Dear list members,
Please come to these two in-person events kindly being hosted by Northumbria University in Newcastle which I will be running. For further details/location etc., please contact the chair of both events, Dr Anamarija Horvat, Lecturer in Media Studies
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I will also be giving a live performance on the Sunday night before at the Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle.
https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/programme/event/lee-campbell-presents-see-me,6483/
Many thanks and look forward to seeing you there!
Lee
Homo Humour film screening
Monday 14th November 5-7pm
Homo Humour explores the history of comedy as a queer identity defence, a means of expression and storytelling and the subversive and surprising ways that humour can be used on screen. Homo Humour responds to the growing interest in LGBTQ+ folk using film and moving image to tell their stories by focusing purely on humour. Whilst the concept of humour helping LGBTQ+ people is an interesting (and vital) world to explore, this event seeks to also engage wider groups of artists, academics and students interested in film and/or the study of humour. We also invite health/inclusion/wellbeing practitioners who are interested in how comedic storytelling may encourage people’s understanding of LGBTQ+ communities.
Curated by Dr Lee Campbell, artist and Senior Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London Homo Humour was first presented at Edgezones gallery in Miami in January 2020 and then at Sardinia Pride/Queeresima in June 2020 bringing together emerging and established gay male artists/independent filmmakers for the first time from all over the world including Marcel Barelli, Jordan McKenzie, Hamid Waheed, Steve Reinke, Ernesto Sarezale, Harold Offeh, John Walter and Wrik Mead. The showreel has since been screened at Metal, Southend-on-Sea and FRISE gallery in Hamburg. In 2023, the showreel will screen at The Centre for Comedy Studies Research an international research centre devoted to the academic study of comedy based at Brunel University. In July 2022, Lee presented a talk about Homo Humour at the conference Queer Pedagogies organised by the Queer-Feminist Interdisciplinary Working Group at The European University Institute
Please note this event is suitable for 18+
Bona Polari! Polari writing workshop
Tuesday 15th November 11am-1pm
This is a one-hour workshop run by Dr Lee Campbell where participants will be invited to learn about Polari and its sociohistorical significance, engage in a creative writing exercise using Polari at its base, and develop skills in sharing your writing in an informal, non-judgemental way.
At the start of the workshop, participants watch a short poetry film by Lee called The Tale of Benny Harris (2022) a film written entirely in Polari (gay slang). Lee then explains how his interest in Polari was triggered when he attended a Polari-writing workshop in Manchester several years ago where he was encouraged to write his own Polari phrases and how this led to the eventual development of a poem he wrote called The Tale of Benny Harris. Participants are then given copies of a Polari dictionary which Lee uses as a basis for discussion including identifying Polari words that they may already be using. Lee then invites participants to write their own rhyming Polari phrases and then, invites participants to speak their phrases out aloud for everyone to enjoy.
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