The first instalment of an event series that focusses on creating a space for people who use performance and movement in their practice. We are inviting a different selection of visual artists each month to explore new or old work in an intimate space and engage afterwards in constructive feedback on each others craft. Practitioners of all skill levels and experience are invited to join us and duly stew.

Expect performances from Ti Roach-Foday, Rachel Helena Walsh, Huge Sillytoe and Buoys Buoys Buoys. More on each performer TBA!

Tongiye/ Ti Roach-Foday is a voguer and contemporary dancer who’s part of a ballroom house (the kiki house of Old Navy as Serabu Old Navy) who has performed as a go-go dancer at disco, queer club nights and vogue balls. In addition, they've also performed in accompaniment to classical pianist Kunal Lahiri. Living a trans-non-binary experience means that their practice centres simple forms which has helped them better understand their body and the shapes it creates. With this, Ti Roach-Foday contends with themes of gender euphoria and Black joy. They hope to venture further into the histories and folklore of Sierra Leonean dance and intertwine this with the language of vogue.

Rachel Helena Walsh is an Irish performer, artist and poet based in Cardiff. She is working class and disabled, making multidisplinary work around politics, the human condition, nature and everyday occurrences. Rachel makes work reflective of the society we live in, the effects it takes on us all and what we can do about it. She likes to mix different performance styles, often merging spoken word, live art, theatre and a touch of clown. Each performance is carefully curated from what the audience's emotional journey will be, down to a meaning behind everything she wears wear.

Huge Sillytoe, is a large, daft toe. They are also a socially-engaged transdisciplinary artist from Durham, UK working internationally across performance, video, installation, sound, masks/puppetry, and relational art. Their work investigates the socio-political impacts of unexpected and absurd interventions across different cultural contexts. Interactive and unusual moments of play, and embodied reflection upon the significance of playfulness to the (re)construction of our identities, are central components of my practice. Sillytoe creates participatory (video)performances and installs playscapes in both public and institutional spaces often making use of masks, costumes, toys, sound instruments, and interactive sculptures built from found and recycled materials. In this way, they seek to open the pathway to a freer, fairer, and queerer world through artworks that playfully defy normative expectations. Meanwhile, they regularly assist others to trample this trail further via facilitating community programs and workshops where new practices of emancipatory performance are nurtured collectively. Sillytoe speaks fluent English, Spanish, Portuguese, and the supersensible language of their own creation: Toetapoelib. They speak less fluent French and Italian. And they speak even less fluent Russian. They make work in all these languages and more.

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