Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk
SATURDAY 14TH AUGUST – FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 2021
Tues – Sat: 10am – 4pm
Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk looks at how fashion creatives are embracing inclusivity and body positivity by exploring five key themes: size, gender, age, race and disability. Visitors will learn how the industry is calling into question existing practice and why it must address diversity from the inside out to reappraise contemporary ideals of beauty.
The Museum of Transology
ONLINE EXHIBITION, 3RD SEPTEMBER 2021 – 31ST 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.
Dibby Theatre: First Time
3 NOVEMBER 2021
LUMINOSA – JACKSONS LANE & LOST IN TRANSLATION
19 & 20 NOVEMBER 2021
Open your eyes and let the light flood in… Luminosa is a brand new circus cabaret for the 21st century! A sizzling, scintillating night of daring feats with fun and fantastic performance. Expect cutting-edge dance in the sky, jaw-dropping juggling, tipsy hoop swirling, live music, laughter and much more in this feel-good show from some of the country’s leading performers. Featuring the very best of British and international circus artists, Luminosa is the biggest and best circus show in town, a ‘don’t miss’ night out.
Producers Jacksons Lane are the UK’s premiere venue for circus. Lost In Translation are one of the UK’s leading circus ensembles, touring internationally throughout the year.
LITTLE LUMINOSA (MATINEE)
Bring your little ones to this special version of the evening circus cabaret. See daring feats and dancing in the sky in this fun and fantastic performance with live music, laughter and much more. Everyone is welcome in this funny, familyfriendly show – the circus as you’ve never seen it before.
HIV + ME
NOVEMBER 5 | 12 | 19 – 2021
HIV+Me showcases three ordinary people living with HIV and their extraordinary stories in three beautifully shot short films. It is part of In Equal Parts – a community-led creative outreach programme tackling HIV stigma and shame delivered in conjunction with award-winning show First Time.
HIV+Me is produced by Dibby Theatre and is filmed and edited by Boca films. The project is supported by Arts Council England and is delivered in partnership with George House Trust.
Poor Lass TalkS
OCTOBER | NOVEMBER 2021
Poor Lass started out as a collective run zine in 2012, created by Seleena Laverne Daye and Em Ledger. Its aim was to boost the visibility of working-class stories and experiences within DIY feminist, queer and punk cultures. The zine covered topics such as work, family, education, neighbourhoods, race, health, identity and relationships.
Since 2018, Poor Lass has also become a podcast which provides the ability to discuss prominent cultural, social and political events, from a working-class perspective, as they occur. Seleena & Em are passionate about lifting the voices of the working classes and providing a platform for us all to learn more about the intersectionalities surrounding it which make us the people we are.
Adam Summerscales – Human Forest
20 NOVEMBER 2021 – 22 JANUARY 2022
Adam Summerscales is a photographer living in Barnsley. Human Forest is a photography project which documents the artist’s experience of frustration and invisibility whilst moving through the city as a deaf wheelchair user. Using a camera which is mounted from his own perspective, he photographs a visual representation of his lived reality: a forest of arms, torsos and shopping bags.
Though the physical layouts of modern cities are slowly acknowledging the presence of wheelchair users, more often than not urban environments alienate and exclude people with disabilities. Human Forest seeks to highlight these obstacles by presenting the world in an alternative way and challenging able-bodied viewers to think about their own actions in the situations presented.
Mid Life: The Skin We’re In
22 – 28 November 2021
“This skin is my surface – my rind – and I am the fruit, still juicy inside.”
From the team that brought you the OFFIE-shortlisted play, Mid Life, comes a new short film – Mid Life: The Skin We’re In.
A poetic look at how to celebrate, survive and thrive in your own skin. This vital, uplifting film explores the expectations we place on women’s bodies, and how we can rise through them to a deeper appreciation of ourselves.
Adam Summerscales – Human Forest
NOVEMBER 2021 – JANUARY 2022
Adam Summerscales is a photographer living in Barnsley. Human Forest is a photography project which documents the artist’s experience of frustration and invisibility whilst moving through the city as a deaf wheelchair user. Using a camera which is mounted from his own perspective, he photographs a visual representation of his lived reality: a forest of arms, torsos and shopping bags.
Though the physical layouts of modern cities are slowly acknowledging the presence of wheelchair users, more often than not urban environments alienate and exclude people with disabilities. Human Forest seeks to highlight these obstacles by presenting the world in an alternative way and challenging able-bodied viewers to think about their own actions in the situations presented.
Beginner’s vogueing workshop with Darren Pritchard
SATURDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2021
A practical, dance-based workshop for beginners.
Darren Pritchard, founder of Manchester’s House of Ghetto, hosts a workshop that takes a playful approach to drawing an association between fashion portraiture and the hyper-stylised form of dance commonly termed as ‘vogue’ or ‘voguing’.
Made popular in mainstream channels by the likes of Madonna (“Strike a pose!”) and the classic documentary Paris is Burning (1990), voguing is characterized by model-like poses integrated with angular, linear and rigid arm, leg and body movements.
Tickets will be on sale soon.
MY VOICE WAS HEARD BUT IT WAS IGNORED
SATURDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2021
15-year-old Reece is roughly accosted by the police outside M&S. His young, Black teacher Gillian witnesses it all – but she doesn’t question or intervene in the disturbing scene that plays out.
As the gravel embosses Reece’s face and the policeman’s knee digs into his back, his teacher stands frozen, with fears for her own safety engulfing her mind.
The consequences of her lack of action erupt the following day. Gillian finds herself locked in a classroom with her angry student. With no clear intent, Reece refuses to relinquish the key. The events that unfold will change both their lives forever.
A gripping tussle of power and an urgent interrogation of racial identity, written by emerging playwright Nana-Kofi Kufuor and directed by Dermot Daly.
A Red Ladder Theatre Company production with support from Leeds Playhouse and Oldham Coliseum Theatre.
No boundaries – zine
OCTOBER | NOVEMBER 2021
To celebrate all that No Boundaries is and in keeping with our annual tradition, throughout the first half of this year we have been creating a Zine which binds together interviews, features and creative writing from some of the artists that make up this programme of work.
This has been kindly supported by ASOS.
The zine includes a feature on the wonderful Fat Life Drawing, our integrated theatre company Cross The Sky as well as an inside look at Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk our headline exhibition for this programme.
We are officially launching a limited edition run of these zines alongside the launch of The Way Ahead public artwork.
We also wrote a blog delving into the history of zines which you can read here.
