Event Information
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Sat24Feb2018
Travelling Queer People's History show @ CAKE ROOM HASTINGS
6.45pm-10pmCake Room
30 Robertson St,
Hastings
TN34 1HTBird la Bird’s Travelling Queer People’s History Show comes to Hastings!!!
Funny! Provocative! Intersectional! Somewhere between a comedy show and a lecture!
Queer femme feminist performance artiste and know-all Bird la Bird will introduce you to:
- The prisons and workhouses which once stood on the site of some of Britain’s top museums!
- How colonial Britain exported homophobia and continues to incarcerate LGBTQI people!
- The original OINTOB convicts – the lesbian and trans flash mobs of Nineteenth Century Penal colonies!
- Britain’s first known Black Gay Sex Worker and how he was transported to Australia!
- The startling link between the founders of the National Portrait Gallery and global homophobia!
It’s an evening of queer history with class and cake!!!
- Ticket price includes 1 cake and 1 hot or soft drink
- Fully licensed bar
Bird la Bird’s Travelling Queer People’s History Show will showcase hidden queer histories of some of the UK’s best known museums and galleries. Bird will present material from her tours exploring sexuality, colonialism, incarceration and working class histories.
Join Bird as she explores the lives, loves and crimes of queer convicts in “Going Down” created for Tate Britain in 2017. “Who Created the Crime?” written in collaboration with Dr Rohit K Dasgupta uncovers the startling link between the National Portrait Gallery and the British colonial laws which outlawed queer sex across the British Empire. The same laws are still on the statute books in over 30 Commonwealth countries.
Booking
£10 including 1 cake and 1 hot or soft drink – book tickets via Eventbrite
Accessibility
Unfortunately this venue is not wheelchair accessible.
Please contact me if you have an access need and would like to attend.
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