Birmingham`s Festival Of Queer Culture

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Birmingham’s
Festival Of
Queer Culture
film. theatre. visual arts. music. performance. literature. community
FREE ENTRY
birmingham lgbt
For full festival listings visit...
www.shoutfestival.co.uk
Welcome to the third annual
SHOUT Festival - Birmingham’s
festival of queer culture!
Since launching in 2009, SHOUT has quickly grown to become one of
Birmingham’s unique and innovative independent festivals and, for the first
time, we are delighted to be expanding SHOUT to Wolverhampton and
West Bromwich.
This year, SHOUT presents new, provocative, entertaining and challenging
queer film, visual art, music, theatre, literature and community events,
hosted by venues including Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, mac
birmingham, Town Hall, St Pauls Church, and The Fox.
Highlights of the festival include Amy Lamé, Alan Hollinghurst, David Hoyle,
Janis Ian, April Ashley and Fascinating Aida, alongside some of the most
exciting talent from across the UK, including Sophia Blackwell, Joey
Hateley, Joseph Mercier, Zorras and Mandy Romero.
None of this would be possible without the support of Birmingham LGBT,
our funders Arts Council England and Screen WM, and our committed
team of producers and volunteers. In these challenging economic times,
we are particularly grateful to be in receipt of public funding, and we are
delighted that SHOUT continues to be supported. Many thanks to
everyone who has contributed towards making SHOUT happen.
We would love to know what you think of SHOUT this year please let us have your reviews, comments and feedback, either
via facebook.com/shoutfestival or twitter @shoutfestival.
Enjoy the festival, and get ready to SHOUT!
Simon Wales
Chair, SHOUT Festival
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3Rd - 6Th Nov
Thursday 3rd November
7pm - 8.30pm
SHOUT Opening Event
Join us in the mac public spaces for the
FREE launch of SHOUT, featuring
performers, dancers, visual arts, comedy
and music - please check the website
nearer the time for more details. Including
installations ‘Departures’ and ‘Disco
Guillotine’.
Venue: mac birmingham,
Cannon Hill Park. B12 9QH
FREE EVENT
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Launch
Weekend
Join us at mac birmingham for a packed weekend of queer entertainment to
launch SHOUT 2011. Opening with a FREE launch event, followed by a night of
queer cabaret hosted by Amy Lamé, the weekend also features choreographer
Joseph Mercier‘s ode to gay ‘cruising’ culture Cruising, Clubbing, F**king, and
transgender artist Mandy Romero’s Stevenage - a multimedia solo performance.
SHOUT has also commissioned Invisible, which will highlight the often hidden queer
lives of Black and Asian women in Birmingham. Film documentary Brother Outsider
explores the legacy of American civil rights activist
Bayard Rustin and we celebrate the lives of black
FEsTival
wEEkENd oFFER
LGBT people in Birmingham with Nubian Rainbow.
Save money on your ticke
ts
by booking for all 4 show
Finally, a free public launch sees the opening of
s
(Queer Cabaret, Stevenag
e,
Cruising Clubbing F**ing
exhibitions including The Modern Lesbian, A Spot
& Invisible)
For just £30! (£20 concessi
ons)
of b)other and Imagining Intimacy.
Thursday 3rd November
9pm (Doors open 8.30pm)
Queer Cabaret
Ladies and gentleman, kings and queens
and everyone in between, it is our pleasure
to present to you the hottest ticket in town!
Join hostess Amy Lamé, of Duckie fame,
at the SHOUT cabaret club for one night of
outrageous queer performance to
celebrate the launch of our festival.
Featuring some of the tastiest cabaret acts
direct from London, and members of
Scotland’s b)other collective, cross the
boundaries of heteronormative taste and
decency as anything could happen at this
wild and extravagant showcase.
Price: £10/7
Information: 0121 446 3232
www.macarts.co.uk
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5Th Nov
4Th Nov
pERFoRmaNcE.
pERFoRmaNcE.
Stevenage
French with
English subtitles
Conceived and created by Mandy Romero
Friday 4th November 8pm
Venue: mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park. B12 9QH
Price: £10/7
www.macarts.co.uk
"In August of 1968 a young man wearing a brown corduroy suit travelled from his
home in the Midlands and ran away to Stevenage New Town. Something happened
there, or didn’t happen, and what happened because of what didn’t happen is what
you are paying to have me tell you. Well, that’s not entirely true. I invited you. But you
must have been interested enough to come. And it means that I must have a stake in
all this. Putting things straight. Getting it all out in the open..."
Stevenage is a multimedia solo performance by transgender artist Mandy Romero.
Stevenage - the first English New Town - is an unlikely subject, but it’s a performance
which beautifully explores many interlinked lives - the ‘young man in the brown
corduroy suit’, an English pastoral poet, a young woman who moved south in the early
years of the 20th century, a young film actor, a town, two villages and the lives of a
post-war generation.
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Cruising
Clubbing
F**king
Saturday 5th November 8pm
Price: £10/7
www.macarts.co.uk
A dance-theatre performance exploring how gay men have met and seduced each
other, from the 60’s to the present day. Blending bodies with beats and
contemporary dance styles with gesture, the three dancers move their way through
this world of late night lust, combining seduction, sex and moments of human
tenderness. The show explores anonymous encounters, play in parks and public
toilets, handkerchief flagging, and what happens after all the music has died down
and all the time together has been spent.
Cruising Clubbing F**king is an engaging, pulsating and sensual voyage into the
underground worlds and adventures of generations of gay men.
“Joseph is a rare find and a great artist of the future”
Bryony Kimmings, Director of Chisenhale Dance Space
Over 16s only, contains explicit adult material.
Followed by a post show discussion with Joseph Mercier.
Visible!
In celebration of SHOUT and this year’s Black History Month, Nubian
Rainbow - a black LGBT community group based in Birmingham will be hosting an afternoon of events focusing on the impact that the
black LGBT community has made throughout history.
6Th Nov
FREE ENTRY
Film.
Brother
Outsider
The Life of Bayard Rustin
(2010) USA
Sunday 6th November 2pm
Price: £4
www.macarts.co.uk
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin
is best remembered as the organiser of the 1963
March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent
protests ever held in the United States. Despite these
achievements, Rustin was silenced, threatened,
arrested, beaten, imprisoned and fired from important
leadership positions, largely because he was an openly
gay man in a fiercely homophobic era.
posT-show discussioN.
Nubian
Rainbow
FREE EvENT
Following Brother Outsider, join Nubian Rainbow in
the mac public spaces, who will host a post-show
discussion followed by a variety of live performances.
The performances will include spoken word, dance
and music which will explore and celebrate the lives of
Black LGBT people both globally and locally.
FEsTival
wEEkENd oF
FER
Save money on
your tickets
by booking for
all 4 shows
(Queer Cabaret
, Stevenage,
Cruising Clubb
ing F**ing & Inv
isible)
For just £30! (£2
0 concessions
)
Invisible
Price: £8/6
www.macarts.co.uk
Producer/Director Hannah Phillips premieres
SHOUT commission Invisible written by Sayan
Kent. The gripping work explores the invisibility and
often isolation facing Black, Asian and Minority
Ethnicity Bisexual, Gay and Queer Women living in
Birmingham today. The work builds on the
research and verbatim reading performed at mac
for SHOUT 2010.
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3Rd - 27Th Nov
3Rd - 27Th Nov
visual aRTs.
visual aRTs.
A Spot
of b)other
The Modern
Lesbian
French with
English subtitles
Thursday 3rd - Sunday 27th November 9am-11pm
Venue: The Hub, mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park. B12 9QH
www.macarts.co.uk
FREE EvENT
FREE EvENT
LGBT, Queer, Trans and Intersex Deaf and Disabled Cultures.
Sandra Alland with Stuart Crawford, Nathan Gale, Robert Gale, Y Josephine,
Jennie Kermode, Rebeca Pla, Alison Smith, Penny Stenhouse and Kristiane Taylor.
b)other collective formed in Glasgow in July 2009. They have exhibited their work
individually and collectively throughout the UK, Europe and Canada. Bother, as in
“bother to care”, as in “why bother”, as in “we’ll cause bother until we’re treated as
equals”. Other, as in that “Other” box many of us have to check, when that option
even exists. b)other, as in we are othered, but also choose to Be Other, to celebrate
our differences instead of trying to fit definitions of normal. Other works in the exhibition
include Alland’s short films: Here, about queer and gender queer migrants to
Edinburgh; and Fingers, a recording of Alison Smith’s BSL (British Sign Language)
performance poetry.
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Thursday 3rd - Sunday 27th November 9am-11pm
Venue: Terrace Gallery, mac birmingham,
www.macarts.co.uk
The Modern Lesbian is an exploration of the hidden history of gay and bisexual
women in the West Midlands. Using archive interviews and conducting her own, artist
Rachel Adams has identified influential gay women who have impacted on
Birmingham’s cultural, social and economic landscape.
With the discussions informing her choices for photographic locations, the project links
women’s stories across the generations, seeing the exhibition trace the dynamic
trajectory of gay women’s experiences in the West Midlands. Adams seeks to explore
the complexities in defining her own lesbian identity, and providing a new public space
for that culture to take shape.
3Rd - 26Th Nov
7Th - 23Rd Nov
visual aRTs.
visual aRTs.
Living
My Life
Imagining
Intimacy
Thursday 3rd - Saturday 26th November
Venue: New Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Mindelsohn Way,
Edgbaston, Birmingham. B15 2WB
FREE EvENT
SHOUT presents a new touring exhibition exploring the lives of trans people from The
Centre for HIV and Sexual Health (Sheffield) in partnership with TransBareAll. We invite
you to view this ‘inspirational and spectacular’ series of photographic portraits
celebrating the lives of trans people at the New Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The Living My Life exhibition has been put together to showcase a new information
resource for people who identify as trans or who are beginning to explore their gender
identity.
For more information about the Living My Life project, contact the Centre for HIV and
Sexual Health on 0114 226 1900 www.sexualhealthsheffield.nhs.uk
by Robert Taylor
Monday 7th - Wednesday 23rd November 10am-6pm (Mon- Fri)
Venue: ARTicle Gallery, Birmingham, Institute of Art & Design,
Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BX
Suitable for 16 years and over
FREE EvENT
What things dominate our first impressions of someone?
What determines how we feel about someone?
How do we connect with other people?
Is what you see what you get?
What is intimacy?
Imagining Intimacy is a photo installation that observes experimental physical
encounters between blindfolded men, with audio extracts from the participants’
reflections on their experiences. The men usually worked in pairs, but there were
sometimes three participants.
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10Th Nov - 30Th JaN
8Th Nov
pERFoRmaNcE.
visual aRTs.
Our Lives
French with
English subtitles
Thursday 10th November 2011 - Monday 30th January 2012
Venue: BVSC Arts for Change. BVSC, 138 Digbeth, Birmingham. B5 6DR
Thursday 10th November 2011 - Monday 13th January 2012
Venue: Light House, The Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street, Wolverhampton. WV1 1HT
Thursday 10th November - Monday 8th December 2011
Venue: The Public, New Street, West Bromwich. B70 7PG
FREE EvENTs
A series of exhibitions celebrating the creativity and diversity of queer, lesbian, gay,
bisexual and trans women of the region. Birmingham women photographers group
Eye to Eye, Wolverhampton women's group L:Bow Room and women from the
Sandwell LGBT Group have been working over the summer to create innovative,
thought-provoking and challenging new work.
There will be a joint launch at all three venues at 6:30pm on Wednesday
9th November.
See festival website for further details.
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Dirty
Words
A Night of Erotic Writing
Tuesday 8th November 8pm-10pm
Venue: Penthouse Conference & Events Centre, (above the Loft Lounge)
143 Bromsgrove Street, Birmingham. B5 6RG
Price: £5
Order Hotline: 0844 870 0000
www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Hosted by performance poet, writer and burlesque MC Sophia Blackwell and featuring
celebrated author and stand-up comedienne V.G. Lee, internationally renowned
performance artist Jet Moon, plus other local and London-based acts. Our evening of
Dirty Words will take you through titillating literature in every possible genre, from the
thrillingly erotic to the ticklishly funny, the sublime to the surreal. Featuring poetry, short
stories and performance pieces, and accompanied by Birmingham’s finest burlesque
acts, this is not a night to miss for harlots, hell raisers or just the incurably curious. We’ll
be gentle…
10Th Nov
10Th - 12Th Nov
pERFoRmaNcE.
Fascinating
Aida
Match
Thursday 10th November 7.30pm
Venue: Town Hall Birmingham, Victoria Square, Birmingham. B3 3DQ
Price: £18.50
By Polly Wright
and presented by The Hearth Centre
pERFoRmaNcE.
Plus £2 fee per transaction on all bookings except purchases made in person at the Box Office
Box Office: 0121 780 3333
www.thsh.co.uk
The Cheap Flights Tour. Three times Olivier Award nominated and now a global
internet sensation, Fascinating Aida are still Britain’s best comedy cabaret trio. This
brand new show will include several numbers hot off the press, plus a few old
favourites including their infamous anthem to budget travel, Cheap Flights which has
had over 6 million hits on YouTube. Watch Fascinating Aida’s You Tube smash hit
Cheap Flights at www.fascinatingaida.co.uk
Book your tickets soon, as this show will sell out!
‘See them before you die otherwise your life
will have been meaningless’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘Marvellous’ HHHH DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘The glamour is magnetic, the satire razor-sharp,
the lyrics brilliant... intensely poignant’ THE GUARDIAN
Thursday 10th - Saturday 12th November 7.30pm
Venue: St.Pauls Church, St.Pauls Square, Birmingham. B3 1QZ
Price: £8/6
Jasmin and Helen have been together for a few years now- and everyone says
they're the perfect couple. Neither of them are able to have kids naturally, so they
adopt a child. The adoption is going well - though not at all as they expected.
When Jasmin starts to get a little too friendly with the child’s ‘birth’ aunt, the
cradle starts rocking.
This hard-hitting, but compassionate play sensitively explores the joys and
challenges of lesbian adoption.
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10Th/17Th/24Th Nov
13Th Nov
pERFoRmaNcE.
pERFoRmaNcE.
Acoustics@
VEGed Out
Thursday 10th, 17th, 24th November 6-7pm
Venue: VEGed Out, 7 Fletcher’s Walk, Birmingham. B3 3JG
www.vegedout.co.uk
0121 439 3488
Stressed Out? Time to Chill Out! Come and unwind after work with SHOUT’s early
evening acoustic sessions from some of the Midlands’ leading female singer
songwriters, completely UNPLUGGED and LIVE!
Eeek (10th Nov): Hailing from the Midlands, breathing a sense of freshness into the
female acoustic music scene. With mellifluous, soulful vocals and a widely inspired,
articulate and influential guitar, the combination has led them to extensive
local/national success and interest.
i AM AMiTY (17th Nov): Wolverhampton born Amy Forrester, a self-taught singersong writer takes ‘going it alone’ to a whole new level. Honest music that makes you
want to laugh, cry and tap your toes.
Cat Chinn (24th Nov): Highly talented as a singer and
guitarist, Cat has already been performing her own
acoustic songs for the last 10 years. With a distinctive
voice that unusually melds strength with sensitivity, her
performances draw you in to really listen to what she has
to sing.
Sunday 13th November 7.30pm
Venue: Birmingham Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham. B3 3DQ
Price: £22.50
Plus £2 fee per transaction on all bookings except purchases made in person at the Box Office.
Box Office: 0121 780 3333
www.thsh.co.uk
FREE EvENTs
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An evening
with
Janis Ian
Veteran Grammy Award-winning US folk songstress Janis Ian comes to Town Hall.
Janis’s songs have inspired audiences for over three decades, from her 1967 debut, to
classics such as Between The Lines and albums up to Folk Is The New Black and
Best of Janis Ian - The Autobiography Collection. Her songs have been recorded and
performed by a list of artists including Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield, Joan Baez and
Roberta Flack. Enjoy this concert from an absorbing performer.
16Th Nov
18Th Nov
pERFoRmaNcE.
Laughing
Cows
Comedy
Night
Call
My Puff
Wednesday 16th November Doors Open at 7.30pm - 8pm start
Venue: Penthouse Conference & Events Centre,
(above Loft Lounge)143 Bromsgrove Street,
Birmingham. B5 6RG
Tickets £8/£6
Available from: www.wegottickets.com
Friday 18th November 7.30pm
Venue: The Library Theatre, Birmingham Central Library,
Chamberlain Square, Birmingham. B3 3HQ
Price: £7/£5
Performing at a special Laughing Cows show alongside resident Laughing Cows MC
Maureen Younger, will be Kings Heath’s very own favourite housewife, Mrs Barbara
Nice. Also performing will be Isma Almas, Winner of The First Laugh, Sheffield
Comedy Festival and Rosie Wilby.
Polari & The Lost Language Of Queerdom.
MAUREEN YOUNGER
‘More than compere, more than host’
WWW.GINGERBEER.CO.UK
pERFoRmaNcE.
Vada the Omi! Munge! Eek, Lallies. What on earth does it all mean? A special live
edition of Call My Bluff - with a difference. Join celebrity panellists David Hoyle and
Margi Clarke, compere Terry Titter, and Birmingham’s own Twiggy and Steve Ball,
for this riotous panel show.
Presented in association with
MRS BARBARA NICE
‘Imagine a hybrid between Mrs. Merton and Victoria Wood’ THE TIMES
ROSIE WILBY
‘Hilarious from start to finish’
INSIDE COMEDY
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17Th-26Th Nov
pERFoRmaNcE.
Gay Birmingham,
Back to Back
Thursday 17th - Saturday 19th & Tuesday 22nd - Saturday 26th November
Evening Performances 6.30pm & 8pm
Matinee Performances 12pm, 2pm & 5pm (19 & 26 Nov, no evening performances)
Venue: Back to Back Housing, 55-63 Hurst Street, Birmingham. B5 4TE
Price: £10 (Plus £1.95 booking fee)
Tickets: 0844 249 1895 (PRE BOOKING ESSENTIAL)
Come and delve into Birmingham’s hidden gay past, as Women & Theatre present live
performances within the National Trust Back to Back Housing on Hurst Street. Gay
Birmingham, Back to Back uncovers the lost histories of Birmingham’s queer people
from the 1850s - 1970s.
1840s:
Meet Charles, a manual labourer, Birmingham born and bred, who spent most of his life
in institutions, ending up in All Saints Asylum for ‘committing unnatural acts’.
1920s:
Meet Fred ‘Freda’ Barnes: Saltley-born butchers boy turned Music Hall Megastar;
flamboyant, disgraced and forgotten.
(1 performance contact us for details)
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1940s:
Meet Annette, wife and mother, as she looks back on meeting the love of her life in
wartime inner city Birmingham. The memory lingers on...
1970s:
Meet Leila, a young woman from 2011 searching to find evidence of Someone Like Her
in the 1970’s. What can she piece together from the snippets she finds in the old tailors
shop?
Each performance lasts approximately 1 hour, and please note that the audience will be
moving around and standing for the duration.
19Th Nov
19Th Nov
pERFoRmaNcE.
pERFoRmaNcE.
Queering
The
Portrait
Just
Us
Gays
With David Hoyle
Saturday 19th November 10pm til late
Venue: Subway City, 27 Water Street Old Snow Hill, Birmingham. B3 1HL
Price: £6
Saturday 19th November
Venue: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery,
Chamberlain Square, Birmingham. B3 3DH
£5 - please note places are limited so booking is essential.
Booking: 0121 303 2834
www.bmag.org.uk
Following on from the successful Queering the Museum at Birmingham Museum and
Art gallery in SHOUT 2010, we continue our collaboration by bringing David Hoyle, one
of England’s true avant-guardians and part-time art historian who performs with a tour
around the galleries. David will give us his personal insight into some of the nation’s
finest paintings. Prepare to be part of this promenade ‘performance’, where David will
re-interpret and re-appropriate the portraits in his own inimitable and hilarious style.
The JUG @ Subway City. Step back in time into one of Birmingham’s greatest
institutions, The JUG, a nightclub spanning the late 70s to the mid 90s which was
renowned for its water garden, plastic patio furniture and its owner, the inimitable
Laurie Williams.
Join us as we recreate its unique atmosphere through live performance and pay
homage to this legendary club. So take your shoes off the sofas, leave your
inhibitions at the door and for one last time “Let’s get back to disco!”
A Homotopia commission in association
with National Museums Liverpool.
Times to be confirmed – see festival website for details.
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22Nd Nov
24Th Nov
pERFoRmaNcE.
pERFoRmaNcE.
Gender
Nuances
Get Your
Docs OFF!
Hosted by Joey Hateley
AKA The Gender Joker
Thursday 24th November 9pm til late
Venue: Old Moseley Arms, Tindal Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham. B12 9QU
Tuesday 22nd November 6-9pm
Venue: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of
Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham. B15 2TS
www.barber.org.uk
0121 414 7333
FREE EvENT
We invite visitors of any sexual preference to explore the depiction of gender in art
through time. The event takes inspiration from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts’
painting, Domenico Beccafumi’s Reclining Nymph, which shows a figure with a
woman’s head, yet with a very masculine torso and limbs. Dressing up is encouraged
for this event - although not compulsory - and will follow the theme of Romanticism.
Meanwhile in the foyer, Joey Hateley AKA The Gender Joker takes you on a journey
through songs you know and love and then twists them, so you can never listen to
them in the same way again!
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FREE EvENT
Do you remember the early Birmingham Women's scene, lurking in back rooms
of Balsall Heath pubs?
Relive your youth at the ‘Old Mo’ with a retro women's disco featuring the best
of the 60's, 70's and 80's! Glam rock, disco fever, new romantic, punk, indie,
electropop, ska, new wave, reggae, and occasional surprises.
Featuring a live performance from queer-feminist electro-punk musician
Ste McCabe.
Talk.
11Th Nov
Flames,
Sapphists,Tribades
And Separatists:
Italian
‘Lesbian’
Literature
Professor Charlotte Ross
with live performance by Paola Cavallin
Friday 11th November 6pm-8pm
Venue: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham. B15 2TS
0121 414 7333
www.barber.org.uk
FREE EvENT
While ‘lesbian’ literature in English grows ever stronger and more
popular, we hear a lot less about representations of female samesex desire in other cultures. This talk gives an overview of Italian
literature that includes ‘lesbian’ characters. The talk is preceded
with a live performance by performance artist Paola Cavallin of
Welcome to Lesbiland, a satire in light of the political situation in
Italy: the culture decline, the continuous attacks by the Vatican
against LGBT people and the growing of far-right movements.
15Th Nov
Talk.
The Power of
Flesh - From
Beefcake to
Billboard
Rob Gibb
Tuesday 15 November 7pm-8.30pm
Venue: Eastside Projects, Heathmill Lane, Birmingham. B9 4AR
FREE EvENT
Without the 1950s ‘Physique Culture Magazines’ we would not have the
homoerotic fashion advertising that we now have. In the McCarthy era it was still
possible to be chemically castrated just for being gay. Rob Gibb explores how
people like Bob Mizer and Bruce Bellas were actively selling magazines that
promoted Physical Culture – one of the few outlets for homoerotic imagery, and
how the youth of the 60's counter culture became the art directors, photographers
and designers of the advertising we use today.
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DIARY
Date
Event
Activity
Venue
Time
Price
3rd Nov
SHOUT Opening Event
Social/Performance
mac
7pm-8.30pm
3rd Nov
Queer Cabaret
Performance
mac
9pm
£10/7
4th Nov
Stevenage
Performance
mac
8pm
£10/7
5th Nov
Cruising, Clubbing, F**king
Performance
mac
8pm
£10/7
6th Nov
A celebration of this year’s
Black History Month
Film/Discussion/Performance
mac
Various - see p5
Various - see p5
3rd - 27th Nov
A Spot of b)other
Visual Arts
mac
9am-11pm
3rd - 27th Nov
Modern Lesbian
Visual Arts
mac
9am-11pm
3rd - 26th Nov
Living My Life
Visual Arts
New Queen Elizabeth Hospital
7th - 23rd Nov
Imagining Intimacy
Visual Arts
Article Gallery
10th Nov 30th Jan
Our Lives
Visual Arts
Various - see p8
8th Nov
Dirty Words:
A Night Of Erotic Writing
Performance
Penthouse Conference
& Events Centre
8pm-10pm
£5
10th Nov
Fascinating Aida
Performance
Town Hall Birmingham
7.30pm
£18.50
10th - 12th Nov
Match
Performance
St Pauls Church
7.30pm
£8/6
10th/17th/
24th Nov
Acoustics @ VEGed Out
Performance
VEGed Out
6pm-7pm
13th Nov
An Evening with Janis Ian
Performance
Town Hall Birmingham
7.30pm
£22.50
7.30pm (8pm start)
£8/6
FREE
FREE
FREE
FREE
10am-6pm
FREE
FREE
FREE
16th Nov
Laughing Cows Comedy Night
Performance
& Events Centre
17th-19th/
22nd-26th Nov
Gay Birmingham,
Back to Back
Performance
Back To Back Housing
Various - see p12
£10
18th Nov
Call My Puff
Performance
The Library Theatre
7.30pm
£7/5
19th Nov
Queering The Portrait
with David Hoyle
Performance
Birmingham Museum
& Art Gallery
19th Nov
Just Us Gays
Performance
Subway City
10pm til late
22nd Nov
Gender Nuances
Performance
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
6pm-9pm
FREE
24th Nov
Get Your Docs OFF!
Performance
Old Moseley Arms
9pm til late
FREE
16
£5
£6
Event
Activity
Venue
Time
11th Nov
Italian ‘Lesbian’ Literature
Talk
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
6pm-8pm
FREE
15th Nov
The Power of Flesh From Beefcake To Billboard
Talk
Eastside Projects
7pm-8.30pm
FREE
21st Nov
Queer Theology
Talk
VEGed Out
7pm-8.30pm
FREE
23rd Nov
An Audience with April Ashley
Talk
Adrian Boult Hall
7.30pm-9pm
£15
12th Nov
BGSO Concert
Your Shout
Adrian Boult Hall
7pm-9pm
£10/8 or £12/10 otd
12th Nov
Brum BiFest
Your Shout
Nightingale Club
11am-5pm
FREE
13th Nov
Wilkommen! Bienvenue!
Welcome!
Your Shout
Fox Bar
3pm - 6pm
FREE
19th Nov
Acting Out@Shout Present
Forbidden Fruits
Your Shout
The Wellington
8pm
FREE
26th Nov
Pink Sou’westers Masked Ball
Your Shout
& Events Centre
8.30pm-1am
£12.50 or £15 otd
30th Oct 20th Nov
Ballroom Dance Classes
Your Shout
mac
3pm - 5pm (Sundays)
£5/3
13th Nov
Mask Making Workshop
Your Shout
mac
12 noon - 3pm
£7.50/5
12th Nov
Life Gets Better Together
Wolverhampton Weekender
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
11am-4pm
FREE
12th Nov
Steven Paul Davies Presents
Out At The Movies
Wolverhampton Weekender
Light House
7.15pm
FREE
14th Oct
Alan Hollinghurst
Pre Shout Event
Ikon Gallery
7.30pm
£7/5
16th Oct
Life Above All
Pre Shout Event
mac
2pm
£6/4
16th Oct
REP Butcher
Pre Shout Event
Old Rep Theatre
2pm
@shoutfestival
Price
DIARY
Date
FREE
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23Rd Nov
21sT Nov
Talk.
Talk.
An
audience
with
Queer
Theology
April
Ashley
Hosted by Rev Chris Dowd
Wednesday 23rd November 7.30pm-9pm
Venue: Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place,
Fletchers Walk, Birmingham. B3 3HG
Price: £15
Monday 21 November, 7pm-8.30pm
Venue: VEGed Out, 7 Fletcher’s Walk, Birmingham. B3 3JG
FREE EvENT
Polyamory, Dark Rooms, S&M and beyond... with the advent of Queer Theory
and the rising confidence of the Queer Faith Community, a new way of looking at
religion has evolved called Queer Theology. Instead of pleading for tolerance from
the Church, Queer Theology simply asks; who are you to tell me that I’m bad?
Rev Chris Dowd is pastor of Journey MCC and is currently researching
a doctorate at Birmingham University on Queer Theology.
Miss April Ashley will be in Birmingham for a special SHOUT appearance
presenting recollections of her life. April is one of the most important and well
known figures in the UK transgender community. Born in Liverpool in 1935 as
George Jamieson, she lived in Liverpool for all of her childhood. In 1960 she was
one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery in Morocco. April
developed a successful career as a model even appearing in Vogue.
Outed in 1961 as a transexual by the Sunday People, her marriage and
subsequent divorce in 1970 removed the ability of trans people to acquire full legal
status in their required gender and it was not until the passing of the Gender
Recognition Act 2004, that this was satisfactorily resolved. Living for many years in
the South of France she looks forward to this special event.
A once in a lifetime event and not to be missed.
in association with SHOUT.
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12Th Nov
12Th Nov
YouR shouT.
YouR shouT.
BGSO
Concert
Brum
BiFest
Saturday 12 November 7pm-9pm
Venue: Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place,
Fletchers Walk, Birmingham. B3 3HG
Price: £10/£8 or £12/£10 on the door
Available from www.bgso.org.uk
or from www.birmingham-box.co.uk / 0121 245 445
Saturday 12th November 11am-5pm
Nightingale Club (Middle Floor), Kent Street, Birmingham. B5 6RD
Information: brum.bifest.org
Phone: 07946 821394 (please leave a voicemail)
Or email: [email protected]
Join the Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra for a fun evening of popular classical
music. This year’s SHOUT festival performance includes Bizet's rousing L’Arlesienne
and the magnificent Bolero by Ravel, famous as the soundtrack to Torvill and Dean's
medal-winning performance at the 1984 Winter Olympics. As always, we’ll be
presenting an eclectic programme including popular favourites and undiscovered
gems. BGSO’s performances are always exciting, moving and seek to educate and
inspire performers and audience-members alike.
FREE EvENT
Like men? Like women? Like both? Come along to Brum BiFest: a one-day gettogether for bi people and our allies. BiFest is about celebrating and exploring
bisexuality in the form of bi-friendly surroundings where there are workshops,
discussion sessions and chill out spaces.
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19Th Nov
13Th Nov
YouR shouT.
Wilkommen!
Bienvenue!
Welcome!
Sunday 13th November 3pm-6pm
Venue: Fox Bar, Lower Essex Street, Birmingham. B5 6SN
www.foxbar.co.uk
The Fox book group invites musical aficionados and members of LGBT book
groups from across the West Midlands to join them for an afternoon discussion
and film screening. The group will be discussing Christopher Isherwood’s semiautobiographical novel, Goodbye to Berlin followed at 4.30pm by a screening of
the 1972 Oscar Winning adaption Cabaret starring Liza Minelli.
Forbidden
Fruits
Venue: The Wellington, 72 Bristol Street, Birmingham. B5 7AH
FREE EvENT
FREE EvENT
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YouR shouT.
Acting Out presents a variety of short pieces of drama and also a showing of the
group's first ever film.
26Th Nov
YouR shouT.
Pink Sou’westers
Masked Ball
Shout Closing Event
Sunday 30th October - 20th November 3pm - 5pm (each Sunday)
Ballroom Dance Classes
Saturday 26th November 8.30pm-1am
Venue: Penthouse Conference & Events Centre, (above the Loft Lounge)
143 Bromsgrove Street, Birmingham. B5 6RG
Price: £15 on the door / £12.50 in advance
Tickets available from www.theticketsellers.co.uk
and in person from Loft Lounge, Village Inn, by post or at Pink Sou’westers events.
Buy tickets early to avoid disappointment as guest numbers will be limited. All LGBTs and
guests welcome.
Brush up your steps with our professional ballroom dance teacher at the Pink
Sou'westers Ballroom Dance classes each Sunday from 30th October to 20th
November. Likely to cover the Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep, Cha Cha Cha, Rumba
and a few ‘specials’.
Price: £5/3
Sunday 13th November 12 noon - 3pm
Dance the night away dressed in all your finery at the Pink Sou’westers Grand
Venetian-style Masked Ball at the prestigious Penthouse Suite (above the Loft
Lounge).
Dancing to suit all tastes including old time ballroom, latin, salsa and ‘modern’. The
dress code is evening dress or costume (from the period of the first masked balls in
Venice). Admittance only with a mask! Hire, buy, borrow or create your own at our
mask making workshop (13th November).
Mask Making Workshop
Get ready for the Pink Sou’westers Masked Ball, (26th November), by making your
own unique personalised mask. Mask making workshop led by a professional
carnival artist. You will design and create your own individual mask to take home
and wear at the ball. All materials supplied.
Price: £7.50/5
Pink Sou'westers offer accessible, inclusive, non-scene, out of town (mostly), affordable events and activities for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people and their guests. More information on all events from
Paddy on 07855 624649 or Lesley on 07976 274271 [email protected] or see pinksouwesters.blogspot.com or on Facebook.
@shoutfestival
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SHOUT’S
Wolverhampton
11Th & 12Th
12ThNov
Nov
12Th Nov
Weekender
SHOUT presents work in
Wolverhampton, partnering
with the Light House Media
Centre and Wolverhampton
LGBT network.
Including ‘Life Gets Better
Together’ a celebration of LGBT
life in the city, at the
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, a talk
by Steven Paul Davies author of
Out at the Movies, and films
‘Weekend’ and an outrageous
Sing-Along a Wizard of Oz with
Mrs Barbara Nice at the
Lighthouse Media Centre - see
the film section of this brochure
for more details.
Life Gets
Better
Together
Venue: Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton. WV1 1DU
Reaching out across boundaries, to include the
whole spectrum of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people from all walks of life. This event
aims to help to embed equality into the fabric of
Wolverhampton. The day will include art and media
displays, entertainment, stalls from community
groups, workshops, fun activities and other
opportunities to get involved.
BoTh FREE EvENT’s
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Steven Paul
Davies Presents
Out at the
Movies
Saturday 12th November 7.15pm
Venue: Light House. The Chubb Buildings,
Fryer Street, Wolverhampton. WV1 1HT
Information: 01902 716055
www. light-house.co.uk
Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the
community's journey from persecution to
emancipation to acceptance. Politicised dramas like
Victim in the 60s, The Naked Civil Servant in the 70s,
and the AIDS cinema of the 80s have given way in
recent years to films which celebrate a vast array of
gay life-styles. Gay films have undergone a major shift,
from the fringe to the mainstream and 2005's
Academy Awards were dubbed ''the Gay Oscars''
with gongs going to Brokeback Mountain, Capote and
Transamerica.
pRE shouT EvENTs
FREE ENTRY
Alan
Hollinghurst
Life,
Above All
REP
Butcher
Friday 14th October 7.30pm
Venue: Ikon Gallery,
1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace,
Birmingham. B1 2HS
Price: £7 / £5 concessionary price
Box Office: www.birminghambookfestival.org
0121 446 3232 (via The MAC)
Sunday 16th October 2pm
Venue: mac birmingham, Cannon
Hill Park, 2 Russell Road. B12 9QH
Price: £6/ £4
Box Office: 0121 446 3232 (via mac)
www.birminghambookfestival.org
Sunday 16th October 2pm
Venue: Old Rep Theatre, Station Street,
Birmingham. B5 4DY
The Stranger’s Child: In the late summer of 1913 the
aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at
Two Acres’, the home of his close Cambridge friend
George Sawle. The weekend will be one of
excitements and confusions for all the Sawles. Alan
Hollinghurst is the author of several novels, including
The Swimming Pool Library, The Folding Star, The
Spell and The Line of Beauty which won the Man
Booker Prize 2004.
FREE EvENT
Film screening and Allan Stratton Q&A. Canadian
writer Allan Stratton’s novel Life, Above All (Chanda’s
Secrets) is a tense and moving story of one girl’s
struggle to rescue the people she loves from the
tragedy of AIDS. It has been published to critical
acclaim in over thirty territories around the world. Allan
will introduce a screening of Life, Above All, and
answer your questions about the people he met in sub
Sahara while working on the novel and film. Supported
by Canada Council for the Arts.
FREE EvENT
Rehearsed reading of Butcher, by Carl Miller.
The Irresistible Fall and Inimitable Rise of Fred Barnes,
Birmingham’s Musical Star by Carl Miller. A
contemporary, comical, musical story. The
extraordinary true story of an extraordinary life. Born
above a butcher's shop in Victorian Saltley, Fred
Barnes rose to become one of the highest paid
musical stars in the country. Flamboyant, gay, and
loved by adoring fans, he squandered it all on drink and a few sailors. The event also has a reading of
In Extremis by Neil Bartlett.
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ACCESS
SYMBOLS
KEY
THANK
YOU
We would like to thank all the people who have supported the SHOUT Festival
in its third year. A full list of supporters can be found on the festival website.
Audio Transcription
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FESTIVAL
TEAM
FESTIVAL
PARTNERS
Simon Wales Festival Chair
Birmingham Museum
and Art Gallery
BSL Interpritation
Disabled Parking
Disabled Toilet
David Viney Producer
Guide Dogs
Curatorial Team
Rob Gibb
Induction Loop
Hannah Phillips
Steve Ball
Infrared Induction Loop
Steering Committee
Large Print
Andy Horn
Steph Keeble
Dhiren Katwa
Polly Wright
Chris Brown
Vivienne Harrison
Steps
MEDIA
PARTNERS
Wheelchair Access
Larna Gallier
FUNDERS
SPONSORS
This brochure is
available in large
print on request
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Birmingham’s
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Queer Culture
For full festival listings visit...
Introduction
It’s a pleasure and privilege to programme films for the third SHOUT festival.
Working within constraints of budgets, time and the simple matter of which
films will actually be available for the festival dates is always an enjoyable
challenge. The biggest challenge, however, in my opinion, is the need to
maintain a standard of quality. While I do believe there’s such a thing as a
good and a bad film, this always needs to be qualified by asking ‘does the
film achieve what it sets out to do?’
You can judge for yourselves whether the films I’ve programmed achieve their aims.
I hope that whatever their intentions: raising consciousness, reflecting our lives and
experiences or simply entertaining, all of this years films '’do exactly what they say on
the tin.’
Break My Fall and Buffered work impressively through their micro budgets to reflect
life in contemporary Britain. Anyone, male or female, whose tried to mend a broken
heart will relate to So Hard to Forget from Brazil. Stylishly cool Gigola, set in the
Parisian lesbian scene during the early sixties, promises to be a treat. As does
acclaimed trans drama Tomboy, also from France. Heartbeats, which has been
compared to the work of Wong Kar Wai, will either delight or infuriate with its portrayal
of shallow socialites in present day Quebec .
We’re delighted to present the UK premiere of Other Angels. This maintains the
standards set by recent Turkish cinema being a serious and heartfelt account of life
lived on the margins by transgender people. On a lighter note hilarious German
drama Sasha addresses some important issues with humour. Rent Boys (also
German) and We Were Here, our two feature length documentaries, deal with male
prostitution and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. For the first time this year we’re
running a short film competition. Watch out for the entries, playing alongside each of
our main features. The winner will be announced during the festival.
Tom Pointon, Film Programmer
All Films except Buffering. Certain films subtitled, see listings.
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7Th ocT
Tomboy
Price: £6.50/£4.50
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21sT ocT
14Th ocT
Heartbeats
Break
My Fall
Price: £6.50/£4.50
Friday 21st October 8.30pm
Price: £6.50/£4.50
15
18
Director: Céline Sciamma, France, 2011, 84 mins
French with subtitles
Director: Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2010, 95 mins
French Canadian with subtitles
Director: Kanchi Wichmann, UK, 2011, 107 mins
English
Gender identity and child libido is addressed
sensitively and empathetically in this charming yet
challenging film in which a ten year old girl passes
herself off as a boy. Visiting similar territory to Ma
Vie en Rose and filmed entirely from a child’s
perspective, the superb performances Sciamma
teases from her young cast confirm the director
of Waterlillies as a significant emerging talent.
The tensions, unfulfilled promises and exasperations
of unrequited love are explored by acclaimed young
director Xavier Dolan. Friends Marie and Francis
chase the beautiful Nicolas in an endlessly fabulous
round of parties populated by perfect people.
Reminiscent of Wong Kar Wi (In the Mood for Love)
this sumptuously artful comedy of manners will
delight or infuriate. You’ve been warned!
Three days in the lives of four friends on the
pulsating streets of East London. Girlfriends Lisa
and Sally have a band to pull together and a
birthday to celebrate, yet on one lost, long
weekend their lives will change forever. With a
pumping soundtrack from rising stars of the UK
indie scene this impressive and edgy debut finally
brings the emo scene onto the big screen.
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28Th ocT
Children
of God
Price: £6.50/£4.50
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9Th Nov
5Th Nov
15
Rent Boys
Buffering
Price: £4.50
Wednesday 9th November 7.30pm
Venue: The Public, New Street, West
Bromwich, West Midlands. B70 7PG
Price: £4.50
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Director: Kareem Mortimer, USA, 2010, 104 mins
English
Director: Rosa von Praunheim, Germany, 2011, 83 mins
German, Romanian with subtitles
A 2010 Bahamian romantic drama film by director
and screenwriter Kareem Mortimer. It tells the story
of two young Bahamian men who fall in love with
each other and portrays the homophobia of the
Bahamian society. The film also deals with themes
of bisexuality, romantic drama film.
Few documentaries have illuminated the twilight
world of male prostitution as well as Rent Boys. By
telling the stories of five young men at their work in
bars, porn movie theatres and on the street Von
Praunheim shows their reasons, their stories and
above all, their strong will to survive in this
impressive and informative work. Avoiding clichés
and judgements, the film nonetheless uncovers
some disturbing and harrowing stories...
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Directors: Darren Flaxstone & Christian Martin,
UK, 2011, 94 mins
English
With: Conner McKenzie, Alex Anthony
& Jessica Matthews
Saucy sex comedy in which gay couple Seb and
Aaron hit on a new way to pay off their spiralling
debts: going into the amateur porn business.
When their friend Jem arrives and suggests
bringing in a girl will bring in even more money,
things become even more complicated. Working
impressively through the challenges of a micro
budget this funny and entertaining feature brings
the seventies sex comedy into the 21st century.
11Th Nov
Sing Along Treading
The Wizard On
Of Oz
Eggshells
Venue: Light House,
The Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street,
Wolverhampton. WV1 1HT
Price: £8
U
Director: Victor Flemming, USA, 1939, 101 mins
English
Join Mrs Barbara Nice (and Judy Garland) for
an outrageous sing-a-long to this cult camp
classic.
In this charming cult film based on the popular L.
Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her dog Toto
are caught in a tornado's path and somehow
end up in the land of Oz.
12Th Nov
12Th Nov
Weekend
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FREE scREENiNg
Saturday 12th November 8.30pm
Venue: Light House, The Chubb Buildings,
Fryer Street, Wolverhampton. WV1 1HT
Price: £5.80/£4.40
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Director: Andrew Haigh, UK, 2011
English
(2010) UK Short
This is the new anti-bullying film made by Camden
LGBT Forum in association with the Queer Youth
Network and Halogen Entertainment. The film was
made possible by funding from the Emmanuel Vincent
Harris Trust and is the only current anti-bullying film to
cover trans issues. The film features interviews with
young people and includes footage filmed in Acland
Burghley School.
On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight
mates, Russell heads out to a nightclub, alone and
on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up
Glen. And so begins a weekend - in bars and in
bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling
stories and having sex - that will resonate
throughout their lives.
Andrew Haigh’s film is a tender unpeeling of the
emotional and psychological layers of two young
men coming into their own.
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14Th Nov
18
UK PREMIERE
Director: Emre Yalgın, Turkey 2010, 84 min
Turkish with subtitles
With: Görkem Kanbolat Arslan, Didem Soylu, Seyhan
Arman, Buse Kılıçkaya
Sanem, a novice sex worker, lives with three other
transgender women in Istanbul. When the
handsome Gokhan moves next door, the two
gradually become close and will have to confront
their expectations and prejudices. Following on
from recent acclaimed Turkish films such as Head
On and Edge of Heaven and using real life
transgender actors, this brave and
uncompromising first feature is a moving and
powerful account of lives lived on the very margins.
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5
The Queer
Art of
Cinema
Sasha
(Saša)
Other
Angels
Monday 14th November 8.30pm
Price: £6.50/£4.50
19Th Nov
15Th Nov
Tuesday 15th November 8.30pm
Price: £6.50/£4.50
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Director: Dennis Todorović, Germany 2010, 102 min
German with subtitles
With: Saša Kekez, Željka Preksavec, Pedja Bjelac,
Jasin Mjumjunov, Yvonne Yung-Hee, Tim Bergmann
Quirky coming of age comedy drama that has
won several awards. 19 year old Sasha struggles
to come out against the backdrop of his bigoted
family. Heartbroken when his beloved piano
teacher leaves Cologne and following a failed
audition he vows never to play again. However,
a consoling phone call from the teacher changes
his mind and causes a hilarious chain of events
when all sorts of closet doors are
unceremoniously opened...
www.getreadytoshout.org.uk
Venue: Birmingham Institute of
Art & Design, Margaret Street,
Birmingham. B3 3BX
Price: £5
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Director: Victor Flemming, USA, 1939, 101 mins
English
Given the interest in Queer Cinema that has
developed since the Queer Film Festivals of the
1990s this symposium extends the notion of
what constitutes Queer Cinema into an
exploration not only of representation but also
of the aesthetic codes and modes of
production that emerge from a queerness or
queer sensibility. This is queerly apparent not
only in mainstream queer film but in the rise of
20Th Nov
Kill the
Habit
social media and the self-representations that
now populates the internet. With this in mind the
symposium will address the potential of queer
acts and queer visualisations in such contexts.
Price: £4.50
Speakers:
Henry Rogers – Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at
Birmingham City University and project organiser
Director: Laura Neri, US, 2010, 80 mins
With: Lili Mirojnik, Katerina Moutsatsos
Michele Aaron -Senior Lecturer in American and
Canadian Studies at Birmingham University
Professor Fabio Cleto - teaches English Literature
at the University of Bergamo in Italy
Jose Arroyo - Lecturer, Department of Film &
Television Studies, Warwick University
20Th Nov
Gigola
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Killing her drug dealer Lyle after he steals bail money
earmarked for her loser brother Frank, Galia calls on
her best friend Soti to help. Finding themselves in
Lyle’s apartment with his fiery wife who, it turns out,
hated his guts, the three women must somehow
dispose of the body. Not for the easily offended, this
politically incorrect first feature merges screwball
comedy into a lesbian love story with hilarious results.
Sunday 20th November 5.30pm
Price: £6.50/£4.50
15
Director: Laure Charpentier, France, 2010, 98 mins
French with subtitles
With: Lou Doillon, Marisa Paredes, Marisa Berenson,
Eduardo Noriega, Thierry Lhermitte
The stylish and sexy Parisian lesbian underworld
of the early sixties is brought vividly to life in this
star studded thriller. Evoking wonderfully an era
when femmes were femmes, butches paid for
everything and sex was a way of life we follow the
Gigola of the title as she plays her older admirers,
young girlfriends and gangster pimps off one
another.
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22Nd Nov
So Hard
To Forget
Tuesday 22nd November 8.30pm
Price: £6.50/£4.50
18
Director: Malu de Martino Brazil, 2011, 98 mins
Portuguese with subtitles
With: Ana Paula Arosio, Murilo Rosa, Natalia Lage
English professor Julia, trying to mend her broken
heart, is thrown into another world when she
moves into a beach side house with her gay
friend Hugo. It isn’t long before someone new
comes on the scene and Julia has to make up
her mind if she’ll ever be able to love again...
This delightfully understated yet all too honest
drama is sure to resonate with anyone whose
found themselves dumped.
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30Th Nov
25Th Nov
Sing Along
Calamity
Jane
We Were
Here
Price: £8
Wednesday 30th November 6pm
Price: £6.50/£4.50
U
Director: David Butler, USA, 1953
Join Mrs Barbara Nice (and Doris Day) for a
gender bending sing-a-long to this cult musical.
In the wild-west outpost of Deadwood City, 1876,
we find the sharpshooting tomboy, Calamity Jane
surrounded by cowboys, townsfolk, and the
famous Wild Bill Hickok.
Dress Code: Cowboys and Cowgirls (not essential,
but fun).
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Director: David Weissman, Bill Weber, US, 2011
With: Bobbi Campbell, Cleve Jones
We Were Here weaves together archival
footage with reminiscences from those who
lived through the onset of the AIDS epidemic in
San Francisco during the early eighties. While
almost an entire generation of gay men lost their
lives to the disease, this powerful documentary
nonetheless shows the extraordinary resilience
and solidarity of people faced with the most
appalling suffering. Rivetingly shocking the film
relates how, faced with an indifferent
government response, the gay community
mobilised itself to action in the face of a
terrifying onslaught.

Birmingham`s Festival Of Queer Culture

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