Transform Presents: A Party for our Times

For one night only we are taking over iconic Leeds venue The Holbeck, the oldest working men’s club in England, for an equally iconic evening of adventure and revelry.   

We’re inviting some of the artists we’re most excited about from across Leeds, alongside trailblazing performers, artists and DJ’s to fill one of our favourite venues with riotous and rebellious performance, creating a party for our times and the party you need most in your life! Dust off your best moves and get ready for the kind of experience we’ll all be talking about until next festival.

This event runs from 7pm-11pm. Our exciting line-up commences at 7.15pm so get there early for the full experience! The bar will be open and we are thrilled that Vegan Spice  food truck will be on site selling delicious food.

The Line-up…

Come have a glass of Perry wine with your favourite gay Anti-Suzanne all the way from costa del stockport. Queen of Karaoke and a little bit of a slapper. Your favourite cruise ship performer is coming to the Holbeck to bring you a Cruise with Suze. 

Johnny the Biblical Rapper, your local, male, white, spoken word poet, is on the quest for closure and he’s gonna find it through whatever means necessary. Get your minty balls out, your grind on and your Weebles in…there’s a whole lot of Johnny, too much to fit in a tin. Tessa Parr is Johnny and Johnny is Tessa Parr, so you do the math! 

Vee Dagger is a Taiwanese lesbian drag artist inspired by villainesses, sixties technicolour, overwrought horror, and birds. Her work draws on the aesthetics of Taiwanese opera and lesbian identity to explore the melodrama of overwhelming emotion. 

MoMa – Mayowa and Michael, are Leeds based dance artists. With their rich and diverse backgrounds and influences, they work collaboratively to create site-specific pieces through movement improvisation, audience interaction and culturally relevant devising. 

Bakani Pick-Up Company create improvisational work centred around ‘ways of being’ within performative structures.  They’ll be presenting extracts from Recovery Mode – a post-apocalyptic exploration of future bodies as they present themselves in the present, attempting to learn what it means to be human. Choreography by Theo Clinkard. Dramaturgy by Leah Marojevic. Music by Luke Nickel. 

Samuel Lanchin is a Leeds-based artist interested in (re)making things again and again. Using sculpture, performance and moving-image, he creates objects and ideas that have or will pass through many hands. His work employs different materials to offer multiplicity in entry points and meanings.

DJ and record collector Lucy Lockett DJed at Leeds’ iconic Speedqueen for more years than they care to remember. Spending way too much money Disco 12”s, this local legend is currently resident at pumping queer party Love Muscle. 

Leeds based DJ/Producer and member of SISU collective, Shauna, has been an upcoming name on everyone’s radar this year; with an eclectic play style which encompass everything from house, techno and breaks, to club and footwork, and her own productions leaning towards techno and breaks. 

Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, as part of the network Festivals of the Future.