JAY FARLEY

PERFORMANCE POET/DIGITAL ARTIST/FILMMAKER

Jay Farley is an award-winning non-binary, queer, neuro­diverse filmmaker/digital artist and performance poet working in and with diverse communities at FIRST TAKE, Liverpool @wearefirsttake. Jay’s work began as an international creative activist, fusing art and protest. In 2020 they discovered the language for being non-binary and language discovered them. Since then, they have been prolifically writing honest, radical, working-class poetry with great success. They feature in the @queerbods anthology QUEER ICONS, published by Broken Sleep as well as in the Hot Poets’ SPARKS anthology. They perform spoken word and have featured at events such as Homotopia’s NML Xtra at Museum of Liverpool. They were runner-up at their very first Poetry Slam at Liverpool’s Lovely Word Poetry Festival 2022 and went on to headline at Shakespeare North’s first SCRATCH Spoken Word event. They were commissioned by UNITY THEATRE @unitytheatre to perform BEYOND BINARY, their one-person show, as part of the UP NEXT Showcase in September 2022. They are currently working on their first pamphlet with the help of TS Elliot winner Joelle Taylor and hoping to tour their show in the second half of 2024. 

Images taken from Beyond Binary Show at Unity Theatre  2022 By @lukebryantphoto