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SUMMARY:NIGRA COMMUNICATIONS FORUM
DESCRIPTION:NIGRA has moved forward and now hosts a communications forum for all gay groups in Northern Ireland to exchange information and ideas. \nMeetings are held every two months\, and if you would like to attend then drop us an email or give us a phone call.
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/nigra-communications-forum/
LOCATION:LGBT Centre\, 23-31 Waring Street\, Belfast\, Antrim\, BT1 2DX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:LGBTQ
ORGANIZER;CN="NIGRA Comunications forum":MAILTO:dtw.mcfarlane@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241110T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241110T170000
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ Online Book Club: Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy
DESCRIPTION:About Borstal Boy\nFrom Wikipedia: \n \nBorstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young\, fervently idealistic Behan\, who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal\, softening his radical Irish republican stance and warming to his British fellow prisoners.[1] From a technical standpoint\, the novel is chiefly notable for the art with which it captures the lively dialogue of the Borstal inmates\, with a variety of the many subtly distinctive accents of Britain and Ireland intact on the page. Ultimately\, Behan demonstrated by his skillful dialogue that working class Irish Catholics and English Protestants actually had more in common with one another through class than they had supposed\, and that alleged barriers of religion and ethnicity were merely superficial and imposed by a fearful middle class. \nThe book is available from all good and bad booksellers\, on Kindle and audiobook. There are also lots of very affordable pre-owned copies on eBay. \nWe’d love for you to join us for our very first book club evening! \nThe book club will take place online and tickets for the event are free. \nAs always\, we strive to ensure that our events are a safe space for our LGBTQ community and friends. To do this\, we ask that you register for the event beforehand. You can read our privacy policy here. \nYou can book your place at the event here or in the Eventbrite widget below. \nThe link will go live at 1855 on November 19th and our moderator will allow you enter the Zoom meeting. You will receive the link to join the event in your confirmation email. Please keep this safe. Will will also send you a reminder just before the event. \nIf you have any comments or questions\, please email londonirishlgbtnetwork@gmail.com \n\n  \nLinks: \n  \n\nConchies by Ann Kramer – Book Review\n\n 
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/lgbtq-online-book-club-brendan-behans-borstal-boy/
LOCATION:Antrim
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241012T130000
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SUMMARY:LGBTQIA+ Heritage Symposium 2024
DESCRIPTION:AGENDA \nDate: Saturday 12th October 2024\nVenue: Canada Room\, 1st Floor\, Lanyon Building\, Queen’s University Belfast\nTime: 10am – 1pm \nOpening Remarks \nAdam Murray – Lead Organiser\nDr. Matt Leebody – Chair of Cara-Friend\nDr. Tom Hulme – Reader\, School of History\, Anthropology\, Philosophy & Politics at Queen’s University\nPanel 1 – Where Is Our LGBTQIA+ Heritage? 10.10am\nPanellist 1 – Dr. Karen Logan (Ulster Museum)\nPanellist 2 – Lorraine Bourke (Public Records Office NI)\nPanellist 3 – Samantha McCombe (Linenhall Library)\nPanellist 4 – Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell (NI Screen’s Digital Film Archive) \nComfort Break \nPanel 2 – The Value of LGBTQIA+ Heritage 11.00am\nPanellist 1 – Dominic Montague (Kabosh Theatre Company)\nPanellist 2 – Dr. Richard O’Leary (Performance Storyteller)\nPanellist 3 – JT Politzer (Graduate Student\, Kent State Uni.)\nPanellist 4 – Cathal McGuigan (LGBTQIA+ Heritage Project Volunteer) \nFeature – UTV Archive clips \nPanel 3 – Looking To The Future 11.55am\nPanellist 1 – Adam Murray (Cara-Friend)\nPanellist 2 – Mary Ellen Campbell (LGBTQIA+ Heritage Project)\nPanellist 3 – Dr. Tom Hulme (Queer NI Project)\nPanellist 4 – Dr. Molly Merryman (Kent State University) \nClosing Remarks \nThis symposium is the opening event of the Founding Cara-Friend: Preserving At Risk LGBTQIA+\nHeritage Project made possible thanks to generous funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.\nCara-Friend wishes to thank the NLHF and the lottery players who make this possible.
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/lgbtqia-heritage-symposium-2024/
LOCATION:Canada Room\, 1st Floor\, Lanyon Building\, Queen’s Univ\, Belfast\, BT7 1NN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Queer Narratives: Lived Experience\, Activism & Change in Northern Ireland
DESCRIPTION:PERFORMANCE AREA | £6.50 / £5.00 (MEMBERS)\nQUEER NARRATIVES: LIVED EXPERIENCE\, ACTIVISM & CHANGE IN NORTHERN IRELAND – To mark Belfast Pride\, we have invited artists and activists from the LGBTQ+ community to explore The Linen Hall’s LGBTQ+ archives. Hilary McCollum\, Amanda Verlaque\, Heather Fleming\, and Mícheál McCann will choose an item from the archive – an artefact\, a newspaper article\, or a letter – to talk about their own lived experience and the history of gay rights in Northern Ireland. \nPANELLISTS\nHilary McCollum\nHilary McCollum is an Irish writer and feminist activist with a long-standing interest in creative responses to trauma. She has explored issues related to violence against women and girls through narrative non-fiction\, fiction\, and drama. Her writing often focuses on women’s resistance to abuse and oppression. Her first novel\, Golddigger\, won the Golden Crown Literary Society prize for historical fiction in 2016. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from QUB and is a Senior Policy and Liaison Officer for Northern Ireland with the Society of Authors.\n \nAmanda Verlaque\nAmanda Verlaque writes for stage\, screen\, and VR. The Lyric produced This Sh*t Happens All the Time\, her critically acclaimed play about homophobia\, misogyny and coercive control. The MAC produced her critically acclaimed debut play Distortion\, a satire about political hypocrisy\, homophobia and PR spin. Amanda adapted and wrote the pilot for An Irish Country Doctor based on Patrick Taylor’s award-winning novel and she made her directorial debut with Egg\, her VR short film in collaboration with RETìníZE. One of the Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in The Attic artists for 2022/23\, she is also under commission to the National Theatre (GB) and the Abbey. Amanda worked in TV drama for 25 years as a script editor\, storyliner\, producer and executive producer before starting her writing career. \nHeather Fleming\nHeather Fleming came out\, when she was seventeen\, in rural Co Down in 1977. She moved to Belfast\, became involved in LGBTQ+ activism; joining NIGRA\, volunteering for CaraFriend /Lesbian Line and founding Lavender Lynx (a safe space for lesbians\, especially those just coming out). Heather is a visual artist and has exhibited widely throughout Ireland and internationally. Creative writing was confined to her sketchbooks but in the last few years\, it has become more public. A number of her “Ten X 9” stories were broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster’s Tall Tales. A recording of one of her stories about being lesbian in NI is now part of the Irish Studies curriculum at the prestigious Swarthmore University in Philadelphia. In 2023\, two of her poems were ‘Highly Commended’ for the CAP/Executive Office Good Relations Award and she had a poem printed in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing Anthology. \nMícheál McCann\n \nMícheál McCann is a poet from Derry. His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review\, The Stinging Fly and Poetry Ireland Review\, and anthologised in Queering the Green and Romance Options: Love Poems for Today. He has published pamphlets of poems\, most recently Waking Light (Skein Press) and Keeper (14publishing). He was a co-editor of Hold Open the Door (UCD Press)\, Trumpet (Poetry Ireland) and is a founder and editor of Outburst Arts’ catflap magazine. He lives in Belfast where he is completing a PhD in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/a-talk-about-archive-articles-taken-from-the-linen-hall-library-lgbtq/
LOCATION:Linen Hall Library\, Belfast\, 17 Donegall Square North\, Belfast\, Co. Antrim\, BT1 5GB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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SUMMARY:Mad About The Boy - The Noël Coward Story
DESCRIPTION:Noël Coward grew up in poverty and left school when he was only nine years old. He was queer in a very straight world. And yet by the age of 30\, he was the highest-paid writer in the world and a star on the Broadway stage. \n  \n\nHe wrote\, directed and acted in some of the finest plays and movies of all time\, including Private Lives\, Blithe Spirit\, Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve. He also became a world-renowned songwriter and performer of whom Frank Sinatra said\, ‘If you want to hear how a song should be sung\, go see Mr Noel Coward’. And if that wasn’t enough\, he was also a spy during the Second World War! \nAgainst all odds\, Noël Coward became the most successful multi-talented artist of the Twentieth Century. He defined an era and led an extraordinary life. This is his inspirational story told in his own words and music\, and unique home movies. \nThe film features Laurence Olivier\, Maggie Smith\, Harold Pinter\, Frank Sinatra\, Lauren Bacall\, Michael Caine and Lucille Ball\, and includes Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward and narration by Alan Cumming. \n“Elegantly chronicles its subject’s journey from childhood in lower middle-class London to global stardom” ★★★★ – Total Film
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/mad-about-the-boy-the-noel-coward-story/
LOCATION:Queens Film Theatre\, 20 University Square\, Belfast\, BT7 1PA
CATEGORIES:Movies
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210915T080000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210915T170000
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SUMMARY:Qualitative Data Analysis - Project Management
DESCRIPTION:Beneficiary feedback is one of the best ways to identify gaps and improve the quality of your programs. But analyzing non-numerical information and opinions gathered through evaluation\, situation analysis\, and needs assessments can be difficult and time consuming. In this engaging guide\, you will learn tips on how to design and conduct a meaningful and effective qualitative data analysis. \nThis guide was created in partnership with INTRAC for anyone working in the areas of program management\, monitoring and evaluation\, accountability\, and learning\, (MEAL).
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/qualitative-data-analysis-project-management/
LOCATION:Web Based Trg
CATEGORIES:Personal Development
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210910T180000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210910T190000
DTSTAMP:20210910T203958Z
CREATED:20210910T203958Z
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SUMMARY:Stories of hidden LGBT history
DESCRIPTION:10 September 2021 at 7 pm\, master storyteller Dr Richard O’Leary joins the Linenhall Library to explore the hidden #LGBT history in the Linen Hall Library archives as part of #EHOD2021. \n  \nDr Richard O’Leeary
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/stories-of-hidden-lgbt-history/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:LGBTQ
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210701T190000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210701T210000
DTSTAMP:20210617T170035Z
CREATED:20210617T170035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T170035Z
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SUMMARY:Dara McGrath's latest book 'Project Cleansweep'
DESCRIPTION:“Project Cleansweep takes its name from a Ministry of Defence report issued in 2011. The report assessed the risk of residual contamination at sites in the United Kingdom used in the manufacture\, storage\, and disposal of chemical and biological weapons from World War I to the present day. Over 4\,000 square kilometres of the landmass was appropriated for military use in the 20th century. Photographs of more than eighty sites take us to Dorset and Devon\, the Peak District\, the woodlands of Yorkshire\, and the countryside of the Salisbury Plain\, from the coastlines of East Anglia\, the West Counties and Wales to the remote Scottish Highlands and the Irish Sea. The pastoral myths of the bucolic British landscape – of simple nature\, a golden past – are disrupted by material realities embedded in the landscape itself.” \n  \nThe event will take place during Late Night Art\, which runs from 6pm-9pm.
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/dara-mcgraths-latest-book-project-cleansweep/
LOCATION:Belfast Exposed Photography\, 23 Donegall Street\, Belfast\, Antrim\, BT1 2FF
CATEGORIES:Art
ORGANIZER;CN="Belfast Exposed Photography":MAILTO:info@belfastexposed.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210610T080000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210613T170000
DTSTAMP:20210613T094614Z
CREATED:20210613T094614Z
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SUMMARY:Crescent Arts - Books Festival
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted that our annual Crescent Arts – Belfast Book Festival is making a welcome return for 2021 and is running from 10 – 13 June with an online programme of live events for book lovers.   \nCovering everything from love and politics to Cinderella as a zombie\, this year’s festival covers a wide variety of themes – including feminism\, grief\, family\, disability\, sexuality\, body image\, and the care system.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to see the programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHere is a taste of this year’s programme;  \n\nBBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac who will be in conversation with writer Wendy Erskine discussing her debut novel ‘Mother\, Mother’ which is set in Belfast\nIan McElhinney will be joining literary biographer Roy Foster to explore the work of Seamus Heaney;\nGlenn Patterson will be chatting with author Conor O’Callaghan;\nAuthor of the novel Brooklyn\, Colm Tóibín\, will be joined by Paul McVeigh to read from and discuss the new anthology of Irish fiction\, Queer Love\nMulti-award winning author and Belfast Book Festival patron Lucy Caldwell joins us to talk about her new collection of short stories; \nTwo of Northern Ireland’s most respected political journalists\, Susan McKay and Amanda Ferguson\, come together to discuss Susan’s new book\, ‘Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground’;\nAnd there will be a specially recorded performance from the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics\, Lemn Sissay\, who also joins us for a second event where he will chat with political commentator Alex Kane.\n\nTickets for all events are now on sale and are priced at either £3 or free!  \nWe hope to see you there!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n           \n            \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinks: \n  \n\nThe Bookseller
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/crescent-arts-books-festival/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Road\, Belfast\, Antrim\, BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210519T200000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210519T213000
DTSTAMP:20210428T201927Z
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SUMMARY:Remembering Mark Ashton - LGBT History Club
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Mark Ashton\, in our next LGBT HiSTORY CLUB online with the Linen Hall Library\nwill be on Wednesday 19th May 8pm\, a special ‘Remembering MARK ASHTON: A birthday tribute’ with \nJude Copeland\nMike Jackson of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners and guests. \n\n\nLinks:\n\n\nWikipedia – Mark Ashton\nMiners campaigner Gethin Roberts to visit Southmead Hospital to mark LGBT History Month
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/remembering-mark-ashton-lgbt-history-club/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:LGBTQ
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210428T123000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210428T133000
DTSTAMP:20210321T093759Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210321T093759Z
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SUMMARY:Getting Started Workshop - Using Online Resources
DESCRIPTION:Getting Started Workshop – Using Online Resources\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nJoin us on zoom for a workshop that will show you how to get started doing research online. \n  \nWhether you are trying to do your own family tree online\, researching for study or planning to visit PRONI when we re-open and want to know how to find your references in advance – this workshop will have something for you! \n  \nIt will detail how to use PRONI’s own online applications such as our e-catalogue and also show you how to use other online sources such as Griffith’s valuation and census records. \n  \nYou will have a chance to see our staff members and ask them your burning questions directly! \n  \nA zoom link will be issued to the e-mail address you register with one hour in advance of the workshop. \n  \nWe look forward to (virtually) seeing you!
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/getting-started-workshop-using-online-resources/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:PRONI
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210427T200000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210427T213000
DTSTAMP:20210427T173831Z
CREATED:20210427T173752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T173831Z
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SUMMARY:Cross-border LGBT activism in Ireland 1977-1999 - LGBT History Club
DESCRIPTION:A public talk live on ZOOM\, by Abigail Fletcher titled “Cross-border LGBT activism in Ireland 1977-1999 ‘ for the LGBT HISTORY CLUB (a collaboration between the LGBT Heritage Project & The Linen Hall Library) on TUESDAY 27th April\, 8pm. To get the Zoom link email Richard O’Leary on history@hereni.org \n  \n \nLinks: \n  \n\nAcomsDave\nLGBT History NI\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/cross-border-lgbt-activism-in-ireland-1977-1999-lgbt-history-club/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:LGBTQ
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210425T080000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210425T170000
DTSTAMP:20210425T185705Z
CREATED:20210425T185705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210425T185705Z
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SUMMARY:Clarity and Conciseness in Business Writing
DESCRIPTION:In business writing\, clarity is everything.  And being concise is the key to getting your message across.  IN this course\, you’ll learn how to choose the best words to make your writing as direct and concise as it can be.  You’ll find out how to strip your writing of unnecessary elements and structure your content effectively.  You’ll also learn about key design elements that can show your work off to its best advantage. \n  \nTest score at end of course:-  92%
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/clarity-and-conciseness-in-business-writing/
LOCATION:Web Based Trg
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210326T120000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210326T140000
DTSTAMP:20210321T101532Z
CREATED:20210321T101532Z
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SUMMARY:100 years of Northern Ireland: how has it gone?
DESCRIPTION:100 years of Northern Ireland: how has it gone?\n2021 is the hundredth anniversary of the formation of Northern Ireland. This Decade of Centenaries panel discussion\, hosted by well-known local broadcaster\, Tara Mills\, will look at the last one hundred years from a range of different perspectives. \nPanellists for the session are: \n\nLord Paul Bew\, Chair of the Northern Ireland Office Centenary Historical Advisory Panel\nProf Mary E Daly\, University College Dublin and Royal Irish Academy\nProf Thomas Hennessey\, Professor of Modern British and Irish History\, Canterbury Christchurch University\nDr Marie Coleman\, School of History\, Anthropology\, Philosophy and Politics\, Queen’s University Belfast\nDr Seán Byers\, Researcher at Trademark Belfast and author of a number of pieces on trade unions\, economic and political strategies\n\nYou can submit written questions to the panel during the event. \nA sign language interpreter will be signing the event. \n  \nLinks: \n\nBelfast City Council- Events
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/100-years-of-northern-ireland-how-has-it-gone/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Belfast City Council
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210322T190000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210322T200000
DTSTAMP:20210321T092756Z
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SUMMARY:Ulster's Lesser Spotted Queer Protestant
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, in conjunction with the LGBT History Club\, let Richard O’Leary take you in search of Ulster’s Lesser Spotted Queer Protestant\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nThe existence of the LSQP has long been hidden by shy historians and denied by conservative Christians but Dr O’Leary will present evidence to challenge the orthodox\, missionary position. Drawing on newly accessed archival material he presents both an objective and subjective view. Imagine a 19th century Ulster same sex couple\, erasure\, Billy Elliot\, pseudonyms\, the whack of the crozier\, exile and love. \nThis talk will be followed by a Q&A. \nDr Richard O’Leary is Coordinator of NI’s LGBT Heritage Project and a Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast. A performance storyteller of true fairy stories\, his solo shows include ‘There’s a Bishop in my Bedroom’ (MAC theatre).
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/ulsters-lesser-spotted-queer-protestant/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:LGBTQ
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210319T183000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210319T200000
DTSTAMP:20210321T091113Z
CREATED:20210321T091113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210321T091113Z
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SUMMARY:OUTing the Past - Festival of LGBT History
DESCRIPTION:PRONI is delighted to be the virtual Belfast Hub for the 2020 OUTing the Past Festival of LGBT History.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nJoin us for the 2021 OUTing the Past Festival of LGBT History. \nThis event will feature a number of speakers that will explore various aspects of LGBT history\, including Richard O’Leary from the LGBT Heritage NI Project. \nThis event will take place on zoom. Sign-up to the event will close one hour before the event begins. The zoom link will also issue one hour before the beginning of the event. \nWe look forward to seeing you there.
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/outing-the-past-festival-of-lgbt-history/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:LGBTQ
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210311T133000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20210417T173000
DTSTAMP:20210321T095134Z
CREATED:20210321T095134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210321T095134Z
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SUMMARY:Street View: Matthew Finn
DESCRIPTION:Belfast Exposed is delighted to present Street View: Matthew Finn which features four projects – Mother\, Uncle\, Wife and Son – by artist Matthew Finn. Finn uses the people and events directly surrounding his life as visual references for projects that sometimes take years to realise. With no commercial constraints or deadlines\, Finn’s subjects are people that are important in his life. \nOver a thirty-year period\, from 1987 onwards\, Matthew Finn collaborated with his mother\, Jean\, to document her everyday life through a series of portraits taken in her home in Leeds. This series\, Mother\, is a record of the ordinary\, of a daily routine with which we are all familiar. It is also a record of the gradual shift from middle age to old age\, and\, in Jean’s case\, to the onset of mixed dementia and a move from the family home into residential care. \nFinn’s father never lived with him and his mother and many times he would make promises that he never kept. His mother would wait to be picked up for a night out with Finn’s Father. Finn can remember her standing there dressed in her fawn\, mohair coat\, and he wouldn’t turn up. Eventually\, she would retreat upstairs to take off her makeup and going-out clothes and return to the TV. This seemed to happen a lot. \nFinn’s father is not present in these photographs just as he wasn’t in their lives and yet he haunts these images. He was also the main reason that this project became so important to both Finn and his mother. \nMatthew Finn’s series Uncle follows a man through his journey around his home in a suburb of Leeds. The unremarkable story becomes poignant and remarkable through the time span of the collaboration as we follow Uncle Des from the age of 58 up to his death aged 84 in 2014. For over 25 years Finn followed his uncle documenting the everyday habits and quirks that we recognise in ourselves and how we utilise our space. Seeing Des struggle to understand a microwave\, choose between potted plants\, or being caught in the act during his annual task of cleaning the windows at Christmas\, offers the viewer a unique insight into how time is spent at home. Ultimately\, through these images\, we slowly follow Des into his final moments. \nFinn’s partner Martina was also happy to continue his obsession with photographing everybody in his life in his series entitled Wife. Relationships are about sharing and communicating. In this way\, this collaboration is not based on unconditional love but an equal voice between Finn and his wife. As a result\, this partnership is as much about Finn’s journey as it is Martina’s presence within the pictures. \nThe final work from Matthew Finn is entitled: Son. A person always there to be photographed. The ultimate expression of the photographer’s unique vision. A subject that never says no. But\, how to photograph a baby\, a young boy\, and then a child with independent thought? \nFinn started making pictures of his son Sebastian when was upset or unhappy but Finn soon realised that wasn’t who his son is. The photographs were not about Finn or his son. They were representations of a photographer weighed down by his own understanding of the visual histories of children in art photography. Finn had to learn that when your child says no it is sacred and should not be broken even for a photographic opportunity. \nStreet View \nStreet View provides a multimedia exhibition experience to increase the accessibility and visibility of photography on the streets of Belfast. Street View is a large digital window display\, complimented with audio narratives\, that showcases contemporary artwork by internationally renowned and local emerging photographers to an external audience on the streets of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter. \nBelfast Exposed believe photography is for everyone\, it is accessible\, meaningful and has the ability to tell stories\, allowing us to create dialogue and reflect upon our history\, inform our present and inspire a positive future. Street View is another opportunity to extend our vision beyond the confines of the gallery. \n  \nLinks: \n  \n\nThe Art of Persuasion
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/street-view-matthew-finn/
LOCATION:Antrim
CATEGORIES:Art
ORGANIZER;CN="Belfast Exposed Photography":MAILTO:info@belfastexposed.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20200922T200000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20200922T220000
DTSTAMP:20200912T120650Z
CREATED:20200912T120650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200912T120650Z
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SUMMARY:LGBT History club - Roger Casement
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/lgbt-history-club-roger-casement/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:LGBTQ
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20200921T111500
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20200921T120000
DTSTAMP:20200914T200952Z
CREATED:20200914T200952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200914T200952Z
UID:8768-1600686900-1600689600@acomsdave.com
SUMMARY:Shaping Peace Together International Day of Peace
DESCRIPTION:  \nInternational Day of Peace to celebrate and reflect on Shaping Peace Together – focusing on compassion\, kindness and hope. \nWith inspirational and motivational poems\, prayers and music\, from the Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum and the 4 Corners Festival representing the diverse faiths and communities across Belfast.  The event will celebrate the progress we have made towards peace and reflect on how we can continue to build a peaceful society. \nThis International Day of Peace is dedicated to fostering dialogue and collecting ideas and you will have the opportunity to share thoughts on how we can continue to shape peace together. \n  \nBelfast City Council Event via Zoom
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/shaping-peace-together-international-day-of-peace/
LOCATION:Antrim
CATEGORIES:Belfast City Council,Peace
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20200911T200000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20200911T220000
DTSTAMP:20200912T115229Z
CREATED:20200912T115229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200912T115229Z
UID:8758-1599854400-1599861600@acomsdave.com
SUMMARY:Virtual Alternative Queer Ulster 2020
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://acomsdave.com/event/virtual-alternative-queer-ulster-2020/
LOCATION:Antrim
CATEGORIES:LGBTQ
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:alternativequeerulstr@gmail.com
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