A night of sexually charged enchantment with Folk singer-songwriter Liz Overs in conversation with Museum of Sex Objects storyteller The Keeper.
They explore through music and objects, the unsung folk hero, the sex worker.
Chasing this spirited, cruel beauty, carrier of disease, fair maid, poor young girl, and wronged woman across time.
She is the container of all society's projected fears. What a burden to bear!
Hopefully, by shining a light on her, the wrongs she has endured for millennia will be righted in a small way.
A diddle dow diddle dee diddle da diddle dow-o.
Liz Overs is a singer of traditional folk songs and a singer-songwriter with an interest in social history. She explores this through traditional songs, folklore, and sometimes interviews for Mostly Folk, her radio show.
Liz released her first solo single last year, The Birds In The Spring, part of the soundtrack to The Nettle Dress documentary, a modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft. Her latest album, Nightjar, is to be released later in the year.
About The Keeper
The Museum of Sex Objects’ current Keeper is Deborah Sim, an award-winning designer and art director who was co-founder and creative director of the erotic emporium Coco de Mer.
Originally studying Theatre Design, Deborah won the Sunday Times Young Theatre Designer of the Year Award. More recently, she went on to complete a master’s programme, specialising in Visual Culture and Gender Studies at Birkbeck under the tutelage of seminal philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who Freudianly once asked her to peer inside his mouth. Deborah is a devout historian and passionate storyteller who finds libraries the most sensual of public spaces.
