Volunteer with Robin Whitmore at The Coast is Queer Festival

The Coast is Queer Festival 🎉

Calling all creative souls, arts lovers, queer folk and LGBTQ+ allies!
The Coast is Queer is teaming up with the artist Robin Whitmore for a spectacular, growing installation The Queer Chorus – lovers who resist, and we need YOU to help bring it to life!

🎭 What’s Happening?

Over two days at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Robin will be transforming the venue with a bold, joyful, and larger-than-life tribute to LGBTQ+ literary legends — and you can be part of the team that makes it happen!

You can help create life-sized cardboard cut-outs of iconic queer writers (suggested by festival attendees!) that will be placed around the venue as 2D VIPs in a living, evolving art installation.

✂️ What You’ll Be Doing:

You’ll be working right in the heart of the festival in the café bar helping Robin with:

• Online research into queer literary icons 📚
• Drawing and painting ✍️🎨
• Cutting, glueing, and assembling figurines ✂️🧃
• Setting the scene for something unforgettable 💫

Whether you’re a seasoned artist or just love getting stuck in, everyone’s unique style and energy is welcome. You don’t need to be a pro — just bring enthusiasm and the ability to follow instructions and work at a lively pace.

🗓️ When?

Choose one or more of the following shifts:

Saturday 11th October
🕙 10am–1pm
🕑 2pm–5pm

Sunday 12th October
🕙 10am–1pm
🕑 2pm–5pm

🎁 What You’ll Get:

• £10 travel expenses
• Free snacks and drink throughout your shift 🍽️☕
• A festival day pass for the day you volunteer 🎟️
• PLUS a bonus all-day pass for Friday 10th October to enjoy even more festival magic! 🌟

💌 Ready to Volunteer?

Spaces are limited and this will be a highlight of the festival, so don’t wait!

👉 Email: lee@marlboroughproductions.org.uk

About Robin Whitmore

Robin works across drawing, installation, theatre, and community arts — but at the heart of it all, he works with people. His art gravitates toward those pushed to the margins, and the sparks that fly when different voices gather together: the glorious mess, the surprises, the creativity that erupts from the mix.

For over thirty years, Robin has been cultivating these collaborative spaces: from Duckie’s riotous, radical live shows to Camberwell Incredibles, a collective of adults with learning disabilities who joyfully disrupt how the world sees them. His work is always searching for transformation — those moments when difference reveals itself as beauty, when collaboration uncovers its own power and hope.