North East LGBTQIA+ Heritage Network

Curious Arts invites you to the second North East LGBTQIA+ Heritage Network gathering. The day is open to people from the region’s museums, archives, libraries, universities and collections and to LGBTQIA+ organisations and freelancers, who do or are interested in queer heritage work.

This year the focus is on queer collecting and archiving. There will be talks and presentations, a carousel of breakout group activities and conversations and a chance to network and share learning about all things queer heritage.

Speakers include:

Julie Ballands (Heritage Producer, Curious Arts) will talk about Curious Arts’ Queering North East History project and the work to create a digital, online LGBTQIA+ archive for the region.

Rachael Lennon (Head of Story, Beamish Museum) will talk about the Queer Heritage and Collections Network, which they co-founded.

Roni Guetta (Queer Heritage South) will talk about their approach to creating a community digital archive, the exhibitions and events that have grown out of and helped grow it and partnership working with the heritage and cultural sector on the south coast.

Jaime Starr will talk about their work as the new Collections Manager at Queer Britain, the UK's LGBTQ+ heritage museum.

Carousel of facilitated discussion groups including :

• Programming around significant anniversaries - 2027; 60 years since start of decriminalisation, 2028; 40 years since Section 28 of the local government act passed into law.
• Pledge Three Things - QNEH’s initiative for every organisation to pledge three things from their collections to add the digital archive
• Queer language and taxonomy for collections and cataloguing

Lunch is included in this FREE event.

This event forms part of Queering North East History which is a Curious Arts project and is funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Thanks to North East Museums for the use of the Clore Suite.