Sanctuary Queer Arts

07/05/2026

TRANSMISSION election day poster reveal!

As Scotland takes to the polls...what better day to drop our campaign poster?!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Freedom Party leader and founder of the Scots Mission, Big Jimmy, is here to tell you how to keep yur grannies safe and make Scotland cis again!✅

TRANSMISSION by is coming soon to as part of the

Tuesday 18th - Sunday 23rd August (day off Thursday 20th) @ 19:15 (1 hour)
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall (Venue 26)
Wheelchair accessible - BSL integrated - Relaxed performance
Tickets on sale now! Link in bio.

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Poster design

PS In all seriousness, it’s really important LGBTQIA+ people’s voices are heard, so if you haven’t already make sure you get out and vote today! Polls are open til 10pm. And check out and brilliant guide on LGBTQIA+ issues from the party manifestos🫶

02/04/2026

BSL trailer 📍The Lemontree Aberdeen
🗓️FRIDAY 3rd April and ***rarts are proud to present…
Eat the Rich 5!
⏰Friday 3rd April 📍The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
✨🪩A memorable night of q***r performers, all coming together to challenge power, tease the billionaires and celebrate q***r joy.
Bringing together artists across Scotland and Aberdeen!
You might be surprised, even gobsmacked at what you will see!
drag, dance, music, poetry and performance art.
The show will be BSL interpreted by the fabulous Brown and
Venue team is here to help! 👀Need support finding the best view,
or want to know more about the show look out for the friendly Lemon Tree and Sanctuary staff.
💰No one turned away for lack of funds, email hello@sanctuaryq***rarts.com
❤️thank you to for our BSL trailer
🚽 The venue is wheelchair accessible and has accessible toilets and all gender toilets. ***raberdeen

01/04/2026

Announcing…TRANSMISSION by produced by Sanctuary Q***r Arts!

Coming soon to

Tuesday 18th - Sunday 23rd August (day off Thursday 20th)
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall (Venue 26)
Wheelchair accessible
BSL interpreted
Relaxed performance
Tickets on sale now! Link in bio.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Freedom Party leader and founder of the Scots Mission, Big Jimmy, is here to tell you how to keep yur grannies safe and make Scotland cis again!✅

Hilarious, curious and deeply human, Transmission is a darkly comedic and tender-hearted performance by playwright and drag artist Nelly Kelly, exploring Scotland’s shift from world-leading on LGBT+ rights, to being fertile ground for the anti-trans movement.

Blending DIY cabaret with political theatre, male impersonation and a heap of mischief, Transmission examines how public perception of trans people is shaped—not by trans voices—but by ‘single issue’ campaigners, political-footballing and media distortion.

Transmission was an UK Open Award 2024 commission made possible thanks to funding from .

Creator and performer -
Creative Access Collaborator and co-creator -
Director and co-creator - Susan Worsfold
Sound Designer - Rhys Cook ()
Lighting Designer - Emma Jones
Movement consultant - Frankie Mulholland
AV Consultant - Jamie Wardrop
BSL Consultants -
BSL interpreter - .m
BSL development -
PA and Access Support Worker - Star Gaze
Creative Consultant - Nima Séne
Technical Stage Manager - Anissa Praquin
Production Manager - Camilla O Neill
Producers - Annabel Cooper and Fraser MacLeod for Sanctuary Q***r Arts
Stage Manager at NTS - Lizzie Clapham
With thanks to and Rosie Kellagher
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25/03/2026

Cast your eyes on the dazzling constellation of magical q***r artists coming together to EAT THE RICH**🤑

✨Doric disco Daddy & host Uncle Tony
🤑Your favourite handsome himbo hunk Butch Cashidy
✨Aberdeen based writer and feminist trouble maker Essa Flett
🤑Vocal alchemist and producer Eyve
✨Club creature and sonic performance artist Frankie Mullholland
🤑The North east’s most legendary, q***r, genre defying musician Jamie McCormick

BSL interpreted by Lisa Li and Kitty Taylor-Brown.

**Eat the Rich V - Friday 3 April @ Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Tickets are moving fast so don’t delay! Link in bio.

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Have you heard the ways we’re working to make the cabaret more accessible?
-The show is BSL interpreted by Kitty Taylor Brown and Lisa Li
-Our team is here to help! look out for friendly accessibility trained staff
-The venue is wheelchair accessible
-Ear plugs available
-No one turned away for lack of funds! Get in touch for more info: hello@sanctuaryq***rarts.com
-Stims and movement welcome - this is a relaxed space. We’ll also have an interval.
-Content notes given by our host, so you can decide if the acts are right for you.
-All gender toilets with stalls, urinals and private cubicles.
Not seeing the info you need? Email us: hello@sanctuaryq***rarts.com

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06/03/2026

and Sanctuary Q***r Arts are proud to present Eat the Rich 5! 🤑

That’s right beauties, we’re back for a 5th consecutive year of rabble-rousing q***r cabaret in the heart of the granite city!🔥

With a stellar constellation of subversive, provocative and utterly dazzling artists from across the country coming together for an unforgettable night of q***r brilliance!✨

Lust after our luscious line below up and grab your tickets quick (link in bio)!💋

Ooh, and look out for our delightful pals , popping up to pedal q***r lit and good vibes on the night.📚

Uncle Tony
The Doric karaoke king and Aberdeen’s premier Uncle, our host will charm you with his avuncular dance moves and dulcet Doric tones.

Elisabet Flett
Aberdeen based musician, writer, theatre-maker and general feminist troublemaker.

Eyve
Producer and vocal alchemist, blending Afro-futuristic sounds with her own flavours from her upbringing.

Frankie Mulholland
Filipina/Irish artist whose performances centre club culture, choreography and sound as a tool of transformation.

Jamie McCormick
Genre-defying musician and neurodivergent, pansexual, nonbinary trans masc performer from Fraserburgh.

Have you heard about the ways we’re working to make the cabaret more accessible?
-The show will be BSL interpreted by Kitty Taylor Brown and Lisa Li
-Our team is here to help! look out for the friendly staff who are accessibility trained
-The venue is wheelchair accessible
-Ear plugs available
-No one turned away for lack of funds! Get in touch for more info: hello@sanctuaryq***rarts.com
-Stims and movement welcome - this is a relaxed space. We will also have an interval.
-Essential content notes given by our host with the most, Uncle Tony, so you can decide if the acts are right for you on the day.
-All gender toilets available with stalls, urinals and private cubicles.
Not seeing the info you need? Email us with any questions: hello@sanctuaryq***rarts.com

Ticket link in bio!

📷 the incredible from ETR3

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25/02/2026

Exciting things ahead!

Meet the makers behind Creative Scotland's latest funded projects! 🎉 With £1,064,295 in funding from The National Lottery and The Scottish Government shared across 46 projects, this round of the Open Fund is full of bold ideas and brilliant creative voices:

🎮 Developer James Muirhead is combining gaming and Gaelic language through Grease Trap '99, a two-hour horror experience set in a seaside village, voiced entirely in Scottish Gaelic, with a full commercial release planned for this summer.

💃 Female Funk Fruition is returning with monthly workshops exploring the roots of funk and hip-hop, led by veterans Nadia "Funk Forever" Sewnauth and Shelltoe Mel. The programme also includes a pop-up exhibition drawing on Mel's personal archive of film, fashion, books and photographs to tell the story of hip-hop dance from a female perspective.

🎙️ Sanctuary Q***r Arts is shining a light on the remarkable story of q***r Victorian activist George Cecil Ives through The Order of Chaeronea: A Secret Q***r Audio Musical, an eight-episode audio drama with an original 16-song soundtrack.

Find out about all 46 projects on our website - link in comments🔗

Image: Female Funk Fruition by Martin Windebank 📸

20/02/2026

Join us for a special LGBT History Month Creative Social this Sunday!

🏳️‍🌈Sunday 22 February, 2-4:00pm
🪩Impact Arts - The Boardwalk, Brunswick Street, Glasgow
💟For and by Culture Club Collectibe LGBT Elders but everyone is welcome.
☕️No need to book. Link to more info about this event and our 2026 calendar in the bio 🔝

To mark LGBT History month, we’ll be dancing our way through time to celebrate q***r pioneers from across the centuries! We’d love you to join us for an afternoon of dancing, music, chat and being together in community.

✨Culture Club Collective celebrates the lives of LGBTQIA Elders, to create places where we can connect, have a blether, and have a good time. It’s specially created by and for older LGBTQIA people, but all are welcome who want to come and uplift this group and join the party.✨

Here we are for a special outing to the first Out in The Hills q***r festival last month in Pitlochry. It was glorious to see ‘s special LGBT Elders portrait exhibition taking pride of place and to meet our pals from . Big thanks to for welcoming us!

02/02/2026

✨📣 🏳️‍🌈CALL OUT: Q***R YOUNG CREATIVES (16-25)🏳️‍🌈 📣✨

Ready to deep-dive into the world of professional theatre-making? Sanctuary Q***r Arts and are offering an incredible professional development opportunity designed just for you!

This is your chance for exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to the industry…

🎭 See work first: Attend industry sharings and press performances for brand new q***r theatre: One Life Only, Jackals, and Walking on Eggshells.

💡 Exclusive workshop access: Join creative decision-makers for a pre-sharing workshop on One Life Only to develop your critical eye.

🤝 1-to-1 Mentorship: Dedicated sessions to pitch ideas, get direct feedback, and ask anything about the industry, funding, and creative development. (Surgeries scheduled March-May 2026).

🌐 Build Your Network: Connect with a cohort of like-minded young artists.

Gain a clear understanding of the full creative, development and production processes by engaging with work at every stage!

Don’t miss out! Applications close Wednesday 11 February, 10.00am.

Check out the full details and apply via the link in bio!

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16/09/2025

Oooooh, it’s such a pleasure and a privilege to be supporting two brilliant scottish trans lead-artists this week!

Multidisciplinary Artist Bobbie is spending the week collaborating with choreographer/performer and a company of incredible movement artists, experimenting with new ways bodies can move and interact to reveal an inner world - with Bobbie’s original music at its core.

Meanwhile, playwright and performer is reconnecting with Sanctaury to explore next steps for their new satirical live art piece - The Transmission - which playfully positions Nelly as the leader of a ‘trans cult’ (…where do we sign up?!) and was supported in a research and development phase by .

Now more than ever, we’re hugely motivated to support, uplift and champion these brilliant artists and their vital perspectives, which empower, enrich and celebrate trans lives. Get behind them!



Unfold by Bobbie is supported by .

The Transmission was recently supported by the UK Open Award 2024/5 (which is currently open for submissions - check out Nelly’s most recent post).

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18/07/2025

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Are you LGBTQIA+, 50+ years old and looking for community, creativity and a place to move? Culture Club Collective is for you!

Supported by Sanctuary Q***r Arts, Culture Club Collective is back for another year of creative community building, weekend dance clubs and more.

Kicking off on Sunday 27 July, our friendly community of LGBT Elders will be gathering for a cuppa, a chat and a fun, inclusive group dance session for all levels of experience and ability.

What: Culture Club Collective Creative Socials
When: Kicking off 2.00pm-4.00pm on Sunday 27 July 2025
Where: Impact Arts, The Boardwalk, Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF

Fancy trying it out or know someone who might be interested? Simply come along to any of the sessions or get in touch to find out more and be added to our mailing list: [email protected]

We’re keen to make these sessions as accessible as we can for the community. All sessions, materials and refreshments are free. Impact Arts is a wheelchair accessible venue. Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to chat to the team about accessibility or anything else related to Culture Club Collective.

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31/03/2025

Eat the Rich 4 appreciation post!

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Huge thanks to the dazzling artists, audience, access workers and crew who came together to make Eat the Rich 4 an unforgettable night of q***r brilliance, joy and rage!

Flowers upon flowers for masterfully mischievous host and superstars…

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Thank you all for your heartfelt and soulful artistry!

Big love and thanks to our gorgeous audience, who joined the surprise karaoke and mass finale performance of Uncle Tony’s Let’s Eat the Rich (last piccie), on stage and off!

Big thanks to BSL interpreters and .mcsigns and the amazing behind the scenes teams at APA and Sanctuary.

Thank you ALL for coming together to create something magical in the face of increasing billionaire-backed fascism on our streets, screens and in seats of power.

“What do we do when are we’re under attack? Stand up, fight back!”