For LGBTQIA women and non-binary people most comfortable in women centred spaces.

Join us for a celebratory evening of performances and art for LGBT History Month, including stand-up from Leah Francisco, Poetry from Harry Josephine Giles, movement performance from Aniela Piasecka, Music from Courtney Lynn.

Pay what you can afford 10 minute massage tasters from the wonderfully gifted Feder Nox.

Open mic opportunities available (expenses available). Email alison@lgbthealth.org.uk for info.

Creative Connections at The Fruitmarket Gallery celebrates some of the projects and communities the gallery has been engaging with around meaningful contemporary art. Available to view on during the event will include installation from Marco Giodano, Hanger - a collaborative sculptural installation made with ceramics by Fresh Fruit, our open peer-led group for young adults aged 16–25 and 40 X 40, an art exhibition from 40 different young people and their families from WHALE Arts, Wester Hailes Education Centre and Woodlands Special School.

Access:

• BSL interpretation.

• Gender Neutral Toilets.

• Wheelchair accessible.

Our Performers

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney and based in Edinburgh. Their poetry collections Tonguit (2015) and The Games (2018) were both shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, and Tonguit for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Harry Josephine was the 2009 BBC Scotland slam champion, founded Inky Fingers Spoken Word, and co-directs the performance platform Anatomy. Their poetry has toured North America, Europe and New Zealand, and their participatory theatre has toured widely, including Forest Fringe (UK), NTI (Latvia), CrisisArt (Italy) and Tesxt (Romania). Harry Josephine’s performance What We Owe was picked by the Guardian's best-of-the-Fringe 2013 roundup – in the “But Is It Art?” category.

Leah Francisco is a stand-up comedian who performs in sign language fulfilling her dream to make people laugh as well as bringing Deaf Culture to mainstream audiences talking about her experiences of growing up in the hearing world. Leah will surely surprise you and bring tears to your ears or your eyes! Recent review from The Fountain from The Birds of Paradise 25th Anniversary revue. "Leah Francisco, who really got us thinking about theatre for the deaf, as well as being a deaf performer, hilariously introducing us to the sign language for all sorts of profanities".

Aniela Piasecka works within collaborative, multi and interdisciplinary contemporary artistic contexts. She is part of performance group STASIS and is one half of the sculptural/performance duo Proudfoot & Piasecka. For 'Passé' she has collaborated with DJ and Arts Producer Francis Dosoo and visual artist Joanne Dawson. Her current research enquiries lie at the intersection of dance, the expanded field of performance, text and sculptural installation. Solo and collaborative material have been shown at the CCA, Glasgow International Biennial 2016 and 2018, David Dale Gallery, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Cubitt Gallery. An abridged version of Passé will be shown at the event. Passé is a newly commissioned performance that explores the discovery of the collective from the expression of the individual. An evocative, personal work that turns inward then reaches out, this performance combines personal memories with historical events and scraps of popular culture.

Courtney Lynn brings us her raw and poetic music. Toronto raised but Glasgow based Courtney Lynn performs quirky modern folk articulated by an undeniably unique voice and unconventional acoustic guitar style.