Featuring:
Fatt Butcher is an award-winning cabaret artist, vocalist, and professional hot mess based in Birmingham. Heralded by critics as an ‘incredible vocal powerhouse’ and ‘the accelerating decline of humanity’ by trolls on twitter, Fatt has performed across the UK including at Mighty Hoopla and Latitude Festivals. They were notably the first person to sniff poppers live on national television. Fatt’s work explores fatness, care, community, and togetherness. They are interested in what queerness has to offer the world.
For Club Urania, Fatt will share extracts of newly created music & performance developed on residency at Cambridge Junction exploring the spiritual possibilities of queerness and the mystic powers of poppers.
Emily Pope is an artist living and working in London. Her work focuses on the history of experimental broadcast media, satire, intersectional feminism, dyke subjectivities, political rhetoric and class politics. Previous projects include Yank the Chain (with Ruth Angel Edwards), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2022); One in Every Village, The Box Museum, Plymouth (2021); The Sitcom Show – Series Finale, Peak Gallery, London (2019). She was a residency artist for The White Pube in 2018 and her writing has been published by Elephant Magazine, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Bookworks, Montez Press and Auto Italia, among others. Pope is a recipient of the Loewe Foundation / Studio Voltaire Award 2023-25.
For Club Urania, Pope will share work from her ongoing film series, Poison Pen Letters, (2023 – present). The series takes online letter templates for writing to MPs as a starting point. To avoid being easily deleted or ending up in a junk folder, the videos respond to the advice to personalise letters as much as possible. In Poison Pen Letters, the form of the karaoke lyric video is repurposed to deliver the letters Pope wrote to various members of government in moments of national and global crisis.
