ABOUT
Queer Youth Art Collective (QYAC) has run workshops for LGBTQ young people 18-28 since August 2019. The project delivers newly commissioned workshops by LGBTQ artists and youth forums for attendees to discuss their practice and socialise. These alternate weekly on Sundays .
Our primary aims are to challenge isolation, provide free and engaging arts workshops and build skills and infrastructure for a resilient, peer-led LGBTQ arts and education culture in London and throughout the UK.
We currently run 2 groups: ONLINE on ZOOM & IN PERSON From Queer Circle in Greenwich London.
QYAC TEAM:
BECCA THOMAS
Co-director/Facilitatorshe/her
Becca Thomas is an artist and educator living in London.
Her practice encompasses reflective practice, research into Kikuyu and Welsh mythology, talisman making, and tarot.
DEX GRODNER
Co-director/Facilitatorthey/them
Dex is an arts producer, drag cabaret artist and theatre maker. They creative director of the queer, Jewish cabaret Homos and Houmous.
Dex has performed at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, VFD, Tate Britain and Queer Spirit Festival and given talks on trans inclusion and theatre practice at Hackney Showrooms, Hampstead Theatre, Ovalhouse and RADA.
FRED LANKA
Director/Facilitatorhe/they
Fred is a ceramicist and illustrator whose designs can be seen throughout the nightlife scenes of London, Birmingham and Stockholm.
They have facilitated art courses at Camden Arts Centre and Camberwell College of Art and run art workshop programmes with Studio Voltaire.
Fred co-founded Queer Youth Art Collective with art therapist Susy Langsdale in 2019.
FEYGL
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MAYMANA
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MARS
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MARLEIGH
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