BECOMING A Pleasure Activist
Black Silk

BECOMING A Pleasure Activist
Black Silk

BECOMING A Pleasure Activist
Black Silk

BECOMING A Pleasure Activist
Black Silk

BECOMING is a fluid bubble full of depth. Each edition is unique and offers a new queer perspective on identity and sexuality. Spectators and artists immerse themselves together in intimacy, party, sensuality, dialogue, art and glitter! At BECOMING, more is better, vulnerability is strength, party is depth and everyone is queer!
Welcome to BECOMING A Pleasure Activist. This program offers a moment of rest for world changers, because pleasure activism as a movement places joy, healing, and happiness at its center. This evening, we explore how we can make social justice the most joyful human experience. Free yourself from the idea that changing the world comes down to even more work!
We welcome activists, artists, and community members to the stage who have found a path to liberation in pleasure. Through art, music, and stories, we emphasize the importance of joy as a collective force. Be part of the joy revolution!
Starring: Ro Rox Roxy Roxanna Verwey, Vlinder Verouden, Maria 007, Hann van Schendel, Ellen Verheij, Mary Hoochie & DJ Sukana. Read more about these artist below!
Line-up
● Host and programme maker Ro Rox Roxy Roxanna Verwey will guide you through an evening centred around pleasure activism as a source of joy and resistance.
● Vlinder Verouden will perform spoken word about shedding, transforming, renewing and growing into oneself during a gender transition.
● Maria 007 is an activist and erotic artist with a clear message: sex work is work! Tonight, she brings storytelling from the Ballroom category Sex Siren, exploring the healing power of sexual pleasure.
● Cultural scientist, performer and self-proclaimed sex expert Hann van Schendel presents her theatre monologue CRIP REVOLUTIE, in which she confronts, with honesty and humour, the ways disability, sexuality and desire are represented.
● Ellen Verheij of Kaleidra Studio explores, as a social designer and pleasure activist, how shame and stigma determine how much space people are given to be themselves. Tonight, she leads the workshop ‘Beyond Shame’. Her starting point: pleasure begins with feeling comfortable and safe in your own body.
● Mary Hoochie lets her body speak in an erotic and sensual performance - an invitation not to hide sensuality, but to feel it, celebrate it and move freely.
● During the afterparty, DJ Sukana brings Bouyon, Soca and Dennery Segment together with heavy rhythms, bass and unexpected genre-crossings in her high-energy sets. With whine-worthy rhythms, she invites you to get out of your head and into your body.
Good to know
BECOMING is always a mix of English (80%) and Dutch (20%), and also non-linquistic elements and vibes. The event will be presented in simple English. Some of our performances might be in Dutch. If you don’t speak Dutch please join anyway, you will still be able to follow enough of it!
Credits
Curator & host Ro Rox Roxy Roxanna Verwey Partner Sharmila Vooren Production manager Sergio Villamizar Produced by Black Silk Loulou Sjerps/Alejandra Zabala Technician Albert Jan ten Napel with great thanks to Rikkert van Huisstede and Jasmijn de Rooy











