Spoonie Rave is a multisensory feast for tired and sensitive folks
A party for soft heads and big hearts

Expect puppetry, music and performance in the Fyfe hall at Trinity Centre, with space to rest, engage comfortably and an opportunity to slow down and take things at your own pace.

Alongside live performances we’ll have puppet making, creative games and non-alcoholic hot and cold drinks in the bar. There will be a library and a dedicated space to chill, and an atmosphere that encourages and supports slowness.

This is a relaxed event, you’re welcome to engage in whatever manner works for you; come in and out of performances as you wish, stand, sit, lie down, stim, be still, move and rest in whatever way feels good for you.

Masks are required at Spoonie Rave, to protect each other from COVID-19, flu and colds that so easily spread and can greatly affect our spoonie kin. While the world turns its back on safety protocols, let’s protect each other like the spoonie punks we are.

Accessibility

Here’s the Spoonie Rave access guide: document/d/1ONTlc_2QuB0ja1SUC8CB55e8awcIjz2eE5JqT2qlt_8/edit?tab=t.0" target="_blank" >https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONTlc_2QuB0ja1SUC8CB55e8awcIjz2eE5JqT2qlt_8/edit?tab=t.0

Please read the guide before coming. Some elements of access are created with Spoonie Rave organisers and the venue, and some need the whole group to take care of our community. Access is a collective effort for collective liberation! Let’s look out for each other.

The guide includes information on:
Step-free access
Parking and public transport
Rest
Care
COVID-19
Scents
Sounds and light
Food
Personal Assistant tickets


Programme:

3pm: Doors open and settling in
3.45 - 4pm: Welcoming
4 - 4.30pm: Dama Dama
5 - 5.30pm: Bean Pig Puppets and Neogaze
6 - 6.30pm: Liquid Library Ensemble
6.30 - 8pm: Closing with Spoonie Rave DJ’s
8pm: Event ends

Acts:

Dama Dama
Dama Dama are an acoustic instrumental collective, playing progressive music with folk and Celtic influences on hand pan, harp, cello, guitar, percussion, flute and more. Their first single ‘Initiation’ will be released 21/1/25.

Bean Pig Puppets
Bean Pig Puppets are a collective of queer puppeteers and performers who believe in the life of all things. Beanpigs expand the imagination as a revolutionary tool, inviting audiences to dream other worlds into existence through the power of objects, breaking the boundaries between real and imagined, animate and inanimate. Their understanding of transformation is deeply informed by their experiences of being queer and trans, and their performances are surreal rituals that facilitate the lives of puppets, ultimately allowing the puppets to choose how the story unfolds.

Neogaze
Neogaze is the experimental electronic project of Nigerian-Welsh solo act Neo Ukandu. Neogaze brings to life their creative voice through anthems of self-acceptance, queer identity, and will be debuting a downtempo and dream pop influenced set at Spoonie Rave.

Liquid Library Ensemble
Core member of local DIY queer weirdo music collective Liquid Library, Charlie Miles will be bringing a special ensemble of Spoonie all stars to perform some lovely wavy swoony post-everything ambient improv.

Spoonie Rave DJ’s
Closing with chilled spoonie tunes.


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This event is supported by The West of England Combined Authority

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