ABOUT FATT PROJECTS

Fatt Projects is a Birmingham based queer performance company.

We make shows, parties, performances, events, and juicy creative bits focused on advancing queer joy.
Our work celebrate queerness, community, care, empowerment, and change-making. It is just as likely to take place in public spaces as it is in conventional theatre spaces.

We describe our work as full-fat.

It is unapologetic, loud, and saturated. It embraces liveness, and the mechanics of making things. We’re on a mission to celebrate ‘low-culture’ and camp and to use them as weapons to disrupt normativity.

Our work is about harnessing the radical potential of queer joy, and using that to find ways to build queer community, connectivity and spirituality. 

We create spaces for people to come together and celebrate themselves, to heal through acts of collectivity.

In the work we make, we see glimpses of what radical, queerer and more caring futures could look like and the steps we can take towards realising these futures - each project informs the direction of our next steps.

We like to think that we’re changing the world one confetti cannon at a time.

Our work is built around 5 core values:

INVITATION - actively making space for others to create and connect with queer joy. 

DEMONSTRATION - to embrace the mechanics of what we do, to create magic in reality rather than fantasy, in a way that empowers others to actively participate. 

TRANSFORMATION - to radically alter our perception of the possibilities of a space, to affect action. 

OCCUPATION - to take up space, to assert our ownership of space.

CELEBRATION - to instil joy, to give voice, to make loud.

These values are built on a foundation of safety.

SAFETY - ensuring the conditions to do the work are as safe as possible, and that care is at the centre of all our decision making. 

Fatt Projects’ work has been supported by Cambridge Junction, Birmingham Hippodrome, Without Walls, Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022, DanceXchange, Home Live Art, Appetite Stoke, Greenwich Docklands International Festival, Marlborough Productions, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmee Fairburn Foundation, Jerwood Arts, and Arts Council England.