Shout:
At Home

With a huge offering of 9 feature films and 5 shorts programme SHOUT Festival is working collaboratively with CineQ to bring you the very best queer film. Freely available for you to watch at your own convenience over the festival period (5-15 November) the whole programme is available for a mere £4.

See in SHOUT in style as Festival Manager Rico Johnson-Sinclair introduces this years offering. Contextualising the process of creating the festival this year as well as the work that has been produced and the artists that have been developed, this is a unique insight into SHOUT Festival 2020

Catch up with our Artist in Residence QUE.E.F to hear about how QUE.E.F was created, how it continues to create space for engaging, and often immersive experimental queer music and what they have planned for this years festival!

Join us for the unveiling of our new short documentary film made collaboratively with Tiger Feature’s Nicola Prestage and Rosie Powell that looks at the 50 year history of The Nightingale Club. After the screening join us for a Q&A some of the people that have contributed to the Nightingales sucess over the years

With sets from DJ Dolly, one of the staple DJ’s in nightingales in the last 50 years and DJ Corey Hadley who was prolific in the shift of more lesbian women being brought into the gales after previously having to be signed in, This should be a part to remember.

In this workshop, Meg will be working alongside the amazing Krishna Istha, to support arts organisation to try and break down the barriers that trans artists face in getting their work out there, while also investigating what needs to be done amongst the industry to make these spaces truly accessible for trans people looking to be a part of the sector.

Queer Iraqi-Egyptian drag artist Glamrou and Queer Egyptian theatre director and chef Seif Abdel Salam have been collaborating for over a year on Glamrou’s solo drag show, Quran to Queen, which explores the intersections of race, faith, and queer Identity.

Words are a powerful and transformative tool. The ways that we speak about and to ourselves can seriously affect our wellbeing and sense of self. Sanctuary exists inside our bodies.

Round out the day with a super relaxed community space that aims to add community to an extremely isolating time. Engage in a few exciting activities including a talk with Holly Revell around her portrait project ‘People Like Us’ and some games.

Holly Revell will be joined by Sabah Choudrey and Lucy Hutson to discuss their work, the zine which will be available to buy throughout the festival period until LGBT History Month and adds context to the collection of woork named People Like Us which documents portrayals of AFAB (Assigned Female at Birth) experiences.

This live recorded electronic synthesized AV performance will be filmed at the infamous Islington Mill warehouse.

Although the Birmingham concert venues as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Town Hall and Symphony Hall has continued to bring live music to the people of Birmingham and beyond.

Lesbian artist Crusty the Queen explores compulsive heterosexuality in a comedy about a young queer person discovering their sexuality. 

This specially made piece for SHOUT Festival is a multimedia, clown-performance that has been a work in progress for over a year now. Imagery and visuals designed by Cake Boi are projected onto their body which they interact with.

Are you an artist looking to explore live art and theatre performance online? Having originally created Unfamiliar for the stage, theatre maker Victor Esses (Where to Belong) and visual artist Yorgos Petrou are currently rehearsing for a virtual tour of Unfamiliar At Home, a new adaptation of their piece Unfamiliar created and performed in their home.

‘SIIRENX (Bath~time with a Mer~thing)’ is a new, live~streamed, multisensory performance from Sebastian H-W examining how we might decolonize Eurocentric ‘myths’ and ideals around gender, queerness, self-care, magick, ‘monsters’, limitations, transformations, and displacement – through the character~cryptid of the SIIRENX; your local land~locked~down ‘Mer~thing’ (a genderfluid ‘mer~man~maid’).

The piece Adaya has written for SHOUT Festival is spoken word based off of her own experiences of coming out in her mid twenties. It is inspired by the responses she received and the skepticism her queerness caused because of her seemingly heterosexual past.

Softly Spoken presents Goodybag! A lost-and-found for every party you’ve ever been to. We’re making 30 giftbags (made in COVID-secure ways) full to the brim with art, objects, softness and nonsense. Anything could be in it.

Join SHOUT Festival 2020 in giving Alex Billingham a golden shower as they drown your screens in glitter.

A live collection of works by HeretiX. HeretiX brings a sensory experience through live music and performance, showcasing the current trajectory of music and the ever-changing definition of ‘Pop’.

‘15st 9lb at the time of writing’ is a semiautobiographical summary of Dan’s experiences during lockdown, focusing on mental health and identity, positive body image and learning to love yourself within the new normal.

In preparation for this year’s Queer House Party at SHOUT Festival we would like to invite you to join us for an online “dress up extravaganza!” We will be taking an exclusive peek into the design room of “House of Noir” with auntie miss Ken Noir, where he will be sharing some of his designs advice and top tips, for the perfect runway look.

Despite everything going on in the world right now, there is no reason why you can’t get all dressed up and have a photoshoot! Join Effy, while we get all dolled up with an easy to apply glam makeup, including, prep and removal! With techniques, you will be able to add to your day to day routine in the future.

The U.K’s award-winning accessible andf inclusive house party hits Birmingham for a very special SHOUT Festival edition. Featuring some of the second cities favourite queens and kings this is going to be one you don’t want to miss.

Creating art is a way of accessing a meditative state. It can be used as a tool for coping with emotions, a conduit for expressing the profound, or simply the joy of bringing something into the world that wouldn’t have existed without you.

This piece will explore the notion that sexuality and sexual cues/thoughts are a hidden language within society; for most people these are inherent and naturally understood. For the estimated 1% of the population who are asexual, it is a different story.

This pre-recorded virtual performance, created especially for SHOUT 2020, counterpoints the lived experiences of gay men living in Johannesburg (South Africa) and Birmingham.

Ming talks to us about her recent exhibitions TAG (which exhibited at SHOUT Festival 2018) and TAG 2 which is available to view online. Giving life and context to her work, we investigate what it’s like to be a queer photographer and what draws her to work with portraiture and focus on human experiences.

Lead by Darren Pritchard, House Of Bab’s Birmingham premier vogue house will be serving you face! in a face performance video. No need to have your score cards ready cause it will be 10’s across the board.

In honour of our community, we welcome Lauren Hoyle to perform some of her best hits in a celebration of local musicians!

Step into the unforgettable magic of Fantabulosa! for an extra-fabulous drag show for families and children broadcast directly into your homes.

Join Instagram-famous musical sensation based in Birmingham as he performs some of his extremely catchy tracks for our community day!

Over one hour Zeddie Lawal and Adaya Henry are coming together to explore Utopian Daydreams In Lockdown. A queer journey filled with music, comedy, awkward pauses and storytelling.

The prince no longer kisses the princess, Cinderella helps her new husband to pick a new dress and the relationship between Mr Wolf and the three little pigs is a bit more complicated than you might have thought.

4 years ago, Barry met Bernárd. Both of them Irish, gay, and culturally Catholic. Barry is a performer. Bernárd is a priest. This meeting inspired Barry to dive into their own experiences of religion, sexuality and growing up gay in rural Ireland.

Wind down after an action packed festival as Festival Manager Rico Johnson-Sinclair reflects on the festival and reflects on what’s in store for the future of SHOUT Festival