TRANS MUTUAL AID MANCHESTER & PARTISAN COLLECTIVE FUNDRAISER: LIGHT SHOW, POETRY & FLOOR WORK

When – Tuesday 10th October, 7:30pm – 11pm

Where – Partisan, Islington Mill, 1 James St, M3 5HW

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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.

PERFORMANCES:

Mx Luna Eclipse, Queer Floorwork: 20:00-20:30

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.

The BollyWitch 20:35-21:05: 

The BollyWitch (she/her) is Manchester’s South Asian Trans Drag Monster, blending Bollywood and Witchcraft to create spellbinding art. She is the creator of A-POC-ALYPSE CABARET, Manchester’s POC Queer Coven Collective, platforming queer artists of colour and celebrating POC excellence. She is the published author of Tainted Beauty and Yvolved, telling her story of being a trans indian woman.

Aoife Baxendale, Digital Art Show 21:10-21:40:

Aoife Baxendale is a non-binary artist who explores the abstract and surreal through generative art. They use their mathematical skills to create patterns that emerge from complex algorithms and randomness. Their work invites the viewers to find their own meanings and stories in the shapes and colours that they see. Their art is also a way of expressing their own identity and experiences as a non-binary person, and they hope to encourage others to celebrate their own uniqueness as well. (May not be suitable for people with photosensitive epilepsy)

POETRY 22:00-23:00:

Rebecca Kenny 22:00-22:15

Stevie Turner 22:15-22:30

Stevie Turner’s Lost Decades is all about connection in gender-blurring arcades. Spontaneous nights out, meetings with strangers who later become friends, love, loss and everything in between. They work to challenge toxic right wing narratives with sex and body positivity “embracing trans rights, gender fluidity / spaces where we can dress how we want” knowing that being true to yourself is a matter of survival.

Caitlin McKenna 22:30-22:45

Caitlin Mckenna is a queer, genderqueer, vegan, commie poet and spoken word artist from Leeds. Writing primarily about identity, relationships, and body horror, their poetry showcases a profoundly confessional style and an unapologetically confrontational voice. Caitlin performs across the North, released their debut chapbook Now Say it Back with Bent Key Publishing in 2022, and cofounded the literary affinity group Bone Down, dedicated to creating accessible, experimental artistic spaces.

Floralis 22:45-23:00

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.