OUTing the Past Festival 2020 programme (1)

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OUTing the Past LGBTQ+ History Festival Festival Launch Friday 21 February 2020 SIPTU Building, Connolly Hall, Lapp’s Quay 6.30pm Wine & Light Refreshments Reception Welcome: Diarmuid Scully Conference Committee & Adrian Kane, SIPTU Brief Remarks: Orla Egan on ‘The Place of Connolly Hall in Cork’s LGBT+ History’ Keynote Address: Sara r Philips, Irish Trans Archive and Chair of TENI Performance: Stonewall and Then Directed by Sonya Matthews Written & performed by LINC Drama Group (Abbie Platt, Aoife Cooke, Ciara Mulcahy, Maria Nugent, Sarah O’Herlihy and Siobhan O’Mahony)

Transcript of OUTing the Past Festival 2020 programme (1)

   

OUTing  the  Past  LGBTQ+  History  Festival  Festival  Launch  

Friday  21  February  2020  SIPTU  Building,  Connolly  Hall,  Lapp’s  Quay  6.30pm  

 Wine  &  Light  Refreshments  Reception  

 Welcome:       Diarmuid  Scully  Conference  Committee  &  Adrian  Kane,  SIPTU  Brief  Remarks:     Orla  Egan  on  ‘The  Place  of  Connolly  Hall  in  Cork’s  LGBT+  History’    Keynote  Address:     Sara  r  Philips,  Irish  Trans  Archive  and  Chair  of  TENI  Performance:     Stonewall  and  Then    

Directed  by  Sonya  Matthews  Written  &  performed  by  LINC  Drama  Group  (Abbie  Platt,  Aoife  Cooke,  Ciara  Mulcahy,    Maria  Nugent,  Sarah  O’Herlihy  and    Siobhan  O’Mahony)  

 

 

Saturday  22  February  2020  Millennium  Hall  -­‐  Cork  City  Hall  

Morning  Programme  Opening  Welcome  by  Cork  City’s  Lord  Mayor  or  Representative  

   

First  Session  Echoes  from  the  Past  

 11.00am  -­‐  12.00pm   Chair:   Kate  Moynihan  11.00  am   Deirdre  Swain  

   

Stormé  DeLarverie:  The  forgotten  heroine  of  the  Stonewall  Riots      

11.20  am   Barra  Ó  Donnabháin    

‘Marianne  is  in  again’:  Male  convict  sexuality  in  the  19th  Century    

11.40  am   Katherine  O’Donnell      

Tell  All  The  Truth  But  Tell  It  Slant.        

 Second  Session  

Prose  and  Poetry:  LGBT+  Voices    

12.05pm  -­‐  1.10pm   Chair:   Ciara  Mulcahy  12.05  pm   Sarah  O’Sullivan  

   

Mary  Dorcey:  The  Making  of  Poetry      

12.25  pm   Oein  deBhairduin  &  Pauline  Reilly      

Story-­‐telling  as  a  culturally-­‐valued  practice  among  Travellers    

12.45  pm   Alannah  Daly  Mulligan   ‘Hands’  –  Spoken  Word  Performance  and  Discussion    

   

   

 1.10-­‐2.00  pm  Lunch  

Saturday  22  February  2020  Millennium  Hall  -­‐  Cork  City  Hall  

Afternoon  Programme    

Third  Session  Equality  and  Reform:  Narrative  Snapshots  from  the  Journey  So  Far  

 2.00pm  -­‐  3.00pm   Chair:   JP  McCarthy  2.00  pm   Cathal  Kerrigan  

   

Hands  Across  the  Water      

2.20  pm   June  Hamill  &  Katherine  O’Riordan    

“A  Day  in  May’  &  the  Marriage  Equality  Referendum    

2.40  pm   Cara  Holmes      

Screening  of  Short  Film:  ‘Welcome  to  a  Bright  White  Limbo’        

                 

Final  Session  Activism,  Imagination  and  Protest:  Creativity  through  Necessity  

 3.00pm  -­‐  4.00pm   Chair   Michael  O’  Donnell  3.00  pm   Clare  Geraghty    

   

Hip  Hop  Feminism:  Queers  of  Colour  and  Strategies  for  Resistance      

3.20  pm   Éibhear  Walshe  &  Diarmuid  Scully      

“From  Cissie’s  Abbatoir  to  Handel’s  Dublin”:  Remembering  and  Re-­‐Imagining  the  LGBT  Past  in  Ireland    

3.40  pm   Konrad  Im  &  Michelle  Desmond    

“Dragging  up  the  Past”:  Cork  Drag  Timeline      

 4.00pm  -­‐  4.30pm  Closing  Performance:  Drag  Extravaganza  by  Mia  Gold  and  Summer  Paradise