Katie Beswick is launching her new book Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture and Kelly Green is launching her online exhibition SKIN. There will be some performance readings, followed by Katie & Kelly in conversation about their works, their feelings on being slaggy, and working class feminist culture.
When: Thursday 3rd July at 7pm.
TO BOOK: SLAGS ‘N’ SKIN: A Book, A Tattoo and Feeling Slaggy Tickets, Thu 3 Jul 2025 at 19:00 | Eventbrite
Standard tickets are £7.50 (Concessions £5.00); with each ticket booking you will receive a pamphlet of Katie Beswick’s Jackie poems and a 25% discount code for the Slags on Stage book.
An enhanced £12 ticket includes a copy of Katie’s poetry collection Plumstead Pram Pushers, a sister-text to Slags on Stage.
Slags on Stage (2025) is a hybrid work of poetry, memoir, arts criticism and cultural theory. It offers a cultural and personal history of the word ‘slag’, arguing that the word as a sexist insult forms an important ‘key word’ in late twentieth century British culture, which helps us to understand some of the complexities around the intersections of class and sex (and gender and race too).
Katie Beswick is a writer and academic, whose work circulates around questions of class in art and culture.
SKIN (2018) is an online exhibition of the process of Kelly Green getting a tattoo which represents the reclaiming of the word CHAV, whilst also acknowledging the intergenerational connections of four working-class women.
Kelly Green is an interdisciplinary socially engaged performance artist; a caring, feisty, hot mess.
The Newington Green Meeting House is the home of New Unity, a radically inclusive community of love and justice. This event is a partnership event, with space offered by New Unity's arts programme Arts on the Green. Arts on the Green exists to provide flexible space to arts practitioners bringing high quality culture to our community.
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For any specific accessibility requirements or for any queries, please email: arts@new-unity.org by Sunday 22nd June 2025. (We are a tiny part-tiime team so need some notice - many thanks.)