Long Table: Storytelling and Hamilton’s Queer Histories

The Centre for Community-Engaged Narrative Arts (CCENA) warmly invites you to join new CCENA Director Amber Dean in conversation with Cole Gately on storytelling and Hamilton’s queer histories.
Tuesday, September 24th
5pm - 7pm (Dinner provided!)
David Braley Health Sciences Centre, 100 Main St W
Room 1005A
In Person Event

For our first Long Table of 2024-25 we invite you to join us in person — we’ll return to hybrid events for our other long tables this year. CCENA hosts Long Tables throughout the year, featuring presentations from community narrative artists in and around Hamilton. For our meetings, we wish to create a kind of “anti-lectern” effect that extends hospitality, enacts mutuality, and allows knowledge to flow multi-directionally. The term “Long Table” has a distinguished feminist genealogy. Lois Weaver, the prominent American queer feminist dramatist, activist, and co-founder of the influential Split Britches lesbian theatre collective, coined the term in 2003 to describe a meeting that combines theatricality and public engagement. While our Long Tables are less consciously theatrical, they also seek to transform the experts’ panel into a dinner table conversation, and over food and drink we have experienced illuminating moments when the presenter/listener dynamic has been reconfigured.
Fittingly, the word cena means dinner in both Spanish and Italian. In this spirit, CCENA invites you to bring your creativity, appetite, and ideas to the table!

This event will take place in person downtown at David Braley Health Sciences Centre (100 Main St W, Hamilton), Room 1005A.

The David Braley Health Sciences Centre is a fully accessible building located one block from MacNab Transit terminal, at the corner of Bay St and Main St W in downtown Hamilton. The conference room for this event is located on the first floor. There is a reception desk near the building's main entrance which can provide additional directions, if needed. Questions and access concerns can be sent to [email protected]

This event is presented by the Centre for Community Engaged Narrative Arts (CCENA) in conjunction with the Hamilton Public Library's Local History and Archives. For more info about CCENA, visit: https://ccena.humanities.mcmaster.ca/ For more on Local History and Archives, visit: https://lha.hpl.ca/

Host or Publisher Centre for Community Engaged Narrative Arts