This Queer Jewish cabaret collective is inconsolable! Oh it’s tragic! Oh it’s awful! Have you heard?!
We’re covering the mirrors and getting out the low chairs at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
We’re ripping Chanukah’s black Escada coat-dress. That Ray has put in an order for five million boxes of tissues.
With excerpts from our new theatre show INCONSOLABLE!, Homos and Houmous are taking on Jewish grief rituals. What comes to the surface as we bury the dead?
Bring Your Own Shovel.
Homos and Houmous welcomes all hebrews, shebrews and theybrews, goys and gals. You're all welcome: you don't have to be Jewish!
New Queer Jewish Theatre – Drag – Politics – Live Art – Music – Semitic Overtones
Sad-rags encouraged.
DOORS 7.00PM
SHOW 8.30-10.30PM
DJ TAMTAM 10.30-MIDNIGHT
Hosts: Chanukah Lewinsky and That Ray
Aviah Day
Ruth Nicholson
Ruth Novaczek
£18 well-waged / £12 waged / £4 unwaged
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please opt for a ‘well-waged’ ticket if you can to help subsidise and maintain fair access to arts programming.
To give a larger donation, go to homosandhoumous.org and click ‘Pay the Jews’: support us to keep paying our artists properly.
Please send your queries, questions and broigeses to contact.homosandhoumous@gmail.com
With support from Arts Council England, Asylum Arts, Sadeh Farm, JW3 and Shoreditch Town Hall.
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Since 2016 queer Jewish performance collective Homos and Houmous (H&H) has been schlepping around London with a smorgasbord of drag, comedy, live klezmer, poetry and politics. It’s hosted by music hall grand dame Chanukah Lewinsky (think Julie Walters on speed) and drag punk pin-up That Ray (Peaches meets disney villain). Our vibe is Shabbat dinner argument meets Bette Midler doing musical stand-up in a New York bathhouse.
We are a part of the emerging renaissance of Jewish leftist art making and Yiddish revivalism. Check out the rad projects of Pink Peacock Cafe, Vashti Media, Yente Zine, Jewdas, Na'amod, and Yiddish Open Mic Cafe.
Night Czar Amy Lame has said of us: ‘This is what makes London, London, and we must not lose it.’ (BBC Sounds).
Bios:
Aviah Sarah Day is at Birkbeck, University of London teaching and researching as her job, and is a community organiser the rest of the time. She is involved in the East End branch of Sisters Uncut, a national direct-action collective fighting cuts to domestic violence services as well as state violence. She is also involved in the Kill the Bill Coalition, a national movement resisting the Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill and Hackney Cop Watch.
Chanukah Lewinsky is a Yiddish music-hall grand dame, and co-host of Homos and Houmous. She took the year off to bird-watch and look after Aunty Debby’s parakeet–poor thing has gout–but now is back with a vengeance. Now armed with a third husband, expect riotous laughs, shimmering wordplay and the all the campery you expect from everyones’ favourite queer Jewish Yiddishist anarchist performance night.
Ruth Nicholson is a pianist, violinist and aspiring guitarist from Sheffield, working with choirs and soloists, as a workshop leader in care homes and hospital settings, and as a teacher. Ruth is classically trained but has eclectic tastes and likes playing klezmer and jazz the most at the moment.
Ruth Novaczek is a film maker, performance artist and writer currently based in London. Her work is queer, feminist, cosmopolitan and Jewish, a hybrid of stand-up comedy and arthouse cinema, avant-garde aesthetics and cheap philosophy.
That Ray is a fearless (if grumpy) punk icon, and co-host of Homos and Houmous. People say they ‘make drag rad again’ and ‘bring waves of witty and irreverent hedonism to the scene’. Expect sweat, blood, piss, a towering wig and disquietingly good makeup. They will be late but it will be worth it.
DJ TamTam is a Glasgow-based DJ spinning semitic beats, beigels and bass. They're a resident at Homos and Houmous, Houseplay, Equaliser Leeds, Brotherhood Sound System and Headroom Dance and a full-time international DIY dyke on a bike on a hike (George Michael look-alike). TamTam has DJ'd at Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Lisbon Pride.
Accessibility (from the RVT's website):
The RVT welcomes people with disabilities and will try to help with your access needs. If you have a disability please feel free to contact us before your visit if you want to ask us anything. Limited PA tickets are available for most events and we can try to reserve seating if needed, there are seats with an upward step and some stools on ground level.
The RVT has an accessible main door and is flat throughout the main space. There are toilet cubicles that can be accessed without steps, but are not wheelchair accessible. The nearest accessible toilet is by Vauxhall Bus Station. On busy events we can’t always guarantee a clear view of the stage for people in wheelchairs, and the main dancefloor area does get very busy with flashing lights lasers and haze effect. Please contact dave@vauxhalltavern.com with any questions.
Homos and Houmous has some funds ring-fenced for personal access costs. Contact us to discuss your requirements.
contact.homosandhoumous@gmail.com