BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6928@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20221101 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20221121 DTSTAMP:20220916T162849Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/homotopia-2022-queer-joy-is-a-pr otest/ SUMMARY:Liverpool: Homotopia 2022: Queer Joy is a Protest DESCRIPTION:Homotopia Festival celebrates Queer Joy \n1-20 November 2022\n Homotopia Festival\, the UK’s longest running annual LGBTQIA+ arts and c ulture festival\, returns to Liverpool this Autumn celebrating and providi ng a platform for artists in theatre\, music\, spoken word\, film\, perfor mance and more. With a theme of Queer Joy Is A Protest\, this year’s fes tival shares stories of trans visibility and allyship\, queer history\, pu nk identity and gender fluidity. Taking place in venues across Liverpool c ity centre\, Homotopia showcases work by LGBT+ artists from inside and out side of the city\, providing a platform for arts and culture through a que er lens.\nThis year’s Artist-in-Residence is Tabby Lamb\, non-binary the atre maker\, director and performer (Happy Meal\, SINCE U BEEN GONE\, A Lo ve Letter to Us\, Polaris\, Darling). Fresh with rave reviews and a Fringe First award from Edinburgh Festival\, Tabby Lamb hosts a series of events throughout Homotopia.\nTea for T4T will see Tabby Lamb and friends celebr ate Liverpool’s trans community with high tea. Exclusively for trans and nonbinary people and their close allies\, T4T stands for Trans 4 Trans an d is slang for sexual or romantic attraction between two transgender peopl e.\nQueer the City walking tour with Tabby Lamb and Andrew Bullock (Head o f Touring Exhibitions at National Museums Liverpool and Board member of Ho motopia) will showcase the known\, unknown\, famous\, infamous and untold stories of LGBTQIA life. Since 2020\, Homotopia’s Queer The City project posed questions on queer space\, visibility and safety within Liverpool. Along side this\, 15 large pieces of public art by LGBTQIA artists will be installed in prominent spots in Liverpool city centre\, along with audio stories\, to explore the queer heart of the city.\nHomotopia Festival retu rns to Unity Theatre with a programme of plays by LGBTQIA playwrights and directors. Premiering in Liverpool\, This Charming Man\, by award-winning Liverpool comedian Sian Davies\, is an exploration of masculinity\, gender and identity from a self-identifying butch woman who has an unhealthy obs ession with The Smiths.\nConfetti is a queer rom-com by by theatre maker a nd producer Will Jackson\, who brought Yours\, Sincerely to Homotopia fest ival in 2021. Woman Hood\, inspired by Sara Ahmed’s book Feminist Living \, is a humorous dance performance exploring different female worlds in fo ur parts created by contemporary dancer Ursula Graber. UTOPIAN (t&\;c ’s apply) is a surrealistic circus pop-culture experience. Join Symoné ’s personal community\, immersed in the setting of a rave.\nQueer Punk i s a Protest will celebrate LGBTQIA+ music featuring Skinny Girl Diet\, pin k suits and Piss Kitti at Quarry.\nWhere are all the lesbians? returns wit h a trans ally edition. Homotopia Festival’s hugely popular\, magical my stery tour exploring dyke history and the representation of queer women in popular culture will feature Lynne Harwood\, director of First Take Liver pool\, Mark Anthony award winning Drag King and Boylesque performer\, Char dine Taylor Stone award-winning Black feminist activist and speaker\, and Marcella Rick neurodiverse theatremaker.\nWith creative workshops\, a fami ly weekender at Bluecoat\, work by Homotopia’s 2022 QueerCore cohort of artists and more the full festival programme is available at www.homotopia .net/festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2022/09/Palaver-festival-scaled.jpg LOCATION:Liverpool\, Water Street\, Liverpool\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406445;-2.992941 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Water Street\, Liverpool\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Liverpool:geo:53.406 445,-2.992941 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR