OUTing the Past Festival 2020 programme (1)
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