Fagsgiving
Fagsgiving
Alternative Supper Club Model
Bric Cafe
103 shacklewell lane
Dalston,
E8 2EB
Fagsgiving, Supper Club, 2024. Bric Cafe, UK. Photo: Elisha Fall
Fagsgiving is a queer fundraising supper club hosted at Bric Cafe, a queer-owned gallery cafe. Developed from earlier renditions of Finger Food, the project continues Elisha Fall and Caitlin Fleming’s work with food, hosting and queer community-making, expanding through collaboration with Barney Pau & Cakesit.
Exploring alternative modes of the supper club, Fagsgiving reimagines eating together as a structure for mutual aid & redistribution.
Moving away from the exclusivity and lifestyle framing often attached to London’s supper club culture, the project uses the shared meal as a way to raise money for gender-affirming surgeries and wider queer causes, including charities and community funds.
BRIC. is a space owned and operated by trans people for trans people.
The space focus on amplifying and supporting underrepresented trans artists and creatives through exhibitions, performances and other community-led events. With the aim of decreasing the gap in representation in the art world. Simultaneously, we want to promote a sense of creativity and community, in a space catered for us.
In the last few years, we have seen an increasing number of queer-owned venues shutting their doors. In a time where queer spaces are disappearing and the (almost) non-existence of trans owned, operated and platformed spaces, we found the urgency to birth a hub of opportunity exclusively for the trans community.
BRIC. is a collaborative space within the community. We invite trans people to bring their events to us and to make use of the space. We want to encourage an exchange of resources through community building. We value equity rather than equality, solidarity rather than charity.
Everyone is more than welcome! But as a gentle reminder: You’re a guest. This is our house.
Barney Pau (he/they) is a London-based culinary creative working at the confluence of food, art, and writing, whose practice focuses on food futures, queering consumption, and foraging and fermenting as social resistance. His writing, food, and artwork examine the intersection between language, culture and nature through contemporary social critique.
Cake Sit is an unapologetically queer event celebrating joy, decadence, self-expression, silliness, sensuality, exploration, resistance and shamelessness.
You are invited to watch performers sit on, dance around, cover themselves with, sing to, eat, or interact with a cake in any way they wish. Performers are provided with a cake and a supportive audience and they EAT IT UP EVERY TIME!