In this workshop, we will be debunking the myth between the ‘page vs stage’ divide within poetry and teaching poets how to perform their work to captivate an audience. 

Jules McGee-Russell develops the theme of imagining caring futures to invite you to draw, write and imagine different ways of caring. What have been your good and bad experiences of care and what alternatives have you been part of or enjoyed? What would be your vision of caring future?

A series of four short films curated to take viewers on a journey into the layered landscape of Palestine—at once contested and sacred, fragmented and romanticised, occupied and abandoned, yet still verdant, still alive.

Flesh, re-vesseled presents artist moving image works that centre the body and its myriad possibilities and limitations. Working with, through, and beyond the flesh vessel, these experimental films explore public sex ritual, surgery, diaspora, the archival, Traditional Chinese Medicine, domesticity, grief and pornography.

Black Boys Look Blue is a multidisciplinary project conceived, produced, and directed by Jesualdo Lopes, a Lisbon-born Bissau-Guinean curator and filmmaker based in London. The project aims to deconstruct, destigmatise, and explore the concept of masculinity among Black men, creating an intentional space where they can not only share their doubts and fears but also address the impact that social expectations have on their mental health and emotional wellbeing.

This program presents a curated selection of moving image films from the feminist collection of Cinenova, assembled by Otherness Archive. The focus is on *trans masculine works, highlighting their intersection with feminist perspectives, with particular emphasis on the vital role of trans feminist archival practices.

The screening showcases a collection of animation, collage and experimental short films that carefully examine history, culture and both trans and racialised identities. 

To “Be a Menace” explores the concept of being a disruptor in society—a challenge to the status quo and a rejection of “normality.” This program delves into the idea of being a “menace” to societies built on racism, hierarchies, and state violence.

This film programme (1 - 3 PM) focuses on the erotic and how we, as trans people, can use the film’s structure in experimental ways, in order to create new hybrid forms of erotic storytelling through the t-masc gaze. 

The screening will be followed by a workshop focuing on the structure of film and how we, as trans people, can use the film’s structure in experimental ways, in order to create new hybrid forms of erotic storytelling through the t-masc gaze.