Spoonie rave
Spoonie Rave is a multisensory feast for tired and sensitive folks
A party for soft heads and big hearts
With live music, puppetry and resting spaces - including comfy places to be horizontal, cushions, spoonie massage, puppet making, a library, space to chill and an atmosphere that encourages and supports slowness.
This is a relaxed event, you’re welcome to come in and out of performances as you wish, stand, sit, lie down, stim, be still, move and rest in whatever way feels good for you.
Please read the access guide before coming. Some elements of access are created with Spoonie Rave organisers and the venue, and some need the whole group to take care of our community. Access is a collective effort for collective liberation! Let’s look out for each other.
Programme:
3pm: Doors open and settling in
3.45 - 4pm: Welcoming
4 - 4.30pm: Bean Pig Puppets and Neogaze
5 - 5.30pm: Kwiet Boize
6 - 6.30pm: Dan Johnson
6.30 - 8pm: Closing with dj mr_hopkinson
8pm: Event ends
Acts:
Bean Pig Puppets are a collective of queer puppeteers and performers who believe in the life of all things. Beanpigs expand the imagination as a revolutionary tool, inviting audiences to dream other worlds into existence through the power of objects, breaking the boundaries between real and imagined, animate and inanimate. Their understanding of transformation is deeply informed by their experiences of being queer and trans, and their performances are surreal rituals that facilitate the lives of puppets, ultimately allowing the puppets to choose how the story unfolds.
Neogaze is the experimental electronic project of Nigerian-Welsh solo act Neo Ukandu. Neogaze brings to life their creative voice through anthems of self-acceptance and queer identity. They will be playing downtempo and dream pop influenced sounds merged with Bean Pigs surrealist puppetry.
Kwiet Boize Normally doling out abrasive improvised skronks as half of no-wave supergroup Yoke or in their duo as Noisy Boize, Rebecca Sneddon (saxophone) and Jo Kelly (double bass) have rebranded as Kwiet Boize to bring some gentler extemporisations to the patrons of Spoonie Rave.
Dan Johnson is a percussionist working in improvised sound and expanded composition. Undermining conventional notions of drumming, his experimental work is manifested across a wide range of projects; from eight-hour solo improvisations responding to instructions provided by the audience, to invite-only performances in rail tunnels, lifts and public toilets, to non-hierarchical group improvisation project Ecstatic Drum Beats.
mr_hopkinson is a multi-disciplinary artist and stalwart of the Cube Microplex since its inception. His atmospheric and witty loop and effects DJ sets have appeared all over the globe and been featured in Ninja Tune’s Solid Steel series.
Venue levy: Trinity has introduced £1 restoration levy on every ticket sold. This income will be used to create a dedicated fund for critical building works, that will protect and maintain the Trinity Centre building and grounds.
