 
Party & Performances
Marianne Chargois MC Ray St. Ray Sex Workers’ Opera
A party and fundraiser to support Sex Workers’ struggles and LGBT Unity with music and performances from the sex workers’ community and allies, plus DJ’s and dancing.
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A party and fundraiser to support Sex Workers’ struggles and LGBT Unity with music and performances from the sex workers’ community and allies, plus DJ’s and dancing.
 
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
 
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
 
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
 
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
 
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
 
Radical transfeminism aims to hold the space for finding relations between the ruins of the everyday. Emerging from the debris, spaces for politics find form as poetics to carry understandings, actions and be/longings.
 
Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.
 
A film installation as both allegory and investigation of The Rockridge Institute and their research into ‘framing’ and the use of metaphor within political discourse.
 
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
 
I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.