A turbulent ride! – MixMatched, once again, prevailed in finding a new venue! – We are very grateful for The Mooring Cafe for putting us up in their cozy establishment at such short notice. Thanks to everyone who joined us – WE PACKED OUT THE PLACE, not one seat was left! As always, we we …
Courtesy of Free Range (another neurodivergent+ friendly organisation and performance night in Canterbury!), MixMatched shared a table at Bandit Bazaar Zine festival at Floc Brewery in Canterbury, on the 5th of July- Amongst an astounding range of art, literature and politics, MixMatched presented three of its own zines…. Neuroqueer (by Emma Robdale) Expanding upon LGBTQIA+ …
We’re still going strong in Margate! – Thank-you again everyone who supported us! – Now that we’re a CIC hopefully it wont’ be long until we obtain funding to create BIGGER (in a neurodivergently friendly way lol), BETTER, AND MORE INCLUSIVE nights! (our next night is in Canterbury 5th of July – 7.00-9.30, The Mooring …
We survived the rain of the first day (despite our marque having no sides and the rain soaking us!)- and we were back again on Saturday the 18th for more workshops and shows! Workshop One: Page to Stage (by Emma Robdale) A hybrid workshop beginning with a short discussion upon why specific flowers/trees have can carry …
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Our first ever collaborative festival! – We provided three creative workshops, TWO SHOWS (MadMatched and BirchMatched SLAM!) and opened up a Neurodivergent information point/sensory Gazebo up for the two day festival! – AND NOW WE’RE BURNT OUT! We’d like to thank our camera-man, Simon Kempthorne, for giving up his Saturday to provide us with …
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Thank-you everyone who travelled with us to our new venue, FOND Coffee! – Hopefully this can be our forever Canterbury home! – Our night’s theme was ‘Intense Fascinations’ (which we like better than ‘special interests’), and it drew a whole host of wacky and wonderful neurodiverse and neurodivergent talent! Chloe Lewer started off our night …
Again! – Another fantastic Night!!! – On Sundowners brand new improved shiny stage! – We had 16 FABULOUS NEURODIVERSE ACTS. – and we were absolutely packed! (we were literally at capacity) Kicking off with Holly, MixMatched Host, who performed for the very first time upon MixMatched Stage! – And followed by one of our two …
On Wednesday the 15th of February the ‘+’ in Neurodivergent+ was a kiss! Thank-you for everyone who came to watch or perform at our valentine’s love, despair and Atypical Romance inspired evening, at our lovely new venue, Bramley‘s! 😀 We’ve started as we wish to proceed…. our first show of 2023 was as strong as …
WOW!– We came. We Fought. We Concurred that it went extremely well! Thank-you everyone who came to our first MixMatched Night in Margate and made it so spectacular! After having our venue pulled last minute we feared the worst…. but Sundowners Bar put us up in their fairy light lit, black velvet stage room (complete …
A prey mantis, a gladiator and a cat walk onto the stage…. the start of a joke? No, just your three MixMatched presenters!!! Upon this hallowed evening we had a full set of ‘spooken’ word performances… some deep, some spiritual and many just utterly macabre! One being Sam’s creepy story of a larvae-human bug prince …
