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For almost 15 years, Shout has been platforming queer and LGBTQIA+ culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands- carving out space for vibrant, fun, and sometimes challenging art and culture. As we look to the future, we have shifted to a year-round-programme of activity to better meet our communities and provide a consistent place for people to find relevance and space!
Shout engages with local LGBTQIA+ people to support and seek out the events, projects, and conversations that feel urgent. From parties, to taking over galleries, from gathering histories, to performances in unusual spaces, we know that listening, dialogue, and positive disruption is crucial to ensure queer people have equal access to what the Birmingham has to offer.
Through our work we provide artist development support, providing opportunity for Work In Progress sharing, commissioning, and moments for people to gather and connect.
Shout is funded on a project by project basis. We are currently recipients of Arts Council England Project Grant. We are actively fundraising to expand our work and capacity.
Eric Scutaro is a Venezuelan choreographer, dance performer, and activist, currently living in the United Kingdom as a refugee. For over 15 years, Eric has been a pioneering force in Waacking and Voguing across Latin America—dance styles born from queer resistance that he uses as tools for cultural empowerment and LGBTIQ+ visibility.
His choreographic work is deeply rooted in street and club dance cultures, blending hip-hop, Waacking, and Voguing with political urgency and personal storytelling. Eric’s artistry centres on resilience, identity, and transformation—particularly through queer and trans perspectives within diasporic experiences.
In Venezuela, he was a key figure in establishing the country’s first legally recognized street dance company, providing professional platforms and stable jobs for young dancers. His long-standing collaboration with the British Council Venezuela included national youth programs and international representation, including performances in London and at the Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast.
Now based in Birmingham, Eric continues to expand his artistic practice through ongoing projects supported by one of the city’s leading queer arts platforms. His current group project, Disco Ball Extravaganza, celebrates queer joy and protest through Waacking, Hip-Hop, and community storytelling. He is also developing a solo performance inspired by the symbolism of the phoenix—exploring rebirth, non-binary identity, and his lived experience as a person living with HIV. The piece combines dance, voice-over narration, and visual symbolism, and is designed to be staged both indoors and outdoors.
Eric’s work builds bridges between Venezuela and the UK, advocating for dance as a radical language of hope, connection, and liberation.
Phoebe Rose Gilmore is a fiercely proud Brummie, who has a love for cities and the people that live within them. Their interests lie in contemporary dialogues and collective experiences that can support connection and action, as well as work that enables people to resee something they have seen hundreds of times (be it a high street, building, or bin!) and all the effects of somewhere being bought to life in a new way.
They have most recently finished at Moseley Road Baths overseeing the delivery and planning of pilot projects as part of Diving In a National Lottery Heritage Fund. The programme creatively explored the buildings role as a Civic Space and place of wellbeing alongside the major restoration works, before that Phoebe worked as part of Birmingham 2022 Festival.
Phoebe welcomes any and all conversations, so please do reach out.
Lacey McFadyen has worked in Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ community in various capacities and is currently a freelance artist and marketing manager, with 10 years previous experience in producing events.
Lacey started out creating self-funded events where there was a need for representation, resulting in five nightlife spaces for the community which connected with other creative brands in Birmingham. These events were featured in Red Bull ‘18 must-visit LGTBQ+ club nights around the UK’, Skiddle ‘best LGBTQ events and club nights’ and Dazed Magazine. Aswell as nightlife experience, Lacey also worked as an Operational Events Manager for The New Statesman and Progressive Media International.
Since 2022 she has been working as ‘The Social Sorceress’ a self employed Marketing Manager and Social Media content creator for Brummie local independent businesses. Connecting, showcasing and working with local Birmingham businesses and creatives is her passion, as well as bridging groups and communities in Birmingham with our LGBTQ+ community.
Jo worked in the arts for over 20 years, specialising in arts marketing and audience development. She spent 18 years at the Coventry museums, ultimately as Director of Marketing and Communications where she led on all exhibition launches and was responsible for marketing exhibitions, events, families, learning, and the permanent offer. She was the Director of Audiences and Programmes at Banbury Museum, leading on the restructure of the team and exhibition programming strategy, increasing income generation and long-term sustainability.
In 2019 Jo moved to Birmingham LGBT as Operations Manager, managing a range of externally funded projects including the Trans Inclusion Project, 50+ Wellbeing, Counselling and Shout as well as the day to day running of the LGBT Centre. She has a passion for widening access to arts and culture, particularly for underrepresented audiences who exist in the intersections of our community.
