Year of the Dragon

Year of the Dragon

Sunday, September 6, 2026 · 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM

Cafe Oto

18-22 Ashwin St

London

With voice, text and fire: Theodora Laird, Phoenix Yemi and Zara Joan Miller will perform a new work for three voices, to celebrate the launch of Miller’s poetry book Year of the Dragon published by TACO! Thea Sands will respond to the text through food: prepared, performed, swallowed. Anastasia Freygang will play a solo set and Mo Dafa will play music over the night.

Year of the Dragon (TACO!, 2026)

someone is driving between two fields

someone else is feeding the baby

you're at the buffet
24 hour buffet
all you can eat meat
that is me

Written in the Year of the Dragon, Zara Joan Miller's long poem traces fire across a year. Moving through the experience of becoming a mother, it repurposes rage and tenderness as forces of transformation. A radical re-centering that calls into question wider meanings of home, security, faith and survival in the face of global imperialism. A year of feeding fire, of dousing and soft loving.

By TACO!