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.