The Queery is excited to welcome Lalah-Simone Springer and special guests for an evening of performance from 7pm - 10pm. Common Birds Tour is a celebration of Lalah-Simone Springer's debut poetry collection An Aviary of Common Birds which explores connection, community, love, and loss from a Black queer, working-class perspective.

6.30pm - Doors open

7pm - Performance by Lalah-Simone Springer (20 mins)

7.20 - Comfort break

7.40 - Performance by Carlos Mauricio Rojas

7.50pm - Performance by Naomi Woods

8pm - Comfort break/buying books

8.30-9.30pm - Open Mic hosted by Lalah-Simone Springer

MEET THE SPECIAL GUESTS

Carlos Mauricio Rojas is a spoken word poet, musician, gardener and carer. Their work is rooted in fragmented cultural mixed race identity and heritage. Writing as a practice of celebrating the queer and trans beauty that exists in all ecosystems, weaved together with political observation and lament for the devastating loss impacted by colonisation and climate change. They have performed at the Roundhouse, The Albany Theatre, The Young Vic Theatre, Tate Modern in London and The Star and Shadow in Newcastle and Soup in Manchester. Their work has been published by the 87 Press, Montez Press, Writerz n Scribez, and Clav Mag.

'Naomi is a spoken word performer and theatre practitioner. She creates pieces that incite joyful disobedience, frequently merging the theatre and circus with storytelling and spoken word. She is currently touring her 1-person show 'Gobbess' which is a true story of rage and becoming. It will be at Brighton Spiegeltent on May 8th and 29th. She has a poetry collection of the same name & runs writing workshops at The Feminist Bookshop Brighton.'