Thank you for your patience with us this week as we’ve worked through our plan amongst the Covid-19 situation. We can now confirm that Basement will be closed to the public for the time being. Here's our full statement: bit.ly/2UfI46w. Stay safe and take care xx

In solidarity with the Muslim community here in Aotearoa – here are a few contemporary Muslim poets (writing in English) whose work we love pantograph-punch.com/post/contempor…

Here's how I quell upwelling panic: I hold out my hand at arms length. I find a slow steady breath. Gazing at my hand, I start to bring it towards my chest as slowly as possible. The slower the better. Eventually my hand is resting against my chest, and i feel a LOT better...

Kia ora e te whānau! We're hosting a #lockdown advent calendar over on our Insta. Each day for the next 28 days, we’ll be sharing an artist we love and an activity you can do inspired by their mahi. Today's featured artist is author Sharon Lam 💛 instagram.com/p/B-K7ehqJI8y/…

Chinese people have been treated as if they are the virus (or as if they are all potential carriers) during Covid-19, but this goes way back historically. A personal essay on being hurt but not being seen 🇵🇸💞✨ secret third gender ✨💞🇵🇸 pantograph-punch.com/post/you-treat…

shoutout to everyone who obsessively reads through the email they're about to send, sends the email, then re-reads the email again via their sent folder just to see if it's vibing differently there

My Prime Video AU/NZ special BOSSY BOTTOM comes out ON FRIDAY! (I came out in ‘99) I hope you enjoy this historical document of when we used to gather in groups & laugh, it’s my love letter to the audience who I MISS! I had so much fun making it & tbh it is kind of off the chain.

Covid-19 got nicknamed as the ‘Chinese virus’ by Donald Trump. It’s effective not because it’s smart but because it has historical roots: inciting a nasty part of history that has routinely stoked the idea of Chinese people as dirty, backward, diseased. pantograph-punch.com/post/you-treat…

In amongst the stress and bad news we are delighted to reveal that the recipients of the 2020 Forced Entertainment Award (in memory of Huw Chadbourn) are Bertrand Lesca @lesca_b and Nasi Voutsas @nasi_v forcedentertainment.com/fe-award/

thank u Forced Entertainment! thank u all the venues, individuals and audiences who have been so incredibly supportive & welcomed us in their car parks when touring with Valentin our camper. he is at home enjoying a much needed rest with his immediate motorised family. sending love xxx

Since closing the venue on 20 March, we've worked hard as a team to come up with plans for what Basement will be in this time. Welcome to Basement Underground 💛 bit.ly/BasementUnderg… #BasementUnderground

Looking forward to your submissions Ladies!

It’s scary to read some of the anger directed at the two women who just lost their mother but scarier still to think of how exponentially worse the vitriol would be if they were POC instead of white women from Britain.

I don’t have much more to add to current comedy conversations except once I pitched an intersectional feminist tv show to comedy central & they politely told me they already had a “show about feminism” in the works... by Jim Jeffries. 😊

Yes! Another chance to write King Lear! Thank god 😅🙏🙏🙏

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