Artist Rosana Cade is looking for participants to take part in her performance of Walking:Holding, which takes place at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton as part the Pink Fringe in October.
Walking:Holding, a performance where one audience member at a time gets to go on a walk and hold hands with a range of different people, has been performed in Bristol, Ipswich, Dublin, Cork, London and Edinburgh.
As a participant you would get to meet a new group of people and take part in a workshop exploring the themes within the project in order to prepare for the performance. During the performance you would be positioned at a certain point along the route, and walk holding hands with each audience member one at a time for about 5 minutes.
Rosana said:
“I started this project because as a gay woman I found that I was sometimes uncomfortable holding hands with my partner in public.
“I spoke to other gay people about this, and they said that they had all experienced the same feeling at least once in their lives. Some people said that they never felt comfortable enough to hold hands with their partners in public. This is something that makes me feel very sad, and something I wish to challenge.
“I began a series of experiments in Glasgow where I walked holding hands with lots of different people in public, and I became interested in how different I felt with each person, and also the differences in the way other people on the street reacted towards me. I held hands with someone much older than me, with a pregnant woman, with a tall black man, with a goth, with a cross dresser, with an Indian woman and with my girlfriend.
“People who have participated before have found it to be a very interesting and profound experience, where they have had an opportunity to learn a lot about themselves, and also to meet a lot of other people.
“In order to make it an interesting experience for each audience member I need to work with people who are as different to each other as possible, e.g. a range of ages, backgrounds, genders, sexualities, appearances and identities.”
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You would need to be available on Thursday, October 17 & Friday, October 18 for the workshops, and on Saturday, October 19 & Sunday, October 20 for the performances.
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