VFD presents: TALANOA at Glastonbury Festival

This year we’re programming a takeover of the NOMAD stage (Shangri-la, Glastonbury Festival)

Here you’ll find more info about the collectives involved and what the programme is about.

TALANOA - listen, learn, build, sustain. A Pacifika concept to come together to listen and exchange ideas

VFD[alston] is a queer arts space based in London. Founder Lyall Hakaraia has drawn on teachings from their Maori heritage to present a curated programme of talks, workshops and discussions on Diversity and Equity, the lack of representation, the inequality that persists in mainstream cultural programming and the actions that need to be taken to address this imbalance.

A space run with members of QTBIPOC and LGBTQIA+ grassroots organisations to have a dialogue with producers, curators, programmers and those who have lived experiences of inequality.

#talanoatalks   #levellingthefield  #diversityandinclusion   #dandeatglasto   #festivalsforall 

LINE-UP

DECOLONISE FEST

Finding Ceremony: a set tracing sonic histories of rebellion and groove to explore post-colonial space in Britain.

Decolonise Fest is a London-based, non-profit DIY punk festival collectively organised by and for punx of colour.

LADIES MUSIC PUB

Join Ladies Music Pub for a meeting on Friday.

LMP is a regular social and discussion group, founded by Hannah TW and Tyson Mcvey in 2015. It is an informal and supportive environment to meet other women and gender variant people in the music business. 

SEX & RAGE

In this crash course combining self-defence and mediation, Black Venus will take us on a journey through the body, mind and soul so that we can feel safer, more confident and more connected moving through the world. 

With over twenty years experience in the field, Black Venus is a martial artist bringing to life self-defence through her extensive background in facilitation and creative practices. She is co-founder of Sex and Rage, a sex worker and advocacy led organisation resisting stigma and shame through sex education.

BLACK OBSIDIAN SOUNDSYSTEM (B.O.S.S):

Established in the summer of 2018 with the intention of bringing together a community of queer, trans and non-binary black and people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism. Following in the legacies of sound system culture they wanted to learn, build and sustain a resource for our collective struggles.

FAGGAMUFFIN BLOC PARTY

Faggamuffin Bloc Party contributes to the landscape of Carnival as more than just another sound system. We embody a reclaiming of a tradition of resistance and liberation through celebratory expressions by and for our QTBIPOC community. 

BLACK TRANS PROJECT

A peer lead grassroots project whose objectives are to support and improve the wellbeing of the Black Trans(gender) community curated by Neneh Cherry & Lyall Hakaraia.