Devils Dyke Network

Devil’s Dyke Network is an inclusive platform for poets, performers and artists dedicated to building community and generating positive cultural and political energies. The organizing group consists of artists, filmmakers, and activists.

So far, Devil’s Dyke Network has brought a series of poetry and performance nights to Brighton’s ONCA Gallery, The Rose Hill , Fabrica, Lighthouse, The Spire and St. Augustines Centre. And most recently, we created a full-day festival called Pleasure Gardens. We showcase a mixture of older and newer talents among feminist women, gender non-binary, lesbian and queer-identified people of different origins and identities – artists who more often than not have difficult or complicated access to performing in other spaces. The Network arose from a collective desire to create a non-judgemental welcoming space for both artists and audiences to grow, share, and amplify their stories, and as a strategic space from which to make politics.