Hesse K., Dove Kirubi, Delia Detritus, Jennifer Walton (DJ), Cliché Toupée, Sarah Jane Baker, Jessie Darling, Willow Swan, Seán Being, Luisa D. Rozo (DJ), Oopie, Nat Raha,& Oisín Roberts will perform as a chorus after Trans Pride 2025
Doors: 7pm
Tickets £6-15 Sliding Scale
An ensemble performance for a chorus of 13 performers on the occasion of London Trans Pride 2025. The ensemble piece is intended as an extension of the intimate call and response between trans people facilitated by this counter-hegemonic protest. Individual contributions of text, music, and performance will be structured in a scored improvisation which produces and withholds cacophony and silence.
Hesse K. is a doll of no renown, alleged 'cult emerging lit-girl', and the author of Disquiet Drive, published by Pilot Press in July 2024. She tries to write from the fringes or where things are sharp, about class, the lyric; having a body and its slippages.
dove / Christine Kirubi is a poet-artist based in London. She is the author of WILDPLASSEN published by the87press in 2024.
Delia Detritus is an improvising musician and sculptor, based in South London. She performs solo with vocals and modular synthesizers, and plays drums in the band Meat Strap.
Jennifer Walton is a musician and DJ based in London. She released Flash On through All Centre in 2020, WHITE NURSE on Mutualism, and produced and co-wrote Cryalot’s EP Icarus in 2022. She performs solo and as a member of Microplastics (alongside aya and 96 Back).
Cliché Toupee is a South London-based musician who sonically explores themes of deterioration and decay in her music. After years of experimenting with alternative and experimental sounds, she has recently shifted her focus toward rhythmic and dance-oriented forms of music.
Sarah Jane Baker primarily focuses on ensuring the human rights of transgender prisoners, raising awareness of baby deaths in female prisons and sharing her political art created while serving 30 years of a life sentence. She has exhibited everywhere from the Turner Contemporary, in Margate, to London’s Royal Academy, but on occasion both can be spotted with her protest dog Bobby rowing their dinghy on the River Thames, indulging her passion for street graffiti, or protesting topless outside Downing Street.
Sarah is also a violinist, guitarist and author of Life Imprisonment: An Unofficial Guide, Transgender Behind Prison Walls, and Borstal To Bedlam.
Jesse Darling is an artist working in sculpture, installation, text and sound. His practice delves into the fallibility, adaptability, and vulnerability of living beings, societies, and technologies. Darling was awarded the Turner Prize in 2023. https://bravenewwhat.org/
Photo: Nanténé Traoré
Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar. She is the author of four books of poetry, including apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024) and of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024) and co-editor of Radical Transfeminism zine.
Nat’s poetry is anthologised in 100 Queer Poems, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Versus Versus. Recent critical writing appears in Social Text, Queer Print in Europe, Transgender Marxism, Gestures: A Body of Work and Third Text. Performance work includes epistolary (on carceral islands), co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland, 2023. She teaches in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art.
Photo: Phyllis Christopher
Willow Swan is a sound artist based in London. Their work centers on long-form composition, acoustic phenomena, and the durational possibilities of drone. Working primarily with pipe organ, field recordings, and minimal processing, Swan explores harmonic instability, resonance, and texture through restrained, process-driven structures.
Seán Being (they/them) is a musician working, among other things, as a solo artist and member of Irish group Princ€ss. Ongoing interests include plainchant, emo bagpipe (as NECK with Mel Keane), car horns, and popular music.
Luisa D. Rozo crossfades between recordings from her lifetime’s auto-ethnographic researches and generated sounds as an internet fan-girl, in order to create landscapes and infrastructures that are weaved with her voice explorations of experimental Latin American folk song and rnb heartbreak melancholia.
Oopie (aka Opashona Ghosh) is an artist, lecturer and promoter. Their work takes an anti-colonial feminist approach to (un)worlding through artistic interventions and education.
Oisín Roberts is a writer, reader and bookseller from Derry, Ireland and living in London, England. He’s a DIY-librarian at Think Big, Read Community Library. He writes about what he’s doing and reading under Oisín Harmful/Inclusions. You can find an account on the ugly Instagram ether (@inclusions0000) or as a monthly contribution to the Sticky Fingers Publishing physical mailout. His first pamphlet is forthcoming with Burley Fisher Community Press in September 2025.
