Paper Piece: Secrets
Brandon LaBelle
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
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Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by National Ugly Mugs, Sex Workers Union, Scotland for Decrim (Decrim Now) host
Can a musician create a sonic photograph; something with a depth of field, where you can hear sounds and their interconnections, much as you see objects and their relationships in a photo? Could a filmmaker use musical concepts to represent landscape?
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
In a moment of social exhaustion, we want to ask how we might care for each other differently. We Can’t Live Without Our Lives is a 5-day exploration of care as a form of struggle and resistance, with communities who embody it.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
NVA asked Arika to curate and programme the sound aspects of their 2007 Half-Life production in Kilmartin Glen. Arika worked with Toshiya Tsunoda, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
A changing pool of people (40 or so at a time – artists, audiences, etc) talk for 90 minutes in a simultaneous series of open-ended round-table discussions, structured like speed dating, and mixed live as both a concert and for radio broadcast.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.