 
Mutual Aid
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
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4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
 
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
 
A series of badly felted lock-ups and garages + multiple locations within the Megastructure – a purpose built town centre in one building, comprising (in the 50’s at least) of housing (never occupied), shops, apartments, a hotel, ice rink, police station and other amenities
 
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
 
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
 
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
 
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
 
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Discussion with David Keenan: an author, critic and musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is best known for the reviews and features he has contributed to The Wire.
 
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
 
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
 
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.