It contains 3 multi functional spaces that are used based on the needs of the user. ‘Learning and participation’ facilitates a large program of works. 

Uses range from gallery > community

 Artist speaker events

 Workshops

 Learning courses

 Family events 

The space itself is meant to be liberating, informal and social.

The people and groups who utilise the spaces tend to be queer focused but are a range within the community. 

“Provides a queer safe space”

“Its a transformative space, facilitating the needs of the community” 

“Provides a home for LGBTQ+ arts, culture and social change”

“Queer circle aims to reimagine the role cultural spaces play in society”

RECLAIMING SPACE, to celebrate LGBTQ+ people and rebuild communities. 

“Seeing comes before words……. Seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world”

“The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe” 

“We only see what we look at, to look is an act of choice. As a result of this act, what we see is brought within our reach” 

‘The newfound thrills and anxieties of being visibly trans…and the personal and collective survival strategies I had to learn- where juxtaposed by the new found difficulties and discomforts of muting my transness in familiar spaces in which I was yet to come out”

“The train became a space of transition and transformation”… “I used the train as a changing room”

Published works on when r we preforming life 

‘Part of this confusion is to do with performance; how to discern ‘what is’ and ‘what is performance’? 

‘If we begin to understand the things we take for granted in our everyday lives as constructs of performance in and of themselves’…… ‘we become the audience of our own private theatre’ 

Cambridge dictionary: the degree to which something is seen by the public

Oxford languages: look at or inspect/ regard in a particular light or with a particular attitude.

Oxford languages: the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses./ the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted.

Oxford languages: become aware or conscious of (something); come to realise or understand/ interpret or regard (someone or something) in a particular way.

Oxford languages: notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant/ make a remark.

     My focus is to discern is which ways observation can become intrusive;  ‘ A survey by Eventbrite in 2019 found 70 percent of respondents find phone use at queer events irritating, while 69 percent agreed some action should be taken to minimise it.’ And in which places it becomes an issue. 

     My aim is to discover how visibility can be drastically differently received and can even be a transformative experience depending on how and where it is preformed.