🎉 Here is the Sunday Lineup:
12 - 6 PM: All day makers' stalls by London Queer Mart
LDN QUEER MART is a community focused art market event. LDN QUEER MART champions a diverse community of queer artists and queer-owned small businesses, providing an affordable platform for them to exhibit their work, engage with visitors, share experiences, opportunities, and sell their products.
12 - 1 PM: Know your rights. Solidarity on the streets with Copwatch
Equip yourself with knowledge and empowerment at our police intervention and know-your-rights workshop.
1 - 3 PM: Museum of Transology collecting objects & Archiving
The Museum of Transology is collaborating with Trans Pride UK to build local trans collections for local trans communities right across the UK and Ireland. Wherever there’s a trans pride festival, there’ll be a transology collection.
If you’d like to have your voice saved in transcestry, all you need to do is turn up with your object to your local collection point. It’ll be a museum, a library or a queer bookshop.
We’ll give you a brown tag to write your story onto and show you how to archive your precious artefact in your own words.
2 - 4 PM: Affirming expression through bead-making with G(end)er Swap
Explore affirming expression with Alex in a bead making workshop exploring gender affirming terms and how they can be worn. All materials will be provided for you to create your own pins, phone charms, earrings and more! Please bring a clothing item that means something to you to create an accessory for. About Alex (pronouns he/him) : Alex is a queer Asian tattoo artist and costume designer; his work focuses on creating a safe space for QTIPOC/LGBTQ+ individuals to express themselves.
2 - 4 PM: Clothes alteration with Faye Wilson
Who doesn't love perfectly fitting outfits? Clothing that affirms one's body and identity is so important, because every little help matters when battling gender dysphoria. In addition to the bead making workshop, the skilled seamstress and CSM student Faye Wilson will provide alterations to anyone who brings in their clothes. The alterations service wil run on a first come first served basis.
3 – 6 PM: Vocal exercises with Trans Chorus
To celebrate Trans Day Of Visibility, we will be exploring ways we can take up our rightful vocal space as trans people and gender non-conformists. Our voices NEED to be heard and singing is the portal to greater autonomy. The incredible musician, producer and composer, Mei Kirby, will be co-leading the session, using live vocal processing as a tool to sample, stretch and warp the sounds we will make. We will merge ancient acts of choral singing with the transformative possibilities of electronic music production to forge an entirely unique sonic cacophony.
3.30 - 6 PM: Film screenings by Otherness Archive
In honor of Trans Day of Visibility, Otherness Archive programs two trans masculine centered films:
Boys in the Backyard, Annette Kenerly United Kingdom, 1997
Two San Francisco FTM transexuals sit in their backyard and discuss their daddy/boy relationship, transgender life, love, tattoos and tomato plants.
COMMES TOUS LES GARÇONS, Morisha Moodley United Kingdom, 2021
commes tous les garçons, asks what it means to be like all the boys. An assemblage of animation, found footage and personal archives pieces together queer identities from myriad perspectives.
Access
These films are all spoken in English and unfortunately Boys in the Backyard does not have subtitles due to limited resources, we appreciate your understanding with this.
Otherness Archive is an accessible online archive providing an open-access library and freely available resource, featuring their first iteration - focusing on *trans moving-image, both contemporary and pre-existing work. This is a resource for our trans and queer community.
Otherness Archive uses the term ‘trans masculine’, we are referring to all the nuances of the trans masc experience in moving image work, and to the various expressions of masculinity found across the trans community including, but not limited to, trans men, non-binary people, dykes, butches, bull daggers, crowdaggers, studs and gender non-conforming people. We really want to deconstruct heteropatriarchal barriers to access, such as age restrictions and mislabelling that further obscures trans works of art.
Get ready for an unforgettable weekend of connection, discovery, and celebration! See you there! 🎉✨