Join us in t'ARTopia for a queer-curated night of drag, comedy, words, cabaret and music from some of our most delicious t'ARTs.
We have invited some of our favourite performers to entertain you all, at a night that will be nothing short of t'ARTopian.
We will be raising money for gender affirming surgery funds with this evening's raffle, so come with a couple of quid, win art and raise money for good causes!
Performers:
Toraigh Watson - Music
Toraigh is a producer, flutist and DJ. Her work fuses inspiration from her roots in Irish traditional music with electronic dance music and soundscape. Toraigh has also worked with installation, sculpture and interactive art in the past, and has an upcoming collaboration with a contemporary dancer. She is always looking for ways to push her music practice in new directions.
Chidera Ikechukwu - Spoken Word
My name is Chidera Ikechukwu and I'm a poet and actress, currently at drama school. I started writing poetry when I was ten and performed in church and I recently picked it back up in college. Writing is truly my truest form of self-expression. I take pride in the words I write and I hope they are able to relate to others or at least get a glimpse into another world.
Woody Bang - Drag
He’s stacked. He’s sexy. He’s crawled out from under his rock and he’s got a freshly bleached mullet. Just for you. Woody’s missed you. Let’s get naked. He’s got one hell of a woodpile he wants to show you.
Illy Phillips - Poetry
Illy (she/her) is an undecided investigator and tentative poet based in SE London. She writes for her mum and other ghosts - anything else is purely incidental. She seeks for the terrifying&sexy and everything in the inbetween.
Morgan Thomas - Comedy
My name is Morgan Thomas, and I'm an astrophysicist who's been told I'm funny one too many times, and now it's gone to my head. I've been semi-successful keeping some creativity in my otherwise science-dominated life through both traditional and digital art, and making people laugh. I like to think I can tell a good story, and I'd like to share some of the funnier ones with you.
Anna Lowenstein - Music
Anna Lowenstein is a fidl player from London specialising in Yiddish Historically Informed performance practise. She has been playing the violin since the age of five, training initially in Classical music and graduating with a BA in Music and Ethnomusicology from Manchester University in 2015.
Since 2011 she has been learning from some of the leading performers and teachers in the Klezmer tradition including Alicia Svigals, Cookie Siegelstein, Deborah Strauss, Alan Bern and Frank London.
Anna is a founding member of Loshn, a Klezmer trio playing Yiddish folk music in intimate, chamber arrangements. She is joined by critically acclaimed Klezmer musician Susi Evans (She’koykh and London Klezmer Quartet) on accordion and John McNaughton on clarinet. Anna’s sensitive and responsive approach to music making has lead her to work extensively in theatre and with storytellers. In 2019, she was invited by Musical Director Merlin Shepherd to join the 3-piece, onstage band at The Menier Chocolate Factory in London to perform in the European debut of Paula Vogel’s, Indecent. She collaborates regularly with community storytelling project Take Stock Exchange for whom she devises scores which combine both original and existing music to accompany and compliment the stories.
Anna’s love for storytelling through music inspired her first solo album, for which she is being funded to write through grants from Jewish Arts organisation Asylum Arts and Arts Council England. The Arts Council Grant has enabled her to take lessons in harmony and composition from Frank London and composition and improvisation from Marilyn Lerner. The album draws on Anna’s experience of growing up and living in London’s ultra-Orthodox area of Stamford Hill as a mixed-heritage, secular Jew.