homotopia 2010 festival programme by homotopia festival

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Homotopia 2010 Love Conquers All Welcome to Homotopia’s 7th sizzling year, Liverpool’s homegrown feﬆival of LGB&T arts & culture. With over 50 events ranging from art, debate, theatre, dance, film & digital there is something for everyone. 2010 has further developed our close relationship with the Unity and also some new and exciting partnerships with DaDa Feﬆ International, LEAP, Abandon Normal Devices and the Walker Art Gallery taking our programme to new audiences across the city. In 2009 we launched the groundbreaking anti-hate initiative Project Triangle which has now been produced into a teachers pack and endorsed by the NUT who are one of our sponsors, The Chief Conﬆable of Merseyside Police and Sir Ian McKellen. The work of this fantaﬆic resource has been a huge part of 2010 involving young ambassadors, training and community engagement. Project Triangle also became the catalyﬆ for Homotopia’s Youth ﬆrand ‘The Right To Love’ which is part of this year’s feﬆival and features events programmed by and for teenagers including the North’s firﬆ ever Big Gay Prom! We also welcome the UK Premiere of a new working of Giselle, the World Premiere of the eagerly anticipated film ‘Pink: Paﬆ & Present’, David Hoyle, Stella Duffy and also San Fransisco legend Armiﬆead Maupin will be dropping in for Afternoon Tea. Other highlights include new work by Earthfall, Kyle Abraham as part of Capital Nights and a series of new commissions for Homotopia TV which attracted over 175,000 viewers in 2009. We also are thrilled to be producing some major international projects in 2010 and early 2011. At the end of November we will begin a series of interventions and research in Iﬆanbul, Turkey with the award winning Pansy Project. In January 2011 Homotopia is producing a landmark project in Turku, Finland as part of their European Capital Of Culture 2011. The hugely popular Tom Of Finland Retrospective which was one of our blockbuﬆer shows in 2008 will return to Finland for the entire year. The exhibition is a unique and wonderful opportunity not only for the feﬆival but also important for the legacy of 2008 and the city’s cultural offer. ‘Tom’s Coming Home’ is particularly special as he was born in the Turku province and next year will be the 20th anniversary of his death. We would like to thank our media sponsors including Gay Times, DIVA and Out North Weﬆ and also new media partners with QX, Qcruiser Sweden Seen and NHL Finland. Thanks to all of our sponsors who have been supportive of the feﬆival and the community work throughout the year. We would also like to thank the support and expertise of the Unity Theatre and the continuing support of Culture Liverpool. We hope you enjoy this year’s feﬆival and thank you for your support.

Gary Everett Artiﬆic Director Homotopia

Midnight Mass Peaches Christ presents All About Evil As part of Abandon Normal Devices and as a special Homotopia trailblazer. A San Francisco phenomenon, the underground hit that is Midnight Mass makes its UK debut ﬆarring horror hoﬆess Peaches Chriﬆ in this Rocky Horror-ﬆyle celebration of bad, trash and cult movie making. The infamous pre-show includes free lap dances with every large popcorn from a retinue of dude girls, a roller girl conga line, audience makeovers and unspeakable live participation. Peaches Chriﬆ is the drag alter-ego of filmmaker Joshua Grannell, who has chosen AND as the location for the International Premiere of his featurelength film debut, All About Evil. A horror-comedy in which the owner and ﬆaff of an ailing movie theatre ﬆart churning out weekly gore-spattered shorts to satisfy hungry audiences (albeit featuring actual victims inﬆead of actors), it ﬆars a roll-call of cult idols – including Natasha Lyonne, Mink Stole, Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Miﬆress of the Dark), Thomas Dekker and Peaches herself! Juﬆ don’t expect to sit ﬆill – come, join The Children of the Popcorn! Attendance in Gore Couture is encouraged! In partnership with Grimfeﬆ and in association with Backlash Films.

Sat 2 & Sun 3 October Cornerhouse, Oxford St, Manchester 22.00 £15 / £12.50 Tickets: cornerhouse.org

Big Gay Kiss

Nov 1st-30th Unity Theatre, FACT, BBC Big Screen Free

As part of Right To Love we showcase photographs celebrating love, family, friendship. Taken by young people as part of our new youth ﬆrand.

Mother / Son No One Comes Out Alone Tues Nov 2nd & Wed Nov 3rd Unity Theatre 7.30pm £8/£6

In this semi-autobiographical tour-de-force, Jeﬀrey Solomon plays both a son and the mother who ﬆruggles to accept his sexual orientation, tracing her transformation from shell-shocked parent to the mom at the front of the Pride Parade. A powerful portrait of homosexuality and the family. Jeﬀ Solomon’s warmhearted, semi-autobiographical tour-de-truth depicts the comically complex and wryly evolving relationship of Mindy Levy, a fulltime Jewish mother, and her gay son Brad. Critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic as hilarious, moving and tender, Mother/Son is not to be missed. Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk 0844 873 2888

RICHARD HAYNES Listen To My Secret Fetish Wednesday 3 November The Bluecoat 7.30pm £7/5 Richard Haynes performs a collection of tantalizing sound pieces for clarinet each created by a diﬀerent composer in response to a diﬀerent fetish. Haynes has already made a name for himself as a musician and performance artiﬆ and has performed with many leading musicians and dancers in the USA, Europe, Asia, Auﬆralia and New Zealand. His work concentrates on the intersection between music, live art, theatre and poetry. A hybrid live art club act cum queer concert recital. Contains nudity and adult themes. Tickets: thebluecoat.org.uk 0151 702 5324

Gay Thursday: In Lust A Presentation by the Centre of Cultural Confusion Thursday 4th November The Box, FACT. 6.00 pm Cert: 18 £5/4 Gay Sunday moves to Thursday for a special edition to coincide with the Homotopia Feﬆival. From frivolous displays of affection to the conﬆruction of a gay utopia, this musically infused journey of short video explores the ‘queering’ of modern identity. Come and watch politics meet the dance floor. Grab your heels and get set for an experimental visual feaﬆ. Warning: Contains flashing lights Tickets: fact.co.uk 0151 707 4444

7 Kalup Linzy. “SweetBerry Sonnet (Remixed),” 2008. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

Thurs 4th Nov Unity 1 7.30pm

£8/£6

Giselle, or I’m too Horny to be a Prince is a duet between a ballet dancer and his favourite pair of sleazy black boots. Drawing on Mercier’s own experience in ballet, it charts one final attempt at classical form, an uneasy relationship with sexual submission, a chiffon attired crisis of masculinity, a diﬆaﬆe for ballet tights and the difficulties of solo BDSM (bondage and sadomasochism). Set to the original Giselle score the piece is an intimate autobiographical collage told through images, kink, ballet, and exhauﬆion. Funny, touching, embarrassing and engaging this piece sheds a whole new light on the trials and tribulations of trying to be a prince. Please be advised this piece contains nudity and explicit references. Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk 0844 873 2888

UK PREMIERE Joseph Mercier

Giselle or I’m Too Horny To Be A Prince Conceived and Performed by Joseph Mercier Co-produced by The Chisenhale Dance Space and Clara Giraud

UK PREMIERE Right To Love presents

Sex, Drags & Rock’n’Roll Friday Nov 5th Unity 1 6pm £4/£3 “We’ve all got to ﬆick together ‘cos those that hate us do” A film by young Homotopians in Liverpool and Gay Youth in Warsaw. The film is about equality, diversity and identity. It’s about challenging discrimination. It’s about asking for respect, to be treated equally and when we don’t get it, taking it, our Right To Love. “If you think you’re too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito” Betty Reese.

How Eﬀective can we be ? How much can we Change? Enough is enough! Join us....Join The BGP! (BIG GAY PARTY)

Lavender Club Friday Nov 5th Unity 8pm £10/£8 Homotopia’s homegrown cabaret ﬆarts the weekend with MC Terry Titter leading from the front with the return of queer comedy, mime and music featuring Ryan Styles, Erneﬆo Tomasini & La Gateaux Chocolat. Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk 0844 873 2888

Friday Nov 5th Bluecoat 8.30pm £5/£4 concs

Gerry Potter & Jay Bernard

Planet Young

Homotopia presents an evening mythmaking, autobiography and ﬆorytelling. Liverpool poet Gerry Potter peforms ‘Planet Young’ exploring his gay scouse roots with passion, wit and verve. Jay Bernard is author of Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl and her work has recently been featured in City State and Voice Recognition (2009). As well as writing poetry, Jay has written for the Royal Opera House and been poet-in-residence on an allotment. She currently blogs at brrnrrd.wordpress.com Performance will be followed by interview with Maria Barrett Tickets: thebluecoat.org.uk

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Getting Your Work Published Saturday Nov 6th The Treasure House, World Museum 12pm-2pm Free

Join Gerry Potter, Stella Duﬀy, Jay Bernard and Claire Campbell on a special panel talking about writing and their experiences of getting published.

Stella Duffy Theodora

Saturday 6th November The Box, FACT 4pm £5 / £4 Stella will be reading from her lateﬆ novel ‘Theodora’. Critically acclaimed author Stella Duﬀy will be talking about her work and wil be reading from her lateﬆ novel ‘Theodora: Actress.Empress.Whore. Was she a spy or a saint, a slut or a theatrical genius? What actually happened with the geese on ﬆage at the hippodrome? Was Macedonia her friend or her lover? Theodora is the kind of hero you couldn’t make up without being accused of overdoing it, and yet you can’t tell her ﬆory without making a lot of it up. A perfect balance for ﬁction. ‘Theodora is engagingly brought to life as a sassy, wise-cracking tart with a heart, but Conﬆantinople, the great imperial capital whose crowds she woos and seduces, is also a pulsingly vivid presence’. The Guardian

Stella Duﬀy was born in London, grew up in New Zealand, and has lived back in London since 1986. She has written twelve novels. Followed by book signing in partnership with News From Nowhere. Tickets: picturehouses.co.uk

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Call My Puff Polari & The Lost Language Of Queerdom Sat 6th November Unity 1 6pm £10/£8

Vada the Omi !, Munge ! Eek, Lallies ..What on earth does it all mean ? A special live edition of Call My Bluﬀ with a diﬀerence. Celebrity panelliﬆs David Hoyle, Lady Shaun, Doreen Kum Kwik, Margi Clarke & Compered by Terry Titter. Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk 0844 873 2888

Lavender Girls Saturday 6th November Unity 2 9pm £10/£8 Soul, laughter and tears, Sit back and enjoy the enticing scent of Lavender featuring music & comedy at our home-grown cabaret night featuring award winning MC Rosie Wilby featuring Stella Duﬀy, Angela Clerkin and Jennifer John. Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk 0844 873 2888

Queering the Portrait Sunday 7th November Walker Art Gallery 2pm Free (booking required) Join David Hoyle, one of England’s true avant-guardians, part-time art hiﬆorian who performs with a tour around the Walker Art Gallery, which holds some of the ﬁneﬆ paintings in Europe. David will give us an insight to some of the nation’s ﬁneﬆ paintings Take in a Rembrandt, a Hockney , a Holbein or a Hoyle. Tickets: only available via emailing artiﬆic@homotopia.net, subject Queering the Portrait Ticket Requeﬆ

World Premiere

Pink: Past & Present Sunday 7th November Picturehouses at FACT 6.30pm £7.40 / £5.90

Do you remember the Black Cat, the ﬁrﬆ place where two men could hold each other when they danced? Do you remember Harry in the Masquerade? - the double doors opening and Harry with his plate of sandwiches? What about Jodie’s? Do you remember Sadie? - hanging out the top window, screaming down at you ‘get back to the Bear’s Paw’ You’re barred’

Pink: Paﬆ and Present revisits all the people and places in Liverpool’s rich and colourful LGBT

hiﬆory, taking you on a journey from the late 50s to the present day and Liverpool Pride 2010. It tackles hard-hitting political issues including Clause 28, the impact of AIDS and feminism. It is the hiﬆory of LGBT Liverpool told by the LGBT community. A Firﬆ Take production supported by Culture Liverpool and Awards For All Tickets: picturehouses.co.uk

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Earthfall

The Factory Tues Nov 9th & Wed 10th Unity 1 £10/£8 ‘I never wanted to be an artiﬆ. I wanted to be a tap dancer.’ Andy Warhol The multi-award winning EARTHFALL’s lateﬆ work is triggered by the subterranean underground arts scene during the late 50’s / 60’s New York City. In an exploration of icons and identity, Earthfall looks at the explosion of proteﬆ, creativity, and hedonism that marked the 60’s decade reﬂected in Warhol’s factory space on Eaﬆ 47 Street. Earthfall combines all of its exceptional multidisciplinary performance elements with groundbreaking dance, image, ﬁlm and live music. “Earthfall are a 21 century phenomenon” - The Guardian “... wild, raw, outrageously sexy, utterly inebriated and remarkable ...” The Independent on GIG Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk 0844 873 2888

Lavender at the Day Centre Touring November - December

Homotopia’s outreach work in the community continues in November and December with special touring performances of The Lavender Club with music, ﬆories, psychic bingo, cake not forgetting a tipple of sherry ! Invitation only and developed as part of OUT IN THE CITY.

Manmade

a triple bill of male dance Thurs 11 November Unity Theatre 8pm £9 / £7 Homotopia & Merseyside Dance Initiative and are delighted to present an evening of work including Gary Clarke, one of the fresheﬆ and moﬆ exciting male choreographers working in contemporary dance today. Gary presents 9 to 5 which is a scratch performance of a new piece of work exploring the twiﬆed underbelly of disco. The show will premiere at Homotopia 2011. The talents of Liverpool’s hot choreographer Darren Suarez presents his new work B-itch Switch as part of LEAP 2010 Year of Dance. Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

Big Gay Prom

Friday 12 Nov Studio 2, Parr St 7pm £5.50

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Sex, drags, rock & roll....Our youth ﬆrand launches with bands, music and mayhem The ﬁrﬆ ever in the North. Bands playing are Kenelis (who have been on a national tour of pride events) and Voodoo Hussy (featuring Shabby from Channel 4’s Big Brother) featuring Prom King and Queen competition plus music by Chew Disco, Liverpool’s avantguardians of the alternative queer soundtrack. The sound of Kenelis is a combination of Grunge, Punk and Anthemic Shoegaze all fused together in a big pot of Rock! Comparisons have included the raw angﬆ of Hole, vulnerability of Placebo and diversity of Radiohead. Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

0844 873 2888

Girls, Girls, Girls; From Factory Floor to Homotopia, with Love Queer family trees, 80’s jumpsuits, dirty dancing, dykes dancing & loving Liverpool... For 1 night only Factory Floor is showing the love with 5 homo-taﬆic performances by 5 diﬀerent women, all part of the Factory Floor collective:

Factory Floor Friday 12 November Unity Theatre 7.30pm £7 / £5

Elvis is my Mum by Abi Lake But I Just Want to Fall in Love and Work with Elephants by Caroline Wilson Titillation written and performed by Emily Underwood-Lee, Choreography by Kylie Ann Smith.Titillation takes a humorous look at the poﬆ-operative body and considers who and what can be sexy after breaﬆ cancer. Warning, this performance will feature dancing breaﬆs, sparkly scars and gratuitous nudity. Five Fragments by Louie Jenkins Local Reality Expo on... Hope Street by Clare Duﬀy factoryﬂoornetwork.wordpress.com Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

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Keith Hennessy

Friday, 12 November The Bluecoat Performance Space 8.00pm £9 / £7

From the references to artiﬆ Joseph Beuys, Crotch seems to be about art, its hiﬆories and heroes. But Hennessy quickly draws us deeper, paﬆ Beuys and into his own inner empire. We witness the sovereign ﬁgure of Keith Hennessy in a chaos of elements: songs and dance, a lecture, conversations with the dead. From this a form arises that queﬆions what we know of philosophy, art and ourselves. Based in San Francisco, the internationally acclaimed artiﬆ Keith Hennessy is described as a performer, choreographer, teacher, activiﬆ, preacher, sex-positive mentor, and maﬆer of ceremonies. His searing, radical and award-winning interdisciplinary performances draw on dance, performance art, circus, improvisation, activism and shamanism.

Performance & inﬆallation by Keith Hennessy Music: Emmy Lou Harris, Craig Armﬆrong, Teddy Thompson, Down River, Nirvana

Crotch

“Hennessy’s ﬆage presence burns; he ignites any subject he tackles... it is through a genius like Hennessy that we can confront the ﬆate of the human contradiction.” San Francisco Weekly Crotch was developed at Ponderosa (Stolzenhagen Germany) in 2007 and was commissioned/presented at L’Arsenic (Lausanne Switz) in 2008. Part of Critical Dialogue for artiﬆ & audience. Tickets: thebluecoat.org.uk 0151 702 5324

Capital Nights 17th November The Bluecoat 8pm £7/£5 Kyle Abraham, dubbed ‘The beﬆ and brighteﬆ creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama’’ by Out Magazine, will jet in to Liverpool to join Denmark’s Club Fisk and Auguﬆo Corrieri, who was born and raised in Milan, Italy for Merseyside Dance Initiative’s triple bill of international dance works; Capital Nights 2 on Tue 17 November at 8pm at the Bluecoat. Kyle Abraham will perform 2 short works on the evening, the firﬆ being his critically acclaimed 2006 piece ‘Inventing Pookie Jenkins’. Set to the music of Dizzie Rascal, Inventing Pookie Jenkins is a fun and expressive character work that lightly touches on the perception of masculinity and the gender roles therein from a hood perspective”. It is a fluid, powerful solo in which the norms of masculinity are queﬆioned through sharp, hip-hop flavoured movements. Tickets: thebluecoat.org.uk

Big Gay Night in 16FACT 30 November 7pm

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A night of LGB and T ﬁlm, popcorn and entertainment for young LGB and T people kindly dontated to homotopia’s youth ﬆrand. This event is by invitation only.

Homotopia & Dadafest International 10

The Powerhouse of Supermen Does gay culture exclude ‘otherness’ Saturday 20 November Bluecoat Workshops 11am-4pm Debate 2pm Free

We are surrounded by images, ideas and confections of gay lifeﬆyles, the ‘scene’ and its culture. Muscle, hedonism, youth and homogeneity is everywhere and even perpetuated in the gay media. Is it narcissism, is it healthy and does this queﬆ for the perfect body exclude ‘otherness’ ? The morning will include a series of art based encounters choreographed by David Hoyle and Tanya Raabe exploring issues of identity and the divided self as part of Fitting’s ‘The Ugly Spirit’ Cutlural Olympiad project The afternoon will feature a lively and provocative debate chaired by Jane Czyselska DIVA editor including paneliﬆs David Hoyle, Tanya Raabe, Leroy Moore (Sins Invalid) and Robert Softley (Disabled Persons LGBT group) Tickets: 0151 702 5324 artiﬆic@homotopia.net

Roger Hill

Stevenage

Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 Bluecoat

8pm

£6/£4

Epiphanies come in unexpected forms. In 1968 a young Roger Hill saw the British coming-of-age comedy Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush set in the new town of Stevenage. Inspired by the ﬁlm’s portrayal of this brave new world, Roger ducked out of a school trip and ran away to Stevenage. Using ﬁlm, live performance and inﬆallation, Liverpool-based transgender artiﬆ, Mandy Romero, retraces these ﬆeps through the ‘new’ landscapes of forty years ago.This performance revisits this journey of self-awareness and traces the reverberations it has had in all aspects of Hill’s life. As a performance artiﬆ, Hill’s recent work has seen him travel the Pearl River Delta in China as his alter-ego, Mandy Romero. Tickets: thebluecoat.org.uk 0151 702 5324

Sex, Culture and Town Planning: Epiphanies in the Swinging Sixties

Sun 21 Nov 2pm-4pm Free ticket by calling Bluecoat on 0151 702 5324 Talks, panel discussions and debate about the utopian landscapes conceived during the 1960s.

Afternoon Tea with

Armistead Maupin Wednesday 24th November London Carriage Works, Hope Street Hotel. 3.30pm £13.50 includes full afternoon tea & entry to event Armiﬆead Maupin, celebrated author of Tales From The City appears at Homotopia with a very special event reading from his new novel ‘Mary Ann In Autumn’ and signing copies of the book afterwards. After the intimate ﬁrﬆ-person narrative of Maupin’s laﬆ novel, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn marks the author’s return to the multi-character plotlines and darkly comic themes of his earlier work. Among those caught in Mary Ann’s orbit are her eﬆranged daughter, Shawna, a popular sex blogger; Jake Greenleaf, Michael’s transgendered gardening assiﬆant; socialite DeDe Halcyon-Wilson; and the indefatigable Anna Madrigal, Mary Ann’s former landlady at 28 Barbary Lane. Enjoy the perfect afternoon with tea, sandwiches, scones & Armiﬆead! “A pop cultural phenomenon that has come to deﬁne a San Francisco era and ethos.” Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times

Tickets: News From Nowhere, Bold St, Liverpool 0151 708 7270

Presented by Writing On The Wall in partnership with Homotopia. For over 40 years, beginning in 1967 with campaigns for Aboriginal rights and againﬆ the death penalty in Auﬆralia, the Auﬆralianborn British activiﬆ Peter Tatchell has campaigned on issues of democracy, civil liberties, social equality, environmental protection, peace and global juﬆice. Peter Tatchell is a co-founder and leading activiﬆ in the queer rights direct action group OutRage! Peter is a frequent contributor on LGBT and other issues of social juﬆice in print and through broadcaﬆ media, authoring over 3,000 articles and six books. Based upon his experiences of the ongoing battle for LGBT human rights, Peter Tatchell will argue that as a society we are ‘Not Queer Enough’. Tickets: Philharmonic Hall Box Oﬃce writingonthewall.org.uk

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Open LGBT Film Festival Plaza Cinema 8 - 12 November 6pm Free OPEN Film Feﬆival originated and developed by Danny Kilbride, Youth Development Team, will explore and celebrate LGBT culture through cinema. The FREE feﬆival has been designed for young people and will combine selected screenings with discussions by gueﬆ speakers. The 1ﬆ OPEN Film Feﬆival will run from Monday 8th to Friday 12th November 2010 at the Plaza Community Cinema, Waterloo and has been funded by Express Sefton. OPEN is key to the feﬆival’s ethos as we promote inclusivity and pride at the Plaza and throughout Sefton. Screenings at 6pm every night

A Rebel Rant with Peter Tatchell

Not Queer Enough

24th November The Rodewald Suite Liverpool Philharmonic Hall 7.30pm £8 / £5 Monday 8th Protect Me From What I Want (Dominic Leclerc, 2009) Shelter (Jonah Markowitz, 2007) Tuesday 9th The Laramie Project (dir. Moisés Kaufman, 2002) Wednesday 10th Summer Storm (dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner, 2004) Thursday 11th A Single Man (dir. Tom Ford, 2009) Friday 12th Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant, 2008) Tickets: From Danny Kilbride danny@plazacinema.org.uk

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GUILLERMO GOMEZ PENA AND ROBERTO SIFUENTES (LA POCHA NOSTRA) PRESENTS

Corpo Illicito

Saturday 27th November Bluecoat £8/£6 Using their bodies as sites for political reinvention and poetic prophesising, Guillermo Gomez Pena and Roberto Sifuentes explore the Bush adminiﬆration’s criminalization of the brown body and the emerging culture of hope that has developed in response to the former world order. La Pocha Noﬆra’s powerful and immersive performances have inspired a devoted international following and are not to be missed. A DaDaFeﬆ International 10 and Homotopia event in collaboration with MDI and the Bluecoat. pochanoﬆra.com

Tickets: thebluecoat.org.uk

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Homotopia International The Pansy Project Monday 29 November to Thursday 2nd December HM Consulate-General Pera House Istanbul, Turkey

A series of interventions, debates and research in Iﬆanbul, Turkey currently the European Capital Of Culture 2010. The internationally renowned and award winning Pansy Project will also feature as part of the week of events including research and ongoing development with UK, Turkish and Dutch artiﬆs. Working with LAMBDA, Amneﬆy International and HM Consulate-General Iﬆanbul the week long programme will promote the success of Homotopia International, developing new partnerships and further our inter-cultural dialogue with LGB&T artiﬆs & curators in Iﬆanbul & Liverpool creating new platforms for making art, programming and cooperation. Generously supported by British Embassy, Ankara Foreign & Commonwealth Oﬃce.

Tom’s Coming Home!

Homotopia International Tom Of Finland Retrospective

15.1.-15.12.2011 Turku, Finland

Legendary gay artiﬆ Touko laaksonen “Tom of Finland” (1920-1991) returns home to Turku. His drawings have had a huge effect throughout gay and mainﬆream culture during the laﬆ 40 years, influencing lifeﬆyle, political tolerance, design, fashion, art and popular culture. As part of Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture over 60 rare and iconic drawings will be exhibited in a retrospective exhibition at the logomo exhibition centre 15.1.-15.12.2011. Check out further details and news of queer events & lecture programme at: www.turku2011.fi/tom-of-finland www.facebook.com/tom2011

Presented by

Homotopia • Tom Of Finland Foundation • Turku 2011 Foundation 22 TOM OF FINLAND (Finnish, 1920 – 1991), Untitled (Preliminary ﬆudy), c. 1962, Graphite on paper, 8.25” x 5.81” Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection #0083, © 1962 - 2011 Tom of Finland Foundation.

Homotopia Digital Look out for our brand new website at homotopia.net and launching throughout the feﬆival with new commissions specially produced for Homotopia TV. Collaborating with ﬁlmmakers, artiﬆs, musicians and producers we present 5 digital short features which will be broadcaﬆ throughout November and December. So tune in to www.homotopia. tv and don’t forget The Children Of The Popcorn.... Watch it, surf it, love it

Coming Soon The Vegetarian Opera

A dark comic fable of an imprisoned clown set in the diﬆant paﬆ and near future. The twiﬆed, queer and dyﬆopian world of Dr. Lazlo, Strengel & Lady Perweda & their very unusual dinner with a myﬆerious Sicilian Clown.

Planet Middle Age

Liverpool poet Gerry Potter performs some of his new work

Jay Bernard

Rising ﬆar Bernard will perform from Boys & Girls, Your Sign Is A Cuckoo and other new work

Homotopia TV

Liverpool’s Queer TV ﬆation now attracting audiences of 175,000 across the globe & it’s all free Look out for special features on Armiﬆead Maupin, dance supremo Joseph Mercier, interview with Stella Duﬀy, Queering The Portrait with David Hoyle and much more feﬆival news, clips and features.

Homotopia 2010 The Year In Review

The Homotopia feﬆival runs in November but the organisation is active all year round. We produce groundbreaking social juﬆice and youth engagement programmes throughout the year. Here are some of the highlights of 2010 and our some of the work we produce challenging homophobia, transphobia and discrimination Since launching in 2004 Homotopia campaigned across key Liverpool City Council departments to develop more projects that aimed to tackle homophobic bullying in our schools. Our commitment ﬆarted in 2006 when we commissioned award winning play ‘FIT’ which has performed to over 25,000 young people and returned to Liverpool in 2010 as part of LGBT hiﬆory month in February. FIT has now been produced into a feature length ﬁlm and is touring schools & youth centres across the UK. In 2008 Homotopia became involved in Liverpool City Council’s anti-bullying forum and over the paﬆ 2 years key partnerships were forged with Armiﬆead, GYRO, Merseyside Youth Association, Mersey Fire & Rescue and Liverpool City Council generating lots of positive work culminating with the launch of the antihomophobic bullying ﬆrategy on IDAHO day 17th May 2010. The ﬆrategy is a landmark for the city, the LGBT community, our schools and the wider community and we are a proud ﬆakeholder in this work and the laﬆing partnership beyond the launch. In February Homotopia TV & Light Factory ﬁlm ‘The Invisible Death Of Michael’ was selected to be screened at the IF! International Film Feﬆival Iﬆanbul.

‘I fully support Homotopia’s determination to tackle the violence which defaces the reputation of Liverpool as a friendly, inclusive community. Homophobia, in all its manifeﬆations, should always be challenged : we all deserve to be treated equally with respect’ Sir Ian McKellen February 2010

PROJECT TRI NGLE

an anti bullying education resource

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Young Homotopians.... From Project Triangle to The Right To Love Laﬆ year Homotopia worked with GYRO, Armiﬆead and Merseyside Police to take 12 young people to Auschwitz and Warsaw. The project aimed to raise awareness of hate crime and increase people’s confidence in reporting it. At the time we had no idea how successful the project would be or where it would lead. Following the trip our young LGB and T group worked with Merseyside Police, the NUT and Homotopia to produce the Project Triangle Hate Crime Education Resource. The only education resource in the UK which charts bullying from fear of difference through to hate crime and the consequences, the pack has received unanimous praise from educators, police, politicians and young people. We were delighted when Sir Ian McKellen, the NUT and the Chief Conﬆable of Merseyside Police offered to support and endorse the pack, which consiﬆs of 7 lesson plans and an interactive DVD fulfilling key ﬆage 3 learning outcomes in English, Citizenship, PSHE and Hiﬆory. In April the group delivered a workshop for 70 teachers at the NUT national conference in Liverpool and subsequently rolled this training out to schools across Merseyside, Merseyside Police Cadets, Learning Mentors in Knowsley, Home Office Staff and the Youth Service and the Anti Bullying Alliance conference in Blackpool. This summer our young people travelled to London to secure the support of the Governments Equalities Unit, met with the gay press securing support from Diva Magazine and Gay Times, Stephen Twigg M.P and Angela Eagle MP and have plans to meet with Lynne Featherﬆone the Equalities Miniﬆer. They have canvassed for support for their Big Gay political party, met with local councillors, challenged the BNP on their views on democracy and equality and reported for Homotopia TV on human

rights demonﬆrations. They have produced 3 short films about hate crime and are premiering their feature length film “Sex Drags and Rock’N’ Roll”, charting their efforts to challenge hate and reduce discrimination, at the Homotopia feﬆival this year. The film will also be shown at an LGBT feﬆival in Warsaw in Feburary 2011. And on 6th November, members of the group will be providing the keynote speech at the NUT LGBT conference in London. In addition the group have programmed and produced Homotopia’s firﬆ ever youth ﬆrand “The Right to Love”...featuring the Big Gay Kiss, Big Gay Night in. Big Gay Prom and their own film premiere “Sex drags and Rock n Roll. With another trip to Poland in the near future and the launch of Homotopia Youth TV shortly we are anticipating another exciting year ahead for our young homotopians and their hate crime work. DIVA editor Jane Czyselska has described them as “a poltical mexican wave sweeping the country”.. Watch out!

Homotopia invites producers, community artiﬆs, promoters and professional artiﬆs to submit work for consideration for its autumn feﬆival to be held at various venues across Liverpool between 1ﬆ-20th November 2011.

Some of it is mainﬆream with a traditional appeal and some of it is innovative and experimental. Some work can focus on LGBT issues while other work can be related to LGBT themes.

Homotopia seeks work in various art-forms such as digital, live performances from theatremakers, musicians, dance artiﬆs, performance artiﬆs, writers, artiﬆs and comedians/cabaret/vaudeville acts.

For further information email the feﬆival at artiﬆic@homotopia.net

The ﬁnal programme will be selected by Homotopia in consultation with partners and producers at hoﬆ venues. Homotopia embraces a wide range of work and is keen to partner with exiﬆing companies/artiﬆs.

DEADLINE: FRIDAY 31ﬆ May 2011 5pm ADDRESS: Homotopia,Queercore, Unity Theatre,1 Hope Place, Liverpool L1 6BG

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Credits Homotopia: Gary Everett Artiﬆic Director; Jess Wignell Youth Strand Programmer; Toby Coffey Marketing & Digital; Bev Ayre Development, Fundraising and Production; Al Mathews Finance; Graeme Phillips, Sue Williams Artiﬆic and Management support; Louise Muddle Press & PR; Ida Skovborg Feﬆival Intern | Homotopia TV: Gary Everett & Toby Coffey Co Producers; Tim Brunsden Videography | Homotopia would like to say a big thank you to: Graeme Phillips & Sue Williams Unity Theatre, Culture Liverpool & Liverpool City Council, Turku 2011 Foundation, Jon Voss QX Sweden, NHL Helsinki, Merseyside Police and Police Authority, Sir Ian McKellen, Rosamund McNeill & Suarav Sarkar NUT, Aﬆa Boman, Al Schulte, Finnair, Silja Tallink, Superintendent Kev Johnson, Chief Inspector Helen Corcoran, Detective Conﬆable Tracy O’Hara, Viv Woods, Norma Kielty Crummey, Dr Tony Harvey & The Hope Street Hotel, Studio 2, Richard Kingdom & Melanie Abraham @ Bluecoat, KHT, Karen Gallagher & Cathy Butterworth @ MDI, Diane Clark Merseyside Police Authority, Stuart McKenna and Natalie Hayes @Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, British Embassy Ankara, Durk Dehner Tom Of Finland Foundation Los Angeles, Jessica Hand HM Consul-General Iﬆanbul, Paul Robinson, Alison Stathers-Tracy @Liverpool City Safe, Chris Peters Picturehouses, John Quick @Merseyside Probation Service, , Peter Tatchell, Marrie & Michael Causer Snr, Marta Abramowicz KPH Warsaw, Gerry Potter, Dr Tony Harvey and Hope Street Hotel, Joan Burnett @FACT, Steve MacFarlane and all at Studio 2, Robbie Lee Valentine, Andy Johnson, Peter Wallace, Cllr Paul Brant, Cllr Gary Millar, Cllr Louise Baldock, Sue Brennan, Paul Dagnall, Kathy Heywood, Damian Domski, Andy Potter @ Gay Times, Rebecca Keegan @ SEEN magazine, Jane Czyzselska @ Diva, Martin Fenerty, Paul White, David Wright and all at Armiﬆead, David Cumberland @ Hope University, Gary Manning@60 Hope Street, the Quarter and Hoﬆ, Graeme Robertson and all at Out North Weﬆ, Patrick Preﬆon & Tris Reid – Smith@ GayTimes, Pashina, Lucia &Gizmo, Jacqui Everett, Terry Titter, Phil Saunders & Mary @ Unity, Robin Shepherd @ Liner Hotel, Ruth Gould & Garry Robson of DaDa Feﬆ, Tracy Ramsey, Stephen Twigg MP, Angela Eagle MP, Emma Reed Govt Equalities Office, Anne O’Brien Anti Bullying Alliance, Ros Mc Neill NUT, Cllr Anne O’Byrne, Cllr Wendy Simon, Project Triangle Jess Wignell, Becki garner, David McCarthur, Tim Marshall, Sarah Louise Hough, Sian Evans, Becki Evans, Andrew Bruffell, Sophie Brown, Jessie Mcgee, Emily Whelan, Katie Atherton, Gemma Sands, Neil & Sam Re-dock, Mel Sanson & Kenelis, Shabby and Voodoo Hussy | Campaign & Brochure: toby@tobycoffey.com

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