Drastic Social Showcase Sept 23 @ Bergen Kunsthall

To our dear friends and chosen families! Drastic Social is throwing our 2023 Showcase event on Saturday, 23 September, at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall.

Get your tickets early here! https://landmark.ticketco.events/no/nb/e/drastic_social

We had a successful showcase last year at Bergen Kjøtt, where we brought people together for an eventful night with art, dumplings, talks, music and DJ, and we will do it again this year. We intend to create continuity for people in our community, creatives, artists and musicians involved in 2024.

This year, we will be at a new venue! Thanks to Bergen Kunsthall for inviting us to participate in its 2023 Fall program so our community can reach more people at different locations!

What to expect at Drastic Social Bergen 23 Showcase

21-2145 In dialogue with Anine Fatou Båton of ” Female Minority Voices”
2145-22 Carmilly Yeung Artwork Tasting
22-23 Amalie Sadoni DJ set
23-24 Sam Mountain “Inner Light” EP release
24-0100 Superslut Live in Concert
01-0300 Lars of “Femøren”

“Mid-autumn festival 中秋節” is around the corner. Bertha Chan treats the early birds attending the talk to festive delicacies with a Norwegian Twist — her infamous Brunost Mochi dumplings and mooncakes to start the evening.

Anine Fatou Bråten

We will have a dialogue with Anine Fatou Båten, introducing to our community her project, “Female Minority Voices” from 21-2200.

Carmilly Yueng

Carmilly Yueng, a Hong Kong born visual artist living in Bergen, whom we met at Haunted69a gallery, will present two art project, “egg soup” at 2145

“In many languages, people often use the word “egg” to refer to chicken eggs, and the acknowledgement of eggs of other kinds is overshadowed. Meanwhile, people also have expectations of what food should be like. To challenge concepts like these, Carmilly made an edible sculpture, “egg soup”, with egg yolks shaped like frogs.”

The artwork “egg soup” tasting will be presented to our hosts and the people who signed up for the activity at the event.

Later in the evening, Carmilly will present her second artwork, an installation.

“knock”
Doors are a medium to connect/separate spaces and carry symbolic meanings in various cultures. Carmilly always had a fascination with the ritual of door knocking, which represents an act of seeking permission. The interactions after the knock also reveal an interesting dynamic between the door knocker and those behind the door.

Amalie Sadoni

After the first hour of warming up, getting to know each other and settling into the space, it’s time to move our bodies with positive house and sticky Arabic tunes by Amalie Sadoni at 2200 to ease into the night of music performances. Amalie is a member of Vers Libre Radio, and she has debuted at Vestre this August.

Sam Mountain

At 2300, Sam Mountain, musician and music producer, performs 4 of her tracks from her EP “Inner Light”, which will be released on the 22nd of September.

Superslut

Followed by Superslut at 2400, our beloved electronic visual and sound art genie, with his electrified performance gracing Bergen Kunsthall again.

At our final hours, deep into the night, Sam Mountain will be coming back for a DJ set with her beloved melodic techno, followed by Lars, music show host “Femøren” from Vers Libre Radio, who will immerse the space with trance music as the finale of our showcase 2023.

See you all soon!

Get your tickets early here! https://landmark.ticketco.events/no/nb/e/drastic_social

Drastic Social Townhall Meetup

Bergen, Events, Identity

Drastic Social will host a “Townhall Meetup” at 18.00 on 10 June at Bergen Assembly in collaboration with Vers Libre Radio and Reclaim Pride Bergen. Attendees can anonymously send in feedbacks about the topic — “What do we need?”

Drastic Social has been creating, collaborating and participating in events since we started in Hong Kong in 2019. By facilitating our collaborators and providing a space in our community, we have also built a support system for the ones in need.

From our perspective, we want to create a safer and more inclusive platform for creators to make things happen, to have the freedom to explore their identities, self-expression, innovation, joy and creation, and a space for all participants to fail, learn and grow. This explains the nature of our events which are usually geared towards queer communities, marginalised identities and newcomers who need more help getting started. Ultimately, we want to create a place where we can all feel we belong, thus making it easier to ask for help, take up space and communicate with vulnerability so we can be brave and embrace each other.

The Townhall meet-up hour will be a crucial moment for us to ask our communities some questions, so we can design better facilities for our people moving forward.

Vegetarian/ Non Veg Dumplings will be served from 18.00. Servings are limited so come earlier to get your free vouchers from 17.00 during Vers Libre Radio X Konsept [X] “Back to Back” DJ workshop!

Reclaim Pride Bergen 2023

Bergen, Events

Drastic Social is excited to join Reclaim Pride Bergen this year to provide queer folks and allies with an alternative programme during Pride month. Organisations joining forces are Afterschool Bergen, Comrades Inc, Vers Libre Radio and Konsept X, with guest speakers and performers from Asterisk, Nogoods, Fett and individual artists. Venues holding these events are Landmark, Pamflett, Bergen Assembly and Bergen Kjøtt, and more to be announced.

Date: 10 June 2023
Time: 12-23.00 CET
Where: Bergen Assembly — Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4, 5017 Bergen
Fee: Free Entry for Queer folks and friends

On 10 June, Drastic Social will be hosting an event at Bergen Assembly from 17.00 onwards in collaboration with Vers Libre Radio and Konsept X.

Before our programme, there will be Drag Story Hour for Children! from 12-14.00 and Queer Cafe from 14-16.00.

At 17.00, Vers Libre is in collaboration with Konsept X to host a “Back to Back” DJ workshop for Women, Trans and Non-binary folks who have had some DJing experience to try out the “back to back” technique in a duo DJ set. Sign up on VersLib.re

At 18.00, Drastic Social will host a “Townhall Meetup”, asking the attendees, “What do we need?” to facilitate and build up our community with resources we can gather within.

From 19.00 on, we will have Vers Libre Special, Live in recording with DJK, DJ Blue, Soccer Moms and Toyota Carina with VJ Olalys.

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Reclaim Pride Norway is a coalition between small independent organisations and queer activists. An eventful week in Oslo last year paved the way for folks in Bergen in 2023.

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Rustival Festival 2023

Events, Hong Kong

Rustival is a 2-day outdoor festival focused on electronic music, with experimental workshops for interactive elements and downtime. Usually, there is no public transportation to this secret island, so don’t miss the chance to explore and have fun with a group of nice people in a safe and open environment.

Organised by 404hkg, an electronic music society

Festival Feeder

Mlem fuels your raves and festivals with delicious, nourishing food and big flavours that aren’t you’re average festival fare.
Mlem are Yukta @yuktas_99 | Sanika @sanikaisthename | Amanda @_akwan3| Alison @sapphireketchup & our party volunteer crew ❤️‍🔥

4 Feb Community Rave (Happy Birthday Ak_xy!)

Events, Hong Kong

Sounds and Fire 4 Feb Hong Kong

The Sounds

10:00 – 11:30 GrapeBae @petite_petnat – (#House & Techno)
11:30 – 01:00 Gokil System @danstezo (#IntelligentDnB)
01:00 – 03:00 Ak_xy @dj_ak_xy – (#Techno, followed by DNB)
03:00 – 04:30 Lorenzo @lorenzo_fit_05_ – (#psytrance)
04:30 – late Back to Back sets

The Fire
Leo Jacqueline @leo_jac_artist
Josh Tong @Joshottest

Design: Jen @jtdilettante

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KONSEPT X + ASTERISK FILMKLUBB + DRASTIC SOCIAL presents: Editing Room vol. 3

Bergen, Events

Drastic Social is ecstatic to co-host the third edition of a club night series “Editing room” by Konsept X, an intersectional femme-centric DJ collective in Bergen, Norway, on 1 Oct 2022 alongside with Asterisk — a Bergen-based queer club night platform and older sibling to the just as cheeky ASTERISK FILMKLUBB, international experimental queer film festival.

Konsept X club night series “Editing room” has previously held two events at Landmark Bergen at Bergen Kunsthall, collaborating with various DJs, VJs and artists to establish its niche from the intersection between film, image and music.

Asterisk celebrates our talented local and international queer artists and performers, it is an alternative event production project to create safer spaces for queer and transgender people within institutions and public spaces to showcase interdisciplinary artistic work, such as happenings, performance, sound, and visual art and films and everything in between.

KONSEPT X + ASTERISK FILMKLUBB + DRASTIC SOCIAL presents: Editing Room vol. 3

Konsept X, ASTERISK FILMKLUBB and Drastic Social invite you to the third edition of Editing Room – a series of club nights dedicated to playing with the intersection between film, image and music.

This time we focus on queer experiences and draw inspiration from the short film Herman@s (SiblingX) by H. Alix, selected by ASTERISK FILMKLUBB.

Starting from an introductory talk to film screening and carrying into the night, our queer-centric club space.

Images by Bertha Chan @berthachandotcom and Runa Halleraker @runahalleraker

Schedule of the event:
21:30 The event starts off with DJ Joy welcoming you to Konsept X — Editing Room Vol.3

22:00 Follow with an introductory talk, “Creating our reality through art and community”, led by Bertha Chan (Drastic Social), where the people who have joined forces for this event will introduce themselves and share perspectives on their project and community building.

22:30 We will screen Herman@s (SiblingX) by H. Alix, selected by ASTERISK FILMKLUBB. before transitioning into a night of dancing, flirting, and fun with pipi sauvage, Tora G, Brita°UT, Superslut & fxggxt to the climax.

KONSEPT X + ASTERISK FILMKLUBB + DRASTIC SOCIAL presents: Editing Room vol. 3
Date: 1 OCT 2022
Time: 21:30 till late
Location: Landmark at Bergen Kunsthall
CC: 100 kr

Thrift from MATES ( LAST PARTY BEFORE SUMMER ) 22 MAY 2021

Events, Hong Kong

Live performances, talks & music, people, community and friends

4-6:30 pm Part 1: Thrift from Mates

Thrift party, community members each brings 5 of their favorite items to trade/ sell with friends they meet at the event

6:30 – 10:30 pm
Part 2: LIVE TALKs and PERFORMANCEs

6:30 pm Talk with Siu Fung

Bertha will be interviewing Siu Fung Law, a genderqueer, genderfluid and gender equality advocate, a public speaker and a professional bodybuilder from Hong Kong providing fitness training for trans men as one of their many ways to uplift their community.

We will have an in-depth conversation about the work they have been doing for years in the safer space.
(interview will be recorded)

7:15 pm
Jodie Chan 陳詠恩 @jodiewyc“Strongest” Single release

Independent Singer Song Writer Jodie’s new single is released this week and she will be performing live with a few songs

“This song is for anyone who’s ever felt out of place in their own skin. It’s my way of saying that there is such joy in self-acceptance and that there is an army of people ready to celebrate you from when you break, to when you make it to the other side.”

7:45 pm
Bertha Chan with Anna – Live “Intro” of Bertha’s Self love podcast live recording, the episodes in which she will have discussions with Anna about many things.

For an hour-ish, B&A will talk about the openness to self discovery – sexuality, kinks, acceptance, joy, pleasure, letting go of stigmas, rough and gentle plays, dynamics and relationships with ourselves and others.

9 pm
Timmy Gunn

Timmy @mightytimmygunn is the lead singer and guitarist of the Hong Kong band Shotgun Politics @shotgunpolitics852 . They are set to release their 5th EP, “The Lion & The Jaguar” later this summer. Shotgun is full of power and high energy pop melodies, but solo Timmy will play a stripped down, intimate set featuring re-workings of the new songs as well as a surprise cover or two!

9:30 pm Free Movements + Bonding Time – prepare our bodies and mind for the AfterRave

10:30 pm event part 2 ends

At the event

Drastic Social x Puurr

Hong Kong

Here, to our first.

A collaboration with Purr by 宀 (Mihn) to create an intersectional femme-centric space in Hong Kong.

At the Stardust art exhibition, I was introduced to Laura, who is the art curator at 宀 gallery. We talked about how we both wanted to create an alternative space for our femme centric communities and form an inclusive collective of music and culture enthusiasts in Hong Kong.

The idea of Puurr was born. We then recruited a few talented friends to drum up the basis of Puurr, and we have been actively discussing how to expand on the idea since...

What is PUURR?

“PUURR” is an inclusive cultural collective empowered by 宀.

We are an intersectional femme space focusing on activities that unite us together. There have always been limited spaces that support marginalised groups in our society, and we are here to make this space for all to safely express ourselves.

This is the PUURR Manifesto,

“We are them, They are you, You are all of us. Together we are whatever we want to be!

We donʼt know where weʼre going, and itʼs okay.

We keep dancing and moving forward to expand the boundaries of space.

For us, for them, and FOR ALL.”

Who are PUURR’s core members?

Laura Zhang – Art curator of 宀 Gallery, Co-Founder of Puurr

Bertha Chan – Host, Co-founder of Puurr, Founder of DrasticSocial.com and Curvasian.com

Alison Tan – Food Designer, performance artist

Ellie Suh – Artist, Illustrator

Beatrice Wong – multi hyphenate creative

Alexia Rutter, Dj & Booking Manager of voyage Agency

A Martha Operation

Recap of our High Tea Focus Group

On the 1st of March, before the COVID-19 started affecting us locally, we organised a focus group meetup to ask 30 individuals in the music and creative space.

We opened with a teaser by showcasing some of our collective’s passion projects

Stephanie Teng – Photography for Madame Figaro: Louis Vuitton Editorial with Model Shawn McRae
Tiffany Huang – Spill Stories
Alison’s Tan – Art performance: The Complimentary Waffles
Megan van Wyk, Singer-songwriter – Song: “Safe Space”

During the event, we also discussed 2 important issues that give us some direction for inclusivity to develop some ideas and guidelines for future events.

1.What are some of the issues with the current clubbing culture?

Attitude: Toxic Expat Entitlement, “Ladies Night” Culture, Sexualising womxn for financial gains, No real connections

Intersectionality: Lack of space that draws in both locals and ex-pats, LGBT spaces generally caters to G only

Environment: In general gross-ness of clubs, need space for conversations, spiked drinks, and groping problems

2.What do you want to see in an inclusive club space?

Music: Different types of Music – Disco, the 80s, House, Hip hop.More local talents, Femme and POC (People of Colour) DJs.

Event Ideas: Sober Nights! Dance night without alcohol Liberating Events, Dress Up nights (All Puurr events are dress-up nights!), Drag Brunch, Cabaret with a diversity of genders, nude talk + drawing, Day Waves, Earlier parties, include men, 宀 cuddles, Celebrate Trans/Non-Binary identities, featured artists

Space: Sex inclusive + exclusive toilets, female bouncers, wheelchair accessibility, safe space policy, visual contents, installations, footwork, More femme/ POC DJs

Food & Beverage: Food! Bread <3, variety of non-alcoholic beverages, CLUB MATE lemonade, Tea! 宀 Brunch, Water fountain / Cup deposit

Whats next?

We have gathered this information to design our next event, exploring different subjects and create together with our collective an inclusive environment to discuss different topics. After 5 months of corona time, we are finally able to launch our first event next week on 15th July.

If you would like to be a part of Puurr collective and attend our community events, please subscribe to our newsletters and we will see you soon!

What to expect at Drastic Social Bergen 23 Showcase

Anine Fatou Bråten

Carmilly Yueng

Amalie Sadoni

Sam Mountain

Superslut

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