POLITICAL DRAG WORKSHOP - 24/06, 2.30: Creating art inciting change & incorporating non-Western techniques, Leah Kirby/CYRO explores socio-economic & political issues through non-traditional formats. In this ONLINE workshop, they dissect their practice & techniques for building drag performance around the black trans experience: How to consider mental care when delving into art that centres honouring your anger & voicing underrepresented narratives through queer art? This workshop allows participants to begin making political drag through their own lens. Bring something to use as stimulus - an object, material, picture... something with significance to you. You'll be building a piece with CYRO there to support & mentor. This is about letting go of judgement & allowing your experience & voice to come through in your art. QTBIPOC-led event, QTBIPOC-identifying folk especially encouraged to apply. BSL-interpreted. MEETING THE UNRULY DEAD - 25/06, 3pm: This ONLINE workshop run by poet, drag king & artist SL Grange is for folks wanting to connect with Queer tr/ancestors. Using writing, drawing & performative processes, well create our own rituals & art to uncover, honour & meet lost queer heroes. All art practices at all levels of experience welcome. Captioned, with integrated audio-description.SHOW THYSELF! 26/06, 2.30: Multi-disciplinary artists SL Grange & E.M. Parry lead an IN-PERSON workshop exploring historically-inspired queer self-fashioning. Combining creative writing with photographic portraiture and installation elements, we'll guide you through a gentle, playful process that invites you to fashion yourself to explore an alternate self, play at being someone else, and/or meet your unruly dead tr/ancestors by becoming them. Photography support & basic art & craft materials supplied. All welcome, but queer-led and centring. Wheelchair accessible, audio-described, BSL-interpreted.
