As part of Staffordshire St's Festival of Community 2024 we invite you to a workshop with Trans Chorus.

Wash off your week with a sensory vocal bath created by and for trans and gender non-conforming folks.

TRANS CHORUS is a space for trans people to come together and revel in the sounds that come naturally to us, embracing that our voices may sit outside of gendered expectations. 

During this workshop, we will be tapping into vocal textures inspired by objects that tingle our senses, resonances that vibrate our bodies and harmonies that fills us with joy. Through playful embodied singing exercises we will improvise a collective vocal sound bath. The amazing artist, Yumé NET, will be creating a soft bed of electronic soundscapes for us to fold into throughout the workshop.

No previous singing experience is required. Just a willingness to listen and give it a go. The space will be held with the knowledge of the nuanced and changing vocal experience of trans+ people, which is affected by factors such as HRT, binding and speech training.

We welcome everyone who falls under the spectrum of transgender, whether that means your gender differs from the gender you were/are assigned, your gender can't be contained within binary prescriptions of gender, or you are at a stage of questioning your gender.

We recommend attendees wear clothes you can move in and bring a bottle of water. All movements will be accessible to people of all abilities. Please also bring an object that tingles your senses to be played with in improvisations!

Access
- The venue, Staffordshire Street, has step free access and is wheelchair friendly.
- The nearest train station is Queens Road Peckham overground. From there it is a 10 minute walk across wheel-chair accessible pavement. There is no free parking outside of the venue.
- There are accessible enclosed all-gender toilets on the ground floor.
- The workshop will be lit with soft lighting and over-powering sound levels will be monitored and minimised by the facilitator.
- There will be a soft corner of the room to land in if you need some quiet time.
- All exercises will be accessible to people of all abilities and divergences to exercises are welcome to suit attendees’ intuitive interpretation of what feels right for them.
- The space will be held with the knowledge of the nuanced and changing vocal experience of trans+ people, which is affected by factors such as HRT, binding and speech training.

If you have any access requirements or queries, please get in touch with the facilitator, margo, on mgmt.margomool@gmail.com


Info:

Friday 2nd August
19.00 - 23.00
18+ 

Schedule:

Tickets:

Pay-what-you-can, no one turned away for lack of funds

Information on collaborators:

margomool | @transchorus @margomool

The workshop will be ran by vocalist and music well-being facilitator margomool. Coming from a self-taught background, margo has cultivated their practice through improvisational spaces and performing. They have shared lineups with the likes of Sarathy Korwar and Laura Misch, and have appeared on stages such as Love Supreme Jazz festival. Driven by a belief that everyone should have space to musically express themselves, margo facilitates accessible sonic spaces, specialising in supporting people who are neurodiverse and or transgender. They resonate with creative embodiment practices that nourish individual and collective relationships with the vocal body and artistic curiosity.

Yumé NET | @yume_net

Yumé NET crafts coruscating, otherworldly musical landscapes that explore what it means to be human in an increasingly online society, using experimental, electronic jazz as a framework. Tender but heavy, calculated but loving, her music invites the listener to explore what lies between and beyond the 0s and 1s.

About the Festival of Community 2024: 

Staffordshire St presents our annual Festival of Community. The collaborative programme of workshops, events and fiestas will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets.

This year Pipe Dreams, a collaborative project conjured by Jimi and Madeleine Famurewa, will form the centrepiece of the Festival - prepare to be transported to the half-remembered fantasia of a London orbital waterpark in the mid-1990s.

Exploring notions of community, place and belonging,  over the summer Staffordshire St will become a locus for playful creativity and celebratory knowledge sharing.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

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