The Museum of Transology
ONLINE EXHIBITION, 3 SEPTEMBER 2021 – 31 MARCH 2022
The Museum of Transology (MoT) is the UK’s most significant collection of material culture surrounding trans, non-binary and intersex lives. Participants have complete freedom to choose the object they wish to donate to represent their gender experiences. Each object has a brown tag attached to it with a hand-written message explaining its significance.
The collection halts the erasure of trans lives from history, tackles the misrepresentation of trans people in the political sphere, and combats the spectacularization of trans bodies and experiences by the mainstream media.
We are commoners: craftspace
5 FEBRUARY – 24 APRIL 2022
Gallery
Our upcoming exhibition from Craftspace is all about the resources that we all share that haven’t been divided up or given monetary value; from a local park to the internet. This Craftspace touring exhibition highlights different “acts of commoning”, featuring both UK and International artists.
WORTH Series: lady kitt
5 February -26 April
Panorama
Lady Kitt (They/Them) is a maker, researcher and drag king based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. They describe their work as “mess making as social glue”; an approach driven by an insatiable curiosity about the social functions of stuff that gets called art. They use crafting, performance and research to create objects and events which gently dismantle discriminatory systems.
The WORTH series is a project which celebrates pioneering non-binary people and women. The project is inspired by Caroline Criado-Perez’s campaign to have more women represented on Bank of England issue notes. The artist was horrified by the abuse that Criado-Perez received as a result of the campaign.
The handcut paper portraits are made by cutting love heart shapes from genuine Bank of England issue £50.00 notes. Each one depicts a person who the artist wants to celebrate. Some subject are well known, others are not. The portraits give us the opportunity to imagine what society can gain from celebrating a wide variety of people, achievements and stories. These individuals can have profound impacts on our shared cultures and our own place within those and the resilience of these cultures and communities.
Fluidity FILM SCREENING and q&A : WAYNE SABLES
17 FEBRUARY (TIME TBC)
What happens when an ex-mining town struggling to recover births one of the most controversial drag acts in the UK? Award-winning Doncaster film maker Wayne Sables has gone behind the scenes with a little known or seen part of the town’s life.
Fluidity is a drag movement in the northern UK town Doncaster. This documentary follows the group as they try to create a safe space for people in the heart of the town.
Here’s What She Said To Me – Utopia Theatre
SATURDAY 26 FEBRUARY | 7.30pm
If I were like you, I’d have never found a man to marry me.
And that right there is a problem.
Meet Agbeke, Omotola and Aramide, the three generations of proud African women connecting with each other across two continents, across time and space. Together they share their struggles, their joys, tragedies and broken dreams in order to find healing in the present.
Here’s What She Said to Me combines drama with music, poetry and movement to tell a moving story of daughters and mothers in the world of migrations and shifting identities, braving life with an undying hope, optimism and resilience.
Civic Scratch Night
1 FEBRUARY | TUES | PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Join us at the Civic as we share early-stage ideas for some of the most interesting new artists and companies working in the region.
Here’s What She Said To Me – Utopia Theatre
SATURDAY 26TH FEBRUARY 2022
If I were like you, I’d have never found a man to marry me.
And that right there is a problem.
Meet Agbeke, Omotola and Aramide, the three generations of proud African women connecting with each other across two continents, across time and space. Together they share their struggles, their joys, tragedies and broken dreams in order to find healing in the present.
Here’s What She Said to Me combines drama with music, poetry and movement to tell a moving story of daughters and mothers in the world of migrations and shifting identities, braving life with an undying hope, optimism and resilience.