@withregram • @attenboroughac Get ready to experience Attenborough Arts Centre with extended hours, special events, and a buzzing nightlife!
📆 Friday 9 May
🕖 6pm – 10pm
This edition will be in collaboration with artist @whatsthebigmistry for an evening of music, performance and art to celebrate and re-imagine Black / Brown JOY.
This project is part of a socially engaged multi-city programme of activities, public events and parties, exploring and evoking acts of decolonisation and communing.
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THANK YOU to all the incredibly talented & skilled ACTSs!! for bringing the JOY in so many shapes, forms, black/brown-intersectional bodies to bring ancestral wisdom, storytelling and sass.
Thanks to SUCH A VIBING AUDIENCE!!!! Everyone deserves JOY! Thanks to the@attenboroughac team for hosting & letting me loose to curate the night & for presenting my solo exhibition *The Empire’s Old Clothes* 24 APRIL-29th JUNE
Attenborough LATE x @whatsthebigmistry is a celebration of queer joy, cultural resistance, and community creativity — and you are welcome here. 🌈✨ Brought to you with @weareunltd @aceagrams @weareprimary @acc.leicester @backlitgallery @disabilityarts
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Special thanx to @catnualasheridan & @nicolamiddler – incredible producers on this journey Xx
FEATURING ARTISTS & PERFORMERS>>>
🌟 @thatdosacat ~ Kathak, cabaret and queer drag together in a spellbinding, genre-defying performance.
💃🏽 @symoneforever pole dance – lift the roof — fierce, graceful and bold.
🎧 @mirchimob -beats from mellow to rave, blending bass with South Asian sounds.
🎤 @bakuyard_productions – jazz, poetry, sound baths and looping into a soul-soothing set.
🌸 @Mandeepdhadilla_printmaker -craft a paper flower and add your voice to a collective artwork.
📷 Photobooth fun with props and costume created in collaboration with Leicester’s African Caribbean Centre x Communities Food & Wellbeing Hub. Dress up and snap a vibrant, joyful selfie!
🪩 Curated by @whatsthebigmistry — expect rhythm, resistance, and radical joy all night long.
🎨 Explore The Empire’s Old Clothes, our powerful exhibition of anti-colonial, queer, and futurist fashion and art.
#AttenboroughLATES #EveryoneWelcome #TheEmpiresOldClothes #QueerSouthAsiing
