Flow.Walk.Drag.Everyday 

From microbial drag spectacle to everyday ecological citizenship

Looking to co-host “pooling parties” in Liverpool & Margate. Spilling over to where communities pool together – resources, capacities, needs – experimenting with bacterial wisdom. 

Flowing into existing community venues – climate cafes, community centres, local gatherings – bringing microbial drag interventions, toolkits and pooling practices into spaces where people already are. Embedding radical generosity into the everyday.

  • E. coli’s Margate Tour – Act 1: Seaside Scandal is out!

    Every seaside town has its secrets, its scandal, its toxic gossip. Margate is overflowing with it. And Act 1 of E. coli’s Margate Tour is out now.

    We begin at the Coastal Shelter on Ethelbert Crescent and start to unfold Margate’s long, complicated history with the sea: from the devastating impact of cheap international flights on the town’s seasonal economy to the DFLs, the diaspora communities, and the artists who’ve kept finding their way here.

    And then…we go looking for E. coli, the town’s most notorious resident.

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  • E. coli’s Margate Tour — the audio tour is here!

    She’s been the talk of the town for years. Her name turns up constantly in WhatsApp groups, in health warnings, in reasons why you probably shouldn’t have gone in the water last August. And now, she’s ready to tell her side of the story.

    We’re thrilled to share the trailer for E. coli’s Margate Tour — a microcosmic deep dive into hidden water histories, following E. coli along the Margate coastline. This is the sister show to our Liverpool Cholera Audio Tour.

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  • The Margate (Tidal) Pooling Party

    We’re bringing people together for a pooling party in Margate. These are gatherings that pop up in community spaces – just humans and microbes coming together to share resources, ideas and a bit of bacterial wisdom.

    Tidal pools are amazing. They’re temporary, precarious, and somehow teeming with life — because everything in them has learned to adapt, share, and hold on together. Inspired by the Walpole Tidal Pool, that’s the spirit we’re bringing to People Dem Collective this April.

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  • A SHIFT in conversation

    We were happy to be invited to be in conversation with SHIFT Liverpool, the sustainability network for cultural organisations in the Liverpool City Region. Our first public event of the year, on the 3rd of Feb, facilitated by Metal Culture & hosted at OpenEye Gallery was to dip our toes into the wider dialogue with people who have already been meeting to “collaboratively address the climate emergency and the Liverpool City Region’s ambitious 2040 zero-carbon target.” It resonates with our aims of bringing climate conversations into everyday life.

    Photo Credit: Lucy Dosser
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  • Last podcast episode!

    We are now at the end of our sonic journey through Liverpool L8. We have arrived at the Granby Winter Garden, the final spot on our expedition. Step inside if it’s open, it’s a very welcoming space. Opening times can be found on their website – https://www.granby4streetsclt.co.uk/whats-on-weekly 
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    Thank you so much for listening alongside Cholera – we hope you enjoyed it. Stayed tuned for Season 2 of the podcast, where we swim towards Margate to get to know E. coli!

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