Sponsored Walk to Hebden Bridge

We are two queer multi-heritage dance artists: Toi Guy (british-colombian) and Jesse Salaman (jewish) looking for support towards our new collaborative experimental punk-musical dance show exploring queerness, gender-play and hopes for healing.

We are making songs and dances for our alternate-fantasy-selves to realise their superfreakipowers of embodied re-worlding & quantum queerness to change the world at the speed it is already changing, without getting left behind.

We are asking anyone who feels able and interested in seeing a project like this happen to SPONSOR OUR PILGRIMAGE! All funds raised will go towards the match funding for our Arts Council England application.

✧ ˚ · .the queer pilgrimage ೃ⁀➷

On April 17th, we are starting our walk from our home in Newcastle Upon Tyne to Hebden Bridge, affectionately known as "the lesbian capital of the UK", aiming to arrive at historic site Mount Cross (7th Century). Jessica Lofthouse (1976) reported that a local farmer said of this stone, “Queer things happened here”.

A big part of our project is the integration of our relationship to land, ancestors, cultural histories, species we encounter along the way, songs we make up to support each other. We are initiating exciting collaborations with sound artists and visual artists with focus on organic / environmentally harmonious materials to create set pieces for our queer speculative musical world. The Arts Council funding, supported by funds raised on this page, will go towards paying all artistic and administrative collaborators well and fairly, and expanding the project to involve opportunities for LGBTQI+ communities across the North.