Wed 22 May 2013, 7:30pm. Tickets: £8/5
Booking: 0161 274 0600 / contactmcr.com/loisweaver

Tammy WhyNot is a performance persona who claims to be a trailer park survivor who gave up a career in country music to become a lesbian performance artist and a university researcher.

What Tammy Found Out is a performance lecture that will present findings from her 62 years of research on issues from education and class to sex and aging; from one of the foremost queer performers in the world.

Suitable for over 16s.

About Lois Weaver
Tammy's alter-ego, is Professor of Contemporary Performance Practice, Queen Mary, University of London and an independent performance artist and activist. She was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theatre, Split Britches Company and the WOW Theatre in New York and Artistic Director of Gay Sweatshop Theatre in London. She was Director of PSi12: Performing Rights in 2006 and is currently Artistic Director for Air Project. Her practice-based research uses performance to initiate conversations on human rights in wide-ranging projects.

Delivered as part of The Sexuality Summer School's public event series 2013.

The Sexuality Summer School is coordinated by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC), The University of Manchester, with sponsorship this year from Screen, Manchester Pride, Cornerhouse, Contact, artsmethods@manchester, and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester.

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