Events

This year, LAFS is offering a cash prize to the best working class show at the Ed fringe. We were taken by the idea of using our position and abilities to help elevate the artists in the trenches to a higher standing. An artist who wins the Banneret Award is someone who fights for their art and can bolster those around them.

'When I was a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. Then, I failed to succeed, so I got those childish things straight back out'. After his specials on Amazon Prime and numerous world tours, seasoned comedian Sam Rhodes returns to explore the struggle of a childhood of abundance and an adulthood of scarcity. Have toys and collectables become a "safety net" for modern men?

After a sold-out Edinburgh debut run, award-winning comedian and political refugee Maria Fedulova returns with a sequel to Russian. Mafia. Family. Are you a good person? Maria thinks she is. But compared to her great-grandmother, a literal orthodox saint, is it hard for a modern Russian woman displaced to the West to live up to those expectations?

1 Hour of LAFS is a mixed-bill showcase hosted by The London Arts Facilitation Society, a charitable organisation helping working-class people in the arts. Come see the contenders for the first ever LAFS comedy award at the mixed-bill comedy showcase that makes a difference.