WORKSHOP 10H > 13H
TRANSMASC CRUISING: Post-porn performance & writing workshop
This workshop was born out of the lack of cruising spaces for transmasc and people with deviant gender identities. We want to create a space for free exchange around our sexual fantasies. Often, cruising is made possible by a specific location or the use of a specific object. Here, we're using an everyday object to access a fantasized cruising. Here we define cruising as the act of meeting an unknown person in a public space with the aim of establishing sexual contact.
We´ll delve into our relationship to objects and how an everyday object and its (mis)use can enable a fantasmagoric/sf cruising. Through bodily practice, writing exercices and the combination of both we will look at places, addresses and objects of desire with cruising methods.
This workshop is inspired by our work as a duo Bobby & Bryan. In which we use experiences of our own life as a milestone for fiction in the form of a hybrid post porn performance. It’s a quest around trans fag identity as a new way of existing toward the world (in shape, desire and being).
Lyv Santerre's (he/they) passion is trans childhood, underwater life & porn, which he combines to create plays (they used to be a tr4444ny, 2024 & BROMANCE - how to be a good boy?, 2025) and visual art - his artistic research is rooted in the needs of his body and those around him, dissidentx, fatiguéx, crip, sexual and radical - he is also a scenographer for several Brussels-based queer and sex-positive parties, such as Missfitte, Lube and Not Your Techno.
Billy’s (they/them) research is about interpersonal affects, ruptures and absence. They are particularly interested in an approach on gaze and how affects impact our perceptions. They work at the intersection of performance, writing, sound and within collective practices (Tales from Drift, Bromance).
This workshop is for trans masculine people (this regarding any type of interpretation or « passing ») and aims at approaching questions around sexuality. No prerequisites in terms of experience in cruising, performance or writing are needed but a willingness to talk about your desires in whatever forms they might take. Bring an everyday object that is important in your everyday and comfortable clothes. The workshop will be given in French and English.
Standard price €15 / Solidarity price €10,50 / Support price €19,50
For those who want, we will share a lunch together between 13h till 14h, together with the participants of the second workshop. Included in the price. Because eating together is just as important as dancing together <3
SCREENING + Q&A 14H30 > 16H
BEYOND THE GOLDEN LINE
The film follows the journey of a Black transmasculine pole dancer navigating the emotional terrain of family and queer kinship.
During the after talk, we’ll explore questions of visibility, desire, movement, and care in transmasc life, and how our stories shift when we place them in relation to each other.
SJ Rahatoka (Also known as Jayden Ka) is a Black Transmasculine interdisciplinary performance creator and filmmaker based in Berlin. SJ’s creations explore the themes of Afrofuturism, Trans identity, Queerness, and Interconnectedness. In 2022, SJ wrote and directed Volana’s Eclipse, an experimental short film performed by Kalil Bat. The short film was selected for the Vierte Welle festival in the category Trans Lives matter and Xposed festival in June 2023. SJ directed Beyond the Golden Line that received the Jury Award of Xposed festival.
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WORKSHOP 17H > 20H
TOO MASC 2 MOVE: A sensual masc movement lab
You must have seen him. That one guy in the club, so timid, so still. Standing on the edge of the floor, locked in place by some invisible script. Unsure what part of his body he’s allowed to move without cracking the fragile shell of his cis-normative masculinity. Barely shifting side to side, drink in hand, smile like a mask. I am stunned. This lab is for all the trans fags, trans dykes, stone butches, masc4mascs, transmasc femme boys, bois with pussies/titties, those who know that masculinity can be hard and holy, seductive and soft, heavy and tender, all at once. We acknowledge and embody that masculinity is not the sole property of cis men, and we are here to move with that truth.
This is a space to stretch out of tight definitions and into felt, shifting masculinities, we will approach masculinity as a choreography. Together, we will be asking questions like: what does it mean to carry masculinity in a body that's misread, erased, blended, refused, or desired differently? When and how are we denied those spaces we were once part of ? What is soft dominance, or tender swagger? What does it mean to sweat, dance, and breathe in a body that disrupts what masculinity is supposed to be?
We move with the tensions of visibility, and make space for the ghostly traces of butch, stones/femmes, fags/dykes, bois/daddies, tops/bottoms, ultimate switches, softies/brats, protectors/tamers, and all the things that don’t have names yet…
Lou (he/him) is a 25 years old trans man with a background in performance art and gender & diversity studies. He’s been exploring expression since the age of 10, when he first discovered breakdancing. Drawn to movement but searching for a sense of queer belonging, he later found community in the ballroom scene. Blending these past experiences, Lou brings his embodied history into dialogue with critical thought, to question (gender) norms, share stories, educate, and spark connection. His work is always asking what gender could be, if you let it dance a little.
Meriç (he/him) is a 30-year-old transmasc cultural worker, born and raised in the queer nightlife of Istanbul and now based in Brussels. For over a decade, he’s been weaving care, movement, and collective resistance into the spaces he builds, on stage, behind the decks, through protest, and in the soft shadows of afterparties. With a background in sociology, anthropology, and gender studies, his work traces how queerness moves through bodies and public space, from streets to dance floors. His practice blends grassroots organizing and creative expression, shaped by years of holding space under political repression.
This lab is for transmasculine and gender-nonconforming folks who move through the world in masculine-coded bodies, energies, or desires. All fitness levels, dance backgrounds, and body types are welcome. You don’t need to identify with any fixed label, just come if this feels like it’s for you.
Clothes you’ve wanted to wear but never quite dared to, pieces that pull at your desire, your gender euphoria, your soft swagger.
Items that scream “I am a man” (whatever that means to you): a tie, a protein shaker, a cap, a puffer vest, leather gloves, cologne, etc. Cartoonish or cliché masc accessories are welcome.
Kneepads or anything that can serve as makeshift ones
A small towel, an extra t-shirt (or binder-safe top) if you get sweaty, and a water bottle to stay hydrated.
Most importantly: your curiosity, your contradictions, your ghosts, your edge-of-the-dancefloorenergy. We’ll move from there.
Standard price €15 / Solidarity price €10,50 / Support price €19,50
Bar will stay open until 22h, so stay, hang, get to know each other!