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Homotopia Festival is taking a break in 2024
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Exhibition: The City and the Self
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THE CITY AND THE SELF 🌃
The launch of our inaugural creative skills exhibition was a night to remember 🎉
If you couldn’t make it, don’t fret. The show runs Friday 5th - Sunday 8th April 10am - 4pm @theroyalstandard_ 🏃
A big thank you to everybody who joined us to celebrate the talent of our incredible Queer artists in the city that inspired their work ✨
The City and the Self is an exhibition exploring Queer identity in Liverpool. Showcasing work from early career artists who took part in Homotopia’s twelve month early career artist development programme, facilitated by the fantastic @caseyorrphoto.
The programme is supported by Converse in collaboration with The Royal Standard and DuoVision and fits in with Homotopia’s aim to provide space and support for Queer culture and those dedicated to making it happen.
Art by @tishcoxphoto, @clairebeerjeraz, @garner.harry, @elldoubledaze, @monetonyourmind, @becks_art and @pocketstudio.uk #Homotopia
Exhibition launch at the Royal Standard 🍸
Join us this Thursday for The City and The Self. An exhibition exploring queer identity in Liverpool.
Opening night 4th April 5-7:30pm @theroyalstandard_
With music from @queensway____ DJs @bronwyn_andrews @the_danchan
Featuring artists: @tishcoxphotos @clairebeerjeraz @garner.harry @elldoubledaze @monetonyourmind
@becks_art @pocketstudio.uk
Queer The City 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏙️: @iamhuman_design x @liverpool_oneofficial
Since 2020, we’ve been installing art in prominent Liverpool locations as part of our Queer the City project. These installations aim to increase queer visibility and foster feelings of safety for LGBTQIA+ people across the city.
Leo of I Am Human Design dug into the Homotopia archives, using photos by Mike Parry @modernmarks.co.uk to create a mixed media arresting piece. The artwork, displayed on School Lane in Liverpool one, reminds people who pass by there’s more that unites than divides us. ❤️ #QueerTheCity
Artwork supported by @lpoolcitycouncil @lcrpride @liverpoolbidcompany @lushliverpoolspa
The City and the Self exhibition launches a week today and who better to soundtrack the evening than @queensway_ DJs BRON and DAN CHAN? 🎶
QueenswaY are a collective of DJs bringing diversity to the dancefloor by championing electronic music’s most underrepresented groups 🎧
Join us for an evening of art and music @theroyalstandard with work from the LGBTQIA+ artists who took part in our Creative Skills development programme: @tishcoxphotos @clairebeerjeraz @garner.harry @elldoubledaze @monetonyourmind @becks_art @pocketstudio.uk
Opening night: Thursday 4th April, 5 - 7:30pm
Opening times: Friday 5th - Sunday 7th April, 10am - 4pm
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (@jamiemusical) is coming to the Liverpool Empire!
Fancy winning a pair of tickets? Share this post and tag who you’d take below 👇
Following a record-breaking three-year West End residency, sold-out UK & Ireland Tour and award-winning film, the smash-hit and critically acclaimed musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie RETURNS on a major UK & Ireland Tour. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie lands at the Empire Theatre from 22 to 27 April.
Funny, fabulous and feel good, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie features an all-star cast.
Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight. This musical sensation is not to be missed!
For more information and to book your tickets visit atgtickets.com/Liverpool.
(One randomly selected winner will receive a pair of tickets to see Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool, valid for all performances from 22 to 27 April 2024 (excluding Saturdays), subject to availability. No cash alternative. Travel not included. All additional expenses incurred are the responsibility of the winner. )
Homotopia Festival is taking a break in 2024 🚨
Having delivered 20 years of our amazing festival alongside programmes of artist development, exhibitions, Queer installations around the city and one hell of an all-day, all-out cabaret for Eurovision, we have decided that for 2024, the festival needs to take a break!
We’ll still be facilitating artist development and platforming LGBTQIA+ artists, and look forward to the exciting year ahead with our new Director and CEO, Topher Campbell 🏳️⚧🏳️🌈♥️
Homotopia Festival will be back in 2025! Bigger, Bolder and, of course, Queerer than ever!
If you are an artist that wanted to be involved in this year’s festival, we’ll keep hold of your details so you’re the first to hear about the open call for Homotopia 2025.
For any further questions contact: topher@homotopia.net
The City and The Self, Homotopia’s inaugural Creative Skills exhibition, opens next week and YOU’RE invited ✉️
Join us at @theroyalstandard_ to celebrate the vision of a group of artists to watch out for ✨
Enjoy the work, make new connections and listen to tunes spun by the effervescent @queensway__ DJs, Bron and Dan Chan 🎛️
Featuring artists: @tishcoxphotos @clairebeerjeraz @garner.harry @elldoubledaze @monetonyourmind
@becks_art @pocketstudio.uk
RSVP appreciated but not mandatory. See you there!
Opening night: Thursday 4th April, 5 - 7:30pm
Opening times: Friday 5th - Sunday 7th April, 10am - 4pm
Meet the artists featured in @homotopia’s upcoming exhibition The City and The Self @theroyalstandard 🏙️
𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐭 (He/They) is an Irish AV artist with five years’ experience in the creative industries. They specialise in the nascent genre unfiction, but also work as a programmer and juror in film festivals across Europe. Most recently, their AV essay The History of Unfiction was awarded The Lynda La Plante Prize for Practice as Research.
When they aren’t exhibiting or performing poetry at venues around the city, they enjoy a rich social life as the creature haunting the Liverpool catacombs.
Core themes in their work are superstition, liminality, and vulnerability.
For The City & The Self, they created a D&D campaign set in a fantastical Liverpool. This allowed them to reconstruct queer spaces for a party of players, and viewers, to explore.
For this exhibition they’ve partnered with Becks Harborne (@beckhit) (They/She), an Oxford illustrator, whose short film Project EA was shortlisted in the ‘Student’ category at Liverpool’s own Starling Film Festival.
Opening night: Thursday 4th April 5 - 7:30pm
Opening times: Friday 5th - Sunday 7th April 10am - 4pm
