Just Within Reach. Map Making with Dex Grodner
5th July: 16.00-17.00 BST
Many of us have been prevented from physically reaching the people and places that are important to us for recharging and retreat. The options to fight or flight have been taken away. Through map-making we will remember and rejoice in our special un-reachable homelands and oases in an effort to bring a touch of the without within. This workshop will include quiet time for making so bring paper and any art supplies you like. All sharing is totally optional.
About Dex Grodner
Dex Grodner is a London based live artist and the host of the queer, Jewish cabaret Homos and Houmous which they perform as the Yiddish music hall grand dame Chanukah Lewinsky. They are particularly engaged with women’s and queer stories in Yiddish Theatre and have run workshops and retreats on gender and Judaism at Sadeh Farm, Limmud Festival and University of Cambridge, and given talks on gender and theatre practice at Ovalhouse, Hackney Showrooms and RADA. As a drag artist, and poet, Dex has performed at Tate Britain, Theatre Royal Wakefield, and LGBT venues across London, Oxford, Leeds, and Bristol. They are a mentor and consultant for Gendered Intelligence with a particular focus on trans inclusion in the Arts.
Dex Grodner @Dexpresents
Event Details
This workshops is FREE to attend, but when booking we encourage you to make a donation towards Black Lives Matter UK https://bit.ly/UKBLMFUND
This workshop will take place online via Zoom. To attend, you will need access to a laptop or a computer capable of receiving audio and video over a stable internet connection. You do not need to download Zoom to participate, but you will need to click on the Zoom link provided to you via email from Outsavvy before the session to attend.
About Må bra?
22 June - 5 July
Må bra? is a series of free online sessions focusing on sharing and creating tools to help us maintain a sense of wellbeing in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Each session will be led by a different LGBTQIA+ artist who will be sharing their own take on the subject. Featuring Fredde Lanka, Soofiya, Amy Pennington, Dex Grodner, Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson and G(end)er Swap.
Sessions are free but when booking we encourage you to make a donation towards Black Lives Matter UK https://bit.ly/UKBLMFUND
Ma Bra? forms part of Studio Voltaire's Desperate Living C-19 programme, and in collaboration with The Outside Project
See the full programme and get tickets to further events here.
About the Artists
Fredde Lanka
Soofiya
Amy Pennington
Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson
G(end)er Swap
Dex Chait Grodner
About Desperate Living C-19
Desperate Living is a new six–month engagement programme which aims to support LGBTQ+ people during and after COVID-19, providing support for artists as well as opportunities for people to engage with arts and culture in direct response to their experiences.
Studio Voltaire have commissioned artists Sunil Gupta, Juliet Jacques, Fredde Lanka, Conal McStravick, Raju Rage with the right lube and further artists to be announced to realise this programme.