This year, we’re partnering with Birmingham Black Box Theatre for our Festival Hub.
Open from Wednesday 16 October to Sunday 20 October, the Hub will be a space to mix and mingle with fellow artists and audience members alike. We’ll have food and drinks for purchase, too.
We’ll be activating the Hub throughout the Festival with performances: How Does It Feel? and Entepfuhl on Thursday and Come Hell or High Femmes: The Era of the Dolls on Friday. We’ll also host free community events like the Live Art Writers Network: Public Gathering, Producer Gathering: A Midlands Social! and Industry Happy Hours from Thursday to Saturday of the Festival.
Our Artists-in-Residence, husbands – trans siblings Yevheniya Kravets and Yann Slattery who use queer fiction and game structures to mock and trick power dynamics – will use the Hub to engage in a series of micro-performances and interventions.
Unbound
We’ll also be welcoming Unbound – the world’s only shop dedicated to Live Art, performance and interdisciplinary art practice – to the Festival Hub. Staff from the Live Art Development Agency will be found at the Unbound stall at the Festival Hub from Thursday to Saturday. Bring your spending money to get a hold of the most titillating titles this side of Tamworth (with features from some of your festival faves). There will be publications, zines and, for lucky Fierce-goers, free tote bags when you purchase 2+ titles! Or if you want your postie to carry your books home for you, use the code BAB10 to get 10% off across the whole online store until the end of October.
The Hub will be open during the following times:
Wednesday 16 Oct
Hub Open: 8:30 – 11 pm
Thursday 17 Oct
Hub Open: 11:00 am – 7:30 pm + 9:30 pm – 1:00 am
Happy Hour: 5 – 7pm
Events: How Does It Feel? from 11 am to 5 pm + Entepfuhl from 11 to 11:20 pm
Unbound: 5 – 7pm + 8:30 – 10:30pm
Friday 18 Oct
Hub Open: 12 pm – 8:30 pm + 10:00 pm – 1 am
Happy Hour: 3-5pm
Events: Producer Gathering: A Midlands Social! from 1-3pm + Come Hell or High Femmes: The Era of the Dolls from 10:30 to 11:50 pm
Unbound: 12 to 1 pm + 3 to 6 pm + 10 to 10:30 pm
Saturday 19 Oct
Hub Open: 11 am – 10 pm
Happy Hour: 5 – 7pm
Events: Live Arts Writers Network from 11:30am – 12:30pm
Unbound: 11am – 2 pm + 4 – 6 pm
Sunday 20 Oct
Hub Open: 12 pm – 11 pm