BLACKLASH: Rachael Young + Guests

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Blacklash: Rachael Young + Guests

Wednesday 9th December, 7.30pm

FREE but please consider making a charitable donation to Arts Emergency

Booking required

#1 What the hell just happened?

2020 has been a madness however you look at it. It hasn't quite been the leveller the super rich predicted, but has been one hell of a ride. For this first episode of Blacklash, artist Rachael Young will be joined by Honey Williams, Jamal Gerald, Mika Onyx Johnson and Nima Sene to discuss the mess that has been 2020: its effects on our pockets, minds and relationships. It’s also a chance to discuss ways we can protect ourselves in what is set to be another challenging year ahead.

Blacklash is an invitation to be witness to a conversation; an informal space where reflection is a form of real talk. It isn’t a space for interrogation or expertise, but a window into the lived experience of Black artists in this wild time.

Speakers and audience members alike are encouraged to find a cosy space, grab snacks and join just as you are.

This event is hosted by the Gate Theatre for Rachael Young.

Generously supported by Arts Council England

Hosted by Gate Theatre

Curated by Rachael Young

Produced by The Uncultured

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This event will be held on Zoom, with BSL and captions available.

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Cast & CREATIVES

Rachael Young

Rachael Young is an award-winning artist and writer based between Nottingham and London. Her interdisciplinary performance practice exists on the boundaries of live art, dance and contemporary theatre. Her work creates space for intersectional realities to be explored and celebrated and alternative narratives and forms to evolve and be heard. Rachael was the inaugural winner of the Eclipse Award, which supported Edinburgh Fringe 2019 runs of NIGHTCLUBBING and OUT, where both shows were nominated for Total Theatre awards and Rachael was named the British Council’s Artist to Watch. Most recently Rachael’s writing was performed as part of a curated programme, My White Best Friend, at the Royal Court in 2020. Her work is presented widely across the UK and internationally including: The Place, The Yard, Skopje Pride, Live Collision (Dublin), Theatre de L’Usine (Geneva) and ImPulsTanz (Vienna International Dance Festival).

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Honey Williams

Honey Williams is a Multidimensional Artist, Singer, Choir Director, Designer, Illustrator and Image Activist. Honey's art and music looks at decolonisation, humanisation, misogynoir, fatphobia, beauty, fashion, sociopolitics, history and centring black womxn.

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Jamal Gerald

Jamal Gerald is an artist based in Leeds. He makes the type of work that he wants to see, to take up space as a Black queer person.

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Mika Onyx Johnson

Mika Onyx Johnson is an actor, writer and performance artist from Nottingham now based in London. Mika's play Pink Lemonade is currently being developed for TV with Balloon Entertainment for the BBC.

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Nima portrait , credit matthew arthur williams

Nima Sene

Nima Séne, Berlin / Glasgow, is an artist in collaboration working with performance making, curation, directing, writing and producing. They are also a performer consultant. They are interested in an audio visual approach in collaboration with artists through film, costume, live performance, music and poetry ultimately to create complex nuanced expression that may transcend its own form and be present in becoming and belonging. Their work is rooted in a Queer Black European diasporic experience.

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BLACKLASH: Rachael Young + Guests