Hello Peeps,
Krip-Hop Nation made it across the pond! Got into Liverpool, UK from Belfast Ireland where I was invited by the coordinators of the 4th Annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival to present about Krip-Hop Nation. I like to thank the coordinators of the festival for inviting me.
Although the festival started on the 12th and lasted until the 20th my two days there were amazing! I saw some cutting edge work by Brian Lobel, his one man play, Ball & Other Funny Stories About Cancer and Pete Edwards, in his play, FAT, about a gay disabled man falling in love with a fat man. After two nights in Belfast, I flew to Liverpool, UK for DADA Festival, the oldest and largest Disabled & Deaf Art Festival in the UK and Europe where I and Krip-Hop Nation will be until Nov. 29th.
I barely made it on time getting out of a taxi in a different country walking down a narrow lane called School Lane where the venue, Bluecoat, is was like a rush. A friendly lady guided me to Bluecoat, where The Powerhouse of Superman: Does Gay Culture Exclude Otherness panel was about to start. Yes, I was on the panel with a mixture of GBLT & disabled artists. I hope my good alley listening and supporting skills were shinning plus shared what Sins is doing and my own experience as a Black disabled man. Thank you my queer brothers, sisters and friends and the Sins Invalid crew for educating me. I hope next time Sins Invalid crew will be here.
Sunday morning is the talk\poetry that I will do about Sins Invalid at 11am. Krip-Hop members will be coming in on the 24th I can’t wait! Krip-Hop Nation is also connecting with peeps who can’t make the festival and we have invited everybody who are disabled and into Hip-Hop to share their stories with us by writing a one page about living as a disabled British artists/activists and we will post it here on www.POORmagazine.org and on Krip-Hop Facebook page. Look for the 1st story by an North East of England disabled Hip--Hop artists/activists, PJ and his wife Scarlett Angel SilentKnight. Of course the Hotel internet rates are high so we might have to wait to post some until I get back home but will try to do our best.
Krip-Hop Nation will also be in London on Nov. 25 to meet with supporters and hope will have some audio and pictures.
If you are in Liverpool come by on Sunday for Sins Invalid intro presentation/performance by Leroy Moore 11-1pm at Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK. & Krip-Hop Nation on Saturday 27 6-8pm Learn some of the Krip Hop Collective’s skills in this workshop, suitable for all. Krip-Hop Nation Networking Sunday 28, 1-4pm Parr Street Studio
Address:
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
Tele: +44 (0) 151 707 1733
www.dadafest2010.co.uk