‘Dance, it's all I wanna do, so won't you dance?’
The MOBILISE Queer Power Party is a raucous, joyful, and accessible sober dance party and silent disco. Get your headphones on and get ready to get your bodies moving, lower your inhibitions, and let loose through the power of queer joy.
MOBILISE is club culture for the queers; the butches, babs, femmes & thems. The gender benders, transcenders, the crips, fats and wheelers. The troublemakers, rule breakers, the faggots, dykes, and divas. The black, white, brown, yellow, technicolour dreamers.
Expect performance, live vocals, drag, live DJs, unforgettable music and plenty of dancing. It’s time to turn up the BPM and come together on the dance floor and we mobilise our bodies and move towards a brighter, queerer future.
This is an inclusive sober dance party, created specifically to empower people to dance, take up space, feel confident and celebrate themselves. MOBILISE is a party for anyone who has felt like they don’t belong in the existing LGBTQ+, we are a pro-fat, pro-trans, pro-disabled, pro-women, anti-racist, alcohol-free, pro-fabulous clubbing environment.
20:00 - DJ JustSoriah - Accessible social dance sessions (anyone for disco line-dancing?) to kick the evening off to get even the most timid dancer strutting their stuff in no time – absolutely no experience required.
21:00 - Guest DJ (TBC)
22:00 - Guest DJ (TBC)
23:00 - Floor Fillers & Requests
00:00 - Finish.
Performances throughout the night from Fatt Butcher, Ginny Lemon, Luna Mystique, Mama Mamba, Bonnie Wheelass, Eric Scutaro & more.
Whilst this is a free event, the venue has a fixed capacity. Advance booking is recommended, limited number of tickets available on the door.
MOBILISE is an 18+ event, this is a sober space (free from alcohol or drugs) for the LGBTQ+ community. MOBILISE is a space that centres accessibility, and has been created with disabled community members. Experienced through wireless headphones (provided), audiences have the ability to adjust their personal volume levels and take a break from the music at any time by simply removing their headphones.
The space includes:
- step-free access.
- Dedicated quiet space.
- Alcohol-free cash bar service.
- Plenty of comfortable seating.
- Accessible gender-inclusive bathrooms.
- All gendered private dressing space
- changing places toilet (basement level accessible by the lift).
- 8pm-9pm, optional social dance session lead by MOBILISE artists (get comfortable learning some simple moves).
- Bursaries for travel (for low-income, disabled, and anyone who feels unsafe to travel publicly eg. trans and gender non-conforming people).
CLICK HERE to apply for a travel bursary.
full access statement and venue information can be found on the Fatt Projects website: www.fattprojects.org/mobilise
MOBILISE is presented by the Birmingham 2022 Festival in partnership with Birmingham Pride, generously supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council, England.
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