SATURDAY 8th February | 6:30pm | £8-14 advance tickets + PWYC option
QUEER(JOY) is a celebration and showcase of LGBTQIA+ artists from the Brighton scene and beyond, with each event focusing on a different creative space, this one being cabaret!!! Our aim is to create a space for LGBTQIA+ people to come together, find community, and enjoy and appreciate queer art(ists) with one another. Follow us on Instagram!
🚨 CW: Some performances contains nudity 🚨
Featuring...
Dad
Chuck the sudoku and the gender binary aside, for the award-winning-queer-reparenting-extravaganza: Dad! Fresh from a ramble over Ditchling Beacon, the king of gore-tex is here to accidentally bump your funny bone and purposefully sneeze unfathomably loudly. Armed with endless slices of toast, a pat on the back and a thumbs up for trans rights, the bank of Dad is here to pay for all his kids gender-affirming surgery.
Winner of Brighton’s Big Drag Pageant 2023, Top of the Slops finalist 2023, Man Up finalist 2022, he has toured his solo show Dad Jokes at Femfest, Brighton Fringe, Powerhouse Festival, VAULT and Edinburgh Fringe.
Ebony Rose Dark
Ebony is your all-singing, all-dancing, lip-syncing, storytelling, miming V.I.P / Visually Impaired Cabaret/Performance Artist. She's known for her performances around disability, ableism, racism, and relationships within the LGBTQ+ community, particularly through The Royal Vauxhall Tavern and Bar Wotever – where Ebony first emerged. Alongside renowned performances at various UK Prides, Hoopla, Marlborough Productions, and regularly with David Hoyle, Ebony has been focussing on accessible cabaret for LGBTQ+ visually impaired people. Excitingly, Ebony has just premiered their full-length first solo work complete with Audio description throughout at The Place in London.
Hannah Brackenbury
Award-winning musical comedy performer Hannah Brackenbury has been tickling the funny bones of Brighton audiences for over a decade. She presents a unique brand of silly songs and fun-poking parodies covering a variety of themes including cats, Scrabble, flying ants, Deliveroo drivers and lots more!! She reached the finals of the Musical Comedy Awards 2016 and was awarded Best of the Festival at Brighton Fringe 2018 and Best Show at the Funny Women Awards 2019 for ‘Victorious’ - her joyful and poignant tribute to the late, great Victoria Wood. In 2023 she released ‘Everything’s Fine’ - an 8-part YouTube musical comedy web series featuring 17 songs! She is also the co-founder of the Funny Girls comedy nights in Brighton, and hosts a monthly comedy night in Worthing!
Gaylien de Mars
Gaylien de Mars is a gay little alien transforming at will, all the way from planet Mars! They’ll be performing a segment from their show, Unidentified Fluid Other. In this show, Gaylien seeks to answer the existential question, Who am I? You’ll be hopping on Gaylien’s rollercoaster as they experience gender euphoria, only to be confronted with the weight of the world. Be prepared to smile and cry - Gaylien's feeling all the human emotions. P.S. You can catch their full ‘Unidentified Fluid Other’ show at Daltons on 6th July and a very cool sounding Brighton Fringe show called 'Vibrations from Mars' that’s on throughout May.
Zanni CT
Zanni is an artist, performer, maker and facilitator who works with the body and movement to explore possibilities, transformation, choice, multiplicity. They are passionate about reclaiming queer and trans bodies as full of potential and possibilities for choice, celebrating their imaginative and revolutionary superpowers. They search for connection through tapping into sensory and physical experiencing, foregrounding the body and movement as anchors for accessing these radical powers.
Zanni’s research is centred around ideas of queer utopias, exploring the potential that queerness offers in imagining new possibilities. They are interested in how these questions can inform ways of approaching the body and ways of creating and facilitating spaces centred around queerness; spaces that challenge, reconsider and redesign societal structures and systems.
Jaz
Jaz is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work blends humour and raw emotion. Their work often explores identity, love, grief and resistance. From poetry to plays to drag to sad ukulele songs, Jaz is sure to leave you with something to think about on the bus home.
Guilty Pleasure
CW: This performance contains nudity
Guilty by name, pleasure by nature, Guilty Pleasure is a multidisciplinary, multifaceted and multiplicitous beauty who gains most of their inspiration whilst naked and deeply submerged in a bath. After many years of bumping and grinding down in Cornwall with the infamous @theslinkyminskys, Guilty Pleasure is ready to debut their derrière in the bright lights of Brighton. Guilty unapologetically refuses the male gaze and instead indulges in a bit of autobiographical navel-gazing!
Guilty Pleasure (also known as @rowan_for_now) recently completed an MA in Queer Performance at Rose Bruford College, and can now officially call themself a Master of Queers! Their solo show, That’s Just The Way It’s (un)Done, will feature in the Brighton Fringe. Watch this space.
Plus DJ set from…
DJ Xzan
Xzan (he/they) is an open-format DJ and co-founder of Gal Pals, the LGBTQ+ club night centering queer women, trans and non-binary people. Known for their hyperactive, genre-defying sets - expect bootlegs, mashups and all your party faves seamlessly blended for your listening pleasure.
Age
18+
Accessibility
Wheelchair accessible ramp to main entrance. Accessible loos to the rear of the venue.