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"Sell out warning! Soft Butch returns for another adventurous deep dive into substance-free, no-phone dancefloor somatics with LEXX and Fèmmme Fraîche's Michelle Manetti unleashing the dancehall / reggaeton / dnb / afrobeat heat."
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A clubnight held at The Jam Jar on Wednesday 10th September. The event starts at 19:30.
7:30PM: Doors open.
7:30-8:30PM: Catch up with your mates and/or make new ones before lights go dim.
8:30-8:50PM: Dance floor meditation + somatic experiencing (optional).
8:50-11:30PM: Michelle Manetti from Fèmmme Fraîche and LEXX on the decks.
✸ No drinks and no phones on stage + invitation to extend this to the dance floor (more about this in our FAQs: https://tinyurl.com/3vv6trxf) ✸
Soft Butch is a somatics-infused night celebrating all butchness, for Women, Non Binary and Trans people to dance freely together.
ABOUT MICHELLE MANETTI (she/her)
Michelle Manetti is a musical jack of all trades; DJ, Vocalist, Music Blogger and promoter with a BA in Music Production, she eats music for breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snacks. She first took to the decks back in Brighton in the early 00s while at Uni, quickly picking up residencies and guest sets at some of the best clubs and parties in town. Most notorious for her regular appearances on the queer girls scene. She's graced the decks at some of the scene's finest such as: Candy Bar, OPP, Wish, Mannequin, Mint, Club Lesley, Twat Boutique, Goldsnap, Dick & Fanny, SHE bar + more. As well being a fave of our Fèmmme Fraîche regulars, she's also a regular at our FF home at Dalston Superstore, Adonis, Berlin's Tresor and much more besides. With a keen persuasion for retro beats, jackin grooves and vibey melodies, she's sure to get you fired up on the dancefloor.
https://www.instagram.com/femmmefraiche
ABOUT LEXX (they/them)
LEXX whips the finest cross-genre music into sets that sweat and reset. Their dance floor is a sxy somatics-infused space where gender gets bent and all beings are held in love. A space where you can dance freely to meet your struggle and release it all.
LEXX is also the creator and DJ daddy of Soft Butch, a somatics-infused night celebrating butchness, for all women, NB and Trans people to dance freely together. The event is a repeat sell-out, gathering crowds of over 500 people on the regs.
You can find LEXX on the decks in the UK and beyond, in clubs, cafés and bars, at festivals, and in sober dance spaces. Expect the finest house of all flavours, afrobeat and amapiano, reggaeton and latinx tracks, drum n bass, and much more.
https://www.instagram.com/a_lexx_a_
ACCESS & CARE
Unfortunately, the venue is not wheelchair accessible. You can find out more information here: https://www.thejamjarbristol.com/accessibility. Every other Soft Butch event is hosted at a wheelchair accessible venue.
If you'd like a chair, please contact us on [email protected]. We'll have it labelled with your name and ready by the stage for you to collect when you arrive. If you need help setting it up, speak to a member of the Soft Butch team (anyone wearing a blue LED armband).
If money is a barrier to you joining and there are no Times Are Hard tickets left, please DM @soft_butch_ on Insta or email [email protected].
Unwanted touch, homophobic, biphobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist or ageist behaviour is not allowed.
The bathrooms in the venue are all gender neutral.
Please be aware that strobe lighting may be in use.
If something doesn't feel right, please talk to one of our Soft Butch team members. We will believe you and we will help. The team members are introduced at the start of the night and all wear a blue LED armband.
QUESTIONS?
Check out our FAQs here: https://tinyurl.com/3f36hxjs. If you still have enquiries, email [email protected] <3
__________________________________________________________________
Cover photo by Charley Williams / Michelle Manetti headshot by / LEXX headshot by Charley Williams
Entry requirements: 18+
7:30-8:30PM: Catch up with your mates and/or make new ones before lights go dim.
8:30-8:50PM: Dance floor meditation + somatic experiencing (optional).
8:50-11:30PM: Michelle Manetti from Fèmmme Fraîche and LEXX on the decks.
✸ No drinks and no phones on stage + invitation to extend this to the dance floor (more about this in our FAQs: https://tinyurl.com/3vv6trxf) ✸
Soft Butch is a somatics-infused night celebrating all butchness, for Women, Non Binary and Trans people to dance freely together.
ABOUT MICHELLE MANETTI (she/her)
Michelle Manetti is a musical jack of all trades; DJ, Vocalist, Music Blogger and promoter with a BA in Music Production, she eats music for breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snacks. She first took to the decks back in Brighton in the early 00s while at Uni, quickly picking up residencies and guest sets at some of the best clubs and parties in town. Most notorious for her regular appearances on the queer girls scene. She's graced the decks at some of the scene's finest such as: Candy Bar, OPP, Wish, Mannequin, Mint, Club Lesley, Twat Boutique, Goldsnap, Dick & Fanny, SHE bar + more. As well being a fave of our Fèmmme Fraîche regulars, she's also a regular at our FF home at Dalston Superstore, Adonis, Berlin's Tresor and much more besides. With a keen persuasion for retro beats, jackin grooves and vibey melodies, she's sure to get you fired up on the dancefloor.
https://www.instagram.com/femmmefraiche
ABOUT LEXX (they/them)
LEXX whips the finest cross-genre music into sets that sweat and reset. Their dance floor is a sxy somatics-infused space where gender gets bent and all beings are held in love. A space where you can dance freely to meet your struggle and release it all.
LEXX is also the creator and DJ daddy of Soft Butch, a somatics-infused night celebrating butchness, for all women, NB and Trans people to dance freely together. The event is a repeat sell-out, gathering crowds of over 500 people on the regs.
You can find LEXX on the decks in the UK and beyond, in clubs, cafés and bars, at festivals, and in sober dance spaces. Expect the finest house of all flavours, afrobeat and amapiano, reggaeton and latinx tracks, drum n bass, and much more.
https://www.instagram.com/a_lexx_a_
ACCESS & CARE
Unfortunately, the venue is not wheelchair accessible. You can find out more information here: https://www.thejamjarbristol.com/accessibility. Every other Soft Butch event is hosted at a wheelchair accessible venue.
If you'd like a chair, please contact us on [email protected]. We'll have it labelled with your name and ready by the stage for you to collect when you arrive. If you need help setting it up, speak to a member of the Soft Butch team (anyone wearing a blue LED armband).
If money is a barrier to you joining and there are no Times Are Hard tickets left, please DM @soft_butch_ on Insta or email [email protected].
Unwanted touch, homophobic, biphobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist or ageist behaviour is not allowed.
The bathrooms in the venue are all gender neutral.
Please be aware that strobe lighting may be in use.
If something doesn't feel right, please talk to one of our Soft Butch team members. We will believe you and we will help. The team members are introduced at the start of the night and all wear a blue LED armband.
QUESTIONS?
Check out our FAQs here: https://tinyurl.com/3f36hxjs. If you still have enquiries, email [email protected] <3
__________________________________________________________________
Cover photo by Charley Williams / Michelle Manetti headshot by / LEXX headshot by Charley Williams
Entry requirements: 18+
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