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All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Charlie Folorunsho Voice Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #178 16 September 2025 ImproVox #08 14 April 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Graham Painting Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #5 9 August 2016 SKRONK #6 23 August 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back Genie: Generative Interactive Environments Genie, a foundation world model trained from Internet videos that can generate an endless variety of playable (action-controllable) worlds from synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches. Deep Mind 1 Mar 2024 A Foundation Model for Playable Worlds The las t few years have seen an emergence of generative AI, with models capable of generating novel and creative content via language, images, and even videos. Today, we introduce a new paradigm for generative AI, generative interactive environments (Genie), whereby interactive, playable environments can be generated from a single image prompt. Genie can be prompted with images it has never seen before, such as real world photographs or sketches, enabling people to interact with their imagined virtual worlds-–essentially acting as a foundation world model. This is possible despite training without any action labels. Instead, Genie is trained from a large dataset of publicly available Internet videos. We focus on videos of 2D platformer games and robotics but our method is general and should work for any type of domain, and is s calable to ever larger Internet datasets. Learning to control without action labels What makes Genie unique is its ability to learn fine -grained controls exclusively from Internet videos. This is a challenge because Internet videos do not typically have labels regarding which action is being performed, or even which part of the image should be controlled. Remarkably, Genie learns not only which parts of an observation are generally controllable, but also infers diverse latent actions that are consistent across the generated environments. Note here how the same latent actions yield similar behaviors across different prompt images. Enabling a new generation of creators It only takes a single image to create an entire new interactive environment. This opens the door to a variety of new ways to generate and step into virtual worlds, for instance, we can take a state-of-the-art text-to-image generation model and use it to produce starting frames that we can then bring to life with Genie. Here we generate images with Imagen2 and bring them to life with Genie. It can even step into human designed creations such as sketches or real world images. A stepping stone for generalist agents Genie also has implications for training generalist agents. Previous works have shown that game environments can be an effective testbed for developing AI agents, but we are often limited by the number of games available. With Genie, our future AI agents can be trained in a never-ending curriculum of new, generated worlds. In our paper we have a proof of concept that the latent actions learned by Genie can transfer to real human-designed environments, but this is just scratching the surface of what may be possible in the future. The future of generative virtual worlds Finally, while we have focused on results from Platformers on this website, Genie is a general method and can be applied to a multitude of domains without requiring any additional domain knowledge. We trained a smaller 2.5B model on action-free videos from RT1 . As was the case for Platformers, trajectories with the same latent action sequence typically display similar behaviours. This indicates Genie is able to learn a consistent action space which may be amenable to training embodied generalist agents. Jake Bruce*, Michael Dennis*, Ashley Edwards*, Jack Parker-Holder*, Yuge (Jimmy) Shi*, Edward Hughes, Matthew Lai, Aditi Mavalankar, Richie Steigerwald, Chris Apps, Yusuf Aytar, Sarah Bechtle, Feryal Behbahani, Stephanie Chan, Nicolas Heess, Lucy Gonzalez, Simon Osindero, Sherjil Ozair, Scott Reed, Jingwei Zhang, Konrad Zolna, Jeff Clune, Nando de Freitas, Satinder Singh, Tim Rocktäschel* *Equal contribution https://sites.google.com/view/genie-2024/ For more: Neural Network, AI, Design, Machine Learning Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Adrian Northover Alto & Soprano Sax Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 Boat-Ting Oct25 6 October 2025 Boat-Ting Nov 2024 http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back A Dystopian Nightmare: When Our Fiction is Real George Orwell — 1984. This book is so prolific that people use ‘Orwellian’ as an adjective, even though they might be using it wrongly. Does the concept of inescapable surveillance seem familiar? Instead of a totalitarian state of Big Brother, we might have sub-contracted this control to tech giants who can read your emails, hear your conversations, and monitor your search history. Synopsis of the full article on Medium. Medium 24 Aug 2024 George Orwell — 1984. This book is so prolific that people use ‘Orwellian’ as an adjective, even though they might be using it wrongly . 1984 is often said to be a book about fascism and state control, but it’s a bit more than that. It tells of a vile and gritty world where a totalitarian government wages perpetual war against a changing enemy. 1984 is also a world where all actions and even thoughts are under inescapable surveillance only to be used as weapons of destruction against the individual. Words have no meaning and history no longer exists. Does the concept of inescapable surveillance seem familiar? Instead of a totalitarian state of Big Brother, we might have sub-contracted this control to tech giants who can read your emails , hear your conversations , and monitor your search history. Even Winston Smith had a private notebook. Between WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook (Meta?), Google, Apple, and Amazon, you could probably learn more about a person than Orwell could have imagined the Ministry of Love would be able to do. [..] Information, Truth, and Media. The biggest direct comparison between these three books, these three worlds and our own is the way in which information, truth and the media are categorised. They are a tool of escapism, sedation, and oppression. In Brave New World characters have everything they need to avoid facing the truth about their own situations whereas the antipode of this is in 1984, the absence of education and lack of information veracity hide the truth. As a combination to these, in Fahrenheit 451 people are simultaneously denied the truth and bombarded with mass-saturated media to distract them. [...] Overall, we are not in one dystopia, we are not in a dystopia at all. We are in the most liberal, peaceful and progressive time in global history; but there are frankly quite scary existential concepts in fiction that are becoming real. Rejection of modernity, technology and progress is not the cure, but one must be wary of such quickly evolving societal norms, for what today seems progressive may turn out to be Orwellian. Author: Alexander Archer , Dec 5, 2021 https://medium.com/@TheWorldIsHard/a-dystopian-nightmare-when-our-fiction-is-real-675b938b3d7c For more: Algorithm, Neural Network, VR Previous Next

A full Fourth Portal with a packed performance roster for the first Hypermedia Open Space of 2024 of DIY poetry, spoken word, music, open mic, visuals, art, and discussion. Curated by Gravesend’s own Hypermedia Events, the night attracted audiences and performers from across Kent, London, and Gravesham. Hypermedia DIY Open Space 6 < Back 7 February 2024 A full Fourth Portal with a packed performance roster for the first Hypermedia Open Space of 2024 of DIY poetry, spoken word, music, open mic, visuals, art, and discussion. Curated by Gravesend’s own Hypermedia Events, the night attracted audiences and performers from across Kent, London, and Gravesham. Previous Next Hypermedia Open Space 6 Hypermedia Open Space is an emerging new kind of performance gathering. Developed at Fourth Portal over the past six months by local curators Harriet Hammond and Joe Cleary, Hypermedia offers a unique alternative to standard open mic events. The open-format approach attracts performers and audiences from across London, the Kent coast, and beyond. As Joe Cleary, one of the founders, puts it: "Hypermedia is inclusive to any medium of art." Blending gathering spaces, 1960s happenings, living room gigs, and open mic, Hypermedia creates an alternative experience that’s hard to categorise. Friendly, supportive, and open to all creative disciplines, it is gaining a reputation for transforming the arts scene in Gravesend and North Kent. https://video.wixstatic.com/video/2fcede_706b4890e94a40698b068d920925a30b/1080p/mp4/file.mp4 Performers at Hypermedia 6 Joseph Cleary Clementine Canpont Anthony Hart Sophie Sirota Simeon Smith Chris Porcas Zach Davies Smelliot Lee Campbell Pip McDonald Nic Tony Thorley Dan Clifford Knitted Tongues (Meej Douglas, Em Doodles, Sandra Zanetti) Amy Boyle Borje Melanie Sapiets https://video.wixstatic.com/video/2fcede_0f143f039c4e40f08a53c12d6110f658/1080p/mp4/file.mp4 Knitted Tongues Knitted Tongues Knitted Tongues is a London-based experimental music collective known for its avant-garde performances and innovative soundscapes. Their debut album, No One in Europe Knows How to Scream Anymore, is available for streaming and download. Next Event: Hypermedia Open Space 7 | https://www.instagram.com/knittedtongues/ The next Hypermedia will take place on Wednesday, 13 March 2024. Get in touch: https://www.instagram.com/hypermediaevents/ This event has ended, but the Hypermedia series continues. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Haymont Tesfa Voice Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Oct18 1 October 2018 Boat-Ting Oct 2018 http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Colin Webster Saxophone Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 25 June 2025 FlimFlam 29 October 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Antonio Arca Percussion Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 ImproVox #02 30 August 2024 ImproVox #06 5 February 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Majic Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #178 16 September 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

An open invitation to the annual celebration of Saint Andrew's Day and Seafarers Service at St. Andrew's Waterside Mission Church, Gravesend. St Andrew's Day < Back 30 November 2023 An open invitation to the annual celebration of Saint Andrew's Day and Seafarers Service at St. Andrew's Waterside Mission Church, Gravesend. Previous Next St Andrew and Seafarers The Service of Mattins BCP was attended by The Deputy Mayor of Gravesham Cllr Daniel King, Deputy Lieutenant Rosemary Dymond, The Reverend Alexandra Terrett of Gravesend Methodist Church,Church, Veterans, local Councillors , Freemen, Aldermen and Friends. Saint Andrew Saint Andrew is the patron saint of fishermen. He is also the patron saint of Scotland and Russia. Both Andrew and his brother Simon Peter were fishermen and became Christ’s first disciples. Christ promised to make them ‘fishers of men’ and persuaded Andrew and Simon Peter to leave their nets and follow him. (National Gallery) St. Andrew's Waterside Mission Church, Gravesend St. Andrew's Church was built to serve Gravesend’s waterside community. In the mid-19th century, the river Thames, just off Gravesend, was alive with shipping vessels waiting to load cargoes or passengers and emigrants heading for Australia, New Zealand and the Americas. Smaller boats supplied the everyday needs of the larger ships, and the crews of these boats lived with their families and livestock on board a collection of hulks and old barges moored just offshore. Rev Robinson wrote to a London church newspaper asking for donations to help build a mission hall, and the daughter of Rear Admiral Francis Beaufort KBE responded. Donations also came from townsfolk, including Charles Dickens. On St Peter's day, 1870, the foundation stone was laid and the church was finished and consecrated on St Andrew's Day in 1871. ( DiscoverGravesham.co.uk ) The church has an original working organ built by J Halmshaw and Sons, Birmingham. There are some historically significant plaques, including to the crew of the doomed Sir John Franklin expedition, the last Marahaja of the Punjab, Duleep Singh and Sir Francis Beaufort. The stunning stained glass windows were made and installed by Clayton and Bell. Besides Charles Dickens, other famous literary connections include John Keats leaving for Italy, Benjamin Franklin's diary and the opening of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This event has ended Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Roberto Bellatella Double Bass Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Sep24 2 September 2024 Boat-Ting Sep 2024 http://Website or social media email or phone number