Grief comes in many shapes and forms, it hits us in waves, catches us off guard. You may be mourning a loved one, old relationships, even a past self. As we transform, we often need a moment to catch our breaths. Enter Grief Revel, a one-off event brought to you by a collective of female/NB practising artists, facilitators, writers, and witches who invite you to gather for an evening of performance and healing at the wonderful VFD.
Join Fausta Joly, Reanna Valentine, Shiva Honey, and Renee Willoughby for spoken word, music, art and ritual.
£10 Advance Tickets
£12.00 OTD
Please DM @jolylicks on instagram if you are feeling the pinch but would still like to attend.
Meet the space holders:
Fausta Joly
@fauifesto
Poet and founder of Arts Events company, Joly Licks (founded 2018) brings their unique dreamscape of femme-centric and loving summonings in the form of her debut EP, I’m A Giver as an offering for Grief Revel. Her work has been featured at Zebra festival Berlin, HOME, Manchester and she’s performed at The Royal Albert Hall,(2020), We Out Here Festival (21-22) and Brighton Fringe (2023). Co-Founder of Queer Performance festival Fervor - back Winter 2023
Reanna Valentine
@reannavalentine
Trauma poet keeping it light. Reanna recently released ‘Fragmented Light’, a joint collection with their grandmother Carolyn Reed, has been published in Ergi Press’s Loki anthology, and Muswell Press’s ‘Queer Life Queer Love: The Second Anthology’. In 2022, they were shortlisted for the Zealous Amplify creative prize and had a pamphlet longlisted for the Disabled Poets Prize. Reanna has performed widely and runs two poetry nights: @QueerThe Mic and @PoetryMeetQT.
Renee Willoughby
@_renalien_
Renee is an interdisciplinary artist from Detroit working within themes of collage, ghosts + telematics. She recently released a tape through the label Irritable Tentant titled ‘Her Shape is Light’ exploring the relationship with her mother, who passed away when she was 3. She is a resident video jockey for queer femme DJ night in Detroit called Femmedom, works as an Art Advisor for PASC, an arts studio supporting artists with disabilities, and lives in an art environment called Hamtramck Disneyland.
Shiva Honey
@shiva_honey
Author, Weaver of Spells, Priestess of the Satanic Temple, and Musician all the way from Detroit, Shiva Honey gifts us with a taste of some of her latest work. After spending the last several years writing and leading Satanic rituals at The Satanic Temple Headquarters and collaborating with Lucien Greaves, co-founder of The Satanic Temple, on events across the country, Shiva Honey wanted to create a soundtrack for the sacred Satanic experience. Serpentīnae was conceptualized by Shiva and Lucien as an accompaniment to Shiva’s ritual book, The Devil’s Tome: A Book of Modern Satanic Ritual.
‘The music provides an opportunity for catharsis,’ Shiva explains. ‘We’re creating a soundtrack for healing, for anger, for empowerment.’ - so come and join the Grief Revel and this pretty extraordinary troupe - Monday, 12th June 7pm - 9pm at VFD.