Samra Mayanja’s CALL CENTRE is a monthly performance programme dedicated to the unspeakable (the voice). It is for those of us who freeze in crisis and a gentle reminder to get unstuck.

Newington Green Meeting House has partnered with Live Art Development Agency to present this special edition of THE CALL CENTRE, inviting Samra to step out of her 21 seater studio and join the long-line of dissenting voices that have spoken out in the chapel at Newington Green Meeting House.

Curated and hosted by Samra Mayanja, THE CALL CENTRE has become a monthly must-see in London’s Live Art calendar. Initiated in and usually taking place in her studio, Samra has created a framework not only about, but in service to, that difficult task that we engage with every day, which is to speak. To say ourselves and to speak ourselves, and to make the decision with every word and every breath not to hide.

For each CALL CENTRE, Samra invites cross-disciplinary artists and writers to share live work with and alongside her. This framework comes from her impulse to contextualise her own work through the artists whose work she loves.

Joining her will be guest artist Riot who will present ‘the impossible big’.

This event is part of a programme curated by independent producer Nikki Tomlinson and New Unity’s General Manager Nick Toner, supported by The Grand Camp Maisie Fund. This fund was created by the will of the late LGBTQIA+ leading gay rights campaigner activist and journalist Andrew Lumsden.

Image: Samra Mayanja in conversation with Riot, THE CALL CENTRE (2026), photo Jemima Yong