An Evening with Travis Alabanza & Friends
Get ready for an electrifying evening of art, performance, and conversation.
Join award-winning writer, performer, and theatre maker Travis Alabanza, Pretentious Dross - Liverpool's Art House Witch, and a hugely talented line-up of trans and queer creatives for an unforgettable event that explores transformative experiences and the power of language.
Travis Alabanza will be taking the stage to perform, and then take part in a thought-provoking conversation with Pretentious Dross about their experiences as a black, mixed race, non-binary person.
From seemingly innocuous phrases to blatantly offensive ones, Travis will challenge the societal norms that govern our interactions with each other and hold up a mirror to our frameworks of living.
We'll also be celebrating the creative talents of Benjamina Albanese, Beattie, Kiara Mohamed Amin, Ratte and Pretentious Dross, with performances that promise to be both poignant and entertaining.
Don't miss out on this dynamic and inspiring event that promises to challenge, entertain, and celebrate the diversity of our community. Be a part of the change and join us for an evening of bold creativity and meaningful conversation!
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Travis Alabanza (they/them) is an award-winning writer, performer, and theatre maker. Their work has been published in the BBC, Guardian, Vice, and Gal-Dem. They won the Total Theatre Award in 2019 for their performance BURGERZ and wrote the critically acclaimed play Sound of the Underground. Their latest book, None of the Above (Canongate, 2022), was named Waterstones Best Book of 2022: Politics.
Pretentious Dross (she/her) is a gender-fluid artist and creative producer based in the North West. They are known as Liverpool's Art House Witch and EAT ME (@eatmeclub) High Duchess of Beige. Their work challenges conventional ideas of identity and material permanence, with a disregard for genre and discipline. They are currently developing a one-woman show, 'An Evening with Dross', set to debut in August 2023.
Kiara Mohamed Amin (he/him) is a trans, Somali multidisciplinary artist based in Toxteth, Liverpool. His work focuses on what it means to live at the intersectional of marginalisation and still choose joy, healing and community as an act of radical living and dreaming. He uses different mediums to explore intergenerational trauma and intergenerational healing and looks to see where we are in eternity through astrology, somatic movements and divination. He is a birth and death doula, astrologer and tarot reader and spends most times communing with spirits in nature.
Benjamina Albanese is a Liverpool-based writer, performer and creative exploring themes of nature and identity fed by the roots of queerness, disability, and heritage. Sustainability and accessibility are held at the heart of her practice. Benjamina is currently developing her first play, Beyond the Frame and her first poetry collection.
Garnett 'Ratte' Frost (he/him) is a Wirral based dyslexic transman with an English BA. He is also an ink and wire artist, though not at the same time. Published in Writing on the Wall’s TranScripts, Moving Foreword, Write Minds and Surface/Below anthologies. He is currently working on a LGBTQIA+ short story and poetry anthology.
Beattie is a writer and lapsed drag queen from Birkenhead. They are the winner of the Chester Cathedral Young Poets’ Competition and their work has appeared in Datableed and Travesties.
Dan Chan (they/them) is Liverpool's Asian sensation and is here to serve your helping of glamour and comedy! They are a multi-disciplinary artist, producer and the mother of the Haus of Chan. Are you ready for the danchantasy?
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