An epic online lip sync culmination of Mister Frank's Love Song mixtape!
Queer, Reading-based artist G K Field (AKA Mister Frank) asked queer people to submit their favourite love songs to a communal mixtape, asking them to think about:
What love songs have meaning to you? Songs that you had your first kiss to? What things do you find in love songs that mean something to you? Which love songs did you reappropriate as your queer anthem? Are there any songs that helped you to understand love?
Their drag king persona Mister Frank will take these songs and respond in the ultimate drag king lip syncing fashion, performing online from The Rising Sun Arts Centre in Reading.
This is a free event, but please book a ticket in order to receive the event link.
All genders, queer people and allies are welcome.
This is a queer centred space; all genders, expressions, sexualities are welcome. Zero tolerance for harassment/discrimination. No transphobia, homophobia, racism, islamophobia, anti-semitism, body shaming, whorephobia, fatphobia, sexism, disablism/ableism.
About the artist
G K Field is a queer nonbinary artist living and working in Reading. They run an artist-led gallery space Garage Gallery 62 (@garagegallery62) offering free space to explore and experiment. They are a member of Double Okay (dream queer and trans artist trio @wearedoubleokay) and co founder of STASH (East Reading art collective). Within their work they explore the idea of ‘place’ landscapes that can be occupied by an imagined body. Incorporating painting, projection and performance. A drag alter ego Mister Frank occupies these imagined and inner landscapes in interdisciplinary performances. Mister Frank is on an exploration of romantic love in these landscapes, music can sometimes be an initial way to explore the feelings and stories attached to romantic love.
This is part of the Emerging Voices project, commissioned by the Rising Sun Arts Centre with Arts Council Funding, and curated by Queer and Reading-based artist, Ollie Musson.
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