Creative Development

Alphabet Soup

We’ve got it all going on…

LGBTQIA+ · ADHD · AuDHD · BIPOC · and counting

Between us, we carry a lot of acronyms…

LGBTQIA+. ADHD. AuDHD. BIPOC. Each one is a shorthand for a longer story. Alphabet Soup is what happens when all of those stories end up in the same room together — not managing each other, not explaining themselves, just getting on with making something.

The Kitchen is a place where queer, Black and neurodiverse artists come together to figure out what we want to say and how we want to say it. We take ideas from generation to performance by way of our own special melting pot — and the results are delicious…

What actually happens in the kitchen:

The workshops and rehearsals are where acts and exhibitions get built. People bring ideas at whatever stage they’re at — half-formed, nearly there, completely falling apart — and the group works with them. It’s not a class and it’s not a critique session. It’s more like a shared studio where everyone’s making something and everyone’s invested in each other’s work going well.

So far that’s meant making performances, developing costumes and props, building set, working out what collaboration actually looks like when nobody’s in charge in the wrong way. The early sessions happened at The Palace of the Dogs in Peckham.

The feast that comes out of it:

HoTties are freshly served portions of our alphabet soup for your feasting pleasure. The first round of HoTties are currently working hard on Kiki with Corí. A recurring night hosted by Corí Creemz, it will bring together a rotating lineup of artists from the House each time it runs.

Each edition mixes solo acts with collaborative pieces built in the workshops. The lineup changes. The work changes. That’s kind of the point — a chaotic party that could never be the same night twice.