Part of the resurgence of cabaret in London in the early 21st century, this piece features acts such as puppetry, musical comedy, stand up, grotesques and magic.
The event is either hosted by Riot Showgrrls, Bunny Morethan or the de Plumes, and in keeping with SLG's ethos, most of the performers are women.
[13] Later that year, Scary Little Girls worked with Ramps on the Moon, a deaf and disabled artist integration project, to workshop their all-female interpretation of Peter Pan.
Living Literature Walks themes have included actresses and suffragettes (Stage Rights), the Mitford Sisters (In the Footsteps of the Mitfords), Cornish All Hallows (Something Wicked), Cornish Christmas (Warm Hearths and Frosty Shores), Women of World War I (Women at War: The West End), Frankenstein (Frankenstein), railways (Strangers on a Train), banned texts (Salon du Chocolat), Mary Wollstonecraft (Wollstonecraft Walks), Agatha Christie (2018 Agatha Christie Festival), Suffrage heritage (Suffrage Salons).
[17][18][19] In response to the Covid lockdowns of 2020, Scary Little Girls started Salon de la Vie, online interactive fortnightly cabarets that celebrated women’s art and literature.
Funded by The Heritage Lottery South West, this is the largest collection of oral testimonies of the women yet collated, digitised and made available to the public.
[33] Scary Little Girls then toured a pop-up Greenham exhibition co-produced with “The Heroine Collective” featuring question and answer sessions with some of the women who lived at the camp.
The exhibition also allowed visitors to listen to a soundscape while exploring a Greenham-inspired tent which contained a collage of pictures, banners and slogans from the archives.
[34][35][36][37] Scary Little Girls worked with Falmouth University students to create animations based on the experiences and stories recorded in the archives.
[39] In 2016, Scary Little Girls embarked on a year of community-centred events celebrating the 200th birthday of Anna Maria Fox, one of Falmouth’s foremost historic figures and founder of The Poly.
The project gathered oral testimonies from members of the Fox family, local residents with ties to Anna Maria's legacy, and people associated with the gardens, arts school buildings and societies she founded.
These histories were then commemorated around the time with special blue fox plaques, linked together into a heritage trail by an app developed in partnership with Falmouth Arts School and University.
[40][41] In 2013, Scary Little Girls won an award from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) for Wild Woman's Hour.
It was jointly created by Scary Little Girls and Radio St. Austell Bay to give women a platform to discuss their experiences and help them develop new skills.
In 2017, Scary Little Girls began developing Truth Before Everything, which explored the life of Josephine Butler, the Victorian sexual health and women’s rights campaigner, through a modern lens.