De La Soul: Yard Party: After Hours

De La Soul are hosting a late-night dance party at the Schwarzman Centre on Saturday 27 February 2027. It's called Yard Party: After Hours, and it's the after-hours chapter of The Good Health Summit: Global Hip Hop. Mind, Body & Soul, a full day hosted by the group that brings together music, movement, ideas, health and wellbeing, taking its name from De La Soul's own Good Health Summit programme. Posdnuos and Maseo serve as hosts and musical guides throughout the day, with DJ sets, turntablism, a scratch battle, dance, breaking and visual elements. Special guests include Indian hip-hop pioneer DIVINE, Moroccan superstar DIZZY DROS and Afghan rapper and activist SONITA ALIZADEH. The dance battles are curated by award-winning choreographer Danielle RHIMES Lecointe, with world-record-holding Bboy STEADY, BGirl ROXY and other leading UK dancers breaking, popping and locking live on stage. The whole day is framed as the meeting point of Oxford's long tradition of thinking, teaching and debating with hip hop as another powerful system for passing knowledge from one generation to the next.

After Hours is the late-night party that follows on from that. It's hosted and DJ'd by De La Soul and guests, and it runs from 22:00 in the Sohmen Concert Hall for two hours. The age guidance is recommended 16+. If you book it together with the preceding The Good Health Yard Party, which starts at 20:00 on the same night, it's £15 instead of £20. So the party kicks off at 22:00, and you've got the full day's programme leading up to it if you're in for the whole thing.