Queer Brown Stories - 'Taking Up Space In The City' & 'Discovering Kali'
We’re delighted to be supporting Dhaga, The Naz and Matt Foundation, Club Kali, and the Camley Street team at Camden Council with their collage workshop to form a collaborative mural celebrating stories of Queer & Trans South Asian folx in Camden & a film screening.
TAKING UP SPACE IN THE CITY
'Taking Up Space in the City' is a 2-hour creative workshop exploring the future of Queer South Asian identity in Camden using the medium of collage to inspire and inform a collaborative mural for the Camley Street Underpass.
South Asian futures are rarely thought about, particularly a future which centres South Asian Queer and Trans folx in all our multiplexity. This collaging workshop explores the future of Queer South Asian existence in the city - centring our dreams and wishes for a future that is decolonised, informed by our collective and individual histories and our queer and trans identities.
This opportunity is for Queer and Trans South Asian folx who live/work in Camden. The Connecting Camley Street artwork programme is an initiative run by Camden Council that aims for people local to Camley Street to have a genuine voice over the future of Camley Street.
12-2pm
Hosts: Aarandeep Sian and Sarith Ratnayake
DISCOVERING KALI
'Discovering Kali is a short film celebrating the legendary Club Kali - a safe space for the Queer South Asian community for over 25 years. The film premiered at the London Indian Film Festival earlier this year and we are delighted to have the Naz & Matt Foundation host a film screening for our community following the collage workshop.
The film screening is open to wider audiences from beyond Camden as well and there will be delicious food by HENNA Asian Women's Group with the Bengali Women's Forum.
The Henna Asian Women's Group will also be available throughout the day providing support on voter registration.
2.30-4pm
Host: Naz & Matt Foundation
WHO’S BEHIND IT?
is a multi-disciplinary South Asian creative collective. Exploring South Asian heritage, restoring social and environmental sustainability and stretching the boundaries of visual art and design.
multi-award-winning Camden-based charity that tackles homophobia, triggered by religion or culture, to help parents accept their children. The Foundation provides free-to-access support and mentoring, books and videos. Their core focus is building bridges of understanding within families where religion is affecting a parent's ability to accept their LGBTQI+ child.
Born in 1995 out of need and driven by the passion and commitment of two women; DJ Ritu and Rita. Club Kali Network continues to support the LGBTQ+ community through a range of events; celebratory, social and political. They work with charity partners to empower, enlighten, transform, educate and challenge.
CAMLEY STREET TEAM AT CAMDEN COUNCIL:
A series of artworks by different local communities will be hosted in this underpass gallery space over the coming years as part of Camden Council’s Camley Street development. Camley Street is changing and will become a highly sustainable new neighbourhood including genuinely affordable homes, improved business space and job opportunities, underpinned by a bold vision for meaningful and imaginative placemaking.
