Performance

You are invited to join Daniel & Frauke in the ‘meadowdrome’ - the fantastical escapist world they have created in response to their experiences as neurodivergent parents (for more info click event image).

Created by Frauke Reguardt and Daniel Oliver. Produced by The Place. Co-commissioned by The Sick of the Fringe, Tramway, The Yard and The Place. Creation supported by a Motherworks residency. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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Conversation

Conversation with Lois Weaver and Daniel Oliver on creating work during the pandemic.

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Performance (English)

This adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest investigates how the dramatic arts can break the stigma and invisibility surrounding autism, and how taking part in a theatrical production enables resilience among young people with autism (for more info click event image).

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Talk

This event thinks about the histories of making during states of emergency, inviting historians, craft workers, artists and performers to explore how craft practices have been transformed in moments of crisis (for more info click event image).

Led by Aiofe Monks (Drama, QMUL) and Jade French (English, QMUL).

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Performances

Come along to an evening of performances from our talented alumni community.

Performers include:

Jaspreet Kaur AKA Behind the Netra - Gabriel Krauze - Elliott Ajai-Ajagbe Daley AKA WordPlay - Project Culture (Gary Hill, Peter Stanley, Jamie Richardson, Toby Cashman) - Costanza Casati - Eleni Sophia - Fathima Zahra - Kim Yudelowitz - Efemwenkieke (Efe) Uwadiae (Law and Politics LLB, 2019)

Curated by Nathalie Grey, QMUL Alumni Engagement Coordinator.

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Performance (Spanish)

This adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest investigates how the dramatic arts can break the stigma and invisibility surrounding autism, and how taking part in a theatrical production enables resilience among young people with autism (for more info click event image).

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Workshop

This creative participatory digital workshop will ask how do universities care for you and your learning? Do they understand your learning differences and access needs? Do they respect your uniqueness? (for more info click event image)

A Verbatim Formula (QMUL) and Articulate Cultural Trust (Scotland) project

Website: http://www.theverbatimformula.org.uk/

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Performance • Cabaret

Presented by Aoife & Viv. Featuring: Kat Five, Jules Deering, Suzy K, The Black Anglias, Senay Camgoz, LOUD WOMEN, Erin McMahon, Misled Convoy, Minnie Monotone and more.

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Workshop

In his play The Colored Museum, George C. Wolfe uses satire to explore how African American lives were shaped by the legacy of slavery. Using Wolfe’s play as a framework, artist-performer Vanessa Macaulay will work with participants to explore questions like: How is race visible in our lives today? How can we use this new visibility to explore who we are and how our history impacts our identity? How can we explore this through writing and performing? (for more info click event image)

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Performances

We’re off the deep end, watch as we dive in...

Featuring performances from Queen Mary School of English and Drama students, The Starting Gun is an evening you won’t want to miss! As the theatres reopen, watch as a selection of artists take their first steps into the post-pandemic spotlight (on zoom). Prepare to be dazzled by autobiographical performance, spoken word, satirical comedy, song and much more. As we re-enter life as we knew it before, sit back, relax and enjoy the thrills of theatre one last time without the burden of in-person social interaction.

With works by…

Isaac Rodin and Kitty Jones (2021) - Annabel Fabien (2021) - Billy Bray (2021)

…and more!

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Workshop

CREATIVE SKILLS ACADEMY is a chance to learn practical skills for working in the creative and cultural industries.

This time:

Creative Careers 101 - CVs, Apps & Interviews: Come along to learn more about presenting yourself in CVs, applications and interviews, with a focus on careers in the creative industries. If you have a dream job, or a job description that interests you, bring it along to work on your application live during the session!

This session is being run by School of English and Drama Careers Consultant Felicity Bush.

More workshops to be announced.

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Performance

Leah embarks on a journey of self-discovery, uncovering painful family secrets and reconciling her multiple identities as a Black, British woman in 2021 who has lived through a genocide. 'I am Leah' is created by Jo Ingabire Moys, Laila Sumpton and Maja Milatovic-Ovadia, and is inspired by the stories of survivors of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda (for more info click event image).

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Conversation • Performances

Rituals of Care focuses upon the routines that we as humans do ritualistically in order to care for ourselves. It's a chance for humans to step back and allow space for real, tentative and thoughtful care, not only for oneself but for others. A space to simply be for performances, conversation and suggestions.

The day of events will include a Care Cafe by Lois Weaver, screenings by PartSuspended and Şenay Camgöz, a ritual led by Stacy Makishi, a conversation with all participants, and more!

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YouTube Live • Film Screening

An online film festival for everyone who has been missing their local art-house cinema. A platform for the short films we have missed viewing on the big screen. A small screen celebration of work from QMUL students, alumni, staff and other exciting filmmakers (for more info click event image).

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Conference

This two-day online event explores productive, radical, contemporary encounters between the arts and mental health, bringing together clinical, artistic and research perspectives that offer a re-interpretation of contemporary mental health science and practice, with a view of imagining a different future (for more info click event image).

Website: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/aboutus/events/mad-hearts

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Performances

From Queen Mary’s very own School of English Drama module performances such as Madness and Theatricality, Performance in the Gallery and Practical Dissertation, all the way to non-academic professional pieces from some of QM’s very best alumni, prepare to explore the legacy of the Shows that Never Quite got to Happen… until now (for more info click event image).

Curated by Estelle Homerstone.

With works by: Georgia McKnight (2020) - Lydia Hallam (2020) - Syd Christopher (2019 Erasmus) - Martina Telgmaa (2020) - Lara Kuhnis (2020) - Helena Grezo (2019) - Sasha Desouza-Willock (2020, BBC credited) - Luminosity Theatre co. (Aoife and Bim - 2020) - Em Sutherland (2021) - Abi Fisher (2021)

…and more!

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Audio Drama

Put on your headphones and come join us in Becos, the alleys of one of Brazil’s largest favelas. Created by six poets from Maré and neighbouring favelas, Becos leads you through the alleyways of opportunity open to these young people, guided by the music, smells, colours and joy of this community (for more info click event image).

Q&A Following the Screening with Paul Heritage (Professor Drama and Performance at QMUL, and Artistic Director of People’s Palace Projects) and the creators of Becos.

Produced by People’s Palace Projects (QMUL) and Redes da Maré, as part of the research project, Construindo Pontes/Building the Barricades which is supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).

Website: https://becos.art.br/en/

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Conference

This two-day online event explores productive, radical, contemporary encounters between the arts and mental health, bringing together clinical, artistic and research perspectives that offer a re-interpretation of contemporary mental health science and practice, with a view of imagining a different future (for more info click event image).

Website: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/aboutus/events/mad-hearts

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Performance • Conversation

Her-Pee’s is a series of events that provide a comfortable, inclusive, and questioning environment for performers and audience members alike (for more info click event image).

Created by Josh Brennan (@jx.shua), Katherine Borchsenius (@katherineborchsenius), Jen Martin (@jnnifr.m), and Rebecca Sangs (@sans.sangs).

Website: https://www.herpeeshasyou.com/

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Cocktail Party • Conversation

What is Air Supply? Join us for Air Supply’s Cocktail (Zoom) party - everyone's invited, bring drinks!

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Workshop

Led by specialists in community performance practice Sue Mayo (Goldsmiths) and Molly McPhee (Queen Mary University of London) and using a curated set of materials, this day-long workshop explores the multiple stories an archive can tell and uncover what our own dialogues with it might be.

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Film Screening • Conversation

Based on real accounts, Sweatbox tells the story of three women as they are pulled away from their lives and transported to prison (for more info click event image).

Sweatbox is directed by Anna Herrmann, performed by Clean Break Members Funke Adeleke, Jade Small, Posy Sterling and Sarah-Jane Dent, produced by Quiet Storm (founders of Create Not Hate), and supported by the AHRC via the Women, Theatre, Justice Research project.

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Conversation

Join scientist Dr. Sandra Romero-Hidalgo and performance artist Raquel Andreì as they discuss making Belongingness - a global conversation about how we identify with each other and what that might tell us about ourselves (for more info click event image).

Produced by Fuel in association with Magda Osman, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, QMUL.

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