12th – 15th June, 9am – 3pm, Stryx Gallery, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
18th – 21st June, 9am – 4pm, Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff
25th – 28th June, 8.30am – 5pm, Royal Society of Arts, London
As part of Pride Month 2024, Micro Rainbow is celebrating the creativity of LGBTQI refugees and asylum seekers with its first ever exhibition of dance art made as part of its innovative Body and Movement programme. In 2015, Fearghus initiated the programme with Micro Rainbow as part of The Casement Project. The programme which is now led by a team of dance artist-facilitators and an independent producer has expanded from London to Birmingham and Cardiff with the support of funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Dance Your Freedom team:
Leo Menezes, Exhibition Curator
Kevin Lloyd Exhibition Graphic Designer
Sam Williams, Film Maker
Heidi Chiu, Sound Designer
Kate Green, Photographer
Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Artistic Lead
Louisa Borg Costanzi Potts, Producer
Bethany K Knowles, Exhibition Production Manager
Kate Wakeling, Project Evaluator
The Creative team is:
Angela Dennis, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Osian Meilir Ioan, Devon Nelson, Gerrard Martin, Poppy Norwood, Jerry Lee Dawson, Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Johnny Autin, Shivaangee Agrawal, Kate Taylor , Stephanie Schober, Takeshi Matsumoto.
Dance Ambassadors: Lister M & Hiba N
