Club Urania
Friday 16 September, 8pm-midnight

In-person tickets are now SOLD OUT, however online tickets are still available. Book tickets to Club Urania via Cambridge Junction here.

Please note that the lift to the upper level is out of service, so there is no wheelchair access to the Decompression Space.

Re-entering the atmosphere after a sold out first season, Club Urania is back!

Cambridge’s premium performance and music night for LGBTQ+ people and allies returns this autumn. Bringing you a constellation of star performers, otherworldly open-mic, and heavenly mixes from resident DJs.

For the first Club Urania in our next season, Wysing Arts Centre in conjunction with A Language of Holes, are pleased to present Nat Raha.

Nat Raha will be presenting a new work-in-progress with a particular emphasis on centring captioning and access in the development of the work. This work-in-progress is commissioned by Wysing in partnership with Sarah Hayden and AHRC funded A Language of Holes, a project that explores innovative approaches to captioning in live contexts.

Also performing the same night will be a fabulous performance from Jake Wood, as well as brilliant sets in our regular open mic slots.

Club Urania is committed to reducing barriers to access, providing pay-what-you-feel tickets, a decompression space in the venue, and live-captioning. This season is expected to sell out so get your tickets early!

Spring 2022 season featured the best of contemporary queer performance including the likes of Whiskey Chow, Catherine Hoffman, Harold Offeh, Pink Suits, Symoné, and Wet Mess.

Club Urania is a collaboration between Cambridge Junction, Wysing Arts Centre, Roeland van der Heiden, Diarmuid Hester, and Celia Willoughby. 

Tickets

Club Urania will be live streamed on zoom for those that aren’t able to attend in person.

Click HERE for in-person tickets.

Click HERE for livestream tickets.

Access Information

Club Urania events are live-captioned both in-person and on the livestream.

A wheelchair-accessible decompression space is also available during the night, which will be signposted on the night.

We will provide sensory information such as lighting and noise levels at the start of the night.

If you have any questions about accessibility of the event, please get in touch with Hannah Wallis on hannah.wallis@wysingartscentre.org.

For more information about accessibility at Cambridge Junction please visit their website here.

About Nat Raha

Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work is of an experimental queer lyric, attending to the everyday of marginalised lives, hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism, of humans and more-than-humans. She works through de/re/materialising sound, form and syntax, on the page and in performance.

Nat 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). Recent anthologies featuring her work include 100 Queer Poems, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene, ON CARE, What the Fire Sees and Makar/Unmakar. Nat’s creative and critical writing has appeared on Poem-a-Day, and in The New Feminist Literary Studies, South Atlantic Quarterly, Third Text, TSQ, Transgender Marxism (Pluto Press, 2021) and Wasafiri Magazine. Her work has appeared in recent exhibitions at Mimosa House London, yaby Madrid, and in 2021 she co-curated 'Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism' Exhibition at Glasgow Women's Library.

Nat holds a PhD in queer Marxism from the University of Sussex. She co-edits Radical Transfeminism zine; and is co-authoring a book Trans Femme Futures: An Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds with Mijke van der Drift.

About A Language of Holes

A language of Holes is a project co-developed by Wysing Arts Centre and Sarah Hayden, with support from the AHRC. Together, we are developing innovative and creative approaches to making live art and performance events maximally (and excitingly) accessible.