THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER, 6:30PM

Canal is a co-operative queer press and bilingual magazine in English and Spanish that supports radical, errant and experimental work by researchers, artists and poets.

Join us to celebrate Canal's fresh releases in fiction and poetry: Frot the World by Fer Boyd, Réplica by Rebecca Close, and Chaos Rehearsals by Madeleine Stack.

Joining Fer, Rebecca and Madeleine on the night will be local creatives Camila Ospina Gaitán and Dr Nat Raha.

This will be a sit-down evening of live-readings and talks from these five exciting, fresh voices.

Register via Eventbrite here and pay-what-you-can on the night (suggested: £5)

Fer Boyd’s bodily theories and ecstatic narratives manifest in sound, performance and text. They have been published by Extra Extra, Afterall, Liverpool Biennial and Whitechapel Gallery, and in 2018 they won the Prix International for Creative Critical Thinking awarded by the Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco for Skinned and Detouched, a pair of books with Alice Channer, published by Eastside Projects and Motto Books.

Rebecca Close writes expansively through poetry, ceramics & creative coding. Their first collection valid, virtual, vegetable reality (2018) won the Melita Hume Prize in London. They are one half of artist duo Criticaldías, whose work has been performed and exhibited widely, including at Tate Liverpool, Serpentine Museum and MACBA, and whose videos are in Spain’s HAMACA collection.

Madeleine Stack’s sculpture and poetry considers contemporary votive practices in queerness, revolution, religion and communications technology. Their writing has been published in Hotel, Cordite, aqnb, Another Gaze, Salt, un magazine and Doggerland, and they were a finalist in BOMB’s 2022 Poetry Contest. Their audio-essay Portable Monument was commissioned by the BBC and ICA for national radio broadcast.

Camila Ospina Gaitán is a Colombian artist. She studied in Bogotá at Javeriana University and in 2016 she was awarded with the LAP program scholarship from the Japanese government; Studying in Nagoya and Tokyo in Sophia (上智大学 ) University. Her projects are developed by different media such as sculpture, installation, and photography, working concepts as identities through the aesthetics of the ordinary. Nowadays, she is in Scotland finishing her MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh University, she is working with her Colombian identity in international spaces, deconstructing the international sexualization and stereotyping of Latino Woman.

Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the author of three collections of poetry, of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018), countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010). Her creative and critical writing has appeared in numerous publications and she has performed her work internationally. Nat holds a PhD in queer Marxism from the University of Sussex, and co-edits Radical Transfeminism Zine.

This event will not be socially distanced, so we ask that you please wear a mask if you're able to.

Accessibility: please note that there are three stairs to enter the event space.

BKco. events are open to all, but we prioritise a safe space for women and people of marginalised genders.

DETAILS:

Date: Thursday 15 December

Time: 6:30pm

Address: Blunt Knife Co., 41 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

Tickets: Pay-what-you-can on the night (suggested £5)

Registration: via Eventbrite here

Any questions: email holler@bluntknife.co