Alok: A Lighthouse special
Featured Speakers
Alok Vaid-Menon & Jess Brough
*this event will NOT be live-streamed, but a video edit will be released after the event, first sent to all who book online tickets*
*although all our seats are now sold out, you're welcome to try your luck at the door in case we have last minute drop outs or you're happy to sit on the grass :) *
We are ECSTATIC to finally announce some utterly thrilling news: We're welcoming Alok Vaid-Menon to Lighthouse!
Stepping off stage at the Traverse for one afternoon, Alok joins us for a lunchtime garden chat with Jess Brough!
Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed performance artist whose work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition.
In 2021 they headlined the New York Comedy Festival , they recently be headlined the Just for Laughs Festival in Vancouver, had a sold out run at the Soho Theatre in London in July and are performing a spectacular run currently at Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival. (just a few tickets left for that!)
Their book Beyond the Gender Binary is a Lighthouse staple and a bookseller favourite that has been described as a “clarion call for a new approach to gender in the 21st century”. They are also author of two poetry books Femme in Public (2017) and Your Wound / My Garden (2021).
On screen, they will next shoot the Netflix/Blumhouse feature film ABSOLUTE DOMINION. They have also appeared in the Netflix docu-series Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBO’s late-night sketch series Random Acts of Flyness and the documentary The Trans List.
Jess Brough is a writer, a psycholinguistics PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and the founder of Fringe of Colour – an Edinburgh-based multi-award-winning arts initiative for Black people and People of Colour. Jess has written for gal-dem and The Skinny, and has been published with an essay in The Bi-Bible: New Testimonials and a short story in Scottish literary magazine Extra Teeth and The Best of British Fantasy 2019 anthology.
Twitter: @Jessica_Brough | @FringeofColour Instagram: @jessbrough | @fringeofcolour Website: https://www.fringeofcolour.co.uk
