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Crip Casino

  • Platform, Southwark Platform, Southwark 1 Joan Street, SE1 London United Kingdom (map)

   

Crip Casino

In a gambling institution as bizarre as its inhabitants, Crip Casino brings you the best in avant-garde, crip, queer, disabled, and interdisciplinary artists, showcasing brand new experiments in interactive gaming, multisensory installation, film, and performance...

Expect wonky glamour, Instagrammable pain & underground gambling. Offer feedback, take part in open discussions, or simply wind down in a set of noise-cancelling headphones and watch the high rollers begin to lose...

Featuring: the Amazing One-Armed Fruit Machine, Multisensory Bingo, Wheelchair Roulette, ASMR Egg Openings, Poetic Scratchcards, Lurker Lucy, The Immigration Game, Shit Beach, LOTS AND LOTS OF DICE, more TBC.

Shine up your Rolex & come ready to win big...

Art and Performances from:

- Abi Palmer

- Ladies of the Press

- Jackie Hagan

- Miss Jacqui

- Anna Ulrikke Andersen

+ more TBC

Full itinerary will be announced soon.

Dates:

Friday 3rd August, 4-10pm

Saturday 4th August 4-10pm

Location:

Platform, Southwark

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Spaces are limited. Please reserve your free ticket / highlight any access needs here

Free entry, cash bar

 

Access:

  • Entry is free. There will be a donation bar (cash only) serving a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.
  • There is a wide, wheelchair accessible entrance.
  • Toilets: A wide, wheelchair accessible toilet is available. Your nearest Changing Places (hoisted and very large) toilet is (TBC)
  • More info about Changing Places here: http://www.changing-places.org/
  • Seating can be reserved in advance.
  • A wind-down space will be available.
  • Noise-cancelling earplugs, communication signs and fiddle props will be provided.

Crip Casino is 10-Day Residency at Platform Southwark, supported by Brainchild. Part of ‘Sanatorium:’ a 10 month research project exploring themes of disability, chance, class, ritual, and belonging in private and public medical institutions, by Abi Palmer www.abipalmer.com. Supported by public funding from Arts Council England. www.artscouncil.co.uk

 
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This residency is supported by Brainchild

 
Later Event: August 4
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