Everything sounds like crying eventually: a karaoke party

11 January 2024
Agnes Etherington House
6:00-9:00pm

For its inaugural event, Wee Bit Off Centre is hosting a karaoke party. Gather in Etherington House for an evening of amateur performance and public feelings. Rehearse your love, declare your failures and cradle your heartbreak.

At queer karaoke hosted by Bar Notre-Dame-des-Quilles, Tear Jerkers saw a crowd erupt in sync to the bridge of Shallow, a guttural full-throating “ahhh, ha-ah-ahhh, ah ah, ahh ahh ahhhhh” in the style of Gaga. They witnessed karaoke’s possibilities for social promiscuity, collective intimacy and shared embarrassment. And on the horizon, the potential to bring together a public of friends, lovers and strangers.

RE: REJECTION

18 January 2024
Agnes Etherington House
6:00-8:30pm

Re rejection is a workshop for thinking what we want from rejections. Participants bring their professional and romantic-or-otherwise-interpersonal rejections to the workshop, where we collectively “annotate” them. This might mean adding or redacting text, collaging and assembling, supplementing notes for how the rejections can be read. In this exercise, we think about how rejection can be more than a percussive “no,” and what tones, tempos, dynamics and content we wish were also possible. What shifts if we think of all rejections as performances?

RE: REJECTION II: NO AGAIN     

24 January 2024
Agnes Etherington House
2:30-4:30pm

A continuation of the first workshop, with an emphasis on performing our annotated rejections for the screening event, Sorry I’m late I didn’t want to come.

Sorry I’m late I didn’t want to come

4 February 2024
ReelOut Queer Film Festival
The Screening Room 
2:00-3:00pm

Sorry I’m late I didn’t want to come, shorts program and performances presented by Wee Bit Off Centre, an embryonic art centre and a gathering place for its own imagining.

SILIDWTC indulges a fascination with failure, something that queer folks have always done deftly and with elan. It brings scenes of refusal and futility and redundancy across several short videos together with live performances of rejections that have been reworked at our upcoming public workshop.

Atrophied Objects: A Re-Purposing Sculpture Workshop

12 March 2024
Agnes Etherington House
11:30am-4:00pm 

Atrophied Objects is a sculptural workshop about using what we have and group experimentation.
Materials are provided, however, participants are invited to bring materials from home. Together we will be thinking on themes of accessibility as we re-purpose our “found objects” into sculpture, transforming the Etherington House with our work. The works we create together will then live in the space and become part of Wee Bit Off Centre's occupation of the House.

This one’s coming to an end:
Wee Bit Off Centre Open House

26-28 March 2024
Agnes Etherington House
Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 am–4:30 pm; Thursday, 10 am–9 pm

Wee Bit Off Centre is hosting a 3-day open house to share what we’ve been up to over 3 months of working in, and out of, Etherington House. Different co-directors are at the house each day to welcome participants and chat with curious visitors.

As a send-off to our time at Agnes, Wee Bit Off Centre is also once again throwing a karaoke party. Hope to see you there.

It’s my party I can cry if I want to

28 March 2024
Agnes Etherington House 
5:30–8:30 pm

A final karaoke party to close out WBOC’s occupation of Agnes Etherington House.