Calling all LGBTQ+ women!
Join us for a night of talent from amazing LGBTQ+ women – including you! – and a great opportunity to socialise to kick off Manchester Pride
community@lgbt.foundation
We’re bringing together some fantastic headliners to entertain you and are inviting YOU to perform in one our open mic night slots. We’re so excited to see all the amazing Sapphic talent Greater Manchester has to offer from poetry, to comedy, and music! After these amazing performances, stick around for some opportunities to socialise and meet some people as Manchester Pride weekend begins.
Headliners for this edition of Sapphic Showcase are:
UNTITLED WOMAN started making music just a few years ago. Her background is in film and performance. Her songstry brings elements of electronic, processed guitar and poetic vocals and has been described as a mixture of hypnotic, beautiful and genre defying darkness. In this set, she tells stories of love: the good, the bad, the ugly and everything inbetween. Prepare to be transported… “Hypnotically dark… a powerful, jazzy-inflected voice… a little like Annette Peacock with hints of Bowie’s Jacques Brel experiments when he re-worked, ‘Amsterdam’. Resilient…slightly odd-ball…austere, but extremely climatic and a bit out-of-worldly…” (International Times)
CARSON WOLFE (they/she) is a Mancunian poet and winner of New Writing North’s Debut Poetry Prize (2023). Their work has appeared with Rattle, The Rumpus, The Common, and The North, amongst many others. They were longlisted in The National Poetry Competition (2023) and have received awards from The Aurora Poetry Prize, The Edward Thomas Fellowship and Button Poetry. They are an MFA student of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and currently serve as a teaching assistant on the online writing course Poems That Don’t Suck. Carson lives in Manchester with her wife and three daughters. You can find them at www.carsonwolfe.co.uk.
Due to unforeseen circumstances Lauren Temple is now unable to perform.
Applications for open mic slots are now closed. Our event will be LGBTQ women centred but our audience is open to all. Anyone attending will be expected to follow our Safer Spaces Policy.
This event is taking place at HOME Manchester, in their amazing Event Space on the second floor. There are three levels to the building, including the ground floor and these are all accessible via a lift. There are accessible toilets on all levels and Gender Neutral Toilets are located on the Ground Floor.
Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. The cabaret and open mic will finish at 9.30pm, including interval. You are then invited to stay and socialise!
This is an event organised by LGBT Foundation. This event is for those aged 18+ only. Please direct any questions or access needs to women@lgbt.foundation.
