18:00 - Welcome refreshments

18:30 - Silje's performance in stairwell

18:45 - Food (small buffet, help yourself until it runs out)

19:30 - Belladonna's performance

20:00 - Interlude

20:15 - Robert's performance

20:30 - Hang out :)

Belladonna Paloma will be performing a choose-your-own-adventure poetry reading inhabited by faeries, power bottoms, & a pantheon of toilet gods.

Silje Iversen Kristiansen will be singing a song for us.

Robert Carter will be debuting a scratch performance titled Plastic Flowers. Early middle-age-malaise infused spoken word opera inspired by some plastic flowers the artist recently discovered on a visit to his Grandad’s grave. Like a pound shop Baudelaire, Plastic Flowers moves through themes of longing, death, plastic & soil.

Belladonna Paloma (born UK) is an artist, poet & trans witch living on a remote croft in the Shetland Isles. She paints, tattoos, writes poetry, & makes computer games. Her work is into listening to faeries, how divination disturbs linear time, grief rituals, toilet gods & necromancy. Bella makes art as acts of devotion. This devotion has most recently centred on Shetland’s boglands, & wetlands more generally, continuing her interest in the politics & mysticism of what we choose to call ‘waste’. Some places her work has been published & exhibited by: Glasgow International Festival
(June 2024), Glasgow Zine Fair (2024), Almanac Journal of Trans Poetics (upcoming), The Overkill Festival, Netherlands, in collaboration with Uma Breakdown (2023), IMT Gallery, London (2023), Collective, Edinburgh, in collaboration with Rabindranath X Bhose & Oren Shoesmith (2023), Vital Capacities (2023), Sluice Magazine (2023), Museum of Contemporary Art, London (2023), TISSUEPAPER Magazine (2023), Gropius Bau, Berlin, in collaboration with Daniella Valz Gen (2023), Gaada, Shetland (2023), Sticky Fingers Publishing (2023), Art Licks (2022), Two Queens, Leicester (2022), Abingdon Studios Project Space, Blackpool (2022), Cariboo Projects, Bristol (2021), & Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire (2019). Her book-length poem about Bigfoot, There’s always things falling out the sky, was published by Pink Sands Studio Press, 2021.

Silje Iversen Kristiansen (born Norway) deals with human experiences & time, from a subjective point of view. She focuses on what’s asking for her attention from day to day, & takes it from there. Her work primarily take shape as drawings, installations, soundworks & performance.

Robert Carter (born UK) is an artist & writer from Manchester living in Oslo. He graduated from the Bergen Art Academy in 2020 with Notes on Dad, a short film which depicted the artist with his sister cleaning their dad’s apartment together. In 2022 he self-published the Dental Advice Bureau, a ‘lock down’ journal made up of creative non-fiction from seven artists. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Happy Man’ (Isotop, Bergen) & ‘Baked Painting’ (home alonE, Clermont-Ferrand).