Announcing: 🌈🏠QUEERHOUSE!
a three-day artistic occupation, creative recharging station, and community-building hub for the attendees of Queer Pride Amsterdam hosted by Poetry Trapper Keeper @ Treehouse NDSM
BESTIES! Do we have news for you 📣📣
Way back in the dead of winter, Larissa and I were on one of our five hour, cross-continental phone calls… lamenting about our usual strifes… like…
The poetry industrial complex
MFA programs
Our shared inability to digest gluten
And the complete LACK of third spaces that are accommodating to ALL DIFFERENT types of queers and ALL DIFFERENT types of creatives
We dreamed of having a space we could go with friends and strangers alike, at any time of the day, to suit any one of our needs from “I need to shake my ass in a room full of hot queers in my hottest outfit - NOW” to “I want to hyperfocus on my special interest in the silent company of others” or “I MUST work on my ADHD craft of the week while talking over a 3-hour Youtube essay on Twilight with my besties”.
Well, we must have manifested something hard that night because…
From July 15th - 17th, Poetry Trapper Keeper will be transforming the pavilion, workshop, and outdoor spaces at Treehouse NDSM into 🌈🏠 QUEERHOUSE - a three-day artistic occupation, creative recharging station, and community-building hub of our dreams for the attendees of Queer Pride Amsterdam 2024.
Want a space to write poetry with your besties? Need help actually talking to people after the open mic? Looking for a sensory deprivation chamber to just doodle in together?
🌈🏠 QUEERHOUSE is a multi-use, self-organizing space where you can chill, eat, write, party, AND be creative (whether you’re a quote unquote “artist” or not).
There will be an interactive exhibition, a community closet, free art supplies, workshops, film screenings, performances, and events hosted by some of your favorite Queer Amsterdam organizations - House of Jungle, Poetry Circle, Unwanted Words, SNEAKOUT, and Poetry Trapper Keeper.
The space will be open to the public from 4 pm to 11 pm every day.
Stay tuned for the full lineup of events, which we will be dropping over the next few weeks. Subscribe to be the first to know (and to register for worksops!)! And keep an eye on » this page « for all updates.
Okay, now on to our poem of the week! This is my response to Larissa catching up on sleep…
xx
Boys Will Be Boys, But Not Always 🎀👦
I'M COMING IN HOT LIKE A HOUSEWIFE REACHING FOR THE IDEA OF SOLITUDE FLOATING MIRACULOUSLY IN A NO-DEMAND SOUP DRAWING SUSTENANCE FROM THE REMAINS OF OUR SOIL FINDING CREEPING IVY INVASIVE ON FIRST GLANCE HOLDING THE IMPRESSION OF A LEAF FOR RANSOM INTERPRETING FOXES AS EVIDENCE FOR FODDER THIS IS WHAT AWESOME LOOKS LIKE: HEADING TOWARDS A DIFFERENT FUTURE (any problem you're experiencing is solvable) (noticing big change in small places) (to very different songs) (the yew tree spoons the elderflower) (ecological shelter on second thought) (accidentally flowered before our flags came in) (the ancestors always send them) (the ultimate cheese party for two) (is there love in springtime?)
Okay, bb’s! Hope you’re making it through the Venus Cazimi and whatnot this week. More exciting 🌈🏠 QUEERHOUSE announcements coming next week!