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08 July 2008 - Stockholm Europride amongst other things

Summer is here (sort of) which means that it is festival time. Lots of different festivals happening of course but the next really fabulous one (and one you really DON'T want to miss) is Stockholm Europride. Regular readers of my site (i like to think i have some, maybe) will know that I am extremely excited about the unique performance of the Genderqueer Playhouse at Europride. I will not repeat myself (too much) so for more details, see below. However, I will reiterate again, if you are thinking of joining us for this one-off extravaganza, you must book as soon as possible. Tickets are going fast and there are very limited numbers. They can be booked online here. For a little taster, scroll down for a link to the official trailer.

As if that wasn't enough, you can see us speaking on a range of related gender and sexuality topics throughout the festival and also at the magnificent return of the Queer Allstars clubnight (which made it's sell-out debut last year). Details for all of this can be found in the Live section of this here website and details of all our activities can be found on the Wotever site here.

In other news I have just filmed my segment for the third episode of HallonTV which will air just before Europride on Swedish Kanal Lokal and online. Will post the date it premieres soon. Also I appear in Del Lagrace Volcano and Ulrika Dahl's new book Femmes of Power just is now out to buy in all good book shops and online. The book is getting launched at Stockholm Europride... so I guess you will just have to be there for all this and much more!

25 June 2008 - new Genderqueer Playhouse Trailer

Just wanted to provide a link to the lovely trailer to wet your appetite for the lovely Genderqueer Playhouse show that will be at Stockholm Pride. More details below. I am reliably informed however, that tickets are selling very fast indeed, and you are very much encouraged to book ASAP HERE. In the mean time, enjoy the very pretty pictures and sounds of the official trailer to the show.

28 May 2008 - Genderqueer Playhouse, Stockholm Europride tickets on sale!

A quick note to say that the tickets for the one-off performance of the The Genderqueer Playhouse show at the Boulevard Teatern as part of EuroPride Stockholm. This is the full-length show that I programmed for Transfabulous 2007, and filmed earlier this year for its very movie version. It features renowned international artists and activists: Ingo, Jet Moon, Jason Barker, Dr. J. , Tom of Tottenham, and me.

As I mentioned below, this is an absolute MUST SEE! And in order to do so, you have to book your tickets as soon as possible, because tickets are limited. Book online HERE.

If you need any more convincing here is the blurb and a lovely picture to wet the appetite....

Fresh from sold-out Transfabulous shows in London and being filmed for it's very own movie version, you will be blown... away... by this magnificent cast of renowned international cabaret-esque, burlesq-ish, gender-kaleidoscopic cabaret artists flown in especially to bring you this unparralled collection of genderqueer art. You will be educated by Bovis translating genderqueer terminology that could otherwise confuse and disorientate, whilst Officer Clarence polices our gender irregularities. Miss Jet will demonstrate, in her usual shy and retiring fashion, her own particular brand of queer femme-ininity. Before you can even begin to think about recovering, Tom and Josephine will be dazzling us with their fashion stylings, musical numbers and head-spinning dance routines. As if that wasn't enough, Ingo delivers queer-storytime and Jason drops everything including his socks.

The Genderqueer Playhous (photo by Alison Henry)

09 May 2008 - Still still writing and Performance news

And the writing continues. I am working on the next chapter on film and as anyone who has ever written like this will know it is always a rollercoaster. Some days you feel completely on top of it and other days you are upside and completely turned around (and probably also screaming too). But I carry on.

In the mean time though I have some performance related news that you can find summarised in the Live! section. I have new dates for the UK and Sweden. I will be in London in June to perform at Transfabulous for Jet Moon's show "Border Fuckers" and will be in London again for Wotever's 5th birthday celebration. Both of which should be amazing experiences and not in any way to be missed.

After that I will be performing and speaking at EuroPride in Stockholm - highlights include speaking at the Stadtsteatern and staging "The Genderqueer Playhouse" at Boulevard Teatern. There are limited tickets for the Genderqueer Playhouse gig - so BOOK IMMEDIATELY (details will be posted in Live! soon).

Finally, I am now able to announce the exceptionally exciting news that I will be appearing in Suzanne Osten's new production of Franz Lehár's operetta "Glada änkan" (the Merry Widow in English or Die Lustige Witwe in the original German) at the Folkoperan, Stockholm. The character is tentatively called "Pixie", but that may change. Tickets are already on sale and can be booked online here. Book soon because tickets are going fast. I am so excited. The cast is so great and I already know the show is going to be amazing. Simply put - you HAVE to see it. I will post more news about it and links to rehearsal photos and videos soon. So watch this space!

04 March 2008 - Still writing with a little film break

Wish everyone a happy new year.... errr... a few months late. But, hey! I have been busy. I am still on a writing break for the most part. As regular readers of my blog will know I am working on chapters for my PhD at the moment and that hasn't left much time for performing and other such things. However, as I mentioned below there are one or two things I will be doing during the year, and one of the most exciting is coming up in just two weeks. We're going to be filming "The Genderqueer Playhouse" formerly entitled "Pass, The Movie" (and who knows we might call it that again for the release). If you want to be part of the "live studio audience" then you have to let us know ASAP. There are limited tickets and we are assigning them on a first come first served basis. The details are as follows:

THE GENDERQUEER PLAYHOUSE - once more with feeling.

Saturday March 22nd (Easter Saturday) 7pm
Oxford House Theatre, Derbyshire St, Bethnal Green, London

"The Genderqueer Playhouse" was first performed at Transfabulous
2007 and proved to be a smash hit success.
Our friends Mike Wyeld and crew are going to film the show for us
over the Easter weekend so we can share this bit of Transfabulousness
with a wider audience. We'd like to capture the special atmosphere of a
Transfabulous event, which is how you can help. Will you come along
and be our studio audience? Will you cheer? Will you heckle? Will you throw
underwear? Will you streak?

We're inviting you first, and the seats are free (hooray!), but we
really need to know if you want to come so that we can make sure we
have a full-house. Please let us know as soon as you can if you can make it
to avoid disappointment as we're allocating tickets on a first email
first served basis.

It'll be a fantastic evening of performances by Thomas Appleton,
Jet Moon, Josephine Wilson, Dr Jane, Ingo and Jason Barker with a cheap
bar and lots of laughs.

So, for your first come first severed ticket, reply to info@transfabulous.co.uk

03 December 2007 - On another writing break until 2008

I am on a writing break (and perhaps even a holiday at some point) now until at least January 2008. As I have intimated before though, there is exciting stuff afoot and in the planning phase. More news as soon as stuff is confirmed. In the mean time wish everyone happy holidays and queer new year :-).

08 November 2007 - Happiness is a good review, part 2

"Den strikta Miss File föreläste om hur vi upptäcker det burleska i vardagen och hur man sätter stopp för det. I sin iver att visa oss hur det kan se ut i praktiken, gick strax föreläsningen över styr och Miss File satt till slut på scen likt en pinuppa i storprickiga sidenunderkläde.
– Ser ni något liknade så säg ifrån, förklarade Miss File som ändå tyckte situationen blivit något pinsam. Miss File spelas av Josephine Wilson från London." (Anders Andersson, QX)

I had an amazing time at the Regnbågsfestival in Malmo. The film showing went really well and the Wotever party was really something. The crowd were amazing and the atmosphere was electric. I met some old friends and made some new ones. I can't wait to go back. I really hope I can go back there to perform and work with the really great activists and artistsI met there.

I am back to writing now so won't be performing again much before the new year... but lots of plans for 2008. Very exciting stuff on the way, and fingers crossed for something really BIG!

14 August 2007 - Happiness is a good review

This summer has been both hectic and wonderful. Transfabulous as I noted below was truly amazing and then I had another fantastic experience at this year's Stockholm Pride. I was really nervous as I was presenting a totally new show as the finale of the amazing Pride House this year and again at the packed out Queer Allstars night. I was especially nervous as I had just read a bad review (I say bad review, I mean s*&%ty blog by someone, from a performance earlier in the year and I was feeling a touch low about everything. Thanks to much support from friends, loved ones and dear Sofia (who put up with many neurotic freak-outs I had on the subject) I had a blast performing and was blown away by the lovely reaction. And joy of joys I read a lovely review of it in the Göteborg Posten.

To sum, I shall try to stop reading anything written about me... and try not to take it to heart... and I had a great summer. Stockholm Pride is amazing, it really is something - so much going on over such a long period of time. The organisers work so damn hard and do an amazing job. Huge thank you again and again to them for asking me to come perform there.

For the near future however, I am going to be taking that break that I mentioned last month. I won't be performing very much as I will be concentrating on completing my PhD thesis. I shall be about a little - plans are afoot for a few live shows before the year is out, so watch this space. As well as my inaugeral (as in first and hopefully not last she hopes) tv appearance. I will be on an episode of Sex Med Viktor, premiering September on swedish tv. Also there are film and filming plans afoot and hopefully lecture plans too... so watch this space.

24 June 2007 - Summer Festivals and taking a break

Well, it has already been an insanely busy summer and the summer hasn't even really started. I have moved to a new country, I have performed at two festivals and I have a massive cold. It has been a magical time. Moving to sweden has been amazing though of course very busy. Performing and working with Transfabulous was unbelievably cool too. Got to meet and work with some of the best people around. Too many to mention, but Jet, Jason, Jane, Jessica (so many j's), Ingo, Thomas, Serge, Jay, Catherine, Kate Bornstein, James Green, Ignacio, and everyone who came. Met so many great people, including some people I have only read about, and some brand new ones from all over th place - from as far away as Manchester and Ireland to name but a few. Just wish my darling Sofia was there and the whole set would have been complete. All the coolest people there are in one place... well ok, except the people who couldn't make it. And those I haven't met yet. But nearly all the coolest people in the world in one place.

I am now recovering from all that fabulousness... with a cold and a backache and will begin the end of my thesis. Yes, it is finally getting done. Hurrah and huzzah! That does mean however, I am taking a break from a lot of performing stuff for a while... but never fear, I shall return... bigger and better (we can only hope) soon. In the mean time, I will be performing at Stockholm Pride in August and there are plans and schemes afoot.... oh, yes there are. They include The Film "Pass" - the movie in London, and also perhaps a special Christmas type show here in Stockholm. So watch this space, and I am around promise... just more sort of hermitted away typing frantically, trying to finish my PhD.

13 May 2007 - Moving country!

Yes, the time has finally come, I am heading northward bound. To those of you who don’t know (or don’t even know me), I am moving base from this here fair city to the lovely Stockholm of the north.

Sadly it means that I will no longer live in this fair city. But NEVER FEAR, I shall return… regularly…. You can’t get rid of me that easily.

However, it does mean I shall not be around as regularly as I have been… and to mark the occasion I am having a bit of a leaving to do to which I cordially invite you all.

It will be of course at the fabulous Bar Wotever (the part of this city that I will miss the most www.woteverworld.com) on Tuesday the 22nd of May from 6pm.

I am hoping to chat, dance, perhaps weep a little. If anyone would like to play tunes to do this by, please get in touch with Ingo and same goes for anyone who might like to perform for us.

I am hoping to have as fabulous a night as possible to remind why I should be back as often as possible, so please please do join us!

In addition, to entice you further I shall be imparting upon the thronged masses the assorted crap, err i mean, wonderful items that I simply do not have enough room to take with me to the North. I will be having something of an impromptu yard sale of all these wonderful items… oddly there are some nice items especially for aspiring DJs, lots of CDs for example. For those of you who would like to dress like me there will be some clothing, and other such bits and bobs. Leave a donation of your choice, all proceeds go into my tickets back to London fund (and also I don’t have to cart this lot to Sweden fund).

3 April 2007 - Diva Magazine interview and stuff coming up

So the film festival is almost over and the fillms I am in have been screened very succesfully. It has been a very good though also little sad festival with absent friends. It has however been really good to see so many good friends there and there is lots of plans afoot. In the mean time, though Diva did an interview with me last month and it is out in their May issue - out 12th April. Other things going on April see live. More news soon on upcoming performances, lots of exciting events coming up.

7 March 2007 - Sadly not in Stockholm this weekend

Sadly I am not in Stockholm this weekend (9 -11 March) for the Kultur Feminist Festival (as I think was advertised in some places) but I will be there in spirit and you can see me on film. Both Fem and Mirror Mirror are showing on the Saturday of the festival. I am not doing much live stuff at the moment. I am working on my thesis as well as putting together performances for the summer. I will be doing some short bits in April (doing another Agenda night and perhaps something else, watch this space) and maybe something at the end of this month (but not yet finalised). Otherwise if you want to see me perform live this month come to the Mirror Mirror screening at the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Miss File will be introducing the film and potentially asking/answering questions afterwards, who knows. I will also be speaking on the "transitioning and femme" panel following the screening of FtF: Female to Femme at the festival.

9 February - Film news

Lots of film stuff coming up with the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2007 with us again in March. "Fem" has been completed and I will see it this weekend for the first time at a cast/crew screening. It will be premiered at the festival on the 31st of March. Mirror Mirror is also being shown but not sure when yet :-). And also I have just been asked to be on the "transitioning and femme" panel on the 1st of April. Looking forward to a exciting festival this year and hope to see lots of good films and meet up with lots of good people.

11 January - New live dates and Mirror Mirror screenings

Lots of new dates up in live section for the new year. Especially lots of Mirror Mirror dates, check out clips and the new Myspace site here. Also hopefully coming up, a premiere of the Inge Blackman's new film, Fem. As well I will in fact be appearing in the flesh at some of these and also doing some live performances. Watch this space. Many a wondrous thing is afoot.

7 December - Fem film in editting

Just had an update from Inge Blackman about the film that was shot last year. She is beginning the edit which is very exciting. I really enjoyed being part of the film, and I can't wait to see the result. I know that it is going to be fabulous. Watch the website for updates or of course check back here!

13 October - Site Update

I have updated nearly every section of the site to some degree today so won't list each section other than to highlight the new details and photos up in the performances section and the new MP3s up in the music section. Otherwise it's just updating the details of the stuff that I am up to at the moment and how things have been progressing. I am on a bit of a performing break at the moment, getting into the rhythm of PhD writing but there are things coming up at the end of october and november. See below and live for details.

02 October - Mirror Mirror screenings and the York Lesbian Arts Fest.

If you missed the premiere of Mirror Mirror, there are more chances coming up in London in October (see the live section for more details). This is a really great film and I am really happy to be a part of it so do go see it! If you go to the Birkbeck one, there is a Q&A too, so go and chat with the fabulous Zem, who is the person what made it and all. At the end of the month, I am in York, speaking and performing at the York Lesbian Arts Festival. For the moment, that is my only live performance this month. Hope to see you there!

Also have updated the Publications section with some of the papers that I have done recently etc. Will be putting up titles and links to material very soon.

30 August - Stockholm Wotever

Just wanted to make a special note about this one - as I think it is going to be a really great night and I hope all of you are able to come will do. The fabulous Ken Vegas is going to be performing for a start. He lives and promotes and performs in shows in the US, so this is quite a unique chance to see him perform. I too shall be performing on the eve, and I have been told that there might be even more international performance action happening that evening. In addition there is the lovely DJ AssLicka and possibly others to boot. And as if that wasn't enough, there's an early-bird discount (come before 11!) on the door price and 2 whole happy hours at the bar (9-11pm) with cheap liquor to lubricate yourselves with. Oh joy of joys!

All of this happening on the fabulous Harley Davidson Boat.

I am genuinely really excited about this night. I really enjoyed performing at Stockholm Pride (for new photos see my Cabaret performing page) and I can't wait to perform in this beautiful city again.

19 July 2006 - Stockholm Pride

I will be performing and speaking at Stockholm Pride this year. It is the first week in August. My big day is Tuesday the 1st of August in the Pride House, but there is a slight possibility I might be doing other things. Check their website for details as I might not be able to update mah site while I am there - Stockholm Pride.

23 June 2006 - Do you want to see "Mirror Mirror"?

Do you want to come see the documentary on gender and performance (focusing on 5 performers - including myself - and Club Wotever) that Zem has just finished? The premiere is on the 15th of July at 3 o'clock, same day as the Wotever Xtravaganza. It is in a small cinema in central London. It is invitation only and I am trying to get in touch with everyone I know about this, but if I have forgotten you.... I am so sorry, please let me know asap and will put you on the list.

9 June 2006 - New picture and update.

New picture of me (as Daisy Dyke) up in the film section. Other than that as you can see from the live section, I have been pretty crazy busy with performances, lectures and such these last few weeks. It's going to quieten down a little in July (I hope), although there is going to be the massive Wotever Xtravaganza that I am compering and performing in, and at the end of the month Stockholm Pride starts and with a bit of luck I will be speaking and performing there too. In the mean time I am in a thesis writing frenzy - chapters coming out of my ears.

9 May 2006 - Lots of new pictures!

New pictures on the cabaret, dance, and djing pages -pretty!

31 March 2006 - Still updating!

I am still updating the site. Slowly slowly. Still putting pictures up and so forth, but have now updated the film, cabaret, dance, djing, links and soon the music section too. These will be updated with new material as it comes in and for those (at all) interested, I will let you know using this handy "news" bit to inform of changes.

Will get there in the end!

01 March 2006 - New Website Design

I have finally sorted out my new website design. Hope you like it. Still tinkering (as always) but this is pretty much it now. The last of the material will go online in the next week or two (like the gallery of images that I am using for the icons, the rest of the photos and also some MP3s from the Truly Kaput records I appear on).