Someone great once said, dance is a spiritual thing. After a somewhat difficult and painful indoctrination to the church as a child, it’s a huge relief to have found a community where queer love, support and healing exists in our deeply and powerful queer spiritually. There is a strong kindness, friendliness and support found on our dance floors. An amazing ephemeral moment to be our best human selves and in commune with our community. It’s a place where our compassion and care for one another resides.
But we’ve seen so many beloved physical community places and spaces of dancing / worship be derailed, destroyed and decimated through gentrification, the olympics, policing, greed, redevelopment, lockouts and viruses. The list of casualties too many mention.
One queer adjacent venue The Oxford Art Factory is definitely one place that is deeply connected to our night time community. This venue have recently acquired The Lansdowne Hotel, which until only recently was earmarked for redevelopment into yet another ubiquitous apartment building.
Fortunately today we have our own bricks and mortar cultural institutions like the The Red Rattler and The Bearded Tit whose resiliency and care have galvanised their importance as sacred in our hearts & minds.
One queer adjacent venue The Oxford Art Factory is definitely one place that is deeply connected to our night time community. This venue have recently acquired The Lansdowne Hotel, which until only recently was earmarked for redevelopment into yet another ubiquitous apartment building.
We are loving our regular monthly, late Saturday night, inner west queer community dance, channeling the spirit and fevor of our dearly departed Phoenix Bar, with some of the most incredible guest music selectors every month. Next Saturday we are joined by two of our beloved faves, the astoundingly amazing and awe inspiring Annabelle Gaspar and Lorna Clarkson. Hosting duties from the kind and kalon Kelly Lovemonster.
On the 20th of August from 11:59pm to five am, upstairs at the Lansdowne. It is free for community to get in. Simply rsvp by email [email protected].
We acknowledge that this event takes place on stolen land belonging to the Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation. We pay respect to those that have passed before us and acknowledge today’s Aboriginal people as the custodians of this land. This land has been in the generation of Gadigal custodians before us and will be for thousands of years to come. Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded, this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.