Return Flights & 'Return to Social' Social

Peopling the Palaces is a festial of performances, conferences, gatherings & workshops for you to join either in person or online.

Peopling the Palaces Festival

A platform for artists, performers, and QM alumni to celebrate the return of live performance, followed by a 'return to the social' social.

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After a long break of social distancing, Return Flights extends an invitation to gather and restore a sense of community among artists, performers, and former Queen Mary Alumni. Catch Nando Messias, Sh!t Theatre, Hannah Maxwell, Matty May, Brian Lobel, Senay Camgoz and more returning to perform and celebrate the final days of the 2022 Peopling the Palace(s) Festival. People will have the opportunity to come together to see and support brilliant live art once more. Performances will then be followed by a 'return to the social' social where audiences and artists alike are encouraged to reconnect and enjoy each other's company in a genial setting with good music and refreshments.Performers include:Brian Lobel presents a 'Clip Show' titled 20 Years of Cancer (in 20 Minutes) exploring the experience of having living longer after cancer than before. Brian completed his PhD from QMUL on cancer &amp; spectatorship in 2012, and is thrilled to come back for Return Flights.BOOPA/CHELSEA: An excerpt from a two-artist performance without a plot by R. Justin Hunt (198cm) and Owen G. Parry (183cm) exploring forms of queer intelligence (qui), extra-terrestrial in-visibility, and that humming sound.Hannah Maxwell originally studied English and Drama at QMUL. They have since gone on to win the 2018 Pundemonium final as well as tour nationally and internationally with their show I, Adram. Matty May is a queer, working-class artist and full time Barking babe. Matty is the associate director of Scottee &amp; Friends and the lead artist on The Queer Wall, Bleeps and Bloops and 'Would Like to Meet.' Their work is honest, vulnerable, and just a little uncomfortable. Nando Messias presents an endlessly layered solo performance that discloses an extraordinary personal archive: a reliquaryy of sumptuous costumes, imperious fabulousity, unsterilised physicality, and of course the trademark, legendary poignancy. Senay Camgoz is an artist and filmmaker who studied an MA in Live Art from QMUL. Their short film 'Introducing HALA' was screened at the Victoria and Albert museum in April 2019.Sh!t Theatre present some work in progress: songs from their new piece, #EvitaToo. Sh!t Theatre’s work blends the political and the personal in their unique performances with comedy, music, multimedia, audience interaction, and live documentary practice. Their work celebrates 'live–ness' – lines are learnt and then un-learnt, sections are left to be devised on stage, pieces re-written in response to audiences. They love 'improvisation, cracks in the face paint, failure and being SH!T.'

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