Workshops, Collages, Poems!

It's been an exciting time at Queer Britain so we wanted to send you an update.

In February, because of all our supporters, we were able to launch our Community Residency Programme and welcome our first residency.

We are now halfway through our first residency, where we have been working with the LGBTQ+ Traveller+ community. In the last 3 weeks participants have explored ideas around representation, appropriation and resignification of archive images through collage with Tyler Hatwell from Traveller Pride and Nan Carreira, our own Programming and Community Events Manager.

We also had the wonderful opportunity to bring artist Bela Varadi in to lead a workshop around photography. During the workshop, participants had the chance to have their portrait taken by Bela. Afterwards, they explored storytelling through photography with a triptych activity.

In the last session we held, we invited the artist Gemma Lees to deliver a workshop on poetry and creative writing. The participants took poems from LGBTQ writers and poems from Traveller+ poets to build their own poems. This was then followed with an activity around manifesting what they are and what they want for the community.

In March, as we enter the second half of the residency, our participants will be working toward the production of an outcome and the public presentation on the 6th of April.

All our supporters will be invited to attend and celebrate the LGBTQ Traveller+ community with us. The event link will be shared directly once it is ready.

We hope to see you there!