We had a wonderful time sharing our project during The Ecological Citizens Festival: EC in Action day on the Thursday 18th September 2025 at the Museum of Making, Derby.
The Ecological Citizens Festival was a one-day, in-person event championing a creative, collaborative gathering for artists, scientists, designers, community leaders, researchers, activists and others who are asking: What does it mean to be an ecological citizen today?
(more…)More than 40 brave souls joined E. coli for two infectious promenade performances along Margate’s beaches on the 21 and 22 August. Together we waded through stories about sewage, swimming and the E.co-system, listening to E. coli’s side of this toxic story. Thank you so much to everyone who came and shared your energy with us! Below is a glimpse of the fun we had, and the mischief we made. If you have any pictures you want to share, please send them to us or tag us on Instagram @flow.walk.drag. We’d love to see the tour from your perspective!
From Friday to Sunday (25 – 27 July) we ran FOUR tours, and hosted around 80 humans with our infectious blend of art & science. Thank you for everyone who came to the Liverpool Cholera tours! Below are some memorable snaps from the event. Do you have any you want to share? Please send them through – we’d love to see the tour from your perspective too!
Photos by Tracy Simpson, Tim Brunsden
E. coli has been spending a lot of time in Margate recently and local residents are getting sick of her. She has a reputation for being toxic. But is she misunderstood? Join us for an unforgettable walking tour and performance along Margate’s coast as we hear E. coli’s side of the story.
Thursday 21 & Friday 22 August E.coli is brought to slimy life by multi-award nominated writer and performer Laura Wyatt O’Keeffe (soho theatre, round house, latitude festival) in microbial drag. The tour is a queer, joyful exploration of Margate’s relationship with microorganisms, provoking new perspectives on the sewage crisis and our relationship with non-human life.
(more…)A Contagion of Transformation
This project represents a new strain of social research – one that refuses to be quarantined in ivory towers. By embodying a microorganism through drag performance, the tour challenges audiences to think differently about bodies, boundaries and belonging in urban spaces.
The 90-minute experience promises regular stops at points of intrigue, where scientific fact meets theatrical fiction, and where Liverpool’s past contaminations illuminate present-day struggles for reclaiming connected waterways, healthy communities and environmental justice.
Symptoms Include: Uncontrollable Urge to Question Everything
Audiences should prepare for side effects including – heightened awareness of water politics, sudden appreciation for drag as a research method, and an infectious desire to see their city through microbial eyes. Warning: this tour may cause permanent changes to how you live through Liverpool’s streets, contagion, waterways and the invisible networks that connect us all.
The tour’s unique blend of social research and unapologetic performance creates something genuinely unprecedented – a theatrical vaccination against ignorance that’s as entertaining as it is enlivening.
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