A Fundraiser for Trans Mutual Aid Manchester & Partisan Collective
Join us for a night of weird digital visuals, queer pole/floorwork, drag and poetry to raise funds for Trans Mutual Aid Manchester & Partisan Collective.
Trans Mutual Aid Manchester are a trans led, radical mutual aid group, set up to help trans and non-binary people in Greater Manchester support each other through direct action. They run a small mutual aid fund, giving our community a way to help each other out with essential costs. They are also building a grassroots aid network which will enable trans people in Manchester to help each other with things like attending medical appointments, support after surgery, befriending and social outreach.
Partisan Collective provides an inclusive, accessible, not-for-profit platform and space in Greater Manchester where our members meet, share, learn, create, perform and dance together. They purposely try to put on events for queer people, POC, and people from marginalised backgrounds broadly.
FILM SCREENING:
Roses on My Table Film 20:00-20:15
This documentary short tells the story of the Wingnut Anarchist Collective in Richmond, VA, an organizing group and cooperative living space aimed at fostering mutual aid and grassroots resistance to authority. From maintaining a community center to carrying out occupations and disaster relief, the video illustrates some of the many ways a handful of committed people can transform their lives and their community.
PERFORMANCES:
Gommorah 20:15-20:30
Weirdo art pop! Really fun!
Mx Luna Eclipse, Queer Floorwork: 20:35-21:05:
Step into the shadows and embrace your gothic fantasies with Luna Eclipse. Through their sensual floor work performance, Luna will give an ode to sapphic love, and a middle finger to anyone who tries to tell you who to be, or who to be with.
Green and Black Cross Know Your Rights Talk 21:05-21:20:
Want to know what your rights are when you attend a protest? Want to know how to protect yourself from our right wing legal system? Green and Black Cross are here to tell you everything you need to know in case you end up on the wrong side of the law!
POETRY 21:45-23:00:
Chantelle 21:45-22:00
Chantelle, defined by her honest, straight-talking narratives infused with sweet serenades of vocal melodies. Naming SZA, Kehlani & Sabrina Carpenter as her main influences, Chantelle owns a personal brand of R&B-Pop characterised by her own experimentation of emotion.
After deciding to move across the country to Manchester, not knowing a soul, Chantelle finally felt ready to come back to the scene of music.
Chantelle began her musical exploits in a rather esoteric format - that of poetic expression. This particular mode of songwriting was the basis of her ongoing emphasis on conveying message, meaning & personal experiences through lyricism. The recurring themes present in her music are of making sense of senseless situations, injecting genuine feeling into a social milieu which is deeply deprived of such a human requisite.
Rebecca Kenny 22:00-22:15
Floralis 22:15-22:30
Floralis is an anarcho queer musician and poet that delivers unapologetically political poetry dealing with the process of neocolonialism, neoliberalisation and transness from an aggressively ethnic perspective. Using their Trinidadian heritage to discuss capitalist iconography, Floralis is equal parts emotional as she is political.