Make Love Not War

We live in a time of extreme political polarisation, cancel culture, people don’t talk to each other anymore. We live in an extremely frightening, complex and dangerous time. Being forced into a language and culture of positivity and simplicity, when things are so often much more complex than they seem. So often forced to frame things in a positive light, or simply to oppose things in terms of good and evil, black and white.

What would happen if we could acknowledge this complexity? If we could own our ambivalence towards one another? If we could dare to say the unsayable?

What might be gained from acknowledging ambivalence, the complexity of our motivations, the ambiguity and not-knowing - undecidability.

Acknowledging the ambivalence and the complexity and going towards the un-spoken and the unsaid.

What are the things we don’t normally acknowledge to ourselves or say to each other. It’s the non-coherence that is important. It’s the not making sense of our time and of our lives.

This is a festival that addresses eroticism, sexuality, mortality and grief, art, poetry, trance, catharsis - from a point of view that is not simply Western.

How can we acknowledge the complexities, ambiguities and even impasses of ourselves and our time and transform them towards a more creative, egalitarian and ethical and just future?

Festival to celebrate the diversity of masculinities, not to be put in a box. beyond the gender binary, beyond stereotypes, what are the problems that men face, but also what to celebrate, what to hold onto, what is beautiful in masculinity. It is such a contested category in modernity.