LADA x Fringe! Uncensored Pleasures & Closeted Desires
- Date
- 14 Sep 2024 - 22 Sep 2024
- Venue
The Garrett Centre
- Location
117A Mansford Street, E2 6LX
- Price
- Free
Since 2011, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest has been an entirely volunteer-run organisation rooted in London’s queer creative scene. This year we’re letting Fringe! run amuck in the Study Room with an exhibition and open-mic poetry event.
Both of the programmed events are supported by the Live Art Development Agency and Arts Council England.
Uncensored Pleasures
Saturday 14 September, Sunday 15 September, Saturday 21 September, Sunday 22 September, 11am – 6pm
Live Art Development Agency, Garrett Centre
Free, no booking required
Uncensored Pleasures is a group show probing into the murky depths and glistening joys of dyke desire. With a fist full of leather or a mouth full of piss, this show is for the proud perverts. The exhibition spotlights a new generation of artists who are tapping into lineages of erotic visual languages. Trends come and go but the semiotics have staying power. There are traces of the hands that made it in the fine lines of the exposed film and the near-perfect prints. That well worn copy of On Our Backs tells you it’s nothing new, but even these days they are daring displays. Banned by the Canadian government or previously self-censored, the works have a coming out story of their own.
Including work from Charlotte Cooper, Eli Walkden, Jade Sweeting, Jean Cleverley, Jody Evans, kane stonestreet and others.
Uncensored Pleasures
Closeted Desires
Saturday 21 September, 4pm
Live Art Development Agency, Garrett Centre
Free, but please RSVP
Got some verse up your sleeve, or a poem up your crack? Release the beast, don’t be scared, it’s your *closeted desires* we want to hear. Come all, come nuns, an open mic for sexy bums. From love to hate, to awkward first dates. Profess your love, read to filth, sapphic secrets from hot milfs. Queer Shakespeare, take the stage, as Fringe! gives poetry to the gays.
Sign up to perform here.
The event will be hosted by Pierce Eldridge from SISSY ANARCHY, with a reading from Cherry by Charlotte Cooper and a performance of Funeral Act I by Maya Williams.
Drinks kindly provided by Pressure Drop Brewery.
This event will have BSL interpretation.
Closeted Desires Maya Williams. Credit Billy Nesbit
Access Info
Covid isn’t over. In solidarity with our higher-risk siblings and to keep each other safe, Fringe! is encouraging visitors to the festival to wear a mask if they can and do a test before attending the festival, especially if they’ve been in contact with someone who’s been ill. Please do not attend if you have covid, cold or flu symptoms.
LADA and The Garrett Centre are wheelchair accessible by lift and provide gender inclusive bathrooms.
Should you have any particular access requirements, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to offer further support.
Banner image credit:
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest
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