The Prodigy Sisters
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TRU DA VEIL is an evening of music and performance art that responds to the current state of the world by challenging fixed ideas of identity, survival and expression. Rooted in Black Trans experimentation, the event creates a soft and central space for Black Trans people to exist, imagine and be fully witnessed through sound, movement, memory and spirit.
We’ll hear from artists Chloe Filani, The Prodigy Sisters (Munya Jani & Sakeema Crook),
faith//agency and TRIBE. At a time when Black cultural expression is continually extracted without care or credit, TRU DA VEIL explores the alchemy that emerges when past, present, and future meet. Through themes of Black survivorhood, Afro-pessimism, Afrofuturism and Indigenous spirituality, the event invites audiences to move beyond voyeurism and bear witness to life beyond the veil.
Curated by Oduenyi Nwike from TRIBE, the evening is presented by Gushing to Perform in collaboration with Montez Press Radio and Institute of Contemporary Arts, with support from Arts Council England.
We’ll hear from artists Chloe Filani, The Prodigy Sisters (Munya Jani & Sakeema Crook),
faith//agency and TRIBE. At a time when Black cultural expression is continually extracted without care or credit, TRU DA VEIL explores the alchemy that emerges when past, present, and future meet. Through themes of Black survivorhood, Afro-pessimism, Afrofuturism and Indigenous spirituality, the event invites audiences to move beyond voyeurism and bear witness to life beyond the veil.
Curated by Oduenyi Nwike from TRIBE, the evening is presented by Gushing to Perform in collaboration with Montez Press Radio and Institute of Contemporary Arts, with support from Arts Council England.
Bios
Gushing is a platform founded by Gabriela Cala-Lesina (she/her) which champions and celebrates LGBTQIA+ artists via live radio, commissions and events, with a particular focus on queer photography, performance and nightlife.
TRIBE is an experimental community space built around survivorhood and art. Oduenyi Nwike is a Nigerian Irish born Director, Curator, Warrior Poet and musician and is a core member of TRIBE. His work as an artist has developed towards making home in the uncomfortable, the grief of survivorhood and reducing hierarchy. Encouraging art as a tool of empowerment and liberation for all Black Trans and Queer people.
Chloe Filani is an artist, poet, and performer whose work intersects Blackness, transness, black womanhood and ancestral knowing. Her work pulses with power, vulnerability, and a language that refuses to be tamed.
Using poetry and embodied performance, Chloe channels myth, memory, and personal cosmology into presence. She doesn't just perform-she conjures. Her body becomes archive, her voice becomes invocation, her words fracture silence and stitch new imaginaries. Through ritual, rage, softness, and sound, Chloe creates space for transformation--hers, ours, collective and ongoing. Her work speaks to survival, to becoming more than what was made possible before, Chloe She opens portals.
Munya is a Zimbabwean born UK raised black trans woman. She’s risen in the London creative scene and made a name for herself within the fashion industry, ballroom scene and is known across the city as a living representation of culture and intersectional communities.
Previous notable work include Covers for magazines like Glamour women of the Year, Gay times. She has also featured in Vogue, Dazed, The face, Re-edition, Attitude to name a few, and has walked London fashion week for designers such as Conner Ives.
She continues to raise awareness of the lived experiences of black trans women. She is a profound member of the London ballroom scene. A scene that has originated in NYC and grown internationally, and has had a profound impact on culture as we know it today. Within the scene she expresses her talents in forms of fashion and movement. Which is her own interpretation of creativity, style, grace and elegance inspiration and History continuously in the making. It is teachings of a chosen family from ballroom& the fashion industries which drew Munya and Sakeema together and have built an undeniable sisterhood that we will have the privilege of witnessing in their Performance.
Sakeema is a London based international model, multidisciplinary artist and activist for social justice and systemic change. A woman of black trans experience who exists within a number of spaces, a member of the ballroom scene since 2019, advocating for the intersectionality of her communities at BLM Protests and Trans Pride events in London. As a dancer has worked across Contemporary and commercial dance spaces, featuring in international tours, award show performances and music videos. Her activism and presence in fashion spaces has had her featured on covers of Another Magazine, MSM and Gay Times to name a few, walking runway shows at London and Copenhagen Fashion Weeks, featuring in Italian Vogue, British Vogue, Dazed, I-D, 10 Magazine and starring in campaigns from Fashion, Beauty, Hair and Highstreet stores. She has recently joined Shadows Fight Club and is facilitating self defense classes for communities in need of essential skills and protection at this time.
faith/agency is an experimental producer and songwriter duo. They represent the exploration of the duality found within human behaviour. Their work follows themes of time, belonging,
dysphoria, and self-abandonment by weaving together various textures, sonic artefacts and diverse musical styles with influences spanning across multiple genres such as ambient, folk, noise, industrial, spiritual, metal and trip-hop.
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Thu, 25 Jun 2026
Stage
07:00 pm
Ticket information
- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
- For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Access information
Stage
- The Stage has step free access via The Mall entrance and lift. The lift in the Stage is self-controlled with hand control, with two buttons for up and down (max weight 300kg). It is without sides and includes a vertical pole to hold on to. It operates quietly and will not disrupt the performance. Our Public Advisors can also assist.
- We have a small, raised platform to accommodate wheelchair users or others who require a chair. To request, please purchase a ticket, then contact the box office during opening hours on 020 7930 3647 or email access@ica.art
- If you have other access requirements, need more info, or want to contact us, go to the Access Page
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