Friday, 1 March 2024

RQRN Festival at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford 1-3 March 2024

With full details of the events this weekend:

THEATRE IN THE MILL - UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD
UPCOMING EVENTS THIS WEEKEND

FUN PACKED WEEKEND 1ST - 3RD MARCH PROGRAMME

Friday Feast with Lady Bushra & South Asian Queer Joy

Come join us this Friday 1st March for an evening of bold, joyous and thought-provoking performance, food and party fun

A celebratory feast for 20 people incorporating Indian Burmese vegan food, hosted by award winning South Asian drag queen from Bradford, Lady Bushra.
Stick around after the Feast with Lady Bushra and enjoy a new cabaret/ party lineup that celebrates and spotlights South Asian Queer Joy. Breaking down misconceptions around being queer and South Asian and instead embracing culture and queerness to create something new, beautiful and authentic.

Friday evening event ticket
AMPBAR - Student Central
18.00hr £8.00 / £4.00

Festival ticket 1st - 3rd March - £15.00

A horror-themed choreographic show stops at RQRN Festival, as part of a UK and international tour

Marikiscrycrycry present Goner, a horror-themed choreographic show will stop at a University of Bradford festival as part of a UK and international tour.

Marikiscrycrycry will hold a workshop and two performances during the second and final weekend of the Right Queer Right Now (RQRN) festival.
2nd March 19.00hrs - doors opening 6.30pm included in the weekend pass, alongside the dance workshop (14.30hrs on the 3rd March) PLUS ACCESS TO AN AMAZING ARRAY OF OTHER ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

Download and view the full RQRN Festival Programme

This new shows include a horror-themed choreography piece, based on the character The Goner, looking at themes including alienation, migration and violence. It follows someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless case. It is the brainchild of Malik Nashad Sharpe, a choreographer and movement director whose work features dance and dark fantasy.

Malik said: “It feels really amazing to be able to go back to Bradford and to show a new work to the audiences that are there. I developed most of my last show in Bradford and so it feels really exciting to be able to come back there because I had such fond memories of my experience and I felt very inspired. I love the city”

Marikiscrycrycry will also hold performances in the USA, Lithuania, Sweden and Denmark during the tour, which will end with a series of shows in London in May 2025.

Single event tickets 3rd March showing is 18.30hrs - doors opening 18.00pm - £8.00 / £4.00

Festival ticket 1st - 3rd March which includes the peformances on the 2nd and workshop on the 3rd - £15.00

THE PRO 'DRAG' WRESTLING CABARET NIGHT YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED!

CAMP is the Coalition of Angry Macho Pussies, a Drag Wrestling cabaret night, providing us with an afternoon workshop and evening performace

Actual wrestling matches, burlesque, drag acts, cut scenes in the crowd, audience interaction, ring babes, 2 hosts - one good, one evil, to guide you through the night.

Single event tickets 2nd March performance - doors opening 19.30pm - £8.00 / £4.00

RINGSIDE LIGHT REFRESHMENTS INLCUDE: BURGER, HOTDOGS, VEGITARIAN PIZZA, VEGAN HOTDOG AND NACHOS WITH VEGAN VEG CHILLI SERVED TILL 10PM

Festival ticket 1st - 3rd March - £15.00 including both afternoon workshop and evening perofrmance.

Festival Tickets include access to all events over the weekend of 1st - 3rd March click here for full programme