This autumn, students and staff from Rose Bruford College’s Theatre & Social Change BA (Hons) and Contemporary & Popular Performance (BA) Hons degree programmes, present a series of public, free-to-attend talks, Activating Change: Open Talks.
Duckie are a group of veteran LGBTQ club runners that emerged out of the wasteland of south London’s Vauxhall running their Saturday performance club every week for over 28 years. Led by Simon & Dicky, the Batman & Robin of the queer performing art world who produce the shows, are the executive and make everything work. In the twenty-tens, Duckie broadened its reach and began to develop new models of community theatre that targeted an audience outside of its core LGBTQ base. Specialising in popular forms arts and variety for working class subcultures, it produces a programme of socially engaged clubs that generate a healthy arts and cultural scene for communities outside of the mainstream, or on the so-called ‘margins’ including The Posh Club, The Slaughterhouse Club, Snowflake, PCDC and QTIBPOC Creatives.