I think this will be the first time that there's a global online cabaret because
of the necessity of us all having to be isolated.
So it is really special.
If you're isolated, it's so difficult to get perspective and you can really easily think
that you're losing it.
So when people can witness you that's equally as important
as you expressing yourself because you actually feel connected.
Yeah, good. Can you hear me?
So this is what I've got ... The shelves are getting emptier and emptier.
I've got the biggest can of baked beans I've ever seen.
They've got one pineapple left so I'm gonna have to make do with that.
When I found out I had HIV, it was really scary.
I didn't really talk about it for five years, I was so riddled with internalised stigma
and I turned in on myself which is so easy to do if you're on your own.
Community support and reaching out and solidarity is an incredible lesson that we need to
amplify at the moment
which the HIV community has been through
and it's something that we need to, like, re-platform
and bring out on a much bigger scale at the moment.
How are you doing out there in South Africa?
And how are you feeling about tonight?
The cabaret is so important on a social, psychological, spiritual, emotional,
practical level for so many reasons because none of us have ever dealt with
a situation as seismic as this.
That's how you release the stress of trauma by
having a creative outlet in art and music, writing ... has always been a fundamental way
that people have liberated themselves when in a cage.
'Create more room for joy, ownness and aliveness
and begin to understand the liberation possible
when we collectively orientate around pleasure and longing.'
So, this is what's keeping me happy, you're keeping me happy tonight.
Just like, that 20 minutes, half an hour, gave me so much joy
and gave me so much life and I don't want to think about what's gonna go on tomorrow.
But I just think it's really important to remain connected.
This is what we have to recognise when it comes to the corona epidemic
that people's lives will be saved because of communities coming together.