Homotopia is an international LGBT festival held annually in Liverpool, England and in various parts of Europe. The festival takes place every November and features a mix of theater, dance, film, photography, art, cabaret and debates at various places in Liverpool and other European cities.
Homotopia is not a profit-limited company with its headquarters in Liverpool and is the only lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans joint organization in the north of England.
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Homotopia was launched as a pilot project on November 1, 2004, in response to Liverpool's successful bid to become the Capital of European Culture. The festival is commissioned by the Creative Company's Corporate Culture Project of Liverpool, and begins life as a ten-day, film, theater, photography, art, comedy, storytelling and heritage program designed to unite artists. Fully supported by Liverpool City Council, this initiative is hailed as a sign of "growing maturity" of the city en route to Capital of Culture and as an opportunity for gay and lesbian communities to play an important part in this rich and diverse region. cultural life.
The first event was attended by about 2,750 people, but the following year the number of visitors has doubled, in part due to the high quality of guests featured including leading gay rights activist Peter Tatchell.
In 2008, the festival has showcased the largest retrospective of Tom of Finland in the UK as well as the North-West Vogue Ball and the number of visitors has risen to over 12,000. City leaders praised the celebration as the culmination of the cultural calendar of Liverpool.
2009 marks a new chapter for Homotopia after a youth visit to Poland helped establish a new international partnership and was instrumental in the development of an international festival of art programs and emerging social justice work. The journey inspired the anti-homophobic documentary and education package, which was launched into 100 schools and youth centers in Liverpool, gaining important support from gay Hollywood actor Sir Ian McKellen.
Since 2010, in addition to offering a diverse Liverpool schedule, Homotopia's work has grown internationally and attracted spectators in various functions in Turkey, Finland, Sweden and Russia.
In 2011, Homotopia was granted the status of the National Portfolio by the Arts Council of England.
In 2017 Homotopia collaborated with the Museum of Liverpool to compose a large exhibition that saw 50 years of LGBT life in the city. "Tales from the City" will run until 31st March 2019.
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Past Festivals
2017: "Exemption 50"
October 26 - November 26, 2017. Over 50 events including:
- The Vaudevillians: Jinkx Monsoon & amp; Main Scales
- IKON: Le Gateau Chocolat
- The great exhibition at the Liverpool Museum "Tales from the City" features a collection of tokens, clothing and ephemera that chart LGBT history in Liverpool over the last 50 years.
- Sign out: Sexuality, Gender, and Identity at Walker Art Gallery
- Liverpool's son: Gerry Potter
- Medea, Written in Rage
- Do You Think If I Smoke? Fenella Fielding memoirs
- You Have Changed
- Maggi Hambling: In Conversation
- David Hoyle: Diamond
- British Prime Minister: Whitaker Malem Pop Artisans Exhibition
2011: "Sailing for the Arts"
1-30 November 2011. More than 30 events including:
- UK Premiere: Dykeotomy
- English Premiere: Berlin-Yogyakarta: From Hitler's Terror to Current Human Rights
- Lipstick Cancer by Ben Youdan & amp; No Narcissus by Dawn Brayford
- Really excited! Photo exhibition by Andy Green
- World Premiere: Joseph Mercier Company - Sailing, Clubbing, Shit
- Rock Hudson: Foreigner Dark and Handsome
- Holding Sex Between Men: 1850 - 1971
- World Premiere: Savage Style: costume from Lily Savage wardrobe
- World Premiere: UPS PIN
- 'Male Dance Trilogy'
- Lavender Girl
- A 50th Taste Of Honey Check
- Earthfall presents: At Swim, Two Boys
- The Featherstonehaughs presents EDITS
- In Friend's Friends' Literature Company
- Face to face: Audience with David Hoyle
- 'Hero Underclass' featuring La John Joseph
- A Hard Rain by John Bradfield & amp; Martin Hooper
- Tranny Hotel - Liverpool
- Miss Liverpool Alternatives
- The UK Guide To Disabled Displays
- Homotopia Short Film Night @ FACTS
- Tomboy (movie 2011)
- Live Loud & amp; Proud
- Youth Film Night at FACT
- Viewers with April Ashley
2010: "Love Conquers All"
1-30 November 2010. More than 50 events including:
- Mother/Child by Jeffrey Solomon
- Factory Floor - new work night by Clare Duffy, Abi Lake, Louie Jenkins, and Carrie Whittaker, Caroline Wilson and Emily Underwood-Lee
- Guillermo GÃÆ'³mez-PeÃÆ' Â ± a & amp; La Pocha Nostra: Corpo Ilicito
- Richard Haynes: Listen to My Secret Fetish
- UK Premiere: Giselle, or I'm Too Horned To Become a Prince.
- Crotch by Keith Hennessey
- Factory
- Man-made
- Lavender Club
- Call My Puff with David Hoyle, Doreen Kum Kwik, Margi Clarke. Compiled by Terry Titter.
- Young Planet - Gerry Potter & amp; Jay Bernard
- Stella Duffy - Reading from Herodora's new historical novel; actress, queen, prostitute
- Afternoon Tea With Armistead Maupin
- Gay Thursday: In Lust A Presentation by the Center for Cultural Confusion
- Make Your Work Published with Gerry Potter, Stella Duffy, Jay Bernard, and Claire Campbell
- World Premiere of Pink: Past & amp; Present - Liverpool LGBT heritage documentary
- The Powerhouse Of Supermen: Does gay culture exclude 'otherness'?
- Midnight Mass: Peaches Christ features the 'All About Evil' International Show
- Queering The Portrait
- Right to Love - Social justice campaign and anti-hate crime, including Project Triangle
- Big Gay Kiss Exhibition
- Sex, Drag, Rock'n'Roll
- Big Gay Prom
- Great Gay Night At
2009: "Homotopia Not Homophobia"
1-30 November 2009. More than 30 events including:
- Girls Go Down - pop, electro, retro, indie, 1980s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s lesbians
- My Turkish Craze By Stan Jones & amp; Sarah Atkins-Navas
- My Photography World Insights, My Story
- Extraordinary Images by New York's Laurie Lipton
- Chris Von Steiner Exhibition
- Memories of Yankel Feather
- Project Triangle - unique & amp; a social justice initiative in which 12 young people travel to Auschwitz and Warsaw
- The Truant Company presents Caregivers by Billy Cowan
- Sarah Waters: In Conversation
- Your Lau Luppers on Striller Bona: Awakening and fall of Polari college about secret gay man language
- Charlotte Mendelson & amp; Joanna Briscoe
- Clare Summerskill: No Special Orders!
- Lavender girl with Rosie Wilby, Jane Townend (both finalists Nivea Funny Women) Emma Bowley and newcomer local Norma KC.
- UK Premiere: The Invisible Death of Michael - a short film about homophobic murder Michael Causer
- Liverpool Is Burning, The Grand Vogue Ball (Movie)
- Pere Faura, Striptease
- Music in the afternoon with Steve McFarlane
- Little Child Written by Tommy Kearney, Directed by Steve Miller
- Gay Sunday @ FACT Cinema
2008: "From Liverpool With Love"
November 1-30, 2008. More than 50 events including:
- Tom of Finland - the biggest retrospect of the iconic iconic gay man ever exhibited in England
- April Ashley
- Maggi Hambling
- Jake Arnott
- Jackie Kay
- Holly Woodlawn
- The first Grand Vogue Ball in North West, produced by Duckie and House of Suarez
- David Hoyle
2007: "All Things Are Beautiful and Beautiful"
1-19 November 2007. Over 70 events including:
- 'Gay Jackanory' with Patrick Gale, Stella Duffy, Paul Burston, Helen Walsh & amp; others
- Pansy Project
- 'This Way'
- The launch of Homotopia TV - Liverpool's own Queer TV station
- 'Venus as a Boy'
- Amy Lame Mama Cass Family Singers
2006: "A Queer New World"
October 26 - November 18, 2006. Over 70 events including:
- Queercore Launch
- Liverpool Lesbian & amp; Gay Film Festival - over 30 screenings in all cities
- Nigel Charnock and Company
- Fierce and Quarantine
- Bare Bones - dance company performance
- A new masterpiece by the theater company Truant
- The Lavender Club - comedy, music and standing
- Federation super party nightclub
- Special appearance by Wimfest
- Special occasion with Holocaust survivor, Janni Kowalski
- Our Stories Liverpool - Liverpool's LGBT Archive
- The announcement of new media sponsors Gay Times, Q-Soft and Gaydar, Out North West and Real Liverpool
2005: "No place such as Homotopia "
October 31 - November 12, 2005. Over 50 events including:
- A special retrospective exhibit by the Liverpool-born artist TRADEMARK
- 'From Scottie Road to Harvard' by Chloe Poems at Unity Theater, Liverpool
- The Lavender Club - featuring local, national and international artists
- 'Lavender All At Sea' special event at the only British touring theater is just the SS Carroldo ship, featuring the award-winning 'Laramie Project' game, an American story about the murder of Matthew Shepard that symbolizes intolerance around the world. li>
- A series of educational events and topics, in collaboration with international artists Tim Miller and Bridge Markland
- 'Stories from Yester-Queer'
- 'Queer Conversations' with guests from politics, literature and theater including Peter Tatchell's interview
- Especially all women production 'Entartete Muzik' to celebrate lesbian and gay music during Nazi Germany
- Liverpool Lesbian & amp; Gay Film Festival - more than 20 films including 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane', the inaugural show of 'Straight Jacket' and the German documentary 'Men Heroes and Gay Nazis'.
- 'The Queen's Gem' in relation to the Black History Month
2004: Pilot Festival
November 1-11, 2004
- "Gayzin 'Liverpool" - a documentary by local filmmaker Sandi Hughes
- 'It's A Drag' - an exhibit that documents the lives of club players and drags artists in the Liverpool gay scene
- Halo Sailor exhibition - the main collaborations of gay and lesbian artists including Sadie Lee, TrademarkÃ, Â © and Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
- 'Tales From Yester-Queer' - audio archive from lesbian and gay past Liverpool
- Premiere from the Lesbian and Gay Liverpool Film Festival - 12 film screenings, workshops and master classes featuring lesbian and gay filmmakers in various places including FACT, Unity Theater, Liverpool University and The Stanley Theater
- The Lavender Club - Comedy, music and poetry with Lady Sian, Chloe Poems, and Terry Kilkelly
- Bent performance (play)
- Stepford - Performance by Lady Sian
The global impact of the festival
Over the years, Homotopia festivals have established relationships with groups and organizations around the world and its international work includes the following...
- Homotopia 2012, in collaboration with the Finnish Consulate, will develop a new human rights project in St. Petersburg. Petersburg. 'Art As a Social Change' will note the rise of the gay rights movement in Britain and Europe through photos, testimonies and films.
- Homotopia will bring its Tom of Finland exhibition to Kulturhuset, Stockholm in June 2012.
- In 2012, Homotopia launched the world's first 50 IDAHO, a collaboration with 50 of Liverpool's leading companies, organizations and institutions to support action against Homophobia & amp; Transphobia.
- In 2011, Tom from Finland exhibition Homotopia formed part of the official program for Turku European Capital Culture year. It drew the attention of an audience of 90,000 to the Logomo room.
- In November 2011, Tranny Hotel was held in Liverpool as part of the European transgender art festival. This city is one of only 11 cities in Europe that hold this event.
- In December 2010, Homotopia produced a series of interventions, debates, and research culminating with the Pansy Project in Istanbul, Turkey as part of the European Capital of Culture year. Hundreds of pansies are planted to symbolize the ongoing international struggle for LGBT rights and equality.
- In 2009, 12 young people from the Homotopia Project Triangle went to Auschwitz and Warsaw to learn about the Holocaust. A group of young LGBTQ people from KPH Poland traveled to Liverpool to learn from Merseyside Police, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service and Liverpool City Council. The visit inspired a training program for Polish police.
References
External links
- Official Homotopia website
- The strange TV station Homotopia
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