Cachín Cachán Cachunga!

Cachín Cachán Cachunga!
A Multimedia, Multicultural, Queer & Trans Night
of Dance, Film, Poetry & Music

"Edinburgh's most consistently radical cabaret experience"
– The Skinny, Edinburgh/Glasgow

"...something of a phenomenon"
– The List, Edinburgh/Glasgow

"Cachín is the only regular truly multicultural queer performance space that I know of in Scotland. It is precious, unique, important and tons of fun."
– Sam Rankin, Equality Network, Scotland

The next Cachín (our THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!) is on
Saturday, 11 February, 2012
Wee Red Bar

Jacqueline Applebee, Dr. Carmilla, Nathan Gale,
Glasgow Glam Bangers, CN Lester, Lily & Yamil, and Robert Softley

Access Info:

The Wee Red Bar is fully wheelchair accessible, including the stage area. There are two accessible toilets down the hall from the performance space; there are heavy doors leading to the toilets but our volunteers will be on hand to open the doors for anyone requiring assistance.

Jacqueline Applebee is a black, bisexual, British writer who breaks down barriers with smut. Jacqueline's stories have appeared in various publications including Best Women's Erotica, Ultimate Lesbian Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, Penthouse and DIVA magazine. Jacqueline has also penned An Expanded Love, a romance about open relationships. She hopes to one day to write a huge bestseller so she can quit her day job, buy a lighthouse, and live there with a few dozen adoring fans. writing-in-shadows.co.uk

Dr. Carmilla is the brain child of Maki Yamazaki, a retrospective-futurist musician who plays a vast array of instruments to blend dieslepunk cabaret and visual kei. Or is it that Maki Yamazaki is really the clone of Dr. Carmilla? Dr. Carmilla is a lesbian vampire, in space, weaving tales of woe and beauty from the fabric of the universe itself. Maki, on the other hand, is human... we think. A trans feminist and advocate of queer and disabled people's rights, Maki Yamazaki has been involved in human rights activism and social justice behind the scenes for quite a while now. She is also possibly the first openly-out transgender retrospective-futurist. http://drcarmilla.com & http://carmilla.bandcamp.com

Nathan Gale is a gay disabled transgender artist who thought LGBT was a checklist. He is an acting and performance graduate and completed a law degree this summer. As a member of b)other Collective LGBTI disabled & Deaf artists, Nathan has shown his poetry and photography in seminal exhibitions at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art and Birmingham SHOUT (Midlands Art Centre). He is proud to have performed at DaDafest, Cachín Cachán Cachunga! and Wigstockel in Berlin. (photo by Sandra Alland)

Glasgow Glam Bangers formed in 2004 as a cover band doing Bowie/Bolan/Sweet/New York Dolls songs but had too much to say about society, religion and politics to continue purely doing covers. The line-up consists of Paxton Andrews on vocals, Reginald Shite on bass, Piano Reeves on guitar, and the Alesis SR-16 on drums. The band have been regulars at Spangled Cabaret at Rio Cafe in Partick, Glasgow since 2008, and can be found there on the first Monday of every month commenting on current Tory nonsense in between their angry glam racket. Recently Glam Bangers have had a foray into 70s Dutch glam (their cover of Pantherman by Pantherman is available on their Soundcloud page) and written a sequence of acoustic songs about Alesteir Crowley.

CN Lester is a singer-songwriter, classical mezzo-soprano, writer, activist and general work-obsessed overachiever. Their debut album, Ashes, is set for release in January 2012. When not composing, performing or blogging about trans issues, CN enjoys baking orgasmically good chocolate brownies. "Heart-wrenchingly beautiful" - Lashings of Ginger Beer "Their impassioned, beautiful voice bathed the audience in a velvet loveliness" - Wotever World www.cnlester.com & cnlester.wordpress.com (Photo by Robin Conway)

Lily, “The Pearl of Havana”, is a professional dancer, performer and dance instructor. With 22 years of training and performance, she can teach you any Cuban dance style, with a unique flavour of her own. Lily’s knowledge of ballet, contemporary and Afro-Cuban dance contribute to a beautifully integrated performance. Lily is also co-creator of Somos Cubanos and Cuban Cabaret Style. For Cachín she will perform with Yamil Ferrer and Y Josephine. (Photo by Stuart Crawford)

Based in Glasgow, "spoonertastically named chanteuse" Miss Leggy Pee performs regularly with diminutive collaborator, Charlie M Montgomery, at a variety of cabaret and burlesque events. She is a regular at cult oddball night "Spangled Cabaret" and resident lounge-DJ at Heavenly Cafe Bar. Her musical tastes encompass everything from cheese to crackers. (photo by C.M. Montgomery)

Robert Softley graduated from Glasgow University and bgan acting in 2002. He has appeared graduated from Glasgow University and began acting in 2002. He has appeared in The Threepenny Opera and Heelz n Wheelz (about disabled drag queens) – as well as for the BBC on both radio and TV. In 2005 Robert joined Birds of Paradise, which saw him shift focus to look at policy and training in arts and disability. He went on to become Equalities Officer (Arts & Disability) for the Scottish Arts Council. Robert is now co-director of flip – disability equality in the arts. Most recently Robert co-created and performed in the National Theatre of Scotland's Girl X. Tonight’s excerpt is from If These Spasms Could Speak, a solo show created through a Creative Futures residency, which opens at The Arches, Glasgow on 22 March before touring. http://www.softley.co.uk/ (Photo by Craig McGuire)

Ania Urbanowska (short film, "Cheat") was born in Elblag, Poland and arrived to Scotland in 2006. She graduated with First Class Honours from Film and TV at Edinburgh College of Art in 2011. Ania writes and directs experimental and surrealistic short films. She engages with subjects including the power of human subconsciousness and coincidence, fear, and sexuality. Ania is also researching the relationship between vision and sound, and how it affects the viewer. Currently she is working on music videos and developing the story for her next film. (Photo by Gapa)

Bios – Presenters

Zorras are Scottish-Canadian poet, Sandra Alland and Belgian-Venezuelan musician, Y. Josephine. They have quickly become known for their unique mixture of text, sound poetry, percussion, singing, guitar, electric bass, megaphones and projected images. Zorras have performed widely throughout the UK, and are just back from Berlin, Canada, Birmingham and Liverpool. They often collaborate with other artists, including Ariadna Battich, Nathan Gale, Gord Disley and Holly Hayes. Zorras are also known for their micro publishing & for organising events such as An Edinburgh Zine & Small Press Fair and Faceplant. www.blissfultimes.ca/zorras.htm (photo by Evi Tsiligaridou)

Fnords, Nathan Gale, Holly Hayes, Lily & Yamil, Cherry Loco,
Seafield Foxes and Alison Smith

Alec Butler (film "Misadventures of Pussy Boy: First Love") is an award-playwright and filmmaker. Alec's theatre work came to international attention with "Black Friday", a groundbreaking play about a white working class dyke who comes home to Cape Breton Island with her black lesbian lover. The award-winning animated trilogy about growing up differently-gendered, "Misadventures of Pussy Boy", has screened at numerous film festivals, including Tranny Fest in San Francisco, MIX Festivals in Mexico City and three cities in Brazil. Alec's most recent video, "Trans Cabaret", an edutainment video combining performance and cabaret to bring "translightenment" to the masses, premiered at the Trigger Festival in his long-term home, Toronto.

The Fnords are a 3 piece with a ratio of 2:1 female to male; they play what could be described as grrrl surf-punk. Obsessions included horror films, conspiracy theory and trash culture. Featuring added screaming for your aural delight. http://www.myspace.com/thefnords

Nathan Gale is a gay disabled transgender artist who thought LGBT was a checklist. He is an acting and performance graduate and completed a law degree this summer. As a member of b)other Nathan had his poetry and photography shown in the ShOUT exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. He is proud to have performed at DaDafest and to have been featured in a documentary by Christiana Papazoglou that was shown at Cachín Cachán Cachunga!

Holly Hayes identifies as a lesbian and contrarian. She's a guitar virtuosa, separatist feminist and mathematician. Here are some things you might like to know about Holly Hayes http://iheartholly.com/trivia/

Cherry Loco The cartoon show boy with bite, Cherry Loco is a highly skilled burlesque revivalist, vaudeville darling and variety artist. Having performed all across the UK, he mixes his own brand of raunchy, irreverent sexuality and high-camp sense of comic absurdity to push the boundaries between burlesque, variety entertainment and performance art with one crystal encrusted fist. As well as a regular fixture on Edinburgh Fringe cabaret stages, he has performed in a multitude of theatres; entertained crowds at T in the Park's first ever variety tent, represented Glasgay! at The Merchant City Festival and has joined the cast of the world's biggest counter culture & fetish club, Torture Garden, numerous times. http://www.cherryloco.co.uk. (Photo by Andrew Heins.)

Yasmin Samir-Shakir (film "My Second Puberty") is an Edinburgh-based visual anthropologist and freelance documentary filmmaker. Basing much of her work largely on the concept of 'observational cinema', she enjoys using audio-visual media as tools for ethnographic exploration as much as for the presentation of any final 'documentary' product. Her areas of interest include gender identity, notions of 'sickness' and wellbeing, labour and migration, movements for social change and urban 'D.I.Y.' (sub)culture. Yasmin is also a member of the Castles Built in Sand Collective who are always interested in sharing ideas with other groups or individuals attempting to develop new ways of understanding our political, economic and social existence! http://castlesbuiltinsand.wordpress.com/

Seafield Foxes are an all girl garage punk / grunge Edinburgh band. Their sound is blues-based, with influences ranging from Rory Gallacher, via Black Sabbath, to Bikini Kill. www.myspace.com/seafieldfoxes

Alison Smith is a poet who performs her work in British Sign Language. She is noted for her forthrightness -- what you see is what you get. Alison's work has featured in publications with commissions for proudWORD and English Heritage. She was part of b)other collective's exhibition at GOMA in 2009, and has performed and led workshops in Germany, USA and UK. Alison is also the founder of Pesky People, a campaign to challenge digital discrimination faced by Deaf and Disabled people. Pesky People plays on the term "pesky", getting small and large organisations to sort out access issues with considerable success. Go Genie is one of its online entities that helps online users easily find access information. http://www.peskypeople.co.uk/

Saturday, 2 April, 2011
Anna Le, the insecurity font, Ste McCabe, Scragfight,

Miss Leggy Pee, Christiana Papazoglou, Lily, Zorras
and Alex's Hilarious Enterprises UnLtd.
+ DJ Fuk You How Do You Do

Ste McCabe (unplugged!), Andrés Amor, Zorras and
Christiana Papazoglou (with Nathan Paul Young Gale)
+ DJ Fuk You How Do You Do

Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Christiana Papazoglou, Captain Anchor, Lily & Yamil,
Jennifer Outhwaite, Aristera!, Ania Urbanowska and Zorras

Tuesday, 15 September, 2009
Stuart Crawford, Rabiya Choudhry, Pat Cunningham,