A Triple Bill: Chanje Kunda (Live Art), Kitty Velour (Dance), Afshan Lodhi (Performance Lecture)
A scintillating selection of tantalising performances that are a celebration of PRIDE.
Chanje Kunda presents ‘Celestial Bisexual’ a a live art, multi-media performance, combining large cosmic imagery taken by the Hubble telescope, projected into the space and on her body, combined with dance, movement and out of this world poetic descriptions of bisexual bliss, coupled with euphoria.
Afshan D’Souza-Lodhi Presents ‘How To Eat Mangoes’ a performative, interactive lecture. This sensual piece takes the audience through the intricacies of the mango and unearths the hidden sexual core that sits in the centre of our beings. When our hands are enough to rupture skin, do we bring a knife to a mango fight? Are we afraid of getting messy, of truly digging deep inside flesh and tasting honesty? How to Eat Mangoes is a radical antidote to the narratives of destruction and death that we are being fed by the mainstream media.
Kitty Velour is a pole dance princess, booty-popping showgirl and dreamy aerial bisexual artist from Manchester! ‘My performances are a celebration of female sexuality in its most unapologetic and unbridled form. In a society that often shames female sexuality, I love to push the boundaries . Female sexuality is a gift that is empowering, beautiful and badass.
Chanje Kunda is a poet, performance artist and film maker. Her work explores 21st century life, and aims to use art as a tool to transform lives, shift consciousness and bring joy to an otherwise serious and stressful modern existence. She predominately works as a solo artist creating content across the literary, theatre, live art and film sectors. She has presented work nationally and internationally, including at the Southbank, London, National Arts Festival of South Africa, and Harare International Festival of Arts, Zimbabwe.
Afshan D’souza-Lodhi was born in Dubai and forged in Manchester. She is a writer of scripts and poetry. Her work has been performed and translated into numerous languages across the world. afshan was a 2020 LabFellow for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University and took her one-woman show ‘How To Eat Mangoes’ to Washington DC in 2022. In 2021, afshan was a Sky Writes writer-in-residence for Rotherham, a partnership between Sky Studios and New Writing North. Last year, she was part of the Royal Exchange and WarnerMedia writers exchange programme and was an Oldham Coliseum artist-in-residence. afshan was selected as one of the BAFTA BFI Flare mentees for 2022, and has developed a TV series with Sky Studios. She is also developing a TV series with co-writer Joe Willis and PDA films.
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Kitty Velour is a dynamic force of pink, bouncy, sparkly energy and is known for her heel-clacking, and split-popping performances. As a bisexual Filipina, she flips the script on narratives of queer/asian sexuality and advocates for these marginalised groups. Kitty has performed and taught workshops all over the world, having recently performed with Snoop Dog! Blackstage even described her as "an entire genre' - she is considered a household name and a pole dance icon!
