The project asks: How can the lgbtqia+ community use our queer folk-art skills to respond to climate emergency?

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Long term  "Drag Declares Emergency" / Drag is Folk proejcts are supported and comissioned through:

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A digital residency with Craftspace, Birmingham and The Civic Barnsley 2021-22

A working class heritage grant from English Heritage 2023-24

An ACE Proejct Grant 2024-25

 

Working towards a touring outdoor installation of Drag as Folk Art 2025-26

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On Feb 6th 2023 Craftspace, launched a digital space and set of #EcoDragChallange crafting instructions co-created by Kitt & LGBTQIA+ community groups & drag houses around the UK

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The wider project aims to explore the histories and possible futures of drag as a folk art

 

The project so far has particularly focused on:

·       Histories of drag kings, principle boys, non-binary performers

·       Disabled drag performers

·       How the folk art traditions of mutuality and solidarity through collaborative making, are reflected in drag houses/ families and how this can be developed to support performers in creating more environmentally sustainable drag in the future

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The project is nurturing a network of resource sharing &mutual support, to understand our histories as queer performers and work together to nurture nourishing, planet-kind and just futures.

 

Drag Declares Emergency (inspired by Culture Declares Emergency ) aims to learn from drag histories to grow queer folk-art skills in order to create work that minimises negative environmental impacts, whilst continuing to develop the joyful, exuberant, powerful folk-art of drag!

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