How could we resist making this happen again? Limber up, dress up, bring your most outrageous moves and your most audacious self to a voguing workshop with the one and only Jay Jay Revlon – MC, DJ, father of the Kiki House of Tea, and co-founder of English Breakfast London, responsible for some of London’s…
QTPOC & LGBTQ+ FOLX! ♥ Let’s Have a Kiki, London’s iconic ballroom party, is throwing a lil’ taster event for the Brainchild fam to close the Kite Bar on Saturday night of the festival and you’re all invited! It will be THE MOMENT to throw down the moves you’ll have learnt earlier in the day…
The Yonis are a contemporary movement girl band celebrating bodies as vehicles to be physical, powerful and dynamic, finding strength in coming together to create, taking up space and making noise. Inspired by punk movements and gig culture, they want to recreate the shared feelings of joy, euphoria and togetherness that are experienced when watching…
Join gal dem to celebrate, reminisce and respect stories about endings and new beginnings in the Forum. The only rule: your story has to be 5 minutes long, true and about yourself (and no notes!). We read stories from women and non binary people of colour every day in spaces like gal dem, but how…
What cultural stories do you have in your life and how can you tell them? Emma Warren has been documenting music culture for decades, and this year she’s published her book ‘Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre’ – now she’s coming to the festival to inspire and equip us with the tools we…
A Future Without Work What would it mean to have a future without work? Work dominates our lives. It impacts on our ability to spend time with loved ones, engage in projects that we care about, and realise our creative potential. What’s more, the excessive amount we work is contributing to structural inequality and environmental…
Five years ago, James’s best friend was diagnosed with heart cancer and told he had three months to live. His last wish was to be given a full Viking burial. This is the remarkable, hilarious and heart-lifting story of how James actually gave his best mate the send-off he wanted. Team Viking was a breakthrough…
Rory’s Dad was an explorer. Well, not literally. Literally he was a Geography teacher. But inside, she knows, he was Bear Grylls. And when he dies suddenly in an accident, Rory knows he needs her help to make one last expedition. With a plastic compass and Dad’s ashes at her side, Rory sets off in…
Passion. Betrayal. Harold Wilson. Character comedian Kieran Hodgson returns with the epic and surprising tale of how Britain joined Europe in the first place. ‘RAVISHINGLY ENTERTAINING, INFORMATIVE, FULL OF INSIGHT AND PLENTY OF LAUGHS.’★★★★ Times On a deeply personal quest for understanding, Kieran perfects a series of obsolete impressions and discovers that the 70s were…
“Essex Girl: a young working-class woman from the Essex area, typically considered as being unintelligent, materialistic, devoid of taste and sexually promiscuous.” Collins English Dictionary Kirsty is a sixteen-year-old girl growing up in 00s Brentwood. She likes WKD, Elton John, Pie and Mash and Charlie Red body spray. She’s on a quest to win Sexy Ricky’s…