to be trusted.