Queer Arts Weekender

Welcoming you to a queer arts weekender in South London!

Queer performers, visual artists and musicians come together for a weekend of celebration and appreciation of the creativity of the diverse aspects of an intersectional LGBT community.

This exhibition will explore intergenerational dialogue, examining our history and the importance of LGBT artists representing their own lived experiences. We will showcase queer artists that express their unique relationship with queerness and LGBT culture through a variety of mediums, including performance, poetry, music, fashion and visual art.

Two show will be held on the Friday and Saturday evenings.
More info on the opening night and performers TBA

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FRIDAY NIGHT OPENING SHOW
7-10 pm
Show start: 8 pm

FRANKIE TUFFRAGETTE makes genderfuckey dykey euphoric queercore as Tuffragettes, and plays these songs plus dark surreal feelingscapes as a raw energetic punk rock mega-gay solo experience.
https://soundcloud.com/tuffragettes
https://tuffragettes.bandcamp.com/

FAYE WHEELER is currently studying Popular Music Vocals at BIMM London and has previously trained at The BRIT School (Musical Theatre). Faye has sung at Friday Night is Music Night with BBC Radio 2 and has performed in various productions including Rent, 13 and Avenue Q. She is set to perform with Bromley Players in a production of Urinetown in April. Faye recently sang at trans day of remembrance

STEPHANIE

SATURDAY NIGHT CLOSING SHOW:
7-10 pm
Show start: 8 pm

The Finnarchist

ALEX GREEN, singer, writer, activist who runs Loud and Queerly. "Loud & Queerly brings together writers, musicians, performers, artists, promoters and activist to create fabulous entertainment and campaigns that advocate equality and human rights."

BAAL FASHION: Baal is a fashion label specialised on MtF transgender fashion and a subtly asymmetrical style of dressing. The only label with a third-gender-size-system. www.facebook.com/baalfashion/

Daina GIBBS selected and performed the music for three Trans Day of Remembrance events (TDOR) and re-wrote the lyrics to sound of silence adding an extra verse
see (TW visual violence) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw9Ml5aOClM

LU FIRTH

Exhibiting artists includes:

CHLOE WING: "I graduated MFA in Fine Art from UAL in 2014. I am a paper cutting artist who makes light and shadow installations. I hand cut my work so that I can have a close relationship with what I do and it gives my work an expressive and performative aspect as well. My art tends to be intricate, dark and has a psychosocial layer to it as I highlight alienation and trauma within the individual who lacks autonomy. My work is about myself and people I know and is highly personal and expressionistic. I explore how emotion can say so much, not only about the individual but also about the society around them. I seek to be humane and though my work shows isolation it is also about the fundamental need to belong within a community and how difficult this can be.

As well as exhibiting paper cut outs I will also be performing songs that I have been writing for 10 years since I studied songwriting in Brighton Institute of Modern Music back in 2008. This is the first time I will perform my music from my concept album ‘Caged’ . It will be very new and experimental for me as I will be combining performance with song and cut outs as well…"
www.chloewing.com

PHILIPPA PUNCHARD is a visual artist who was the manager at the Alex G Jackson's Gallery and bookshop in Harrogate and exhibited with the Art Project in London. She has also curated this weekend.

LAURA CHERNAIK: is a writer, artist, and psychotherapist, a trainee at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has a PhD in History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz. She has published two books, Social and Virtual Space, Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2005, and a chapbook, the science fiction novel New Hope, available from her website, www.laurachernaik.com

JOE HENSON

WALKI FREEDREAMER TINKANESH (2018): "I am a non-binary artist/writer/musician. (Non-binary: a person who doesn’t and cannot identify with any gender) (Preferred pronoun: they/them/their).

I mostly paint portraits of humans and animals, and occasionally some book covers. I frequently use bright colours, maybe to represent an explosion of expression.

To me, art, writing and music are media of expression. They are therapeutic and keep me alive. They are sources of oxygen. They are personal and collective, they are private and political. They are Life and Death rolled into one."

https://www.facebook.com/Walkis-Monster-156907977708751/

LAURA CHERNAIK is a writer, artist, and psychotherapist, a trainee at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has a PhD in History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz. She has published two books, Social and Virtual Space, Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2005, and a chapbook, the science fiction novel New Hope, available from her website, www.laurachernaik.com

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The exhibition will open on Friday with performances. The exhibition curated by Philippa Punchard,will be open 11 am-18 pm on Friday and finish on Saturday evening from 19 pm.

The gallery & cafe is on the ground floor with step free access.
All toilets will be gender neutral. Accessible toilet available.

Any questions about accessibility?
please email linnea.frank@openingdoorslondon.org.uk

This event is free but we suggest a donation of £3.
All donations will go to paying the performers.

For more information or questions, email: linnea.frank@openingdoorslondon.org.uk or
juliet.chard@openingdoorslondon.org.uk

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Opening Doors London is London's largest charity for 50+ LGBT people in London. We put on regular events across London to build networks and communities in order to decrease social isolation, discrimination and loneliness. ODL also offers specialist training and consultancy for e.g. charities, care homes and hospitals to help them better understand and adapt to the special need and situation of older LGBT+ people.
Charity number: 1167919

www.openingdoorslondon.org.uk
@openingdoorsldn

Shortwave Café is Bermondsey's newest arts and events venue. The café is spacious and bright, with natural light provided by the same skylights that allowed the workers in the old Peek Frean's factory to produce the Bourbons, Garibaldis, Custard Creams and Twiglets, which made the factory famous. Join us for coffee and cake, cocktails, wines or cold beers from local brewers and enjoy our latest exhibition.

www.shortwavecafe.co.uk

Loud & Queerly brings together writers, musicians, performers, artists, promoters and activist to create fabulous entertainment and campaigns that advocate equality and human rights.

https://www.facebook.com/loudandqueerly/

United St Saviour’s is a charity that supports the people and communities of north Southwark. Through our grant-making programmes, we help communities tackle social need by investing in exciting projects that offer both proven and innovative ways of solving problems. We also provide exceptional housing for older people in our almshouses, creating strong and supportive communities in beautiful surroundings.

https://www.ustsc.org.uk/

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The LGBT History Month started in 2005 with over 150 events nationwide and followed the abolition of Section 28, which had prevented teachers from talking about being LGBT with pupils, and meant discrimination and prejudice were unchallenged in British schools. LGBT History Month invites everyone to run awareness raising events and activities to celebrate and embrace diversity in all its forms.