July - HTCAP residency at Piehouse Co-op!
This month there is a PLETHORA of events by your favourite collective, How to Catch a Pig, at your favourite venue, Piehouse Workers Co-op!!! Cancel all existing plans and alert the group chats, this is the only place to be for the next couple of weeks!
First up on the roster is one of our HTCAP POC grant winners, two amazing artists coming together to create a new and experimental music experience.
July 18th - how to catch a pig and blu sun red sun presents GENREMUSTFALL, a night of Black queer experimental sound, blending borders and realities to create anew. genre falls, the dancefloor calls–the recovery of pan-Afrikan electronic music is first and foremost. https://ra.co/events/2202184
Then, we enter the week of HTCAP Trans Pride! We’ve been working away on this for months, and I am so excited to have the first HTCAP events since the Piehouse has reopened! I hope to see you at all of them! Full week tickets are £25, but you can get individual days for £7.
First up on Tuesday the 22nd of July, the phenomenal legends that are TGirlsOnFilm are screening Criminal Queers, a DIY queer abolitionist comedy that visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. The collective will be joined by 2 trans sex workers from Thorn to discuss the film.
On Wednesday 23rd of July we have a stacked double bill! From 6pm - 8pm is Shadows Fight Club leading a self defence class for trans+ peoples. If you are transfemme and would like to attend for free, let us know on howtocatchapig@gmail.com !
Afterwards from 8pm - 10pm is a DJ class with our resident trans icon, sadqueersclub. Become the hot trans DJ in your friendship group - this could be you!
The £7 ticket gets you entry to BOTH events, though there is no pressure to attend both we do strongly believe both skills will be equally useful in a post revolution society xx
On Thursday the 24th, we have a truly star studded version of How To Catch A Poet! With headliners Dr Nat Raha, D Mortimer, T, and Teo!
Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar. She is the author of four books of poetry, and is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024) and co-editor of Radical Transfeminism zine.
Nat has been active in numerous collectives over the past 15 years, including in queer and trans mutual aid, healthcare, and anti-austerity groups. She teaches in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art.
D Mortimer is a writer from London interested in the crip unknown. Their first book Last Night a Beefjerk Saved My Life was published with Pilot Press in 2021. Speed Glum Hero, a monograph, is out now with Sticky Fingers Publishing.
T you will recognise from the last HTCAPoet, as they were an unsuspecting audience member forced up on stage (as is tradition), and Teo you will recognise as being one of the legends from issue 1 of The Pig Catcher!
Bring your enemies and allies alike, get ya notes app prepped, cuz its gna be a big one!
On the Friday 23rd, the eve of trans pride, we are pulling out ALL the stops for this HTCAP! Featuring trans punks, sex workers, organisers and agitators from our community, you do not want to miss it!
Then the final trans pride event is a totally free pre pride breakfast, hosted by our absolutely best friends at T Time. Look at this gorgeous poster! Come and have baked goods!
Wait.. theres LITERALLY still more!
On July 30th, I am beyond excited to announce one of our POC grant winners, Transmission Zones. One of the stand out applicants from the grant, this event promises imagined realities, revolutionary possibilities, immersive experiences, and everything that sets pig aside from other events. To get a ticket, choose your own adventure on the website below..
Finally on our lineup is Haus of Staynes Drag Game! Another absolute stand out submission to the POC grant! Continuing the legacy of uplifting Black and Brown queer, trans drag royalty, we hobble-strut on the runway and dance our way to disability justice. Moving beyond tired gendered themes and ableist rules, we imagine up wild categories rooted in crip-queer culture. Taking place on August 1st, ticket link to be released soon but get it in the diary for now! 😈
Wow! We are truly back with a BANG! Piehouse Workers Co-op is the venue where pig was born, and it feels huge to be taking over the venue in such an excellent way for July, showcasing so much new fresh political work!
I want to take a second to say, its very well documented that events by Black artists are often very poorly attended by white community members, so I wanna see all of the Pig regulars front and centre supporting each other and lifting each other up!
Byeeee!xx