An evening of Queer Mischief featuring a menagerie of the most essential Queer and LGBTQI artists.

Artists including SCOTTEE, FRAU WELT, LASANA SHABAZZ, IMPERMANENCE DANCE TRAVIS ALABANZA & LA JOHNJOSPEH as well as talks, a Queer Makers Market, Film programme, and food stalls, plus hand picked from And What? Queer Arts Festival: 

Butterflies and Dinner Ladies – Tom Marshman

A short solo piece about the relationship between older women and gay men. ‘It is a toast to the symbiosis of that particular relationship between the older lady, the spinster, widow, the old dear, the dames and duchess who steadfastly bring forth and help to bring about a change and transformation to create the emerging gay who comes out of the chrysalis to form the brightest of butterflies’.

Touch up/Good service – Lucille Power

Having cut her teeth performing in queer/ trans cabarets and clubs, Lucille and performers excite and challenge audiences with their anarchic and participatory performance interventions. Commissioned by Duckie, this piece utilises ‘play’ as a tool to investigate gender, power, queerness and class. Audience members become part of this visually sumptuous spectacle, and leave the encounter in some way transformed.

Alaska -  Cheryl Martin

Alaska is a funny, magical trip to the moon, with singing and dancing thrown in: one woman’s extraordinary story of how she survived growing up with severe depression. The show is inspired by writer-performer Cheryl Martin’s poetry collection, longlisted for the 2015 Polari Prize. “I called the show ALASKA after a line in a Lou Reed song, Caroline Says II, that goes ‘It’s so cold in Alaska.’ I chose that because most of the time my emotions seem numb, frozen. Then something happens and they wake up.”

A raw and powerful performance, with humour, heart and soul.

Timberlina‘s Troubadour

Take a moment to free yourself from the tyranny of consumerism and eco-anxiety with an intimate soothsaying serenade from our in-house environminstrel guru- brought to you by Timberlina™.