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Love fEAST 2026: Communal Food as Protest, Care as Practice, Belonging as Radical
Short summary
Love fEAST is a free communal dinner and cultural festival at crazinisT artisT studiO (TTO) / pIAR in Kumasi, Ghana, bringing together artists, queer families, and local communities through food, music, performance, and radical care. We are raising €20,000 to host Love fEAST on 31 January 2026 and to secure logistics by 10 January 2026.
Our'istory
For Love fEAST 2026, I am calling on all friends, families, radical lovers, and sympathisers to support us and donate to our fundraiser.
My name is Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, also known as crazinisT artisT. I work as a multidisciplinary artivist, curator, artvangelist, and mentor across several regions of the world. Beyond my performances and artistic interventions that confront queer violence, anti-Blackness, and trans erasure, I also organise community-based resistance. This work is intentional. It exists to disrupt colonial narratives and undo the missionary misrepresentation of black queer lives on the continent.
One of our biggest manifestations and affirmations is Love fEAST, inspired by long-held Ghanaian traditions of multigenerational gathering around the table to eat, share stories, and celebrate life with diversity, care, empathy and radical belonging, even within economic, social, and political crisis.
Love fEAST is an annual communal dinner and cultural festival, launched in 2020 as an act of resistance to the threats and harassment targeting pIAR, a trans-led artistic residency, and other queer spaces across the nation. It seeks to reclaim and promote true Ghanaian values of hospitality, care, kindness, community networks, healthy human relations, and the complexity of our diversity. It marks the beginning of every new year at crazinisT artisT studiO and pIAR, as a symbol of rebirth, solidarity, and untamed love.
Since 2020, Love fEAST has grown from 150 participants in its first year to over 500 participants in 2025.
Why we need your support
For years, pIAR and the crazinisT artisT studiO have been operating without cultural funding. We have kept the doors open through sacrifice, collective care, and my personal artist income. The only major cultural support we have received was the ITF funding, which largely supported our Radicalising the Art workshop in January 2025, and not the ongoing operations of our space or our year-round programs.
At the same time, I also sustain multiple community initiatives, including:
- perfocraZe International Artist Residency (pIAR), hosting around 35 local and international artists per year, and approximately 250 artists in total since 2019
- TTO Mentorship and Residency Scholarship, offered specifically to trans community members
- The Va-Bene Scholarship and Mentorship Residency A broad, supporting emerging Ghanaian artists to travel abroad for two months of cultural exchange, artistic exploration, and networking
We are not asking for luxury. We are asking for solidarity to keep the table and doors open, and to build safety, dignity, and joy for our communities.
Event details
Date: 31 January 2026
Location: pIAR / crazinisT artisT studiO, Kumasi, Ghana
Deadline to raise funds for logistics: 10 January 2026
What your donation will cover
- Free food and non-alcoholic drinks for 400–500 people (water, soft drinks, juices)
- Fees for DJs, performers, and musicians
- Videographers, documentation, and technical support
- Accommodation support for guest performers
- Light installations, sound system rental, and stage design
- Chair and table rentals
- Mobile toilet rentals
- Transportation and local logistics support
- Security and safer-space support (door team, crowd care, basic first-aid readiness)
Note: If alcohol is served, it will be handled separately through personal contributions or a licensed vendor, not through GoFundMe donations.
Fundraising goal and transparency
- Our fundraising goal is €20,000.
- These figures are estimates based on previous Love fEAST editions and current local vendor rates.
- We are collecting supplier quotations and will update the fundraiser with confirmed costs before 10 January 2026.
- We will also share updates as we book services and begin preparations.
How you can help
- Donate any amount — no amount is too small.
- Share this fundraiser widely
- Support in-kind (equipment, food supplies, printing, transport, accommodation)
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you prefer any other mode of support or donation.
Love WINS.
To learn more about pIAR / crazinisT artisT studiO and our wider work, visit: https://www.crazinistartist.com/
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