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Homotopia 2011 Cruising for Art Welcome to our 8th festival happening across Liverpool throughout November. This year’s festival theme is ‘ Cruising For Art’ and we are thrilled that artist Sadie Lee’s iconic painting ‘Anderrida Shurville’ is the 2011 festival campaign which also forms part of a new exhibition ‘Pin Ups’. The festival showcases the bold, the queer, the unexpected and the daring. A celebration of 21st century LGBT/Q life in all its extravagant and dynamic diversity presenting an eclectic programme including 5 World Premieres, 4 UK Premieres and 5 new commissions & festival firsts. With over 30 events from visual art, theatre, film, debate, dance, literature and live art. Highlights include Earthfall’s ‘At Swim Two Boys’, World Premiere of Sadie Lee & Matthew Stradling exhibition Pin Ups, and at the Walker Art Gallery is Savage Style : Costumes From Lily’s Wardrobe, World Premiere of a new dance theatre by Joseph Mercier called ‘Cruising, Clubbing, Fucking and get ready for the inaugural Alternative Miss Liverpool that will set Liverpool alight. The last 12 months have been by far one of the biggest and most ambitious to date. With our year long Tom Of Finland Retrospective in Turku, Finland which has already attracted 55,000 visitors making a huge impact, our youth exchange ‘Project Triangle’ participated in Warsaw’s Right To Love Festival & the award wimning ‘Pansy Project’ in Istanbul, Turkey. Homotopia has truly gone international exporting the best of Liverpool. Our burgeoning youth strand produced the city’s first ever youth led hate crime conference and worked alongside housing providers such as LMH to provide training in hate crime awareness. Project Triangle was chosen over 61 other organisations and awarded The Merseyside Police Authority Community Safety Award for its work across Merseyside in challenging hate crime. A big thank you to our sponsors at Merseyside Police, Gaydar, LMH, Riverside and our media partners at Gay Times, DIVA, Out North West, Seen Magazine and in Sweden QX & Qcruiser. One of the big achievements this year is our recent news from Arts Council England who awarded the organization National Portfolio Status securing our future until 2015. The support, trust and expertise from Unity Theatre has been immeasurable and as we enter a new and exciting chapter in our development it is clear that Homotopia has a unique role to play in the continuing renewal of Liverpool and in particular making art, developing new audiences & emerging artists. The arts are at the epicentre of the city’s renaissance and regeneration, and, diversity in the arts will become increasingly important as it brings people and communities together behind a shared vision, creating a strengthened sense of identity. Thank you for your support and hope you find some surprises Cruising for Art. Gary Everett Artistic Director
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UK Premiere Berlin-Yogyakarta: From Hitler’s Terror To Human Rights Today 1-14th November. Ground Floor Gallery, Contemporary Urban Centre. Free Presented by Project Triangle Homotopia’s youth project. Developed by KPH (Campaign against Homophobia) Warsaw, the exhibition shows the persecution of non-heterosexual people in Berlin by the Nazis and outlines the human rights standards developed in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity drafted by the International Commission of Jurists in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta in 2006.The exhibition has been brought to Britain for the first time following Homotopia’s youth exchange to “The Equal Right To Love” festival in Warsaw in February 2011.
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Dykeotomy Tuesday November 1st Unity 2, 8pm £8/£6 American artist Kimberly Dark who is a practicing sociologist & storyteller transforms her controversial views on gender and female sexuality into a intimate performance of a fluid exchange of ideas and personal adventures. An extraordinary performance artist whose unique blend of poetry and “stand-up story telling” has impressed audiences around the world.
Cancerous Lipstick by Ben Youdan & No Narcissus by Dawn Brayford
1st-14th November. 1st Floor, FACT. Free.
Youdan’s painting explores the conflicts inherent in the themes of death, glamour, sex and belief using the iconography of popular culture and the ephemera of human existence. It is a handmade product of the digital age.
Totally Frocked Up! 1-30 November. Free Ground Floor Gallery Contemporary Urban Centre An exhibition of photographs by Liverpool Echo & SEEN columnist Andy Green.
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World Premiere Joseph Mercier Company
Cruising, Clubbing, Fucking. November 2nd & 3rd UNITY 1. 8pm. £10/£8
‘Why can’t a stranger be a lover, and still remain a stranger?’ - Tim Dean Cruising Clubbing Fucking is a dancetheatre performance exploring how gay men have met and seduced each other, from the 60’s to the present day. Blending bodies with beats and contemporary dance styles with gesture, the three dancers move their way through this world of late night lust, combining seduction, sex and moments of human tenderness. The show explores anonymous encounters, play in parks and public toilets, handkerchief flagging, and what happens after all the music has died down and all the time together has been spent. Cruising Clubbing Fucking is a engaging, pulsating and sensual voyage into the underground worlds and adventures of generations of gay men. Joseph is a rare find and a great artist of the future. Bryony Kimmings, Director of Chisenhale Dance Space A Unity Theatre & Homotopia co-commission.
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Dark and Handsome Stranger Thursday November 3rd The Cinema, Contemporary Urban Centre. 7.30pm. £5.50/£4.50
Policing Sex Between Men: 1850-1971 Tuesday November 8th Unity 2. 6pm. £4/£3 Generously supported by Merseyside Police.
In this new documentary, 25 years since his death, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, biographers and movie historians discuss the career, personal life and death of Rock Hudson, with particular reference to his closeted homosexuality. Born Roy Fitzgerald, Hudson treated being “Rock Hudson” as a studio creation that was somewhat outside himself. Publicly, he had to maintain the façade - a handsome, rugged, masculine yet likable and safe leading man and movie star.
The secret history of gay Victorians is unearthed. Historian Jeff Evans presents a lecture examining attitudes to homosexuality during the last 150 years. Drawn from over two years of research, sifting through 70,000 criminal records to shed light on sexual orientation including thousands of court papers from Manchester, Salford, Chester, Cumbria, Carlisle, and Liverpool between 1850 and the 1970s. Jeff Evans is in the second year of his PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University researching this topic.
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Savage Style: Costumes from Lily’s Wardrobe
November 4 2011 to February 19 2012 The Walker Art Gallery & The Museum of Liverpool. Free Two venues at National Museums Liverpool host a selection of fabulous frocks from the wardrobe of Lily Savage, the acid-tongued alter ego of comedian and television presenter, Paul O’Grady. The display comprises 10 dresses and outfits worn by Lily in her many different guises, including one worn as host of television game show Blankety Blank. Also featured are some of her incredible pantomime costumes as well as Lily’s more ‘informal’ daywear looks. Three costumes will be displayed at the new Museum of Liverpool, with the other seven at the Walker Art Gallery. Lily’s Birkenhead-born creator, Paul O’Grady, ‘retired’ the famous ‘blonde bombsite’ to a French convent in 2004. She made a brief re-appearance in panto in Southampton in 2010 and now she’s back in this display, bigger and brassier than ever!
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Pin Ups
Exhibition by Sadie Lee & Mathew Stradling November 4 2011 to December 3 The Gallery, 41 Stanhope Street. Free A selection of new and existing portraits by both artists exploring the idea of queer icons and inspired by the eponymous David Bowie album. Sadie Lee has won the BP Travel Award and her series of paintings ‘And Then He Was A She’ (portraits of the Andy Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn) have been exhibited in Salford, London, Liverpool and The Schwules Museum in Berlin. Matthew Stradling has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Europe and America most recently exhibiting in Guy Berube’s ‘La Petite Morte Gallery’ in Ottawa, and this year will be holding a solo show in Amsterdam. Both Sadie and Matthew contributed to the highly acclaimed exhibition ‘400 Women’ a tribute to murdered and missing women of Mexico, exhibiting alongside two hundred international artists including Paula Rego and Tracey Emin.
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This page: Boxer by Matthew Stradling, opposite page Frank Sweet by Sadie Lee Oil On Canvas.
‘The Male Species’ Dance Trilogy Friday November 4th Unity 2. 7.30pm. £8/£6 Three new works by some of the UK’s most exciting dance artists including Oh! England by Daniel Somerville and Bagofti by the Gary Clarke Company. Daniel presents Oh England! which explores English nationalism under a queer lens. A neo-burlesque, queer critique that uses strip and drag with a historical and classical twist. Gary Clarke collaborates with choreographer and performer Gavin Coward to create Bagofti - A one man solo delving deep into the bold, austere and expressive work of Francis Bacon.
Lavender Girls Saturday November 5th Unity 1 . £10/£8 Celebrate Guy Fawkes night with Homotopia’s homegrown cabaret club ‘Lavender Girls’ returns with a night of live music & poetry from indie band Zorras, retro pop from Spinster, (featuring artist Sadie Lee on ukulele), comedy from Rosie Wilby and music and high leg kicks from Caz & Britney. Book early to avoid disappointment.
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A Taste Of Honey 50th Anniversary Gala Screening Sunday November 6th. Picturehouse at FACT. 6pm. £8.50/£7.50 Featuring special Q&A with Rita Tushingham and Professor Roger Shannon Tony Richardson’s film of Shelagh Delaney’s play was a critical and commercial success, following hard on the heels of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and its impact on British new wave cinema. The film was opened out from the play, through an impressionistic use of industrial landscapes. The canals and backstreets of Salford take on a dreamy air as Jo tries to come to an accommodation with herself and her life. Some of the imagery created a coming-ofage portrait which compares with the best such works in world cinema. Subjects like sex, abortion and homosexuality were tackled through the emotions of Jo, played impressively by newcomer & Liverpudlian Rita Tushingham. In a sub-genre frequently accused of being excessively macho, A Taste of Honey offers a feminine sensibility and a style and story that still seem fresh and moving fifty years on. Director Tony Richardson UK 1961. Tickets: 0871 902 5737
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Earthfall presents At Swim Two Boys Tuesday November 8th & Wednesday November 9th Unity Theatre. 8:00pm. £12/£9/£8 To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the novel by Jamie O’Neill, Earthfall revive their award-winning production with a UK tour. Staged entirely in water, and set against the backdrop of the Easter Rising in Ireland, this tender and visually beautiful production previously toured to sell-out audiences across the UK and Europe. Set in Ireland in 1916, the work juxtaposes the developing love affair between two young men with political turmoil in Ireland and the slaughter on the Western Front – contrasting the dream of national liberation and the search for personal freedom. The production is staged in a slowly filling lake in front of a waterfall, with episodes from the book woven together through a fusion of extreme physicality, original live music and film. “ Violence, tenderness, passion and humour collide in this super, charged performance” The Times “…disturbingly brilliant hi-octane physical dance theatre” Time Out, London Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
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The Featherstonehaughs present EDITS Wednesday November 9th Contemporary Urban Centre. 8pm. £10/£8 +£1 booking fee. Join Lea Anderson’s all male contemporary dance company, The Featherstonehaughs, as they hit the road for the very last time. Six Featherstonehaughs are inhabited by mysterious female film sirens - Green Velvet, Spot, Magenta, Canary, Lurex and Hydrangea –, each with their own iconic costume created by three-time Oscar winner Sandy Powell. Using live music and a drastic and compelling new way of creating movement material, Lea Anderson takes to extremes her translation of the conventions of film into dance. EDITS draws on the peculiar elasticity of filmic time, the dramatic language of editing and the heightened effect of extreme close up and makes them live - echoing the subliminal rhythm achieved in film with the use of zooms, pans and tilts but creating a totally new, hypnotic hybrid of dance movement and film effects. Don’t miss this last chance to see the company live – after 23 years, The Featherstonehaughs say goodbye forever at the end of 2011. “Unconventionality is a hallmark of Anderson’s choreography” Donald Hutera, The Times Preceded with a talk by Lea Anderson Tickets: 0151 708 3529
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Face To Face: An Audience With David Hoyle Thursday November 10th. Unity Theatre. 6pm. £7/£5 Avant guardian, artist and performer David Hoyle is unmasked in a special festival first. Author Rupert Smith is face to face with Hoyle exploring his life, his art and living with mental illness. Presented in partnership Liverpool Mental Health Awareness. Event will also be live streamed via homotopia.tv Photo Lee Baxter.
Lavender on the Buses Homotopia’s outreach work continues in November through to January. Join Terry (Inspector) Titter as we embark on 3 very special trips with Lavender Club touring around Merseyside on a magical mystery tour. Frolics, froth and more with Lady Shaun & song & dance man Alan Cross on the festival travelling cabaret club.
In The Company Of Friends ‘Literary Night’ Wednesday 9th November. LEAF Cafe. 6pm. £5/£4
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Gerry Potter, Rupert Smith & Claire Campbell Join award winning writer Rupert Smith reading from ‘Mans World’, and Liverpool poet Clare Campbell and Gerry Potter who reads from his latest collection of poetry ‘The Men Pomes’ & (shortlisted Polari Prize 2011) in a special literary event.
Underclass Hero featuring La John Joseph Thursday November 10th. Unity 2. 8pm. £8/£6
Transdrogynous, globe-trotting, performance-starlet La John Joseph, presents his new work “Underclass Hero”, the frank and almost charming tale of his formative years on Liverpool’s most glamorous council estates. A true tale, told with warm wit and generous gender-fuckery. The memoir of an oversexed, underage Catholic from the wrong side of the tracks. Part JT LeRoy, part Evelyn Waugh, part Penny Arcade, the show is humorous and genuinely raw, combining outspoken monologues & music. Tickets: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk 0844 873 2888
A HARD RAIN by Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper Friday November 11th Unity 2. 6pm. £3
Greenwich Village, NYC, 1969. The sweltering days before the Stonewall riots. A mafia-run bar greased with queers, cops, outsiders and high-flyers. Kicked from the military after a year in Vietnam, “Ruby” rocks up in high heels and a rage, and meets the street kid who’ll change his world.
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Tranny Hotel, Liverpool Friday November 11th to Sunday November 13th Adelphi Hotel. Weekend passes £20 Three wonderful days of entirely transforming encounters in stylish surroundings. Internationally renowned Transgender artists including Ane Lan (Norway), REgina Fiz (Madrid), Rae Spoon (Canada), Jo Clifford (Scotland), Jonny Woo (London), Lazlo Pearlman (USA), Mandy Romero (Liverpool), and Thom Shaw (London) will perform a wealth of different works in numerous spaces around Liverpool’s iconic Adelphi Hotel - from bedrooms and suites, to staircases, hallways, and function rooms and beyond... Tranny Hotel is an event you will not want to miss. Everybody is invited to come and share in very special experiences and broaden their outlook about gender and identity in a completely safe environment. On Friday 11th November Tranny Hotel events will be streamed live as part of the European-wide Exchange Radical Moments Live Art Festival happening in 11 European cities simultaneously. Weekend passes are £20 and can be booked online at tranny-hotel.com Special Offer rates are available at The Adelphi Hotel when booking to stay for the weekend of Tranny Hotel. Call 0151 709 7200 and ask for Reservations at Tranny Hotel.
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Alternative Miss Liverpool Saturday November 12th The Kazimier. 8pm
Homotopia in association with Voodou present a pageant that will undoubtedly set Liverpool alight. Hosted by avant-guardian David Hoyle & Liverpool’s own Lady Shaun and featuring a panel of VIP celebrity judges including British comedy legend ‘Carry On’ star and Morecambe and Wise favourite Fenella Fielding and founder of Alternative Miss World Andrew Logan. Featuring spectacular choreography led by Gary Clarke Dance Company and live music & performance. The event is open to participants and anyone can enter and take part in the catwalk of the future. No boundaries of gender, age or beauty just a window to creativity, love and expression. Traditional Rounds of Daywear & Evening Wear including interpretative looks as following : Butch/Femme Realness, Tom-Boy, Extraordinary Gentleman, Liverpool Spinster, Ladyfags, Confirmed Bachelors, Queen Of The Nile, Military Drag, WAGS, Fantasia, Chameleon, Special VIP Tribute Section to Elizabeth Taylor. The Alternative Miss Liverpool 2011 ‘Crown’ is designed and produced by jewellery designer So-B and Hayley Marsden Millinery. Audiences are also encouraged to dress up. For more info on how to enter the pageant and our ‘Pop Up Charm School’ (free classes in deportment, movement & catwalk) contact the festival office on 0151 702 7369 or email artistic@homotopia.net To book: Tickets £13.50 (incl booking fee) available from unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk or Tel 0844 873 2888 or in person at Unity Theatre. Disabled access is limited. Please contact 0151 702 7369 to discuss your requirements.
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The British Guide To Showing Off Sunday November 13th FACT. 6pm. £8.50/£7.50 Andrew Logan. British Artist. Living legend. And creator of the anarchic and utterly outrageous Alternative Miss World Show, a spectacular costume pageant and fancy dress party for grown ups. The British Guide to Showing Off documentary is a joyous look at this most quirky and exotic subculture event. Logan has hosted the Alternative Miss World Show since 1972. Raucous, liberating and sexually charged, The British Guide to Showing Off speaks to the outsider in all of us. For anyone who has ever wanted to break out. Director: Jes Benstock UK 2011 . Followed by Q&A with Andrew Logan & Director Jes Benstock. Tickets picturehouses.co.uk
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Homotopia Short Film Night Tuesday November 15th. FACT. 6pm The Vegetarian Opera by Gary Everett. UK 2011 A dark comic fable of an imprisoned clown set in the distant past and near future. The dystopian, twisted & queer world of Dr Lazlo, Lady Perweda & Strengel and an unexpected guest. Tom’s Coming Home Dir: Mies Mikkonen. Finland 2011 In 2011, Homotopia curated a year-long exhibition of one of Finland’s most celebrated & iconic artists Touko Laaksonen aka Tom Of Finland in Turku, Finland as part of the Turku 2011 European Capital Of Culture programme. ‘Tom of Finland’ died in Helsinki in 1989 but was actually born in the Turku province. Mies Mikkonen’s film documents the triumphant return of the permanent collection including some of Tom’s most iconic and rarely seen artwork Shelter by Jonathan Larkin and Ben Youdan. UK 2011 Starring Andrea Williams. Loneliness and repression explored through image and sound. A woman trapped in a box escapes to find a cold hard world waiting for her. An overwhelming sadness sets in as she finds her need for escape has led her into a barren landscape where she is ultimately alone. The Invisible Death Of Michael by Tim Brunsden & Gary Everett. UK 2009 Made in 2009 the film explores the lack of media coverage surrounding the murder of gay teenager Michael Causer in 2008. The film is also used as a lesson plan as part of Homotopia’s award winning anti-hate crime resource ‘Project Triangle’. Produced by Light Factory & Homotopia TV. Cold Star by Kai Stanicke. Germany 2011 A boy experiences new desires while watching a man at an indoor swimming pool. Forced up the diving platform by a rowdy gang, he receives help from an unexpected source. Cold Star is an appeal for acceptance of your own and others sexual identity. The Witherers Words: Gerry Potter. Directed by Tim Brunsden & Gary Everett. UK 2011 ‘Beware the witherer’s their disguises, sometimes they look like your family’. Liverpool poet Gerry Potter narrates ‘The Witherers’ in a specially produced digital short for Homotopia TV.
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Tomboy Tuesday November 15th Picturehouse at FACT . 6.30pm A film by Celine Sciamma 2011 France Laure is 10 years old. Laure is a tomboy. On her arrival in a new neighbourhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Truth or dare ? Dare. Summer becomes a big playground and Laure pretends to be Michael, a boy like the others..different enough to get the attention of Lisa who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret. The film has received Special Recognition for a Feature Film for Youth Tickets picturehouses.co.uk £8.50/£7.50
Live Loud & Proud
Film night at FACT
Thursday November 17th 3345, Parr St. 8pm
Monday November 21st FACT 5.15pm & 8pm
Live loud and proud is an opportunity for young gay artists across the North West to showcase their talents, in an open mic competition. As well as the open mic competition there will be a host of local gay talent performing on the evening. The acts include Ailish Marie who performed on the Women’s Stage at Manchester Pride, and Sophie Ballamy who has recently released her first EP “My Friend, The Moon” after a string of successful performances including a slot at Liverpool Pride. The event is 18+ everybody is welcome, so come down for a night of music, drinks and laughter. Free glass of wine to the first 50 people through the doors!
There will be two films screened one at 5.15pm and another at 8pm. The films will be chosen by two local gay youth groups, GYRO & Armistead. This event will be by invitation only and entrance will be free. There will be another opportunity throughout the evening to watch ‘Sex, Drags & Rock n Roll’ a film directed by Jessica Wignell that was shown at this year’s London Lesbian and Gay Film festival.
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An Audience With April Ashley In Conversation with Mark Simpson
Wednesday 23rd November Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham. 7.30pm Homotopia in association with Shout Tickets ÂŁ15.00 theticketsellers.co.uk Tel 0844 870 0000
Miss April Ashley will be in Birmingham for a special SHOUT appearance presenting recollections of her life. April is one of the most important and well known figures in the UK transgender community. Born in Liverpool in 1935 as George Jamieson, she lived in Liverpool for all of her childhood. In 1960 she was one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery in Morocco. April developed a successful career as a model even appearing in Vogue. Outed in 1961 as a transexual by the Sunday People. Her marriage and subsequent divorce in 1970 removed the ability of trans people to acquire full legal status in their required gender and it was not until the passing of the Gender Recognition Act 2004, that this was satisfactorily resolved.
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Forthcoming Exhibition 2012
The Living and the Dead Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby January 13 to April 15 2012. Walker Art Gallery. Free This exhibition is the first major retrospective of the work of John Kirby, an important contemporary artist who was born and grew up in Liverpool. His paintings and sculpture reflect the complexities of gender, religion, sexual orientation and race, and his distinctive style draws on deeply personal subject matter. Born in 1949, into a deeply religious Catholic family, Kirby left school at the age of 16 and worked as a shipping clerk in Liverpool. He then travelled to Calcutta to work with Mother Teresa in a children’s home. It was only in the 1980s that he began to pursue an artistic career, studying at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA and his work is held in both private and public collections.
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Credits Homotopia: Gary Everett Artistic Director; Pin Ups Curated by James Lawler; Beki Evans Youth Strand Programmer; Toby Coffey Marketing & Digital; Bev Ayre Development, Fundraising and Production; Al Mathews Finance; Graeme Phillips, Sue Williams Artistic and Management support; Ida Skovborg Festival Assistant; Louise Muddle Press & PR 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, NHL Helsinki, Dr Tony Harvey and Hope Street Hotel, Rob Webb @ all at Voodou, Jason Rosenbaum Gaydar, Jon Voss QX Sweden,Merseyside Police, Merseyside Police Authority, Cllr Paul Brant, Cllr Wendy Simon, Cllr Gary Millar, Pauline Rushton & Andrew Winder National Museums Liverpool, Danny Hall US Embassy Helsinki, Finnair, Silja Tallink Chris Carney @ all at Contemporary Urban Centre, David Viney @ SHOUT, Tim Redfern, Sir Ian McKellen, Asta Boman, , Chief Inspector Helen Corcoran, Detective Constable Tracy O’Hara, Norma Kielty Crummey, Jacqui Everett, Studio 2, Karen Gallagher @ MDI, British Embassy Helsinki, Ustar Miah @ Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, Durk Dehner & Sharp Snr Tom Of Finland Foundation Los Angeles, Paul Robinson, Chris Peters Picturehouses, Marrie & Michael Causer Snr, Marta Abramowicz KPH Warsaw, Gerry Potter,Joan Burnett @FACT, Andy, Andy Potter @ Gay Times, Tony Burns, Rebecca Keegan, Michael Kelly @ SEEN magazine, Jane Czyzselska @ Diva, Martin Fenerty, Paul White, & all at Armistead, David Cumberland @ Hope University, Gary Manning@60 Hope Street, the Quarter and Host, Graeme Robertson and all at Out North West, Pashina, Lucia &Gizmo,Terry Titter, Phil Saunders & Mary @ Unity, Premier Inn Hotel, Stephen Twigg MP
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Homotopia 2011 The Year In Review
Homotopia Liverpool is not just an annual festival but an organisation that produces year round programmes including intergenerational projects, award winning social justice initiatives and a burgeoning international programme. The last year has been one of the most ambitious and high profile years in our 8 year history. Our community and education work continues and we work closely with GYRO, Merseyside Youth Association, Armistead and Liverpool City Council with the ongoing development and roll-out of the city’s pioneering & groundbreaking anti-homophobic bullying strategy 2012-2015 of which Homotopia is a key stakeholder and co-author December 2010 we produced a series of interventions, debates and research in Istanbul, Turkey European Capital Of Culture 2010 .
Supported by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office the week culminated with the internationally renowned and award winning Pansy Project at the British Consulate Istanbul where hundreds of pansies where planted symbolizing the ongoing international struggle for LGBT rights and equality acting as a powerful, yet creative expression against trans & homophobic violence in Turkey and around the world In January 2011 we opened the Turku 2011 European Capital Of Culture programme with our biggest ever project to date ‘Tom’s Coming Home’ the Tom Of Finland exhibition in Turku, Finland which is a year-long exhibition and closes in December 2011. ‘Tom’s Coming Home’ has already attracted over 55,000 visitors making it a key highlight of the their programme. Also in January as part of our award winning Project Triangle, Homotopia led the commemorations in a Pink & Black Triangle Wreath Laying event as part of Holocaust Memorial Day Liverpool. As part of LGBT history month in February we toured over 15 sheltered schemes in Merseyside with our home-grown Lavender Club and engaged over 3000 older communities through storytelling, music and dance featuring local artists and musicians. In May as part of IDAHO in Turku w e presented a special event in partnership with the United States of America Embassy Helsinki with guest of honour Danny Hall Charge D’Affaires & Deputy Head Of Mission & out gay diplomat
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Pansy Project at the British Consulate Istanbul
In August, Arts Council England awarded Homotopia national portfolio status from 2012-2015 which is a huge achievement & endorsement of the quality and breadth of the art we present. The next chapter looks set to be the organisations most exciting and innovative phases in its short 8 year history.
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Young Homotopians Homotopia has always engaged with young people via schools and education initiatives such as co commissioning the anti bullying play FIT and our youth festival volunteering opportunities. This work has proved so successful that three years ago we decided to develop the organisation to empower young people to take an active part in programming and managing their own arts and social justice activities. In 2009 Homotopia developed Project Triangle a group of fifteen young local LGB people aged 17– 21. The group were initially inspired by a visit to Auschwitz and Warsaw where they met with a group of young Polish LGBT activists. Since then they have been volunteering their time to develop education and training packages, films and events for young people across Merseyside, nationally and abroad. The group used their own experiences of homophobic bullying to help us devise the Project Triangle education pack. Consisting of 6 lesson plans, interactive film & graphics, the pack takes teachers through a half term of key stage three school work including Citizenship, History, English and PSHE. It is the only pack in the country to identify bullying as hate crime and educate young people about its consequences. It is endorsed by the National Union of Teachers, Sir Ian Mc Kellen and Merseyside Police Chief Constable, who recently said “I have no doubt Project Triangle is making Merseyside a safer place to live”. This year with the support of Liverpool Mutual Homes, the pack was made freely available on line for use by teachers. You can download the pack and lesson plans at homotopia.net In February this year, young people from Project Triangle organised the city’s first youth Hate Crime conference at the International Slavery museum. Working alongside other young people from the Anthony Walker foundation, Daisy UK and the Liverpool Youth Service over 100 delegates explored how fear of difference can motivate bullying.
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The conference focussed on examples of positive responses to Hate Crime and featured a short film we produced with Marie Causer and Gee Walker speaking about the death of their sons and the legacy of their experiences and lives. The group also delivered Hate Crime awareness training throughout last year and in the spring worked with 200 staff from Liverpool Mutual Homes on raising awareness of hate crime in the housing sector In 2010 the group produced a powerful short film “Sex Drags and Rock n Roll” which premiered as part of the Homotopia festival first youth strand. The film was selected for the prestigious London Lesbian and Gay film festival and screened in April 2011. It has been seen by over 3,000 young people with screenings planned in Poland and Canada. Our first youth strand last year also featured A Big Gay Prom, A Big Gay Kiss photography exhibition and A Big Gay Film night at Fact. The group returned to Poland for a week this year to take part in the “Equal Right to Love” youth festival in Warsaw. The trip inspired them to produce more events for the Homotopia 2011 festival. They are also working with our partners in Warsaw KPH in hosting the UK premiere of the Berlin Yogyakarta exhibition, about gay life in pre WW2 Berlin which takes place at Homotopia 2011 In 2011 Project Triangle was chosen over 61 other organisations and awarded The Merseyside Police Authority Community Safety Award for its work across Merseyside in challenging hate crime. MPA said ‘The Authority have worked with Homotopia before and are proud to have the opportunity to give this well deserved award to an organisation that has achieved so much in tackling hate crime and working with young people’. To find out more about our training, participation and youth activities contact bev@homotopia.net.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is proud to support the 2011 Homotopia Festival. Supporting this year’s festival is part of the Service’s ongoing commitment to tackling all forms of hate crime, including homophobia, and creating a workforce that is as diverse as the communities that it serves. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MF&RS) has supported the Homotopia Festival since 2006 and is also a key supporter of the groundbreaking anti-hate campaign, Project Triangle. Its involvement with the project includes a programme of work with young people to raise awareness of hate-crime and the importance of equality and diversity in our communities. Chief Fire Officer Dan Stephens said: “We work alongside Merseyside’s diverse communities to promote equality and diversity for everyone. Supporting celebrations such as Homotopia, helps us to send a positive message to Merseyside’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.” The Service’s commitment to supporting LGB&T communities is demonstrated throughout the year by its involvement in a series of events. We were once again heavily involved in organising the Liverpool Pride festival earlier this year, a team of staff and volunteers proudly showed their support at the parade on behalf of the organisation. The Service also proudly flies the rainbow flag each year for the International Day Against Homophobia at its Headquarters in Bootle. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is also an active member of Stonewall’s Diversity Champion programme to recognise its commitment to becoming the employer of choice for the region’s LGB&T communities. For a free Home Fire Safety Check and free smoke alarms, call 0800 731 5958.
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Equal Opportunities Service Liverpool City Council are proud sponsors of Homotopia 2011 The Council is a member of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme and has gained the achieving level of the Equality Framework for Local Government. It is also developing a Single Equality Scheme to progress equality and inclusion across all the protected groups. To find out more about the work of the Equal Opportunities Service please contact us. Email: equal.opportunitiesservice@liverpool.gov.uk Tel: 0151 225 3540 or visit our website: www.liverpool.gov.uk
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Merseyside Police
Merseyside Police and our Police Authority are committed to engaging with our diverse communities and are proud to be supporting Homotopia once again. Homotopia is a key event in our calendar and allows us the unique opportunity to be visible and open about our commitment to LGBT equality and being part of a society which embraces difference and is free from discrimination in all its forms. We cannot wait to meet you at the shows! We have been a part of Project Triangle since its inception and are proud of the change this has brought about not only for the young people we worked with but for our City and other agencies. We continue to fly our Rainbow flag each year from all our Police stations and remain the only Police Force in the UK to do this. We continually perform well in the Stonewall index, a benchmark for all organizations who wish to place Equality and fairness at the heart of their core business. Our Gay and Lesbian Support Network (GLSN) are a Stonewall star performer network. We offer advice and support to all employees and we are open to all staff who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender. Merseyside Police’s Sigma teams work tirelessly to support witnesses, prosecute offenders and encourage people to tell us about Hate Crime so we can do something about it. Hate Crime affects us all. We are looking forward to attending the events this year and partaking in discussion around many issues with all of you, if you see us at our stall or at any event, come and speak to us, we welcome your opinions, thoughts and ideas of your Police service. Support and advice is available for those considering a career in Merseyside Police who may be concerned about Homophobia and being out in the workplace. Contact GLSN on 077 646 21 430 or gay.police@merseyside.police.uk Chief Constable Jon Murphy said “Since we first flew our rainbow flag from Police premises we have seen an increase in confidence from within the LGBT community and active engagement around a number of community issues. By supporting GLSN, all of these partnerships go from strength to strength and keep us at the forefront of LGBT issues, something I am keen to see continue”
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If you are a victim of a Hate Crime you can report it by ringing Merseyside Police on 0151 709 6010 and asking for the SIGMA unit in your area. If you have information that you wish to pass on in confidence please ring Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Hate Crime is not just about racism, it comes in many forms. People are targeted because of their disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity. These despicable crimes are known as Hate Crimes and take the form of assaults, harassment, graffiti, damage or violence. Unfortunately, there are a small number of people who are responsible for these crimes, but with your continued help and information we can reduce these attacks. However, if victims and witnesses remain silent and don’t tell us about Hate Crime, then we cannot tackle the problem effectively. We have dedicated Hate Crime investigation Units called Sigma which use all the latest investigative techniques to identify offenders and bring them to justice.
Don’t suffer in silence! We appeal to anyone with information about Hate Crime to call us and tell us who these people are - call Sigma on 0151 709 6010 or Stop Hate UK on 0800 138 1625 - in an emergency always call 999. With the continued support of local communities we can work in partnership to reduce Hate Crime.
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