Festival Programme
8 full days of performance, work, and play will feature:
Saturday 1st June
2pm-4pm Walking Each Other Home
2-hour workshop experience with Stacy Makishi that is part story, part participatory
ritual, part workshop, part shame exorcism, part queer dyspraxic dancing the electric slide.
Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in
1994. She has been making art for over 30 years. Her work ranges across solo
performances for stage, large-scale outdoor participatory projects and intimate
one-to-ones. Also a teacher, director and mentor in international demand, Makishi
believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with
others in order to put more aloha into the world.
Arts One, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-each-other-home-tickets-907671388557?aff=oddtdtcreator
7pm How to Make Rice
How to Make Rice explores the Bengal Delta, its close connections to growing and eating rice, and its relationship to song, poetry and religion. Though not a history lesson, the play is an indictment of the legacy of British colonialism in the region.
Made by South Asian artists in the UK in collaboration with artists in Kolkata and Bangladesh, this play was partly devised collaboratively after interviews with British South Asian diasporic community groups. Plus, see a queer reimagining of Jibananda Das’ iconic love poem Bonolata Sen, among other treats!
Arts One, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/895369744007?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Monday 3rd June
Diverse Bodies, Sex, Menopause, and More
A day of events celebrating our different sexual bodies, asking questions about sex, sharing the rage of menopause and what all of this has to do with our health.
Arts One, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road
3pm-5pm Care Cafe on Diverse Bodies, and Sex
A Care Cafe where we talk about sex with Midgette Bardot, Tallulah Frendo, Tammy WhyNot, Dr Ali Mears, and more.
A Care Cafe is a warm and welcoming space where individuals come together for meaningful conversations – under a roof of care. At the heart of this Care Cafe is a commitment to exploring taboo topics surrounding diverse bodies, sex, and menopause. It's a safe haven where attendees feel empowered to openly discuss the impact of periods on a monthly basis, delving into the emotional nuances that accompany this natural phenomenon.
But that's not all. We're also excited to feature interventions by the talented artists, including Midgette Bardot (Tamm Reynolds) and Tallulah Frendo. Midgette will shed light on the intersectionality of disability and sex, sparking thought-provoking discussions and fostering a deeper understanding of these complex issues. The afternoon will round up with an opportunity to ask Dr. Ali Mears, a consultant on sexual health, all of our questions.
Join us for an afternoon of connection, enlightenment, and community at the Care Cafe!
Midgitte Bardot is the alter ego of a queered queer person with dwarfism who’s existence for millennia has been roughed around enough for them to develop an appetite for violence, vulgarity and vengeance. Midgitte’scanonisation in dwarf culture and heritage is long overdue. Mines. Midgetism. Militance. Mudpies. Mercury. Magnificence. Their work invokes a revolutionary zeal in the most inhibited of people, confronting our shared humanity on a dying planet. They also do drag.
Tallulah Frendo, a disabled performance artist who delves deep into the human experience, pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions. I use the value of my personal experience to discuss the struggles of living in an ableist society, focussing specifically on how my body is perceived as though it needs to be “fixed” or “healed”.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/891516007377?aff=oddtdtcreator
6pm Dry Bits
Dry Bits is a one-woman show about midlife, rage, and coming home by Imogen Ashby
It’s like a teenager has crawled inside of me, has taken over, is camping out, taking acid and telling the world to go f*** itself’ Imogen is a contemporary performance maker, facilitatorand coach. Her artistic practice is interdisciplinary spanning live performance, movement and theatre. She is currently artist in residence at Sheffield Theatres where she has been developing her show.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/895372622617?aff=oddtdtcreator
7:15pm-9:15 pm Long Table on Sex and Health
A chance to sit around a table as an expert on your lived experience and talk with sexual health experts, Heather McMullen, Joyce Harper, and Ali Mears.
The Long Table, developed by Lois Weaver, is a conversation format that experiments with the private form of a dinner party as a structure for public discussion. Anyone can take a seat at the table.
Joyce Harper is an Internationally renowned, award-winning educator, author, podcaster, academic, and scientist. She is Professor of Reproductive Science at University College London in the Institute for Women’s Health where she is Head of the Reproductive Science and Society Group. She has worked in the fields of fertility, genetics and reproductive science since 1987, written over 240 scientific papers and published three books. Her topics of interest are menopause, reproductive health education and fertility treatments. She is leading the development of a UK Menopause Education and Support Programme with support from key organizations
(https://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-health/uk-national-menopause-education-and-support-programme).
Heather McMullen is a Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health at Queen Mary University of London. She has a background in medical social science and specifically in the area of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice. She conducts research in this area but also works with civil society and multilateral organizations. Recently she has begun exploring how climate change and other environmental crises relate to sexual and reproductive rights and politics. She is interested in how these intersections are framed in global policy and advocacy but also how they are experienced by people in regard to their own reproduction.
Dr Ali Mears has been working as a Consultant in Sexual health in the Jefferiss Wing, St Mary’s hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) since 2007. She has a sub speciality interest in Sexual Function and is the lead clinician in the Jane Wadsworth Clinic. This is a multidisciplinary, dedicated service for all genders of adult patients with sexual difficulties. Anyone can be referred to this service, via their GP. Over the years she has worked with performance artists, Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw on ‘What Tammy Needs to Know about Getting Old and Having Sex ‘and Brian Lobel on a piece entitled ‘Sex, Cancer and Cocktails’.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/long-table-on-sex-and-health-tickets-897230870687
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Tuesday 4th June
Earth Crisis and Climate Hope
A day of performances, workshops, and talks exploring the climate crisis, our relationships with the non-human, and what it means to practice radical hope in the midst of catastrophic change.
Arts One, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road
10:30am- 12:30pm Family Tree - Its Roots and Leaves
An interactive talk and workshop with performer, playwright and scholar Mojisola Adebayo, exploring her play Family Tree.
An interactive talk and workshop with performer, playwright and scholar Mojisola Adebayo, exploring her play Family Tree. Inspired by Henrietta Lacks and informed by the experiences of both enslaved women and Black workers in the NHS during the Covid 19 pandemic, Mojisola Adebayo’s award-winning play Family Tree addresses the colonial history of extraction from Black women’s bodies & how this relates to environmental racism, the relationship between gynecology and gardening, soil and cells and many layers more. Mojisolawill read selected extracts from the play and share about the roots of the work, accompanied by some participatory elements drawn from her Agri/Cultural Practices workshops, developed with Nicole Wolf (Goldsmiths), which explore permaculture ethics and principles and environmental racism through Theatre of the Oppressed techniques.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896141803257?aff=oddtdtcreator
12:30pm-2:30pm Cabinet Cultures
Collaborative storytelling workshop and installation with Giulia Carabelli and Mathew Beach investigating the complexities of human-plant relationships.
Cabinet cultures is an ongoing project which started in 2023 as a collaboration between the Garden Museum, Sarah Gardner, Emma Angold, Giulia Carabelli and Matthew Beach. It aims to investigate the value of houseplants and our affective relationships with them, interrogating the complexities of human-plant relationships through storytelling. For this edition of the project, Giulia and Matthew will host a houseplant storytelling workshop featuring the original cabinets. Participants will be invited to contribute their own experiences, which will then become part of the installation as it continues throughout the day.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896055394807?aff=oddtdtcreator
4pm-5pm Questions about interaction: who do we play for?
A performance/discussion by Karen Christopher, Tara Fatehi, Omikemi and Jemima Yong, exploring the movement of time in the deep sea via conversation, connectedness, durational work, and song-like structures.
The early stages of Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz are built on an underwater flow, various currents that flow past each other in different directions the way shoals of fish do. We will work with blending and combining, dissolving outlines. We are looking into the deep sea to see what we find. We are looking for simultaneous durations and song-like structures. We are asking: who says time moves in only one direction? We hope this project will speak to a tolerance of difference around our sensibilities and how to be in the world right now, while sharing a desire for connectedness.
Supported by Queen Mary University Centre for Creative Collaboration.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896185985407?aff=oddtdtcreator
3pm-6pm HEAT
A drop-in theatrical role-playing game exploring mutual-aid-based responses to the climate crisis A participatory theatre-game facilitated by Hamish Hutchison-Poyntz, using arts and crafts alongside table-top roleplaying game techniques to explore stories of radical hope through community-level responses to the climate crisis. In 30 minute sessions, participants are invited to come together and create a story of community-level response to the impacts of climate change. Inspired by real-world responses to the crisis that already exist, participants are offered the chance to work together in imagining and practising hopeful responses to the catastrophic changes we’re experiencing today.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896170820047?aff=oddtdtcreator
5:30pm-6:30pm Climate, Menopause, and Reproduction Talk with Heather McMullen
A talk and Q&A featuring researcher Heather McMullen’s work on the effects of the climate crisis on physical and psychological reproductive health.
A talk and Q&A with Dr. Heather McMullen, senior lecturer in Global Public Health at Queen Mary. This talk will explore Dr. McMullen’s recent research into how climate change and other environmental crises relate to sexual and reproductive rights and politics, particularly how these intersections are framed in global policy and advocacy, and how they are experienced by people in regards to their own reproduction.
Heather McMullen has a background in medical social science and specifically in the area of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice. She conducts research in this area but also works with civil society and multilateral organisations. Recently she has begun exploring how climate change and other environmental crises relate to sexual and reproductive rights and politics. She is interested in how these intersections are framed in global policy and advocacy but also how they are experienced by people in regard to their own reproduction.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896184019527?aff=oddtdtcreator
7:15pm-9:15pm Public Studio on Radical Hope
A Public Studio on Radical Hope in A Time of Crisis, with Lois Weaver, Sarah Faulkner, and Catherine Nash.
This public studio on radical hope in a time of climate crisis features a conversation between experts Sarah Faulkner and Catherine Nash, facilitated by Lois Weaver and invites audience members to become part of the conversation.
The Public Studio uses the artist’s studio as a site for creative problem-solving, offering space for engagement with new ideas, unlikely collaborations, and experimentation with raw materials. The three stages include the observation of a three-way discussion between experts and a moderator, separate group conversation with one of the speakers, and finally an open workshop where both speakers and participants apply creative thinking to a complex problem, be it social, political, medical, environmental.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896155363817?aff=oddtdtcreator
6:45pm-7:15pm Environment and Magic with Megan Swann
A cabaret-style magic show with skilled magician Megan Swann, using magic techniques to explore climate change and its impacts. Megan Swann presents her uplifting new show of Environmental Magic, full of fun, entertaining magic to leave you feeling inspired to act and full of hope for the future of our planet. Megan Swann is a magician from London. In 2021 she was elected as President of the world’s most prestigious magic society, The Magic Circle, becoming the first woman and youngest ever person to hold the position. Megan is also passionate about the environment and studied a BSC in Wildlife Conservation at the University of Kent. She combines her two interests in her unique ‘Environmental magic’ routines, specially designed to share environmental messages, in a clever, engaging and inspiring way.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environment-and-magic-with-megan-swann-tickets-907687877877
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Wednesday 5th June
School of the Weird and Wonderful
A school with classes based purely on interest and desire, a place to showcase new work, new collaborations and a whole bunch of exciting new performances.
Arts One, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road
10am-12pm Queer Flower Arranging with Ru Dannreuther
Come and discover the revolutionary power of flowers to lift your mood and be creative together with fellow flower lovers. In the workshop you will learn:
• The basics of flower buying and conditioning your flowers for longer life (30 mins)
• How to make a buttonhole wearable arrangement (30 mins)
• How to make and wrap a small hand tied bouquet (45 mins)
Proud to be an independent queer-owned, Ru aka Rupert Dannreuther (he/they) is an up and coming punk florist who loves bold colours, unusual flowers and tiny bouquets. Their business 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone?’ is named after a poignant Marlene Dietrich cover of the legendary anti-war song and their flowers are inspired by divine divas of the past. Ru makes beautiful mini bouquets, wearable flowers and eye-catching displays in dazzling rainbow colours. Ru specialises in extraordinary, natural, and foraged (legally) cut flowers with a love of vintage pop culture.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896213788567?aff=oddtdtcreator
10am-1pm Bad Drawing for Everybody
A drop in workshop on Bad Drawing, with Conor Moloney and Rachele Shamouni-Naghde.
This workshop invites you to reconnect with drawing, for as little as ten minutes of your time.
By inviting you to draw ‘badly’ (or not) we want to reassure you that even ‘bad’ drawings can be valuable. They can bring life to pages of notes, viscerally take us back to a specific time and place, and give visual structure to documents. More importantly, the act and process of drawing itself—even when the result is of questionable aesthetic merit—can help us attend more closely to what we are seeing and experiencing. This concentrated focus can enable us to notice more and notice better, and thereby make important discoveries. This workshop is a ‘taster’ of an eight-week drawing course for researchers, devised by Conor Moloney and run in collaboration with Rachele Shamouni-Naghde on behalf of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science (LISS) Doctoral Training Partnership.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896215774507?aff=oddtdtcreator
12pm-2pm Hip Hop Dance Workshop
Explore the history and basics of Hip Hop dance, with QMDC’s Polly Towers
An exciting opportunity to explore and celebrate the 50 years of HipHop culture and to learn the foundations and elements of the style of dance with some choreography from QMDC’s Intermediate Hiphop Captain Polly Towers. Suitable for beginners/all levels of dance ability, trainers are encouraged!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896235934807?aff=oddtdtcreator
10am-1pm Nonviolence and de-escalation training with Resilient Voices
Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) training is the embodiment of activism. By empowering ourselves through knowledge, practice, and connection we learn to resist oppression. Integral to NVDA is de-escalation; techniques that channel anger within protest spaces, the communities we live in, and ourselves. This workshop is holistic and rooted in care; a healing process, embracing our collective strength allowing us to manage our trauma, pain, rage and guilt within a safe environment.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896237198587?aff=oddtdtcreator
4pm-6pm Script Reading: plays in progress
Join us for script-in-hand readings of work developed on the second year Playwriting module. Students will present their 20 minute short plays, featuring work by Maria Kasilova, Shadiye Balikdjioglu and Lily Stuart.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/897352464377?aff=oddtdtcreator
12:30pm-2pm Writing Performed Poetry Workshop
A chance to work on your writing, no matter your ability! With Marisol Rojas. Whatever level you are in, come to a workshop in writing performed poetry. We’ll brainstorm, share stories, and start to build material together. At the end of the session we will share some of our work!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896504708717?aff=oddtdtcreator
1:30pm-3:30pm Surrealism Collage Workshop with Eva Dunne
Discover the weird and wonderful world of Surrealism in this collage-making workshop! Expect to learn a range of collage techniques and the history of the craft. Be inspired by the principles of the Surrealist Movement and create your own Surrealist artwork using pages from vintage magazines and old books, transforming them into fantastical landscapes, otherworldly creatures, wonderful dreamscapes, or windows into strange realms. This workshop will be led by collage artist, Eva (@cutouteva).
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896506463967?aff=oddtdtcreator
3:30pm-4:45pm Afrofuturism Workshop
A creative workshop with Bimpe Adeyemi
An exploration of Afrofuturism and its impact on cultural aesthetic, science fiction, history and fantasy. We will enact our reflection on possible futures.
Bimpe is an artist, writer, facilitator, and producer. Her work centres on Afrofuturism, telling joyful Black stories and activism that envisions liberated futures for Black life.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/897401360627?aff=oddtdtcreator
4:30pm-6:30pm ‘Feeling Futures’ Installation
Futures will bring together a group of young people from Tower Hamlets with a Half Moon tutor and a range of PhD students, using drama as a tool to explore their feelings about life transitions, whether that be in respect to education, career, environment, ambitions or emotions. Over the four creative after school workshops, they will work towards a final performance for friends, family, teachers, and Queen Mary staff. We aim to reveal what is most important for young people when thinking about their futures and what support is or should be there, hoping to prompt positive change which they will be the voice for.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896509593327?aff=oddtdtcreator
5pm-6:30pm Afrofuturism Screening
A series of films curated by Bimpe Adeyemi
An exploration of Afrofuturism and its impact on cultural aesthetic, science fiction, history and fantasy. We will enact our reflection on possible futures. Bimpe is an artist, writer, facilitator, and producer. Her work centres on Afrofuturism, telling joyful Black stories and activism that envisions liberated futures for Black life.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/897401360627?aff=oddtdtcreator
6:30pm-8:30pm Connecting Flights A platform of Student and Alumni Performances
You made your first flight, you’ve rushed through security, now it’s time to strap in and prepare for take off. A night of celebration and connection as Queen Mary finalists prepare to leave the nest and alumni return to it for a night of short form performance curated and presented by Chiara Laferla and Polly Chedgzoy.
Performances include:
Co-dependency
by Tallulah Frendo
Tallulah Frendo, a disabled performance artist who delves deep into the human experience, pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions. Engaging with materials such as paint to physically demonstrate the lasting effects of life with cerebral palsy and understand the variety of challenges that arise from being cared for.
A Funeral? For Shame!
by Viv Harris
Viv Harris conducts a funeral for shame and buries stigma. Following a traditional short crematorium service outline, Viv, who is a Humanist funeral celebrant, has created an interactive performance work that explores shame and stigma and how we can internalize as well as externalize bad judgment calls. Duration: 20 min
Creatix
becoming her
by Ellee Ray
This project looks at a change. A transformation from skin to skin. Exploring complex femininity.
Spiders intertwine a tapestry of divine femininity. Beyond their eight-legged form lies a profound symbol of creation, nurturing, and empowerment. In the darkness, we find the raw power of intuition, creativity, and transformation. The spider spins the grandest webs and reaches out to the darkest corners of the universe and connects with what’s there. `
Ellee Ray is an artist exploring multimedia. She is currently a third-year drama student graduating this July. This is Ellee’s stop motion debut and is something she wishes to continue in the future.
The Materiality of Memories
by Gabrielle Ashford
Memories are forever forged within the past. How is it that we can reconnect, reignite, retrace, and reflect? The possibilities of wondrous, magical moments are present. We just need to search and give ourselves up to do this.
Gabrielle Ashford is a performer who is fascinated by the unapologetically human. Her work uses movement and physicality to explore the relationship between sense of self and physical embodiment, revealing new truths about the intricacies of existence.
Eat Her!
by Tabby Ewing
Come on! Eat your best friend! You know you want to! You know she’d go great with butter! What could possibly go wrong?
TW: Cannibalism, Strong Language, Mentions of Sex
Tabby Ewing is a performance maker who likes theatre that is, in part, a bit silly. She is currently studying an MA at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is attempting to pull off a hard hat. Tabby is not sure what else to add here, other than they are trying (and failing) to remember to take her multivitamins.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/897332304077?aff=oddtdtcreator
8.30pm City of Ladies
Join Polly and Morgan as they journey through the City of Ladies in a high-energy exploration of gender, joy and what we can learn from the past as we build the future, in a QM Drama alumni performance.
In 1405, writer Christine de Pizan imagined building a City of Ladies, a place to remember and celebrate the ladies of the past, a nurturing haven for the ladies of the future.
It’s 2024 and Polly and Morgan are imagining the same thing, populating their city with ladies they admire - but what does it mean to be a lady? Who are they to decide? And does it require a special sort of hat?
Join Polly and Morgan as they journey through the City of Ladies in a high-energy exploration of gender, joy and what we can learn from the past as we build the future.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896511669537?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Thursday 6th June
Legacies and Lineages
A series of activities that help us think about where we are by reflecting on where we have come from and where we are going
Arts One, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road
10-11:30am Table Breakfast
Join Conor Moloney, Rachele Shamouni-Naghde, and Lois Weaver for a conversation on how they have a thing about tables.
Conor Moloney is currently completing doctoral studies on the staging of public life, co-supervised in the School of Geography and the School of English & Drama.
My ‘thing’ about tables is that they seem to be bound up with public life in ways that might not be entirely obvious at first sight: in the 17th century coffee house, in the House of Commons, in Jubilee Street parties, in all sorts of table-top games, and so on.
Rachele Shamouni-Naghde recently completed her doctorate on hospitality at the School of Geography.
My work explores the intersections, and embraces the tension, between heritage, that is the construction of continuity, and hospitality, that is the necessarily improvised, and impossible. The table acts as a threshold space where routes, stories and images from past trajectories are drawn and cross with the present, and with what is yet to come.
Lois Weaver is Professor of Contemporary Performance Practice at Queen Mary University of London and collaborator with the Split Britches Company.
I just love tables and the way they can be sites of connection and conversation.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896593594577?aff=oddtdtcreator
12:00pm-2:30pm The Wolf Den: Exploratory Workshops on Embodied Consent and Sex Ed – PART ONE
Lauren Barri Holstein will offer a 3-part workshop on understanding consent from an embodied perspective. In this series, we will encourage trusting relationships with our sexuality, our bodies, and our voice.
We will engage in embodied and somatic exercises, meditation, journalling, and a Long Table discussion to explore themes, such as: embodiment; relationships to our gender; sexual and pleasure anatomy; intimacy and touch; consent; healthy “fight” and resilience; self-trust; shame and other difficult emotions.
This workshop celebrates individual anatomy, and is designed for young women, womxn, young people living in bodies with vulvas, and any young person who feels disconnected from themselves, their bodies or their identities, aged 16-25.
This series is part of a larger research project to develop The Wolf Den, a sex education programme for girls and/or young people living in bodies with vulvas. We hope to bring this programme to universities and schools across the country. It is currently supported by Arts Council England and Central School of Speech and Drama.
Please email laurenbarrih@gmail.com with any questions. We ask that participants are available to attend all 3 sessions.
4pm-6pm the LEGACY + LINEAGE COLLECTION: a collaborative installation
Celebrating the spirit of QM Drama present, future + past, in objects.
The expansive community of QM Drama has been invited to bring items to the Legacy + Lineage Lounge that encapsulate something of their time here. This might be an object that sparks a memory or raises a smile. An artefact from a particular project. Words of wisdom, given or received. A photograph of a significant moment. Something that expresses a future desire. A small bag of possibilities & potentials. These objects are added to the evolving collection to create a collaborative display. Come and see the installation as it gathers and accumulates in real-time. Read and hear the layers of stories connected to the items on display.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896596372887?aff=oddtdtcreator
6:15pm–7:45pm The Value of Theatre
A book launch and discussion that argues the case for theatre studies coordinated by Jen Harvie (QMUL) and Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway)
This panel and discussion event chaired by Jen Harvie (QMUL) and Dan Rebellato (RHUL) will argue the case for the value of theatre and theatre studies. Speakers David Eldridge (Birkbeck), Margherita Laera (Kent), Trish Reid (Reading), Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal, Michael McKinnie, and Aoife Monks (all QMUL) will each offer three-minute provocations answering, ‘What is the value of theatre/theatre studies?’ Speakers will consider what theatre/theatre studies help us understand better, how, and what they foster, such as communication, reflection, livelihoods, economies, communities, debate, pleasure, and more. Discussion will follow. This event launches The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre Since 1945 (2024), co-edited by Harvie and Rebellato, and will reflect on the book series Theatre & (Bloomsbury), co-edited by Harvie and Rebellato from 2006 to 2023 and now by Margherita Laera and Natalie Álvarez (Toronto Metropolitan University). Drinks and snacks will be available. The event is free. The space is accessible.
Jen Harvie is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of contemporary performance and on how artists make work, especially in neoliberal contexts of production and living. Her authored books include Fair Play – Art, Performance and Neoliberalism, Theatre & the City, Staging the UK, and The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (with Paul Allain, 3rd edition forthcoming 2024). Co/editing includes The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre Since 1945, three special issues of Contemporary Theatre Review, Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes, Scottee: I Made It, and The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver. With Dan Rebellato, she co-founded the series of small books Theatre & (Bloomsbury) and co-edited it for 17 years, and she interviews performance makers on her podcast Stage Left (https://soundcloud.com/stage_left).
Dan Rebellato is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London and has published widely on contemporary British theatre. His books include 1956 and All That, Theatre & Globalization, The Suspect Culture Book, Modern British Playwriting 2000-2009, and, for the National Theatre’s Backstage Guide series, Playwriting. He is co-editor of Contemporary European Theatre Directors, Contemporary European Playwrights, and The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre Since 1945. With Jen Harvie, he co-founded the series of small books Theatre & (Bloomsbury) and co-edited it for 17 years. As a playwright, his work for stage and radio includes Here’s What I Did with My Body One Day, Static, Chekhov in Hell, Emily Rising, You & Me, 7 Ghosts, and Restless Dreams.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896600023807?aff=oddtdtcreator
8pm–9:30pm Long Table on The Future
For those concerned with the future of theatre and theatre education set amongst the array of artefacts in the Legacy & Lineage Lounge
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/896596372887?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Friday 7th June
Mad Hearts
Arts One, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road
9am Mad Hearts 2024: The Arts and Mental Health
You are invited to join us for a collaborative conference with PsychArt exploring the theme of Outsider/Insider.
This event explores productive, radical, contemporary encounters between the arts and mental health, bringing together clinical, artistic and research perspectives that offer a re-interpretation of contemporary mental health science and practice, with a view of imagining a different future.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/insider-outsider-psychart-x-mad-hearts-2024-tickets-852484382737
12:00pm-2:30pm The Wolf Den:
Exploratory Workshops on Embodied Consent and Sex Ed – PART TWO
Continuation of Lauren Barri Holstein’s will offer a 3-part workshop on understanding consent from an embodied perspective. In this series, we will encourage trusting relationships with our sexuality, our bodies, and our voice.
Please email laurenbarrih@gmail.com with any questions. We ask that participants are available to attend all 3 sessions.
7pm LADA Long Table
LADA Long Table on Fragility, Festivals, Funding, and Other F Words in Live Art with Lois Weaver.
The Live Art Development Agency invites you to a series of Long Table events running from February to July. Exactly ten years after the Long Table on Live Art and Feminism held at the White Building in Hackney Wick, Lois Weaver returns with an invitation to think collectively about what it means to gather again after some extraordinary years of distance and separation, to explore some of our griefs and possible grievances, and to imagine new directions and possibilities.
This long table on Fragility, Festivals, Funding, and Other F Words in Live Art with Lois Weaver is hosted by the Peopling the Palace Festival and held at Queen Mary University of London.
Saturday 8th June
A Day and Night of Live Art
Arts One, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road
12:00pm-2:30pm The Wolf Den: Exploratory Workshops on Embodied Consent and Sex Ed – PART THREE
Continuation of Lauren Barri Holstein’s will offer a 3-part workshop on understanding consent from an embodied perspective. In this series, we will encourage trusting relationships with our sexuality, our bodies, and our voice. Please email laurenbarrih@gmail.com with any questions. We ask that participants are available to attend all 3 sessions.
3pm-6pm Turbulence
An Afternoon of Durational Performance and Video Art.
The Arts One Building will be taken over by some of the UK’s best-known artists, and exciting young performance makers. All works are presented across three hours, and you are welcome to move between them all. Artists: Martin O’Brien (video), Julia Bardsley (performance), Aaron Williamson (site work), Ansuman Biswas (performance), Shabnam Shabazi (performance), Selina Bonelli(performance), Pianka Parna (performance), Regina Agard-Brathwaite (installation). Plus, a selection of videos from the LADA archive playing on loop.
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An Evening of Live Art
7pm-8pm Stranded With: Lois Keidan
Hosted by Martin O’Brien and ‘Stranded With: You’ hosted by Tammy WhyNot
Based on the long running radio show, Desert Island Discs, where guests choose the music they would take onto a desert island with them. Martin O’Brien will interview Lois Keidan about the live art works that haunt her. Lois will pick eight pieces she has witnessed over her almost forty years in live art and talk about the impact they have had on her life (and hopefully plenty of gossip and outrageous stories around the works too).
Tammy WhyNot will then go roaming and invite anyone who wants to share their own live art memories, to talk for one minute about a work that haunts you in a special ‘Stranded With: You’.
8pm-9:30pm Crash Landing: An Evening of Performance
Live Art Cabaret, a collection of short performances
Short performances by some of the UK’s best known and most exciting live artists. Artists: Stacy Makishi, Nando Messias, Daniel Oliver, Jamila Johnson-Small, Matty May.
9:30pm-11pm Mile High Club: Live Art School Disco
Viv, aka Mini M, plays old school disco tunes, funk, punk and eclectic danceable beats. Joined by Cue and Tigz from SuperSevens.
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