Rachel talking next to Esi watching with Future Machine and trees behind them

When The Autumn Leaves Fell 2025

Over the last few years ‘When The Autumn Leaves Fall’ has developed into a growing community-led environmental art and music event, bringing guest musicians, dancers and performers from around the world together with the When the Future Comes project, in Finsbury Park, to celebrate the Autumn.

Schedule of the day

2pm – Meet Future Machine and share stories of the weather and climate change with artists Rachel Jacobs and Esi Eshun. Free tea and cake. 

4.00pm – Drumming, dancing and music from around the world, featuring The Rainmakers, Zantagola (with special guest Saras Wati), Shreya Rai, Assafo Gyata and The Finsbury Park Drumming School Students.

Alex Dayo
Dave on the saxophone
Shreya on percussion and Dave on saxophone
Future Machine outside the Commons in Finsbury Park
Zantagola band with the audience dancing in the autumn leaves
Zantagola band with the autumn leaves
Future Machine's copper front panel, trumpet and ash octagon
Zantagola band with the autumn leaves
dancers in the autumn leaves
autumnal tree canopy
a man speaking to Future Machine with the park and buidings in the background, at dusk
People standing arund Future Machine, at dusk
a family speaking to Future Machine with the park and buidings in the background, at dusk
a man pressing Future Machine's button, with a woman dancing in the background
audience sitting down with The Rainmakers playing music and Future Machine in front
The Rainmakers playing music and audience sitting in front
The Rainmakers playing music and audience sitting in front
Drummer

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