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Queer Heroes
2018
Queer Heroes was a season to reflect on past queer icons and celebrate their words, music, and performances
“Your silence will not protect you.” – Audre Lorde
In partnership with Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, we packed the Autumn of 2018 full of Queer Heroes. The season championed work that celebrates and explores queer icons with a variety of queer performances speaking out against injustice, proposing musical revolutions, and making a big old mess.
Programmed by Abby Butcher & David Sheppeard
7th November
Thinking Queer
This event was a vibrant night in ACCA’s café with a relaxed atmosphere, packed full of reflection, resistance, poetics and power to celebrate the work of trailblazing writer, thinker and activist Audre Lorde
8th November
Nightclubbing
Rachael Young
This show was an ode to Grace Jones’ seminal album of the same name. The performance fused incredible visual effects, dance, and music to start a revolution that Ms. Jones laid the foundations for.
9th November
The Queer Heroes celebration-gala-exorcism-sing-along-cum-dance-party
Lucy McCormick
Outrageous, hilarious, important, messy and ingenious, McCormick’s show was packed full of pop culture references and unforgettable dance routines. We witnessed candy 4 all/party gamez/life skillz/dancin gurlz/absolute tunz and crying.