Long Live Queer Night Life
7 pm Doors
7.30 pm Start / Three sections of 20 minutes with 10-minute reset breaks.
A panel discussion with author Amin Ghaziani, Phoebe Patey-Ferguson, and Kat Hudson will be hosted by Lyall Hakaraia. Talks of the establishment of VFDs activation Femmetopia, which encouraged queer disrupters in East London to tear down the patriarchy and celebrate diversity beyond the heteronormative. We will explore the wider themes of change recorded in the book and finish with a Q and A.
9 pm to 9.20 pm performance and then dancing till 11 pm.
Following the discussion there will be cabaret performances from QTIPOC artist Rhys's Pieces, then dancing until late.
Please RSVP so we can reserve you a spot !
You can also buy the book ‘Long Live Queer Night Life’ published by Princeton University Press at the event and signed by the author Amin Ghaziani at an incredibly discounted rate of £15.
Amin Ghaziani
The book: In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, Acclaimed author/anthropologist Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife.
Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret parties— club nights—wherein culture creatives, many of whom are queer, trans, and racial minorities, reclaim the night in the name of those too long left out. Episodic, nomadic, and radically inclusive, club nights are refashioning queer nightlife in boundlessly imaginative and powerfully defiant ways.
@amin_ghaziani @princetonupress
Dr Phoebe Patey-Ferguson is an academic, artist and producer. Their research expertise is on international theatre festivals, rooted in the Sociology of Theatre and Performance. This work frequently intersects with their further research interests in live art, contemporary British theatre, and queer theory.
Phoebe is the course leader of the world's first MA in Queer Performance training students to create, explore, examine and expand queer performance practice.
@ppateyferg
Kat Hudson Katherine 'Kat' Hudson is a multimedia artist and writer who works closely with archives and libraries. Kat has curated notable community-focused exhibitions and nightlife events and lives and works in London, England.
@kathudson_
Kat's personal art practice explores individual multiplicity, collaborative creation, community wellbeing and performing utopia through drawing, painting, collage and sound. Her curatorial practice explores queer intersectional feminism, the work of her peers and subcultural art and nightlife movements in London.
Lyall Hakaraia is a QTBIPOC Maori artist and Takatapui Rangatira queer community organiser who runs the queer art spaces VFD over two venues in Dalston . A parent to our beloved daughter Tui and a raft of fish, birds and two black cats.
@lyallhakaraia
Rhys Pieces is a gender-f*cking cabaret creature! A one-stop cabaret troupe, multitalented, multi-award winning messy, smelly, fabulous, and putting on a show! They are the creator and host of @QueerdosCabaret and have toured the world shaking their pieces!
@RhyssPieces_