LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
CLUB URANIA CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION
Since organising its first event in February 2022, Club Urania has established a reputation for its increasingly popular, almost otherworldly spectaculars, where all expressions of gender and sexuality are welcomed. Derived from the title of a pioneering feminist journal that ran from 1916 to 1940, Club Urania emerged from a collaboration between Cambridge Junction, Wysing Arts Centre and local collaborators Diarmuid Hester, Celia Willoughby and Roeland van der Heiden. They all shared a desire to address the lack of queer spaces in Cambridge. Urania aims to celebrate the local creative queer community, while bringing national and international queer performers and DJs to town. The events take the form of either a more intimate, cabaret-style affair or a large-scale club night with live DJs and dancing until 3am. Club Urania also co-organised the Cambridge Pride kick-off event in 2023, and will organise the Queer Utopias festival at Wysing Arts Centre on 18 May. Club Urania is all about being inclusive and accessible. There are tickets where you pay what you can afford, a decompression room in the venue and live captioning. If you can’t make it in person, it streams live on Zoom. During LGBT+ History Month, Club Urania will host one of its more intimate events, with two established performers and a series of open mic performances, followed by a DJ acknowledging the importance of queer trailblazers in modern history. One of these performances reflects on the emergence of disco and house music throughout the last decades. Both genres have contributed to the development of many more musical styles and shaped modern culture, emphasising inclusivity, self-expression and the celebration of queer identities. This has laid the groundwork for contemporary queer artists to continue pushing musical and cultural boundaries. Book your tickets now at junction.co.uk/events
16 Feb
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