Dear All

 

If you need PDF / JPG or hard copy versions let us know.

 

If you would like a stall / information space at the event they are free. You can bring leaflets, fliers and materials along. If you just want to be in the information space available to chat that’s good too. Let us know if you wold like to contribute to this part of the day.

 

We hope to see some of you there.

 

Jan

 

Speak Up! Speak Out!

Saturday 5 December  2015

9.30am-4.30pm

£10 / £7.50 concs.

(Lunch and refreshments included)

 

Book: https://speak-up-speak-out.eventbrite.co.uk

 

London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road, EC1R 0HB

 

PROGRAMME

9.30am                         Doors open, registration and welcome

10-10.45am                  Speak Out London - Diversity City: presentations by project volunteers and staff

11am                            Rebel Dykes of London: Siobhan Fahey makes a riotous presentation with music, images and oral history as part of an ongoing film documentary project.

 

11.30am                       Pride of Place: Dr Alison Oram and Dr Justin Bengry explore the theme of migration

 

12.15pm-2pm                Lunch and break outs - enjoy your lunch and then:

                                                      · Visit the stalls and update area

                                                      · Sign up to a behind the scenes tour and document display

                                                      · Bring in your own LGBTQ memorabilia and have it scanned for the Speak Out website

                                                      · Get advice on writing autobiographical material

                                                      · Workshop around ideas of mapping locations and memory

                                                      · Record a memory

 

2-3.15pm                      Talks and Panel:

                                                       · Adrienne Adams - How do communities based archives remember the lives of black queer subjects

                                                       · Catherine O’Donnell - Redisplaying equality at the People’s History Museum

                                                       · Marian Larragy - London Friend - Place, Memory and Activism

 

3.30-4pm                      John Vincent - LGBTQ Community History and the Heritage Sector. John will look at the important role the heritage sector plays in collecting LGBTQ community history, making it accessible and what role we need to play to ensure it happens.

 

4-4.30pm                      Excerpt from All The Nice Girls, written and performed by Alison Child and Rosie           Wakley. This is the story of forgotten variety stars Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney, seen through the eyes of  male impersonator Ella Shields.