Queens of the Circulating Library

Queens of The Circulating Library is a free afternoon event of new readings and performances which rotate around ideas that could be thought of as "queer". This project was kickstarted from a novel by Angus McGrath which melds theory and fiction in a performative approach to writing in an attempt to make sense of queerness as a mode of incomprehensibility and unfixity that has the potential to challenge order. In the stages of final edits of this book, McGrath has brought together local artists, writers, and thinkers whose practices engage in these same areas of expanded, critical "queer" thinking, and commissioned them to freely develop new work prompted by these themes.

This event presents new work from: akka, Levent Can Kaya, Darren Lesaguis, Laura Luciana, Angus McGrath, Snack Syndicate, and Marcus Whale. 

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT ENGAGES IN MATURE THEMES.

This event takes place on Bidjigal Country, land which was never ceded. All artists in this event acknowledge that there is no queer liberation without global liberation for Indigenous People.

Many thanks to UNSW Creative Practice Lab for supporting this event with venue access. 

This project is supported and funded by the Randwick City Council.