Partisan Collective, Jezebel & So La Flair present
JEZEBEL: THE GRAND OPENING
Jezebel Presents partnered with So La Flair to create their ‘Jezebels Grand-Opening’ marking the first of a regular Partisan underground live music night. We transformed the Partisan Mill space into a vaudeville backstage dressing room and created a camp as ever cabaret to feature alongside the live music performances.
Date: Saturday 22nd April 2023
Location: Partisan Collective, Islington Mill, 1 James St, Salford, M3 5HW
Order Of Events: Art Exhibition Viewing (5pm - 8pm), Dawn Till Dusk Cabaret (8pm - 10pm), After Dark Bands then DJs (10pm - 4am)
ROLL UP, ROLL UP ALL ARTISTS AND HEATHENS GALORE
We invite you to the party behind the stage door
Where we gather the divine, the beautiful and strange
The extravagant, excessive and slightly deranged.
Welcome to the imaginarium all queer and curious creatures
To the show behind the curtain where everyone features
Run away with the circus, down the rabbit hole you fall,
We welcome all pleasure-seekers to the Jezebel Ball.
CREATIVE TEAM
Creative Director: Natalie Papa
Cabaret Directors: Lucy Laverty & Scarlett Spicer
Designer: Emily Pudd
Assistant Designer: Rohan Etchingham
Photography: @ellenrosemoss (B&W Film photographs), @yonky.donkey (Colour Digital photographs)
SO LA STARS
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Performer
Judas Darkholme (they/them) is the marriage between curiosity and monstrosity. Always one to dance to the beat of their own drum, their enticing, high-energy performances infuse spoken word, punk interrogations and camp reiterations.
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Performer
Slut Boy (they/he) is a genderqueer performer inhabited for one night by the spirit of a disgraced clown- who was kicked out the circus for being too naughty! He hopes to scare, confuse and arouse the audience with their raunchy antics.
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Performer
Vincetta Vaudeville, the artist’s newest persona, explores the character tropes of the ‘daddy’s girl’. Alice Bowen (she/her) uses the song ‘Missed Me’ by The Dresden Dolls to channel this:
The circus is where you may reveal your true self to what the real world would view as obscenity. Where does Vincetta stand when morality and normality are no longer at hand? At what point does innocence become evil or seduction become deception…
Young, delicate Vincetta is stuck in a state of disorientation, coming to terms with her unrequited love. Will her seductive endeavours and threat of power go too far…?
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Host
Bulldaggers, Flappers, Jockers, Dykes and Jazzers: The G to end ‘er, the G so tender leaves nothing to the imagination and all to the night. Strap in and strap on for Georgie Harold-Moss (they/she) aka The Jaw Droppin’ G as Monsieur Madame Jezebel; a curator of cabaret with both vocal and improvised performance haggling in taboo, queer and interactive stagecraft.
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Supporting Hosts
Joe Conway (he/they) is a performer, poet and musician from Doncaster, now living in Manchester. He hosts a poetry and comedy night at Creatures Comedy each month (Poets and Punchlines). Joe directed and wrote a play for Switch_MCR last year and also probably does other things he’s forgotten. A jack of all trades and a master of nothing, least of all himself.
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Band
It’s full band and full monty with Natalie and the Monarchy.
Influenced by Riot grrrl and Dark Cabaret, Natalie and the Monarchy falls somewhere between grunge and theatre. Haunting and danceabe, they’re a provocative treat.
Natalie is the founder of Jezebel Presents and commissioned So La Flair to programme Jezebel’s opening cabaret.
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Performer
Come one, come all! As Velvet Fox (she/her) invites you to step into her boudoir and peep if you dare. Velvet is a theatrical spectacle of delight, tease and glamour. Enchanting audiences across the world with a slip of a glove and a cheeky smile. Velvet is here to make sure you get a little bit hot under your collar.
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Supporting Hosts
Professionally silly Katie Grenville (she/they) is a visual artist, writer, filmmaker and performer. They are a lover of absurdist comedy and rhinestones. Katie has performed drag routines, comedy and poetry in venues all over both London and Manchester.
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DJ
ATALAYA (they/them) is an open-format DJ who has marked Manchester’s newest wave of queer Reggaetón and Latinx Club music with their distinctive sound, which blends many club genres from around the world, and through their latest endeavour as host and creator of Steam Radio’s monthly show Traketeo. Their show platforms fems, trans+ and queer artists making and mixing Reggaetón and Latinx Club music, as part of varied selection of upcoming and established sounds. You can keep up with the amazing range of guest and featured artists on their instagram page: @atalayafuego
Photo Credit: @sara_carpentieri_as part of local arts progect queer.mcr
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DJ
DJ Duckdown (they/them) is an enthusiastic genre-hopper with a special love for disco. They can be found providing thumping tunes for queer dancefloors across the North.
DJ Duckdown is a member of the Manchester based collective All Hands On Deck and is a resident DJ for Queer Latifah.
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DJ
Nat is Partisan’s darling DJ club resident. They scraped the night with some darkwave that put some chest on that hair and created such a visceral sense of blood lust that the crowd went feral.
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Head Of Design
Emily Puddephatt (she/her) is a designer and performer, from Sheffield based in Manchester. She has marketed and created sets for two productions: ‘Gundog’ by Simon Longman, for which she was awarded ‘Best Design’ at the Manchester in Fringe Theatre Awards and ‘Bundle of Joy?’ by Imogen Chillington which went to the Edinburgh Fringe festival 2022. Emily was the incredbile set designer of So La Flair’s valentines soiree; Cupid’s Coven. Playing with colour, texture and natural forms, Emily’s set design strive to create immersive spaces that excite the audience's senses.