Outburst Arts Festival 2027: Catflap #6 Live

We celebrate the launch of the sixth edition of catflap, Outburst’s print-only annual of new queer writing, with very special performances from catflap contributors and guests who are reshaping and rethinking the possibilities of queerness.

Join us for the perfect chill-out evening to end our first weekend.Yubraj Gurung is a Nepal-based Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer who seamlessly weaves personal identity, divinity, and classical movement into motion.

Yubraj uses the depth of classical dance to bring fluid, unspoken queer narratives and overlooked spiritual figures to centre stage through this lyrical traditional dance form that has its own evolving language.Keith Jarrett is a returning Outburst favourite; a writer of poetry, fiction and essays, a multiple slam champion and teacher at NYU London.

With courage, insight and mischief, his dazzlingly lyrical new collection, Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied (Bad Betty 2026) invites the reader to look sideways, to consider the absurd, messy and problematic with a playfulness that feels, in itself, slyly revolutionary.tatiana nascimento is a song/writer, singer and poet from Brasília.

Celebrating the forces of Wind and Earth that conduct her Orí, they re- engineer affection, Blackness, the Brazilian savannah - called “cerrado”- and the sea through melody and noise-in-loop.

She conceptualised the term “cuírlombismo,” opening a new path for the interpretation, critique, and diffusion of Black LGBTQIA+ aesthetic productions.

She has published 26 books of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and children’s literature - translated into multiple languages - and recently released an album, meio beat meio banzo.

Their debut novel, água de maré (Pallas Editoria 2025) won the 2025 Best Queer Book of the Year from Mix Literário and is one of the books selected by PEN Presents - Brazil.Launch event in partnership with British Council and English PEN’s PEN Presents as part of the UK / Brazil Season of Culture 2025-26This event is 18+