Join Toulouse Lost-Track on an immersive journey of discovery through the natural world around us!
Grab a pair of magical monoculars / googles to see beyond human categories, get up close with local queer creatures that dwell on land and in the sea (or both!), and learn about the kaleidoscope of life forms that are so much more than meets the eye.
An interactive & educational workshop with performance elements (and poetry!).
Silly, profound & surprising. Led by curiosity and kindness.
It's an experience, it’s queer – it transcends category 🌈
Weaving together performance, outdoor learning, and active audience participation, Toulouse attempts to bring us closer to a sense of nature – nature that is defyingly wild, continually changing, resiliently rooted and trans-speciesly connected. Nature that we are part of and that is part of us.
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Nature-curious or nature-nerd – come along, get lost & find something new! All questions and contributions are welcome. Discovery is as much about knowing as it is about not or un-knowing. There will be facts, there will be food for thought – inspired by queer-natural senses & lenses.
Choose your adventure: LAND, SEA, or both!
You can book onto one or join for both – they both run on the same day but different locations, with a break in between for rest & nourishment (and relocation).
Listed as separate events (but you can select a same-day combi ticket through one event if you want to come to both.)
Unsure? Previous participants (at the Brighton Fringe) kindly shared some reviews (check my Insta page @Toulouse_Lost_Track!)
What to expect:
🤓 Lots of questions & communal learning
🤓 Audience participation (by choice)
🤓 Connecting with nature
🤓 Playfulness & Silliness & Profoundness
🤓 The unexpected!
What you will learn:
🌱 The life, lifeforms, lifecycles and ecosystem of plants & creatures
🌱 Queer perspectives on nature & ecology
🌱 About queerness in nature & the nature of queerness
🌱 To be curious and question categories
🌱 That life is unfathomably and amazingly diverse and magical
Bring:
🎒 Clothes for the weather (waterproofs, sunscreen…)
🎒 Water
🎒 Something to sit on (optional)
🎒 Curiosity
Time & Place:
🗓 When: 18 Oct & 25 Oct
14:00-15:15 (approx. end)
📍 Where: Brighton Beach, east of the pier, BN2 1TB – meet outside Daltons
Accessibility:
We’re on a pebble beach, which can be difficult to walk on. We will remain in the same place – you can stand and sit down (bring something comfortable). It can often be windier by the sea than in town. Nearest public toilets: outside Daltons
Some considerations:
- Sensory: You are invited to touch, smell, taste plants – only if you want to. We are in a public outdoor space.
- Relaxed participation: You can step away any time, you are welcome to move and stim however allows you to be comfortable. While all participation is encouraged, all questions, interactions and activities are invitations and you can engage as much or as little as you want to.
- Visual: You can touch props, plants, shells & other nature things. I can describe what we discover. I may not describe all movements during performance elements (but will do my best).
- Hearing: I can provide a written fact sheet & performance text. However, information will also be freely/spontaneously presented and involves a lot of audience input.
- Support dogs & humans welcome
- Am I overthinking this while also missing things? Yes, welcome to my own neuro-curious brain.
Please contact me directly via email for access requirements and questions before the event so I can prepare, bring materials and adapt – where possible. I want to support you the best I can so you can join in and enjoy the experience. So let’s talk about it!
I know that not all events will be or can be adapted for all access needs. (Future/other events will provide different options and opportunities.)
Welcome & Inclusion:
All are welcome here – queer, trans, LGBTQIA+ or not queer. All shapes & forms of bodies &brains. Whatever ground you emerged from, whatever ground you call (currently) home.
Enter & engage with: Respect, Consent, Kindness, Open Mind & Heart.
I’m aware that I (myself and on my own) can’t make a space fully safe, but I do my best to make it safer and ask you to help me with that.
Discrimination, intentional ignorance and inappropriate acts will not be tolerated.
About me:
Toulouse Lost-Track is an eco-drag king who follows the signs of nature in an attempt find his own nature, or perhaps escape his nature, maybe become nature, what even is nature… He’s not quite sure at this point. But he invites you to join him on his dragventures and discover a world of queer ecologies and possibilities.
Out of drag, Dagmar is a multi-(ad)venturous, multi-skilled and multi-cultural human who feels most at home roaming from summit to sea and everywhere in between. Their aim is to create spaces of belonging, possibility and empowerment that allow fellow humans to (re)discover nature, (re)connect with their own wild spirit and care for all beings with kindness and kinship. They do this through drag, nature connection, wellbeing workshops and outdoor adventures.
E-Mail: dragventures.nature@gmail.com
Socials: https://www.instagram.com/toulouse_lost_track/