Our 2018 Programme is live now
FESTIVAL CLOSING PARTY:
An Intergalactic Queer Performance Party
SWG3, GLASGOW
Sat 2nd June 2018
8pm -2am
*£8 8pm Entry ticket available for Deaf audiences (As Mykki Blanco will not be BSL Interpreted). Free for asylum seekers and those on benefits Email karl@takemesomewhere.co.uk to reserve a free or reduced ticket
PERFORMANCE:
MYKKI BLANCO
LADY VENDREDI
KATY BAIRD
RATTY BYEBYE
BRONZE
MOUSE
LYN CHEE & VIKKI RYAN
TUNES:
JUMEA
LEZZER QUEST
VATSALA
THIS PLANET’S A LOST CAUSE, SO BABY WE’RE HEADING TO THE STARS!
Take Me Somewhere Sticky closes the festival with a stellar line up of galactic goddesses to build a new paradise in Outer Space. Cosmic Queers … Maverick Martians! Come aboard and let’s get outta here. With live performance from gender-fluid, warrior princess rapper Mykki Blanco, mythopoetic super heroine and vodou priestess popstar Lady Vendredi and Revolt-ing Disney Drum-and-Bass Dynamo Mouse, alongside performance installations from Katy Baird, Bronze, Ratty ByeBye and tunes from Jumea, LEZZER QUEST and Vatsala.
Hosted in BSL and English by celestial superstars Lyn Chee and Vikki Ryan.
BSL Interpretation all night except for Mykki Blanco’s set from 22:00 – 23:00. A reduced ticket price of £8 is available for BSL users wishing to arrive at 20:00.
8pm Doors
9pm-9.30pm Lady Vendredi
10pm-11pm Mykki Blanco
11pm-12.30am Katy Baird, Ratty ByeBye, Bronze
12.30am-2am Mouse
Take Me Somewhere Sticky was programmed by a group of local queer artists Thulani Rachia, Bonzai Bonner (Shoot Your Shot), Nima Séne and Bea Webster.
Poster by Wildeblood Design
Presented by Take Me Somewhere and Outspoken Arts Scotland.
ACCESS: The venue is wheelchair accessible and there will be BSL interpretation all night
VIOLENCE
TRAMWAY, GLASGOW directions
Wed 16th & Sat 19th May 2018
9.30pm // 1hr // 14+ // £12/£8*
A new commission presented by Take Me Somewhere, Outspoken Arts and The Marlborough Theatre.
FK Alexander works with Amplifier: Nick Anderson.
“We have been poisoned by fairy tales’’ Anaïs Nin
VIOLENCE is a brand new performance art piece by FK Alexander; a meditation on the cruelty of love, the weight of loneliness, the gift of desperation, the freedom of anxiety, the chrysalis of hopelessness… and the power of dreams.
VIOLENCE is a personal anti-love tribute to crushed hope and renewed desire, combining variously sourced text, live percussion, non-dance and flowers.
VIOLENCE offers a non-linear fantasy panorama in praise and confusion of co-dependency between you, between them, between God.
‘’protect me from what I want’’ Jenny Holzer
Image by Joanna Stawnicka
“★★★★★
a unique, powerful performance”
— BROADWAY BABY on (I Could Go On Singing) Over The Rainbow
ACCESS: Venue is wheelchair accessible. The performance is highly visual and all text will be captioned.
SWG3, GLASGOW
Sat 2 June 2018
8pm-2am* // 18+ // £10 – part of the TAKE ME SOMEWHERE STICKY festival closing party.
* Mykki Blanco on stage 10pm.
Presented by Take Me Somewhere and Outspoken Arts Scotland, in association with Synergy Concerts.
“★★★★
this arresting, gender-fluid rapper sashays magnificently between braggadocio and distress, prodigious drug use and squarer desires (real intimacy, monogamous love), between naked Snapchatting and soul-baring. He has HIV, and can’t find his shoes. It’s one of the year’s most riveting musical self-portraits, in which trap beats alternate with string sections, and demi-monde specifics with universal needs.”
— GUARDIAN
A fearless artist at his challenging yet melodic best, Mykki Blanco released his debut album “Mykki” (produced by Woodkid and Jermiah Meece) in 2016.
Mykki Blanco has metamorphosed many times. The multi-faceted star was a child actor who founded a performance art collective as a teen, ran away from home, and won scholarships to two prestigious art colleges, quitting both as he realised that “the art world is just one big scam for rich people”.
Finding fame first as a fearless noise rap poet, he published a book “From The Silence Of Duchamp To The Noise Of Boys”. Then what started as a video art project about a “teenage drag rapper” transformed into two years of Blanco living as a transgender woman in his personal life. Though eventually not transitioning, Mykki graduated into the non-binary gender-queer post-homo-hop musical artist that we see before us today. Needless to say, it’s impossible to pigeon-hole Blanco, and his unique and beautiful sound is no exception.
Amassing a vast online following with a savvy and savage social media output, Mykki is hailed online as a digital warrior princess who rules across the underground music scene.
www.instagram.com/_mykki_
www.facebook.com/mykkiblanco
www.twitter.com/mykkiblanco
DIAMOND
MAYFESTO @ TRON THEATRE, GLASGOW
Fri 25th* & Sat 26th May 2018
8pm // 1hr // £15/£10
£10 tickets also available for U25s – use code DH25 when booking (ID required at time of event).
Presented by Take Me Somewhere & Outspoken Arts Scotland.
Written & Performed by David Hoyle, with special guests The Lipsinkers.
Director Mark Whitelaw
Producer & Dramaturg Jayne Compton
Commissioned by Contact.
Diamond is an avant-garde, angry and often hilarious journey into LGBT liberation from 1957 to present day, told via the thrilling, passionate biography of David Hoyle, with musical interludes from London drag four-piece The Lipsinkers.
Weaving together intimate personal experience with public events, Diamond charts David’s rise from a gay adolescent working in BHS in Blackpool to Channel 4’s famous anti-drag queer cult phenomenon. Reclaiming renowned historical moments and reflecting on the lives of prominent gay figures such as Alan Turing, Diamond revisits LGBT political history through Hoyle’s provocative and profound lens. Navigating and dissecting counter-cultures and British attitudes towards them, Diamond will appeal to all with liberation in their heart.
Main photo: Lee Baxter.
ROSANA CADE & EILIDH MACASKILL (Scotland)
MOOT MOOT
THE ART SCHOOL, GLASGOW directions
Tue 22nd & Wed 23rd* May 2018
9pm // 1hr // £12/£8 // 18+
Moot Moot is Presented by Take Me Somewhere & Outspoken Arts
It’s all about you and your opinions… so get in touch!
Cade and MacAskill take on the roles of doppelgänger radio hosts Barry and Barry, batting banter back and forth in their surreal phone-in talk show. Seeking connection with the world beyond, they can only tune into the white noise at the edges of their outer space echo-chamber.
MOOT MOOT is a weird and wild trip through never-ending feedback loops; a riotous rhythmic transmission for our times.
Rosana Cade’s powerful immersive Walking-Holding and her autobiographical performance Sister, have toured the country to critical acclaim, as has Eilidh MacAskill’s solo performance piece STUD. They have been performing as a duo for three years in the cult live art riot grrrl boi band Double P*ssy Cl*t F*ck.
Now they combine forces to create this hilarious new show, with a unique sound world devised by Yas Clarke. See them desperately grasp at meaning in a post-truth world, where all facts are moot.
In association with Outspoken Arts Scotland, TMS will co-produce a number of exciting events with local, national and international talent in May 2018. WATCH THIS SPACE!
Take Me Somewhere is Glasgow’s new festival of contemporary performance, building on the legacy of The Arches following its closure in 2015. The festival combines the best home-grown talent with some of the world’s most cutting-edge contemporary performers as part of an exciting programme of events.
Take Me Somewhere aims to provide a crucial support structure to Scotland’s most innovative and exciting community of artists and makers. The festival was founded in 2017 by Jackie Wylie, now Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland, with the inaugural festival proving to be a huge success with both critics and audiences, selling out at venues across Glasgow.
The 2018 festival will take place in May and will be led by new Artistic Director LJ Findlay-Walsh and Executive Producer Gillian Garrity.
SPLIT BRITCHES (USA)
UNEXPLODED ORDNANCES (UXO)
PLATFORM, EASTERHOUSE, GLASGOW
Sat 26 May 2018
5:00pm // 1hr // 16yrs +
£8.50 / £5 / £4.50
Presented by Take Me Somewhere, National Theatre of Scotland
and Platform with support from Luminate and Outspoken Arts Scotland
Combining a Dr Strangelove-inspired performance with a daring forum for public conversation, Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) explores ageing, anxiety, hidden desires and how to look forward when the future is uncertain. In the Situation Room, twelve audience members are invited to become a Council of Elders to discuss the global issues of the day, as the company weave in satirical insights and humour. Adopting the characters of a bombastic general and ineffectual president, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver of Split Britches present this interactive piece as equal parts comedy performance and urgent political discussion.
Split Britches continues with the duo and solo work of Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw spanning satirical, gender-bending performance, public engagement, videography, digital and print media, explorations of ageing and wellbeing, and iconic lesbian-feminist theatre.
Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) image by Matt Delbridge
Queer Champions a landmark collaborative exhibition project by Ajamu, the Equality Network, Outspoken Arts Scotland, Street level and Equality Network.
Queer Champions is a series of black and white portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer individuals in Scotland who are celebrities, artists, activists, campaigners, community workers, or unsung heroes.
Queer Champions captures the richness and diversity of a Scottish community.
This work will be exhibited in February 2018 as part of LGBT History Month Scotland.
Commissioned by Outspoken Arts Scotland
5-9 Feb, Scottish Parliament (not publicly accessible)
Horse Wynd, Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH99 1SP
14 Feb – 2 Mar, University of the West of Scotland
THU 15 FEB: VIEWING & LAUNCH FOR LGBT HISTORY MONTH
High Street, Paisley PA1 2BE (Atrium) (9am-5pm Mon-Sat)
5 Mar – 25 May, Rose & Grants
27 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HB (9am-5pm daily)
Outspoken Arts Scotland is a Scottish Charity SCO23620
Supported by Creative Scotland, Glasgow City Council and Renfrewshire Council
Presented with the kind support of
The Scottish Parliament
the University of the West of Scotland
Rose & Grants Cafe
Artists Biography: http://outspokenarts.org/ajamu-ikwe-tyehimba/
Participants: http://outspokenarts.org/queer-champions-2018-participants/
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