Performance

Queer Noise VII

20 Sep 2022

Regular hours

Tue, 20 Sep
19:00 – 21:00

Cost of entry

£8 + processing fee

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Bermondsey Project Space

London
England, United Kingdom

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  • C10 Victoria to Canada Water (Stop F Bermondsey Street)
  • London Bridge - Borough
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Queer Noise is a night of poetry, music and performance celebrating queer identity and community

About

Join us for Queer noise a monthly poetry and performance night platforming London's best, spoken-word artists and musicians.

Get ready for humourous, heartfelt and political explorations of queer identity, community and friendship.

After six sold-out events, Queer Noise is back with a lineup of incredible queer artists.

Featuring poetry from:

Deborah Findlater, Jordan Carter, Poet The Jules and Kia Matanky-Becker

Music from:

Zha

Doors 7pm

Performances start at 7.30pm

Kia Matanky-Becker: 7.30 - 7.40pm

Jordan: 7.40 - 7.50 pm

Deborah: 7.50 - 8pm

Interval 8 - 8. 20pm

Jules: 8.20 - 8.30 pm

Zha: 8.30 - 9.pm

Kia Matanky-Becker is a Queer Poet, Performance artist, sculptor and co-parent of Queer Noise.

Kia's Lyrical poetry is an unapologetic exploration of queer relationships, friendship and community. They are particularly interested in queer coming of age narratives and their beautifully messy complexities. Their surreal style takes influence from magical realism.

Kia has performed at poetry nights across the country, their performance films are archived internationally, and they were awarded the Poetry Society collaboration prize 2021.

2020 saw the release of their third collection ‘Early Morning Kitchen’ after being inspired by the challenges of love, mental health, and hope during the pandemic in Sheffield, UK. Due for a late July release, Jordan's fourth collection “Smoking in Bed” continues on from ‘Early Morning Kitchen’ with post-pandemic queer relationships, how to navigate loss, grief, and keeping your head above water.

Jordan has performed at The Camden Roundhouse and various other venues around the UK. Their work is distinctive in the strong narrative voice and unfettered and realistic view of the world around them. They continue to place a strong emphasis in their spoken word on political injustice, LGBTQA+ issues, the human condition, and sexual identity. One of their pieces tackling being ‘butch’ was selected as part of the Brighton and Hove film festival.

They present their perspective with raw emotion, realism, and truth and continue to describe documentation of life, and the world around them through poetry, photography, music, and spoken word.

Deborah Findlater is an artist born and based in South London. She refers to herself as a ‘griot’ - a West African term for an oral storyteller, community historian and keeper of ancestral knowledge who moves between mediums in their tellings. She echoes this fluidity with her practice encompassing poetry, music, sound art, filmmaking, video art, installation and performance. The voice is key. They are interested in how dominant narratives are constructed and from whose gaze subverting this in order to create new stories in a polyphonic manner from a queer, Black feminist and decolonial perspective. They also DJ under the moniker Pepper Coast connecting the dots between bass heavy and electronic sounds from across the African diaspora.

Jules is an autistic, non-binary, queer poet and artist. They are a multidisciplinary creative, engaging in various formats of the written word, physical art, music and performances.

Poet The Jules writes about the autistic experience and topics they are passionate about, including but not limited to mental health, gender, queerness, sobriety, and the rapid decline of our modern society.

zha is an alternative indie pop artist based in SE London. zha has been described as a unique mix between Mitski and Solange, often singing songs about life experiences as a queer disabled POC. Their songs are rich with beautiful harmonies and melodies that give you “crying in the middle of the dance floor” vibes.

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