LIVE WATCH PARTY, FOLLOWED BY Q&A & DJ SET - on VIMEO / FACEBOOK LIVE / WEBSITE HOMEPAGE
At 8pm, head over to Normal? Festival of the Brain’s Facebook page, or the Normal? website, to watch Byron Vincent introduce his ground-breaking new film.
After the introduction, it’ll be time to start our Watch Party! Click on this link to watch the screening of Instagramming the
Apocalypse: https://vimeo.com/506113503. The password to watch the film is NORMALFEST.
Following the Watch Party – around 9:15pm - Byron will be in conversation about the film back on Facebook and on the Normal? website. Those watching from Facebook Live can pop questions in the chat and join in the conversation. Then, continuing on Facebook Live and on Normal? fest, Byron will fire up the party by hitting the decks and bringing us some post-apocalyptic tunes to dance along to til 10:30pm.
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In a new film, performer and festival friend Byron Vincent brings the force of his wit and wisdom to shine a spotlight on the post-satire age. Byron has an anxiety disorder – but with dying icons, impending climate catastrophe and that bloke from Home Alone 2 in charge of the world's largest nuclear arsenal, isn’t blind panic the only sane response? It’s a glib, postmodern world in which cynicism is cool, modern life is rubbish and sincerity is for suckers.
As concepts like truth, peace and hope become risible anachronisms, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate our perspective. In a post-satire age, what’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding? This is a premiere screening of a new film developed from the stage show Instagramming the Apocalypse.
Following the Watch Party Byron will be in conversation about the film, with 3 Festival attendees, and all can join in the discussion. Then Byron, who has been making quite a noise with his DJ parties during lockdown, will hit the decks and bring us some tunes to dance along to at home – apocalypse or not.
Byron Vincent is a writer, performer, broadcaster and activist. He also has a diagnosis of PTSD and bipolar disorder. He has been with us since day one of Normal? back in 2015. As a spoken word artist at music and literary festivals, he was picked as one of BBC poetry season’s new talent choices. In more recent years he has turned to theatre, working as a writer, director and performer for the RSC, BAC and other notable acronyms. Now he’s turning to film as a chance to reach even more people than before. Byron is a passionate social activist with lived experience of issues around poverty and mental health. Byron has written and presented for BBC Radio 4 on the social problems arising out of poverty, ghettoization, and mental ill-health.
Most suitable for audiences 16+, contains adult content
LEARN MORE ABOUT BYRON HERE.
BOOK HERE.
