DIY PARTY 4 ALL: PRODUCING JOY IN TOUGH TIMES
SAN LDN is excited to invite you to an online Discuss & Exchange session with invited guest speakers. Open to everyone interested in the intersection between art & society.
WEDNESDAY 16TH DECEMBER, 6PM
REGISTER FOR FREE ON EVENTBRITE
We’re here, we’re queer, we’re doing poppers on Zoom.
Queer House Party started the week before lockdown by community activists who knew that a lot of people were about to be very lonely, very vulnerable and potentially unable to leave unsafe or uncomfortable spaces. It also started because performers (including ourselves) were about to be very poor. Since then, it’s become an entity that even the QHP co-founders don’t really understand – what does it mean to enact community care over Zoom? To what extent can this replace IRL queer spaces? Why did so many mainstream (straight) media platforms want to profile us? There’s a lot of questions we don’t know the answer to – as this sh*tshow of a year staggers to an end, we can discuss the emergences and lessons that organising and caring for one another over Zoom has taught us, as well as the cracks it hasn’t even started to fill. We’ll dance together and peek into each-others spaces and lives, talk about how that feels, then dance some more.
Guest Biographies
Wacha is an activist, artist and DJ. They co-run queer publishing house Polari Print and social justice education co-operative Disruptista. They draw from their time in Argentina to mix perreo with ripped up bootlegs of R&B favourites and are passionate about sourcing music from producers and artists traditionally excluded from mainstream dance music. Wacha co-manages and co-ordinates outreach for Queer House Party. @wacha_ dj
Passer is a non-binary DJ and activist, running nights and events and fighting fascism, sometimes simultaneously. Their DJ collective GLAMTIFA seeks to bring the politics back into queer clubbing, and in their mixes they blend sounds from around the globe, instructed by their experience studying music and running the radio at SOAS, with dancefloor fillers and underground sounds, old and new. Passer co-runs and does all the sound tech for Queer House Party. @passerd
Rachel Wilkins is a fully qualified British Sign Language / English Interpreter, specialising in Performance Interpreting with over 10 years experience.
Jo Taylor is a fully qualified and registered British Sign Language / English Interpreter, specialising in Media and Performance Interpreting with 8 years of experience.
Timetable (open to change, please check back before the session):
18.00 Welcome, DJ set and dance
18.20 Intro by Seren and Nik, short presentation about QHP and the journey up until now, give prompts for breakout groups to think/talk about including possibilities of dancing/moving in our own spaces, free of immediate gaze of others
18.40 Breakout groups
19.00 Discussion together, share reflections and ideas for how we will all respond to the next DJ set, what are our intention
19.15 Q&A
19.30 DJ set and dancing until close with song requests from attendees
*Only the presentations will be broadcast, the Discuss & Exchange sessions takes place only to registered participants.