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FR: Sooz Kempner & Laura Quinn Goh

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    • Gulbenkian's monthly comedy club - radical and exciting, but also warm and snuggle as a bunny rabbit.

    Opener: Laura Quinn Goh

    Laura Quinn Goh is a Singaporean comedian based in London. When she first resided in Glasgow in late 2021, she quickly became a weekend regular at famed clubs across Scotland, such as The Stand, Glee, Monkey Barrel, and Breakneck Comedy. Her comedy was featured on public broadcast television channel STV’s flagship entertainment programme What’s on Scotland advertisements for a year. She was awarded a Special Commendation for Glasgow International Comedy Festival’s inaugural Spirit of Glasgow Award. Even after her relocation to London, her ties with Scotland remain with her regularly being invited to perform at events and festivals like Laugh in the Park. Upon her relocation to London, she hit the English circuit hard with appearances at major clubs like Big Belly, Backyard Comedy, The Boat Show, and Poodle Club and becoming a finalist in 2024 West End New Act competition.

    Her double bill and solo shows have been featured at the Edinburgh Fringe, Glasgow International Comedy Festival, and Women in Comedy Festival. Notably, her debut solo show, You, Me, and Your Correctional Officer, which delves into her poignant love story involving a partner facing the death penalty in their home country, sold out at the Women in Comedy Festival.

    Headliner: Sooz Kempner

    Sooz Kempner is an award-winning (Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, Funny Women Variety Award) comedian, singer, writer and actor who has written and performed nine solo stand-up hours at the Edinburgh Fringe, the most recent, Y2K Woman, selling out almost every day.

    She is a regular collaborator with Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer the Opera, Made in Dagenham, This Morning with Richard not Judy) and hosts two podcasts, Mystery on the Rocks and QueenPod, the official podcast for the band Queen. In 2023 she was the lead in Doctor Who’s Doom’s Day, a multi-platform spin-off for BBC Studios.

    Throughout lockdown she made a variety of online content including livestreams via Twitch and viral political videos where Donald Trump’s words are delivered verbatim by Liza Minnelli, and parodies of Nadine Dorries and Liz Truss. These have received press in The Guardian, The Independent and The Metro as well as in the LA Times and Chicago Tribune stateside. Sooz is a guest lead in an upcoming new US sitcom for Amazon Prime and CBS.

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    Fri 31 October

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    ART31 takes its name from Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, which states that ‘Children have the right to relax and play, and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities’.

    ART31 is a vision created with, by, and for young people in Kent, championing the belief that all children and young people have an entitlement to access high quality arts and culture, to empower them to achieve their creative potential, and to genuinely engage young people as equal partners in any decision making that affects them.

    The ART31 Youth Board is made up of young people from across Kent aged 13-25 who steer its governance, and influence policy and practice across the county and beyond, challenging the creative sector to examine existing ways of working and integrate young people into the core of their practice.

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    National Theatre Connections – Gulbenkian Young Company

    NT Connections is the National Theatre’s nationwide youth theatre festival. Each year it offers a unique opportunity for youth theatres and school theatre groups to stage new plays written for young people by some of theatre’s most exciting playwrights, and to perform in leading theatres across the UK.
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    Gulbenkian’s ARTY31 group is for young people aged 8-12 with a wide variety of arts interests.

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