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'Artist-led, Artist-run, Artist-owned' part of @deptfordx 25th Anniversary Events Join us for a conversation with artist-led projects that are expanding creative communities in South East London. We’ll hear from @sistermidnightldn @f.a.t.studio and @alastair_kwan + @carolinaongaro of @jupiter_woods & @bridgehouse_gardens Chaired by Sophie & Beth of Ditto Space. Where: Lewisham Arthouse Date: Saturday 14th October Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm  Details: Free to attend, all welcome Tickets: Book a spot on DX's website BSL, wheelchair accessible. [ID in alt text]

#repost 💛 @flatness.eu ✨️ • • • • • • Following on from the busy swap shop and screening at FormaHQ and Peveril Gardens earlier this month, everyone’s welcome to our upcoming programme on 14 & 18 February. Come defeat the winter blues and usher in the Spring together! Day 1 Tuesday 14th February, 12-3pm Winter Wellness Workshop Community grower @tallawah_ali will be holding space to guide you through how to create your own medicinal body balms to aid in soothing chesty coughs, as well as achy joints & bones. We’ll also have the loose herbs available for you to create your own winter wellness tea bag blends. Sign-making for the Garden Take part in a drawing and sign-making activity exploring how we inhabit the garden together, led by design team @designprintbind (the design studio behind our book, Queer Diasporic Futurity, and these wonderful graphics for our residency at @formaartsmedia ). We’ll be thinking together about how we can welcome all kinds of life into Peveril Gardens. Day 2 Saturday 18th February, 12-3pm Outfitting Hosted by artists @hannahlefeuvre and @u_herself 12-3pm inside FormaHQ Clear out your closet and bring your old and unwanted clothes and accessories to make new outfits together! An afternoon to swap, donate and style old and new garments, share styling tips and tell each other how good we look in a comfortable and safe environment. There will also be artwork, food and music and we will have mending tools to sort out any holes and rips on the go. Garden Open Day Meet at the entrance of FormaHQ at 12pm, 1pm and 2pm. Local gardener @rickievaughanjames will be leading introductions to Peveril Gardens every hour, sharing knowledge about how to identify plants and the work that goes into maintaining this rooftop oasis. Spend time in the garden, help sow seeds and learn how to get involved. All ages welcome. Getting there Peveril Gardens is located on the rooftop of FormaHQ, 140 Great Dover Street, London, SE1 4GW. A lift is available to arrange in advance by emailing [email protected] or call 07769 977216. Events produced in collaboration with @bethsaha 💛 as part of Flatness's Oasis residency at FormaHQ

Launching on Sunday, come through to help us celebrate in a very chill and unrushed way. Food and drink and music and readings and time to check out the book and poster. #Repost @flatness.eu • • • • • • The first copies of Queer Diasporic Futurity are heading out to addresses from Wales to Melbourne and our launch this Sunday at Studio Voltaire is taking shape. We’re planning a chilled event with performance, music and readings from the book by Amardeep Singh Dhillon, Daniella Valz Gen, Nat Lall (visiting from Glasgow!) and June Bellebono, together with a conversation between Shama Khanna (me) and Beth Bramich. Much needed refreshments, including Chow Chow and Lime flower cocktails will be provided by food and medicine common-ing projects JarSquad (over from Plymouth!) and Community Apothecary. Sunday 3 July 2022, 3–6pm @studiovoltairelondon , 1A Nelsons Row, London SW4 7JR Wheelchair accessible. Kids welcome. Reserve your free ticket here: bit.ly/QDFbooklaunch The book and a special poster produced for the event will be available on the day for £14. QDF is also available to buy online: flatness.eu/contributors/queer-diasporic-futurity

I claim SWEATY SWEATHEART. Come to a railway arch on Friday, we're gonna make so much noise. @f__choir @matchstickpiehouse w/ @trans_cis_stars and @zhfatehrani #Repost @aftonsam • • • • • • I’m really lucky to have such hotties in my life. I’m fired up by every one of them, the bbq butches to the flaming faeries to the sweaty sweethearts to….you get it. @f__choir is gigging and it’s gonna be like Glastonbury but in a railway arch in south London. And much cheaper. Even cheaper if you buy tickets ahead of time. It’s next week! 24 June 2022 Matchstick Piehouse Deptford

Launched last night, coming to bookshops soon 💫 #Repost @frances__scott New publication ‘Incantation, Wendy’ launches @hkw_berlin as part of @transmediale ‘out of doors’ 22.08.21 invited by @noraomurchu and @benevansjames , with the brilliants @bethsaha @stine.hebert @rondohat , commissioned by @tracey_aint_coming_out and published by Bobo (@anendlesssupply ). Launches in London at TACO! with @zinovievletter and Owen Hatherley on 10.09.21 and @recentactivity , Birmingham on 17.09.21 … This book is an incantation for ‘Wendy’ (2022), a film fan letter from artist Frances Scott to composer Wendy Carlos. Written contributions from Beth Bramich, Stine Hebert, Juliet Jacques, Tom Richards, Chu-Li Shewring and Dave Tompkins are accompanied by hand-drawn music scores, film stills and script notes produced during Scott’s research, and her moving-image work ‘Valentina’ (2020), a rehearsal to camera with performer Valentina Formenti. ‘Incantation, Wendy’ precedes the film ‘Wendy’ and meditates on Carlos as ‘The Original Synth’, moving across channels that speak of the unbounded voice in collaboration, synthesis and transition; through vocoders, archives, re-readings, light pulses, solar flares and cyclical returns; and in concert with horses, moons and a sun, eclipsing as it rises above the horizon. Editor: Beth Bramich Contributors: Beth Bramich, Stine Hebert, Juliet Jacques, Mat Jenner, Tom Richards, Frances Scott, Chu-Li Shewring and Dave Tompkins August 2021, English ISBN 978-1-9160775-1-5 140 x 214mm, 104 pages, 63 illustrations (colour and b&w), softcover 500 copies The book will be available for a special price of £13 at the launches. Published price £17 Supported by Arts Council England and Peabody. / .uk/ photograph: @s_whipps

#Repost @rooibos_ldn ... ❇️❇️❇️ Cupcake decorating for @bethsaha

#Repost @burlingtoncontemporary ... ‘In her school nativity, Rosa-Johan Uddoh was selected to be a king. This was a formative casting, her first performance as a Black British person, playing the only non-white role in the primary school play. A teacher cast Uddoh as Balthazar, a King said to represent Africa, who gave the gift of myrrh to Jesus. The Magi first appeared in depictions of the Nativity from the medieval period onwards and became individualised in the early fifteenth century, when one was identified as a Black man and given the name Balthazar. In Uddoh’s solo exhibition “Practice Makes Perfect”, the Magus, in all his finery, takes centre stage. For her large-scale, gold-backed collage Breaking Point, Uddoh found approximately one hundred and fifty Balthazars in Adoration paintings made throughout European history and collated them into a visual fanfare’. Beth Bramich reviews @rosa_johan ’s solo exhibition ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ @focalpointgallery . Link in @burlingtoncontemporary bio for full review. Images: Detail of ‘Breaking Point’ (Courtesy the artist; photograph Anna Lukala; exh. Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea). Film stills from 'Brown Paper Envelope Test' and 'Practice Makes Perfect'.

#Repost @fashion_vacuum ... Human Rights Watch and Israel’s B’Tselem this year confirmed what Palestinians, South Africans, international legal scholars and dissenting Israeli voices have long said: Israel operates an apartheid regime against the Indigenous Palestinian people and should be held accountable under international law. As with South Africa, global solidarity will help this come to pass. We condemn white supremacy, anti-Black racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia and all forms of discrimination and racism. For the same reason, we will not exhibit in support of apartheid. Because decolonizing is a practice, we will not allow the artwashing of injustice with our work and the legitimization of apartheid through culture. We support the principled call from Palestinian artists to refuse to exhibit with or sell to Israeli and international arts institutions that are complicit in Israel's human rights abuses. As long as Israel maintains its apartheid regime, we refuse to artwash its brutal oppression against Palestinians #VisualArtsforPalestine Image descriptions: Image 1: A bright pink and brown block colour backgrounds with bold cream text. The text says: We support the principled call from Palestinian artists to refuse to exhibit with or sell to Israeli and international arts institutions that are complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses. As long as Israel maintains its apartheid regime, we refuse to artwash its brutal oppression against Palestinians. Image 2: A bright brown and pink background with bold cream and pink repeated text in all caps that says ‘visual arts for Palestine’

#Repost @lgsmigrants ... 📣📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣📣 Let the people forced to live in Napier Barracks know that they're not alone, and they're not forgotten! ✊✊✊ On 22 May we #StandWithNapier in solidarity with camp residents to say #CloseTheCamps ! Join us at and come down 🚂

The lovely people behind @12ocollective invited me to run a workshop on writing for their annual 30/30 project and this is what I came up with. 'Word, Image, Other' is a series of quick exercises to start writing. No experience necessary, try writing alone and with others. The aim is to try something new and to think about ways writing can support what you want to do, either to find a way to talk/write about it, OR by getting other people to help you do that. Would be really up for trying this again — feedback was good! If your organisation or community group is looking for fun and lo-fi workshops it can be adapted for lots of purposes, different ages and interests, and run for 1 to 2 hrs. Reckon I could do a sliding pay scale too? Thanks @steensmean for letting me meme your art! The cat/Australia meme I found in the (internet) wild.

I should maybe stop cutting my own hair?

Didn't have any algorithm-friendly selfies handy but if you're going for a walk around 6pm tonight, maybe check out @gbclegal and @sistersuncut advice? x