10.30 pm
Aaron Wright (UK)
Girls On Film / Screenings / 90′

A selection of performance documentation, performances to camera and other films curated and introduced by Aaron Wright of LADA including: Oreet Ashery, Nao Bustamante, Ann Liv Young, The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein, Qasim Riza Shaheen, Christeene, Vaginal Davis, Ursula Martinez and many more.

12,00 pm / Menza pri koritu
Laura Bridgeman, Serge Nicholson (UK)
There Is No Word For It (The (Trans) Mangina Monologues) / Reading performance, 2009 / 120′

There Is No Word For It is a performance and publication project about the UK female to male transgender experience based on real life stories. Inspired by Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, which uses verbatim theatre to uncover taboos around female sexuality, sex and empowerment, and Calpernia Adams’ Beautiful Daughters exploring the trans female experience, There Is No Word For It, unlocks histories that have never been told to explore sexuality, daily life, and finding a new language for… ‘It’ (not just our original & post-surgical plumbing but much more).

Written by: Laura Bridgeman, Serge Nicholson. Directed by: Lois Weaver. Visuals by: Simon Croft Laura Bridgeman trained as an actor at E.15 Acting School before she started writing. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA where she was awarded the HSC Scholarship and she has taught creative writing in HMP Littlehey, HMP Pentonville and HMP Holloway, London Metropolitan University and for Spread The Word. Laura founded girlboy in 2008, The (Trans) Mangina Theatre Project is the company’s first co-production.

Serge Nicholson is the Co-founder/Director of Transfabulous – International Festival Of Transgender Arts which aims to champion transgender arts and to encourage transgender artists and work exploring transgender culture. Serge is also previously known in various other guises including a magician’s assistant, a stripper, a community picnic host, Oxford House oh! art associate artist, a cook/chef and bottle washer. Lois Weaver is Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary, University of London and an independent performance artist, director and activist.

Simon Croft is a visual artist, whose work draws on his own experiences as a trans-man and the paradoxes inherent in trans-life, using different processes to reflect on themes of change, transformation and their associated challenges and insights.

Web: transmanginamonologues.com/index.html

Price: € 5. There’s a single ticket covering both performances at Menza pri koritu.
Organisation: City of Women; In collaboration with: Menza pri koritu.