Razed Collective and Something To Aim For present Razed and Confuzed Goes Digital 3.0!
Friday 27th August, 7pm.
For the third event in this series hosted collaboratively by Raze Collective and Something to Aim For, we have commissioned four more incredible artists to go digital! This event will be hosted on Something To Aim For's new digital hub, STAF Live, so you experience the magic of queer performance from the comfort of your own home. The bespoke space is designed to replicate the experience of a live show from the comfort of your own home.
Razed and Confuzed Goes Digital 3.0 will be hosted by the incredible Beau Jangles who was a Man Up 2019 finalist and has performed at various venues across London, including The Barbican, The Glory, EartH, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, and with The Cocoa Butter Club. Beau Jangles has his own night in collaboration with The Chateau: ‘Royal Roost’ - a vintage-themed drag king night.
The show will feature performances from:
George-Lou Bon
Unable to pick just one minority status, George-Lou Bon uses their experiences as a queer disabled femme of colour to create music and pole dance exploring life at the intersection.
i-Gemini
The Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Ruler of this world, Creator of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Leader of Darkness, i-Gemini is a powerhouse of a drag performer. Fae specialises in movement and political acts, faer energy will have you hooked from start to finish!
Lila
Lila is a performer and theatre-maker based in London. Her often autobiographical work uses cabaret forms such as comedy and lip sync to immerse herself and her audience into a queer feminist utopia of endless possibilities.
Jordan Charles
Poet, performer and playwright Jordan Charles shines on screen as a talent judge on BBC1's hit show 'All Together Now' alongside Spice Girl Geri Horner! Alongside performing with Gary Barlow, Kaiser Chiefs and Dannii MInogue, Jordan also appeared on BBC1’s Let it Shine, and wrote the Official Songs for Hate Crime Awareness Week 2017 and Barnardo’s 2018. In 2019 he became Artist in Residence at Manchester’s historic Islington Mill, working on his first musical, OYA. During the performance shutdown of 2020, he documented his quarantine experiences in a poetic vlog called #LockdownLines. He also produced and co-wrote The Black Life Monologues, a series of monologues cataloguing perspectives on the Black experience in 2020.
Our breakout rooms will be hosted by special guest artists. Keep an eye on the Raze and STAF social channels for more information.
Praise for Razed and Confuzed Goes Digital:
“For a future of exciting, experimental queer work, we need more spaces, both virtual and physical, for events like this.” - The Guardian
“Proving that queer variety art is always (even in lockdown) a valuable and innovative place to invest in talent and difference in theatre” - A Younger Theatre
“Creative, funny, subversive, passionate, and important” - Broadway World
“Will leave the audience dazed, hungry and ravenous to experience more” - The Reviews Hub
About Something To Aim For
Something To Aim For (STAF) is a charity devoted to supporting public health and (re)building social fabric by harnessing the playfulness and innovation of the creative industries.
Our work centres people at the fringes of the creative industries (and society in general) within opportunities to connect to the institution, develop collaborations to amplify communities, and offer solutions to systemic social problems.
About Raze Collective
Raze Collective is a charity established to support, develop and nurture queer performance in the UK.
We have defined queer performance as "performing arts undertaken by people who identify as Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Intersex (LGBTQI+) or that contains LGBTQI themes, content or context."
We value representation, diversity and visibility while using Raze as a commissioning, development and networking platform to support the queer community with funding, opportunity and queer led spaces.
Access information
We are working with LGBT+ disabled-led theatre company Quiplash to ensure that all work built, hosted and curated on STAF Live have access considerations embedded from the beginning.
For this event, we will be providing BSL, Captioning and Audio Descriptions. Accessibility details and content notes will be sent to ticket holders ahead of the event.