Serpentine Galleries has announced the 2026 edition of Park Nights, its long-running live programme staged in the Serpentine Pavilion, with Chanel Beads scheduled to present Your Day Will Come on 17 July at 8pm. The event is part of a season of interdisciplinary performances running from July to October in the pavilion designed this year by LANZA atelier. Tickets for the Chanel Beads event are priced at £10, or £7 concession.
Park Nights has been a fixture of Serpentine’s public programme since 2002, presenting new work across art, music, film, theatre, dance, literature, philosophy, fashion and technology. The series is built around the annual Pavilion commission, using the temporary structure as a setting for live interventions that respond to architecture as well as performance. In 2026, Serpentine says the pavilion becomes the stage for selected evenings of live programming, continuing the institution’s emphasis on cross-disciplinary experimentation.
Chanel Beads is the stage name of New York City-based underground pop musician Shane Lavers. According to Serpentine, the project is known for genre-defying songs that combine electronic and acoustic sounds. For Park Nights, Chanel Beads will transform the pavilion into a stage for a live set with vocal and guitar interludes. The performance centres on the project’s latest album, Your Day Will Come (2026), which Serpentine describes as using dream logic to explore liminality and precarious remembrance.
The event sits within a broader 2026 Park Nights line-up that foregrounds musicians, artists and writers working across formats. The season opens with Sophia Stel on 10 July, followed by Chanel Beads the next week. Later dates include Ebun Sodipo on 25 September and Shala Miller on 2 and 3 October. Serpentine has also said that the 2026 season concludes with Miller’s new commission, presented in the UK for the first time.
The Chanel Beads programme is presented in collaboration with Stone Island Sound and has been curated by Claude Adjil, Curator at Large, with Liz Stumpf, Assistant Exhibitions Curator. That curatorial framework underscores the institution’s interest in live work that is not simply ancillary to the Pavilion but central to how the architectural project is experienced by audiences.
The significance of the announcement lies in Serpentine’s continued use of the Pavilion as a platform for live, site-responsive work that blurs the boundaries between concert, installation and performance. Chanel Beads’ appearance adds a contemporary music voice to a programme that Serpentine presents as a space for testing how architecture can shape artistic encounter. With a venue, date and performance concept now set, Park Nights 2026 is positioned as one of the summer’s most visible examples of how a major art institution can frame music as an art-world event rather than a standalone concert.
