mandla ✨🍉❤️‍🔥👁🧞‍♀️

in july i had the pleasure of playing a teeny part of the incredible @talawatc ’s firsts festival with a work in progress of CATEGORY MISTAKE - the thing that will hopefully be my second solo show it was an absolute delight to perform in croydon’s fairfield halls; it felt like a full circle moment because i used to perform there with my primary school choir when i was a young warthog 🥹 coming back as an ageing agender queer with a performance about the lack of words to talk about being queer and trans in my beloved first language isiNdebele and telling people about Zimbabwe’s beautiful and painful queer and trans history is a whole life highlight tbh thank you thank you ngiyabonga @anxious.selecta for your beautiful curation of the night, everyone was incredibleeee and to share a stage with @zazoothunder & their beautiful gogo, @amanicosmo @gigi_brathwaite_ and @lourobbin_ who all brought their mighty storytelling and performance art powers is something i’ll never forget 🩵 and thank you @bettinaadelaphotography for the gorgeous photos of my lil performance ☀️🫶🏾 back in hibernation to write the rest of the bloody show i go i guess

lips taste like home by writer + performer @mandlamx Videography @georgianaghetiu Music @im_shar_ Script editor @nathanieljhall Producers @nathanieljhall and @careyyyy With thanks @toluajayimusic Supported by @acegrams and @superbia_mcr Thanks to @homemcr Part of Toxic Tales, a community-led creative project inspired by our latest play Toxic. Toxic Tales offers artists and community participants space for creative reflection on the impact of racial power dynamics and minority stress on queer romantic, platonic and sexual relationships. #Toxic #ToxicTales #DibbyTheatre

euphoric embers, 2022 last autumn was spending evenings with this lovely group of queer and trans singers talking about gender and existence and queer joy, culminating in this beautiful song written through conversations and prompts i held with the group and composed by the wonderful @toomanydots 🥹 thank you @roxy_daykin_moores_ @holly___h and matt fenton for bringing me onto this special collaboration, @shebekeke for your wonderful mentorship and @luca.vide0 for your beautiful documentation of the process✨☀️ i meant to post this on #TDOV but time, much like gender, is a social construct innit x

4 days to go…! Bringing together queer multidisciplinary artists and writers ‘Crossing Lines’ will explore the intersections of identity, creativity, and resistance. Expect a dynamic conversation highlighting how queer creators of colour are challenging genre boundaries and traditional narratives through innovative practices in literature, performance, visual art, and digital media. Speakers: @deanatta @afshandl @mazhedgehog @mandlawrites Saturday 15th November, 2pm at @hack_oldham Part of the National Black and Asian Writers Conference. Book your ticket at the link in bio

💖 MANDLA 💖 UK-based Schauspieler*in, Poet*in und queer creative mind @mandlawrites schenkte uns eine Nummer jenseits der Genres - genau das, wofür unsere Bühne am liebsten steht!! Follow this one ⭐️ Danke für diese einmalige Performance, und hoffentlich bis bald! 💕 . Willst du auch mal dabei sein? Als Act: schreib uns auf [email protected] 🎭 Als Zuschauer*in: schnapp dir Tickets auf www.millers.ch 🎟️🎟️🎟️ 📸 @moni_photography_mst #finta #flinta #tinfa #queer #millers #fintatainment #thatsfintatainment #offenebühne #openstage #show #lgbtq #nonbinary #comedy #theater #burlesk #burlesque #cow #poetry #artist #performance #dance #weirdburlesque #mandla #queerperformance

🌟 WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT! 🌟 We’re thrilled to unveil 'Quiet as a Threat' by @julezkatrina — the winning film from our national writing competition with @picadorbooks , inspired by Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel Our Evenings and selected by Alan himself. Directed by @dgellis0907 , starring @mandlawrites & @nicoleofnorth , and filmed by @tomdoonamedia and produced by @jarviski_ — this powerful 12-minute film explores Black queer visibility, exclusion, and performative allyship. 🎬 Watch now via the link in bio or below https://youtu.be/PiwU0O2eZhg?si=JBC9P101xteWM3nU #QuietAsAThreat #GreenCarnationCompany #PicadorBooks #AlanHollinghurst #QueerReflections #LGBTQFilm #BlackQueerVoices #TheatreAndMemory #OurEvenings #QueerTheatre #LGBTQTheatre #LGBTQWriting

Die erste Open Stage einer neuen Saison ⚡𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕥’𝕤 𝔽𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕒*𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥⚡️ist ready!! 🎉 Schnappt euch Tickets für folgendes Lineup 🔥🔥🔥 denn… 🔥 …wir sind Feuer & Flamme für @allegradelbastet 🎤 …Können kaum stillsitzen für neues Material von @vera_hiltbrunner 💝 …freuen uns wie Honigmilchbienen auf @mandlawrites 🔮 …sind ganz Ohr für @velvetones_music 🎤 …und so was von gespannt auf die grossartige @stehlibarbara !! PLUS natürlich unser Long Act: Kollektiv Glitzern* ✨ welches ebenfalls eine Gastmoderation macht! Fun fun fun! . Budget Tix für 15.- gibt’s wenn ihr an [email protected] schreibt, oder ab 25.- auf www.millers.ch 🎟️🎟️🎟️ . #finta #flinta #tinfa #queer #comedy #drag #dragking #dragquing #performance #theater #slam #kabarett #standup #standupcomedy #comedyfrauen #offenebühne #openstage #comedy #lgbtq #queerzurich #nonbinary #kleinkunst #slamalphas #femalemusician #fintamusician #helvetiarockt #kollektivglitzern #acapella #femaleacapella #schauspielx #feuerschluckerin

ℹEVENTℹ @queer_publishing_rochdale presents, ink & image. Re-imagining Global Queer Legacies. Collage, Free Write, Poetry and Community. 🌈 Expand your understanding of queer history, reaching back through time, space and place. ⏰ When? 15th June 2025, 1pm - 4pm 📍 Where? @richardstreetstudios , Rochdale, OL11 1DU 🔗 Follow our bio link for FREE tickets! #lgbtq #queerlegacies #rochdale #inkimage

I found a gay astronaut in the snow. w thanks to @mandlawrites

built of floating seeds 🌱🌸🌻 last year i had the most wonderful time working with the beautiful @electricpinkvoices in blackpool to co-create this song with wonderful @toomanydots for the @voicesweaving project. its always an absolute treat to work with queer communities in the UK and seeing how much love and care this choir has for one another filled me with so much joy and it was an honour to work with the group to write a song with them celebrating themselves 💙 shoutout to @luca.vide0 and team for the excellent work making this music video come to life and letting the beautiful choir shine sending love to all queer and trans people, always 💙 ✨✨✨

Talking Art + Mental Health I was recently invited by @cert_property to join a thought provoking panel exploring the powerful connection between creativity and mental health. The conversation, hosted by Liam @lixmheeley brought together a brilliant mix of artists and creatives, and I was honoured to be part of it. It was a pleasure and honour to meet @caroline_dowsett @mandlawrites @kyami_world Questions discussed, How does art support our wellbeing? Do we see our practice as a form of therapy? How do we navigate the highs and lows of working independently? And many more. My biggest takeaway? That sense of community, knowing that so many of us, no matter our discipline, find healing, strength, and connection through creative expression. You’re not alone in how you feel, and art really can be a lifeline. ❤️ Massive thanks to everyone who made space for this important conversation. @heads_uk @turningpoint_uk @johnnyvee___ @thenewcross #MentalHealthAwareness #CreativeWellbeing #ArtAsTherapy #ArtistCommunity #TalkingHeads #CreativeJourney #EmmaEvansStudio

With Toxic touring the country, we wanted to share our Toxic Tales commissions with our audiences again. Created in 2023 when we premiered the show, Toxic Tales is a community-led creative project inspired by the play, offering artists and community participants space for creative reflection on the impact of racial power dynamics and minority stress on queer romantic, platonic and sexual relationships. Find out more about Toxic via the link in our bio. Presenting lips taste like home by writer + performer @mandlamx Videography @georgianaghetiu Music @im_shar_ Script editor @nathanieljhall Producers @nathanieljhall and @careyyyy With thanks @toluajayimusic Supported by @acegrams and @superbia_mcr Thanks to @homemcr #Toxic #ToxicTales #DibbyTheatre