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This event will be followed by the 'Return to the Social' social
After a long break of social distancing, Return Flights extends an invitation to gather and restore a sense of community among artists, performers, and former Queen Mary Alumni. Catch Nando Messias, Sh!t Theatre, Hannah Maxwell, Matty May, Brian Lobel, Şenay Camgöz and more returning to perform and celebrate the final days of the 2022 Peopling the Palace(s) Festival. People will have the opportunity to come together to see and support brilliant live art once more. Performances will then be followed by the 'Return to the Social' social where audiences and artists alike are encouraged to reconnect and enjoy each other's company in a genial setting with good music and refreshments.
Performers include:
• Brian Lobel presents a 'Clip Show' titled 20 Years of Cancer (in 20 Minutes) exploring the experience of having living longer after cancer than before. Brian completed his PhD from QMUL on cancer & spectatorship in 2012, and is thrilled to come back for Return Flights.
• Hannah Maxwell originally studied English and Drama at QMUL. They have since gone on to win the 2018 Pundemonium final as well as tour nationally and internationally with their show I, Adram.
• Matty May is a queer, working-class artist and full time Barking babe. Matty is the associate director of Scottee & Friends and the lead artist on The Queer Wall, Bleeps and Bloops and 'Would Like to Meet.' Their work is honest, vulnerable, and just a little uncomfortable.
• Nando Messias presents an endlessly layered solo performance that discloses an extraordinary personal archive: a reliquaryy of sumptuous costumes, imperious fabulousity, unsterilised physicality, and of course the trademark, legendary poignancy.
•Şenay Camgöz is an artist who graduated with an MA in Live Art from QMUL in 2022. Her work has been screened at the Menier Gallery and the Victoria and Albert museum. For Return Flights she will share Celebrate Your Girl, a 5 minute film which she made whilst carrying out practice-based research into the Jungian concept of the ‘child inside’.
• Sh!t Theatre are Rebecca Biscuit & Louise Mothersole. They have been writing, performing and drinking together since 2010. and have won some awards and toured to some places. They are presenting some work in progress songs from their new show, Evita Too which will premiere at the Soho Theatre Main House in September 2022.
• BOOPA/CHELSEA. An excerpt from a two-artist performance without a plot by R. Justin Hunt (198cm) and Owen G. Parry (183cm) exploring forms of queer intelligence (qui), extra-terrestrial in-visibility, and that humming sound.
From 6pm: On site, Arts One, QM Campus