@HomotopiaFest

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️The UK's longest running LGBTQIA festival of arts & culture 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Homotopia@HomotopiaFest31 Jan 2025
Calling All LGBTQIA+ Performers aged 16-25 in Liverpool! 🥳 Join Young Homotopia for an incredible programme of creativity and collaboration 🫶 ℹ️For more information or queries: homotopia.net/young-homotopi…
A young person plays the guitar onstage, singing into a microphone. The guitar is red. The young person wears black clothing, a cardigan and jeans, with a black shirt. They have glasses on.

ALT A young person plays the guitar onstage, singing into a microphone. The guitar is red. The young person wears black clothing, a cardigan and jeans, with a black shirt. They have glasses on.

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Congratulations to the teams at @HomotopiaFest and Duo Vision on the fantastic launch of ‘The Holly Johnson Story,’ funded by @HeritageFundUK. The exhibition is now open at the @NML_Muse Museum of Liverpool and will run until July 25. #Relax
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The launch of @MuseumLiverpool’s “The Holly Johnson Story” was fabulous last night. A brilliant blend of local, musical and LGBTQ+ history. We’re proud to support as the community engagement partner, and thank you @TheHollyJohnson for your ongoing support! ❤️
The Holly Johnson Story entrance - image of a young Holly Johnson on a wall

ALT The Holly Johnson Story entrance - image of a young Holly Johnson on a wall

Sahirs donation of the original Mersey AIDS Helpline phone and log book

ALT Sahirs donation of the original Mersey AIDS Helpline phone and log book

Holly Johnson talking on stage.

ALT Holly Johnson talking on stage.

Acknowledgements and thanks to exhibition dupporters

ALT Acknowledgements and thanks to exhibition dupporters

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MARRIAGE (IN)EQUALITY IN UKRAINE: screening & panel discussion | 9 May, 6 PM The project will be presented by director Yuriy Dvizhon and art director Aleh Razhkou, followed by a panel discussion on the theme of “Power of art in advocacy”. RSVP: eventbrite.co.uk/e/886738868…

MARRIAGE (IN)EQUALITY IN UKRAINE. Screening and a panel discussion

Can art projects influence laws? How to achieve a successful advocacy campaign through art?

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ProfVivHope@VivProf4 Apr 2024
Are you trans, non-binary, gender non-confirming, gender diverse or queer? Lived in the Merseyside since 2020? Interested in helping us develop better services? LJMU & Sahir House are running focus groups to see how responses to new health issues can be improved after COVID (1/2)
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NEXT FRIDAY AT UNITY 🏳️‍🌈 COMEDY QUEERS "Inclusive rambunctious comedy in a friendly and safe environment" 🫶 "Something the scene needs" 👈️ "Full of Queer joy" 🌈 💥JEN IVES 💥MARIE GOULBOURNE 💥@morriseysquiff 🎟️ : unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/… 📅: Friday 5th April | 7:30pm
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🔦 Artist Spotlight: Ellesha Doubleday (She/Her) is a self-portrait artist from Wigan whose work challenges society's expectations of women through crude and ridiculous self-humiliation. With her pieces, she hopes to give viewers space to feel validated & recognise their worth.
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🔦 Artist Spotlight: Monet (He/They) is an Irish AV artist, essayist & poet. Core themes in their work are superstition, liminality, and vulnerability. Monet has created a D&D campaign set in a fantastical Liverpool, reconstructing queer spaces for players & viewers to explore.
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🔦 Artist Spotlight: Tish is a Creative Historian from Merseyside with an interest in queer identity, space and community. Tish's work proposes that being Queer in Liverpool operates in conflict; within and without, in pain and in humour, brutal yet tender.
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🔦 Artist Spotlight: Harry Garner is an award-winning artist who lives and works in Liverpool. Harry's work explores contemporary themes of faith and uncertainty. His subject matter defies straightforward interpretation, and often shifts between portrait and still life genres.
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🔦 Artist Spotlight: Claire Beerjeraz (She/They) is a Spoken Word Artist, Writer, Workshop Facilitator, Performer & Creative Therapist. Claire’s piece explores how a city (de)constructs intersections of identity & what that means for young people transitioning into adulthood.
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I missed last month's news about @TophX being appointed director for @HomotopiaFest - AND AM NOW SO EXCITED FOR @HomotopiaFest!
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Want something fun to do this weekend?👀 Come to our event at @BFIFlare on Sunday and learn all about the importance of costume in film! Plus, FREE networking drinks afterwards🍹 Tickets: theb.fi/3vbkX3A 🎟️
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Do you have the artistic vision and leadership to take our theatres into a new chapter? We're looking for candidates to apply for the exciting opportunity as Creative Director. More info here: bit.ly/48vgp5S
The image is a split view of two different scenes of celebration at night. On the left, a building displays vibrant fireworks bursting in the sky above, illuminating the night with pinks and reds. On the right, a historical building with architectural lighting and a large red lit dome is the backdrop for a flurry of white confetti-like particles falling from the sky.

ALT The image is a split view of two different scenes of celebration at night. On the left, a building displays vibrant fireworks bursting in the sky above, illuminating the night with pinks and reds. On the right, a historical building with architectural lighting and a large red lit dome is the backdrop for a flurry of white confetti-like particles falling from the sky.

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#Opportunities | Calling all aspiring #Merseyside actors aged 18 - 30! 🎭 Applications are now open for @20StoriesHigh's 10 week actors training programme. Designed to equip artists with tools to enter rehearsal rooms with confidence. Deadline 20 March➡️ 20storieshigh.org.uk/actors-…
Graphic artwork with a blue background, orange drawings and a group image of a young actors group.

ALT Graphic artwork with a blue background, orange drawings and a group image of a young actors group.

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Museum of Liverpool@MuseumLiverpool1 Dec 2023
The incredible UK AIDS Memorial Quilt is on display here today and tomorrow as part of @homotopia's #WorldAIDSDay events with @SahirHouse - find out more here: homotopia.net/events/world-a…
Large quilt panels hung up on stands and laid out across the floor, with tributes to local people who died of AIDS sewn onto them

ALT Large quilt panels hung up on stands and laid out across the floor, with tributes to local people who died of AIDS sewn onto them

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Sonic Yootha returns to 24 Kitchen Street - this Sat Nov 25 Are you ready to 'Go West'? 'A wild affair for homos, fauxmos, gender-blenders, full-time queers & part-time Brendas' Doors from 9pm, £10 (no tickets) 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️
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🏳️‍⚧️ From our friend Amy Pennington... 𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐒 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 Amy Pennington presents their landmark documentary series TOPS. On the question that defines trans masc experience in the UK today... 🗓 Thur 30 Nov @islingtonmill 🎟 eventbrite.co.uk/e/tops-scre… @HomotopiaFest
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Elsewhere, @tateliverpool's new home on Mann island has a cosy shop and cafe open all week; @stereolabgroop tour; @HomotopiaFest continues its great programme, including @unitytheatre and @OpenEyeGallery; and Jack Clayton's The Innocents is showing @FACT_Cinema 🎨🎬▶️🎭📷
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Black Sheep by Livia Kojo Alour Cabaret meets theatre meets spoken-word poetry – by one of the UK’s most exciting and innovative performing artists. ‘Black Sheep’ is an autobiographical story about learning to love yourself 📅 Wed 15 Nov 📍 Unity unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/…
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