
In Our Hands 2025
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
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In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
A performed self-cancelling discussion, with artists from the festival, invited speakers and local artists talking at once, over each other, or straining to be heard over the din.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.