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# PREVIEW: ‘History Bois: Adventures in Time & Gender’
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/preview-history-bois-adventures-in-time-gender/
- Published: 2021-06-16T11:30:55.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-16T11:30:55.000Z
- Description: Free series of events co-curated by transgender, trans-disciplinary artist EM Parry and multi-disciplinary artist and writer SL Grange
- Author: Jaq Bayles
- Tags: Arts, Brighton Fringe, In The South, News, Queer Corner, Brighton, LGBTQ, queer

***History Bois: Adventures in Time & Gender***, is a free-to-attend residency onboard the **ONCA Barge** at **Brighton Marina**, comprising an exhibition, installation work, performances and workshops. It is supported by the **University of Brighton** and co-curated by transgender, trans-disciplinary artist **EM Parry** and multi-disciplinary artist and writer **SL Grange**, who draw on their work in queer history, performance, gender studies and drag. Both are PhD candidates and theatre-makers.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/untitled-42.png)

The programme is as follows, with full details and booking links available [HERE](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/the-history-bois-adventures-in-time-gender-residency-at-onca-barge-148064/?ref=scenemag.co.uk).

- **Wednesday, June 23**, **6 – 9pm**: *History Bois: Adventures in Time & Gender* residency launch party event hosted by Jacobethan drag king **Mal Content**. Historical fancy dress encouraged with prizes for innovation, effort, and starching.
- **Wednesday, June 23 – Saturday, June 26**: [We Elizabethans](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/the-history-bois-present-we-elizabethans-an-exhibition-of-visual-and-live-artwork-by-em-parry-148064/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) – a cluster of sibling works: *Closet Dramas* – photographic exhibition; *Fag Ends // Fag Breaks* \-installation & performances; *A Lucky Resurrection* – live writing / seance.
- **Thursday, June 24**, **2.30 – 3.30pm**: [Political Drag workshop](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/the-history-bois-at-onca-barge-drag-and-queer-history-creative-workshops-148063/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) with **Leah Kirby** AKA [CYRO](https://twitter.com/leahskirby?ref=scenemag.co.uk). Creating art inciting change & incorporating non-Western performance techniques, Leah Kirby/ Cyro explores socio-economic & political issues through non-traditional formats. This event will be supported by a BSL interpreter.
- **Friday, June 25**, **3 – 4.30pm**: [Meeting the Unruly Dead with SL Grange](https://onca.org.uk/event/workshop-meeting-the-unruly-dead/?ref=scenemag.co.uk). This online workshop run by poet, drag king and artist SL Grange is for folks wanting to connect with their queer tr/ancestors.
- **Friday, June 25**, **7.30 – 9pm**: **ONCABarge**: *Fag Ends // Fag Breaks* performance / installation – Fag Ends // Fag Breaks lurks in the margins between performance, installation, seance, conversation, and queerly unravelling lecture. It is accompanied by *A Lucky Resurrection* – a live, improvised writing event by SL Grange.
- **Saturday, June 26**, **2.30 – 4.30pm**: [Show Thyself! – queer history self- fashioning workshop](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/the-history-bois-at-onca-barge-drag-and-queer-history-creative-workshops-148063/?ref=scenemag.co.uk). SL Grange and E.M. Parry invite you to an exploration of historically-inspired queer self-fashioning. Combining creative writing with photographic portraiture and dressing up, expect a gentle, playful process that invites you to explore an alternate self, play at being someone else, and/or meet your unruly dead tr/ancestors by becoming them. This event will be supported by a BSL interpreter.