Focus 23 is a new monthly art and music night that takes place on the second Thursday of every month. Based at the Sun and Doves pub on Coldharbour Lane in Camberwell, the night is marketed as a forum for practitioners from a multitude of different disciplines, with a door policy that is both open and uncompromising. Taken alongside other grassroots initiatives such as Off Modern and the various art collectives formed out of the now-defunct Marlborough pub in Peckham.
Focus 23 seeks to bring together people who share much in terms of interest and ways of thinking, butwho would otherwise be kept apart by the city's various distracting influences. The night is the brainchild of a small group of like-minded individuals who attended art colleges in the area.
We are a not-for-profit collective effort designed to showcase DJs and live artists in a number of different genres of music; visual artists and designers wishing to display their work; and contemporary dancers, dramatists and poets looking for a suitable space in which to collaborate with artists from other disciplines.
