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Image: Juno Birch | SHOUT opening Party 5–17 NOVEMBER 2019 OH BIRMINGHAM, QUEER* ART IS FOR EVERYONE Whoever you are, whatever your background is, if you identify as LGBTQ+ or IT’S 10 YEARS OF QUEER! if you don’t, SHOUT Festival is for you. This festival is a celebration of incredible films, performances, and artwork from LGBTQ+ artists that talk about the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ people. It’s a chance to learn, to ask questions, to build bridges between communities, and to celebrate together - everyone is welcome.

Here we are! in the last 6 months, we’ve seen protests against LGBTQ+ inclusive education, Another edition of trans people are continually vilified in We want it to be as easy as possible for you to come to a SHOUT event and to know SHOUT Festival of the media, our city’s nightclubs and exactly what it is you’re coming to. We’ve done a few things to make the brochure Queer* Arts and LGBTQ+ spaces are under threat of information as clear as possible: Culture, and not just closure from gentrification - our journey any edition but an towards equality is far from over. CONTENT: On each page you’ll find ACCESS: We want to make sure that This year’s festival programme is about information about the event from everyone can access all of our events, extra special tenth the artist or organiser, from SHOUT all of our venues this year are wheelchair anniversary edition. looking forwards, it’s about what next? what does a queer future look like?, how explaining what to expect and why we’re accessible. We’ve put any information For ten years SHOUT has been bringing do we understand more about the diverse presenting it, and some words from we think you might need to be aware of the best of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, experiences of LGBTQ+ communities?, people who’ve seen the performance, in each event listing, but if you’ve any Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) how do we make change? In a time when film, or artist before. There's a box on questions or want to discuss your access arts and culture to the city, and what a our representation and our voices are each page to let you know who the event needs please get in touch - we’ll do journey it’s been. more important than ever, SHOUT 2019 is suitable for and if there is content to everything we can to accomodate be aware of. your needs. A project of Birmingham LGBT, is an opportunity to regroup, to come together and move forwards. SHOUT Festival was created in 2009 LOW INCOME FREE TICKETS: CENTREFOLD: to celebrate LGBTQ+ communities in We are extremely proud to present our We’ve got a number of free tickets to If this brochure is a bit too bulky to the city and ensure that our voices and tenth programme of internationally selected events for anyone who wants carry around just tear out the centre experiences were represented in our arts renowned artists and to further our to come but can’t afford it. Any event page - it has a complete listings of all venues. We started small but look how commitment to Birmingham through with this unlocked symbol is eligible, to the festival events and a lovely map of we’ve grown, from film to visual arts to supporting Midlands-based artists book a ticket all you have to do is email all our venues to carry around. performance, from parties to protests and platforming Midlands stories. [email protected] and ask for one. - it’s been our honour and privilege Oh, and we’re going to make sure that Simple. to amplify our stories, to platform we celebrate ten years of queer arts in incredible queer artists, and to ensure Birmingham in suitably glittery style. that LGBTQ+ representation is a Here’s to the next 10 years. priority for the city’s cultural offer. See you there. *A NOTE ABOUT QUEER It is a difficult climate right now for LGBTQ+ communities across the world The word queer has a complex and political history for LGBTQ+ people, it has been and here in Birmingham. Incidents of Adam Carver Neil Anderson long used as a slur against us but in recent decades QUEER has been reclaimed by our hate crime in the West Midlands against SHOUT Festival SHOUT Steering communities. It means different, it’s a challenge to normativity and the mainstream. 2 Programmer Group Chair We use it as an umbrella term for anyone on the LGBTQ+ spectrum. 3 LGBTQ+ people have nearly doubled 3 Tuesday 5 November SHOUT 7pm, £5 + Opening PARTY + Party HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH THE NIGHTINGALE CLUB, Wednesday 6 November, 7.30pm 18 KENT ST, B5 6RD REEL HERSTORIES: ‘For a community of defiant misfits challenging the status quo, Hedwig REBEL DYKES AND THE ARCHIVETTES became a guiding light - and remains one THE PENTHOUSE @ THE LOFT LOUNGE, 18 years later, even as popular discourse £5 + around gender has dramatically shifted’ 143 BROMSGROVE ST, B5 6RG VANITY FAIR

ABOUT THE FILM: ABOUT THIS EVENT: “Our history was Extracts from Rebel Dykes, a new How do we start to disappearing as quickly as we were making documentary currently in production celebrate 10 years of SHOUT? Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Dir. John it” This evening of screenings looks at about the explosion that happened By pulling together loads of our favorite Cameron Mitchell, 2001) is a queer the different ways that queer women have when punk met feminism, told through things into one unforgettable night fairytale. As her ex-boyfriend and former used film to preserve the stories of their the lives of a gang of lesbians in the queer joy. Hosted by Birmingham’s protégé plays her songs at stadium communities, and the ways women have riotous London of the 1980s. own Yshee Black, we’ll unveil two concerts, Hedwig trails behind him (and have not) been represented in film. The Archivettes, a new documentary beautiful new murals by Freddelanka booking her own gigs in dingy, nearby Including conversations with film-makers about the Lesbian Herstory Archives, commissioned to celebrate the history venues. Kanasas trailer parks turn to and archivists Reel Herstories will include: the world’s largest collection of materials of 50 years of the Nightingale, follow stages in colorful flashbacks as Hedwig by and about lesbians. Running for more that with performances from a stellar sings autobiographical songs about than 40 years, the co-founders are in their line-up of UK’s best queer cabaret acts falling in love with a GI, her journey The stories of LGBTQ+ mid-70s, and the group faces a number including Juno Birch, and then sit back from East Germany, a botched state people and particularly of challenges: A transfer of leadership. for one of the greatest queer films of all enforced "sex-change" operation, and LGBTQ+ women so often The rise of digital technology. A renewed time Hedwig. Visually stunning, Hedwig the rock success that has eluded her. go unrecorded and untold. As part call to activism in a politically charged mixes together punk anthems and power of SHOUT’s Nightingale50 project, moment. The Archivettes is a documentary ballads with music-video fantasies, IMPORTANT INFO: recording 50 years of the history film that explores how this group came delicate animation, and moments of Suitable for ages 18+.This event will of the Nightingale Club and the together to combat lesbian invisibility and powerful emotional realism. After the take place on the ground floor of Birmingham , this event create “a place that says yes.” film head on over to The Village Inn for the Nightingale Club which is fully includes an opportunity to share your cabaret, games, and some serious disco wheelchair accessible. The event includes experiences of Birmingham’s history IMPORTANT INFO: beats at a SHOUT special edition of loud music and flashing lights. Hedwig and the roles women have played in Ginny Lemon’s Pick ‘n’ Mix late into the includes homophobic and transphobic Suitable for ages 16+. May include sexual making it happen. night.4 All this for a fiver? It’s a bargain. violence and sexual content throughout. content, and discussions of violence. 5 Thursday 7 November, 7.30pm Friday 8 November, 7.30pm, £5 advance, £8 on the door DEEP IN VOGUE HIT THE ODE | SHOUT TAKEOVER THE NIGHTINGALE CLUB, , 18 KENT ST, B5 6RD £5 + HURST ST, SOUTHSIDE B5 4TB

ABOUT THE FILM: ABOUT THE SHOW: A unique performance poetry night bringing remarkable spoken word artists to the “It's Paris Fashion heart of Birmingham. Returning to SHOUT for Week on crack!” - another take-over, we’ve got a knock-out line Deep In Vogue celebrates up of queer spoken word artists: the colourful, queer, emotional and political Jackie Hagan, working class, bisexual stories of Northern amputee and a multi award-winning Vogue and its people. poet, stand up comedian, Synonymous with the playwright and black, gay ballrooms activist. She smells of 1980s New York, like bedsits. this documentary asks Jay Hulme is an why we need Vogue award winning poet culture now more than and performer from Leicester, Winner ever. We’ll be joined by of Slambassadors 2015, and finalist in some of the legendary Roundhouse Poetry Slam 2016. performers from the Keith Jarrett, Poet, fiction writer, film talking about the and former UK Poetry Slam UK’s vogue scene and Champion, Keith Jarrett is making space for queer completing his first novel, people of colour. exploring the migration of religion from the ‘An intimate look at the ways that working- Caribbean to London. class northern culture blends into the proud His book of poetry, Selah, was nature of vogue as an art form… Deep in published last year by Burning Eye. Vogue emphasises that art is not solely the Dean Atta (Guest Host), named one Hit The Ode was one of our . This new documentary arena of the middle classes; in the ballroom, of the most influential LGBT people in favourite nights of the 2018 digs into issues like your wealth is in your talent alone’ BFI the UK by the Independent on Sunday. festival, so we’re chuffed to be disenfranchisement of black Shortlisted for the First Book bringing it back with this exceptional youth, transphobia, a shrinking welfare IMPORTANT INFO: This event will Prize for his debut poetry collection, line-up. Jay Hulme, Keith Jarrett, and state, and the commercialisation of the gay take place on the ground floor of I Am Nobody’s Nigger. His debut novel, Dean Atta have been have been taken scene. As SHOUT hosts Birmingham first the Nightingale Club which is fully The Black Flamingo, was published by the UK poetry scene by storm and Vogue Ball this year (see page 15) we had to wheelchair accessible. Suitable for ages Hodder Children’s Books in August. Jackie Hagan is up there as one of the bring it to the festival not just to celebrate 15+. Deep In Vogue includes discussions best and most provocative acts we’ve vogue culture but to highlight why it's still of homophobia, transphobia, racism, Get involved by signing up on the night 6 for an open mic slot. seen all year - Birmingham, ready 7 so important to queer communities today. and there is some sexual content. yourselves! 7 Saturday 9 November, 8pm Sunday 10 November, 3.30pm QUEER AND NOW SADIE CLARK | ALGORITHMS BIRMINGHAM REP, THE OLD JOINT STOCK THEATRE, BROAD STREET, B1 2EP £5 TEMPLE ROW WEST, B2 5NY £10 +

‘Wow, so fun and emotive. I honestly have no words to say but that was just so beautiful’ Queer and Now Audience Feedback ‘Could be this year’s Fleabag… it’s insightful, hilarious, and even a little bit heartbreaking’ When we started Queer and DEADLINE Now in 2018 we had no idea how incredible the talent was going to be! Artists from last year’s showcase have developed full length pieces, toured the UK, and created their own festivals. We don’t know what’s coming for 2019, but it’s basically guaranteed you’ll be watching the queer stars of tomorrow. We’ll be announcing a full line-up in October, if you want to take part as a performer keep an eye out for more details on www.shoutfestival.co.uk

ABOUT THE SHOW: Brooke has it all: the job, the ABOUT THE SHOW: Queer and Now is a Sadie Clark’s flat, the girlfriend... but what happens when whirlwind showcase of short work in brilliant solo things go tits up just before your 30th birthday? progress performances from the next play hit us with A bisexual Bridget Jones for the online generation, generation of queer Midlands theatre- the big belly laughs and this tragicomic one-woman play and its lovable makers. Join us for a packed evening full had us reaching for the hapless heroine is for anyone who’s wondered why of delicious new queer theatrical goodness, tissues. Its hilarious and they feel so lonely, when connecting with others is where local artists have the chance to test frank observations about meant to be easier than ever. and develop new performance ideas in bisexuality and the pitfalls front of a live audience for the first time. of modern dating are deep IMPORTANT INFO: Suitable for ages 14+, contains Showcasing the extraordinary skill of and resonant. Algorithms sexual references and strong language. The main LGBTQ+ artists from the West Midlands, asks what’s the formula entrance to the venue is accessed by four steps, expect theatre, stand-up, music, drag, and all for happiness in a world there is a seperate wheelchair entrance at the manner of performance yet to be imagined! that’s given us an outdated back of the building. If you require wheelchair blueprint for how to live? access please contact us in advance so we can IMPORTANT8 INFO: Suitable for ages 16+ make arrangements with the venue. 9 9 Monday 11 November, 7pm (6.30pm doors) Tuesday 12 November, 8pm WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? ARE YOU PROUD? MAC BIRMINGHAM, QUEERNESS & FAITH QUEEN'S RIDE, B12 9QH From £8.35 + BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE, B3 3DH £4 +

'A vivid and engaged docu-celebration of the LGBT rights movement in the UK… this is not a matter of “identity politics”, it is about real prejudice and real violence against real people' ABOUT THE EVENT: This year in THE GUARDIAN Birmingham we’ve What does it mean to be queer and What felt really seen some of the fiercest debates religious? What happens when faith, ABOUT THE FILM: important about this new around religion and LGBTQ+ sexuality, and gender identity meet? Fifty years after , this burning film was how it brilliantly identity. These are conversations new documentary commemorates the covers the UK’s history of This panel discussion brings together artists our communities need to have, so breakthroughs made by tireless individuals protest and progress but places from a range of religious backgrounds and we’re bringing together four artists and organisations in the battle for equality. the spotlight on the battles practices to talk about what it means to be leading the way in exploring faith, Combining rare archive footage with still being fought within the LGBTQ+ and religious, how their faiths sexuality, and gender in the UK, interviews from leading campaigners, community by migrants, people inform their creative work, and discuss how to talk about their work, lives, and Are You Proud? Celebrates decades of of colour, and trans people. We’re we might move the conversation forward. experiences. Come along and get progress in the LGBTQ+ rights movement delighted to be joined by the Join author of Unicorn: The Memoir of involved in the discussion. a Muslim Amrou 'Glamrou' whilst asking difficult questions about the film’s director Ashley Joiner and Al-Kadhi, Midlands theatre-maker Zeddie IMPORTANT INFO: Suitable for ages 16+, corporatisation of pride, prejudice within speakers from Lesbians and Gays Lawell, and actor and theatre-maker Barry accessible entrance to the gallery space the LGBTQ+ community, and the future. Support The Migrants to discuss Fitzgerald for performances and a panel is via the lift at the Gas Hall Entrance the film afterwards. IMPORTANT INFO: The film is Cert 15. discussion10 chaired by Amerah Saleh. 11 on Edmund Street. 11 Wednesday 13 November, 7.30pm Wednesday 13 November, 8pm JAIVANT PATEL DANCE | YAATRA JOHN WATERS: MAC BIRMINGHAM, QUEEN'S RIDE, B12 9QH From £8.50 THIS FILTHY WORLD £27.50 - £32.50 ‘A careful layering of traditional Hindu narratives with contemporary dance, poetry and song, YAATRA is a joyous bill which reminds us BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME, HURST ST, there is beauty in the fluidity of our identities and strength in our non- SOUTHSIDE B5 4TB conformance to the stereotypes society wishes to impress upon us’ DANCE ART JOURNAL Where do we even start? A living legend is coming to ABOUT THE SHOW: SHOUT 2019. The genius behind Pink Flamingos and Hairspray YAATRA is a captivating blend and the 'king of camp' is one of our of solo Kathak and contemporary greatest heroes. Yes, John’s show offers dance by British Indian artist Jaivant all the filth and hilarity you’d expect, Patel. A fresh perspective on South but the real magic is in his views on life, Asian LGBTQ+ narratives, faith and the world, and the future. Even if you’ve spirituality; YAATRA celebrates two never seen a John Waters film before, cultures and the intersectionality of this is a not to be missed opportunity. living in one, while paying tribute to the traditions, heritage and often untold stories of another. Join ABOUT THE SHOW: SHOUT in association with Javant after the performance for a Birmingham Hippodrome are beyond excited to post-show discussion exploring his bring a queer icon, a living legend, and the master practice and South Asian LGBTQ+ of filth, John Waters to Birmingham for the very representation. first time. His one-man show is a vaudeville act that celebrates the film career and obsessional ‘Waters is tastes of the man William Burroughs once called one of bad 'The Pope of Trash’. Focusing on Waters’ early We’ve been behavior’s negative artistic influences and his fascination watching Jaivant’s most likable with true crime, exploitation films, fashion work grow and develop champions.' over the last few years and we lunacy, and the extremes of the contemporary are so pleased to be presenting art world, this joyously devious monologue THE HOLLYWOOD elevates all that is trashy in life into a call this fantastic piece of dance REPORTER performance. Developed in to arms to ‘filth followers’ everywhere. the Midlands by a brilliant Midland artist, YAATRA STILL NOT ENOUGH WATERS MADNESS? Well, worry not - after the show head on queers culture and tradition over to The Electric Cinema at 11pm for very special late night screening of John Waters’ film in a subtle, measured way. ‘A Dirty Shame’ (Tracy Ullman falls into a underground subculture of Baltimore sex addicts lead 12 13 12 by Johnny Knoxville) hosted by Birmingham’s queen of trash Ginny Lemon. Tickets from £8.20 Thursday 14 November, 7pm til late Friday 15 November, 8pm Presented in partnership with Birmingham Hippodrome A BOM BIRTHDAY SHOUT VOGUE BALL and DanceXchange. BIRMINGHAM OPEN MEDIA (BOM), BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME, 1 DUDLEY ST, B5 4EG FREE , SOUTHSIDE B5 4TB £10-17

ABOUT THE SHOW: ABOUT THE EVENT: It’s finally here! Birmingham’s first ‘An emotional whirlwind from start to This one’s pretty Continuing with our theme of Vogue Ball has arrived. Category is: finish, I left feeling elated and so proud’ straight forward, turn queer excellence. celebrating anniversary years we’re up and have a great night partying LGBTQ Arts Review teaming up with our friends at BOM in a gallery. Expect great art, Club culture meets high art, as Vogue (for Contact Vogue Ball, Manchester) on Dudley Street to celebrate their 5th some special guest performances Houses come together from across Birthday and our 10th year, for an epic throughout the night, and a the UK (including Birmingham’s evening of music, visuals, dancing, free glass of fizz to kick off the very own House of Bab) to compete and electric dreams. celebrations - don’t mind if we do. for dance supremacy in a catwalk spectacular pulled straight from New York City’s iconic ballroom culture. Celebrating global vogue culture and putting the cute into QTIPOC, get ready as we pose, strut, and slay in an extravaganza of costume, dance, and high drama as the fiercest voguers and performers battle it out, all hosted by queer icon Rikki Beadle-Blair.

It’s about time Birmingham had its own Vogue Ball - so here we are. We can’t wait to welcome House of Ghetto (and house mother Darren Pritchard) to run this show and BRING IT to Brum. We’re creating Birmingham’s very own vogue house, the IMPORTANT INFO: HOUSE OF BAB - if you’re interested in getting involved Suitable for ages 16+. This is a majority standing visit: www.shoutfestival.co.uk event, limited seating is available (additional seating will be made available to anyone with access needs).15 14 Saturday 16 November 7.45pm Pull out SPLIT BRITCHES | UNEXPLODED ORDNANCES (UXO) listings BIRMINGHAM REP, BROAD STREET, B1 2EP from £15

VISUAL ARTS NIGHTINGALE50 Freddelanka | Nightingale50 Murals From September 2019 - March 2020 On display at the Nightingale Club from SHOUT is working on a brand new Tuesday 5 November project - Nightingale50 - which will map, record, and preserve the history Softly Spoken Collective | Moving In of Birmingham’s first , The Throughout the festival, various locations Nightingale over its 50 year history. Ryan Kearney | If Memory Serves Over this period we’ll be recording Birmingham Hippodrome, Saturday 14 histories of the venue and life for September - Thursday 14 November LGBTQ+ people in Birmingham since 1969, and finding images and photos WORKSHOPS / TRAINING / SKILLS / LEARNING of the iconic venue to make a new documentary film about its history. Peggy Shaw and ‘SPLIT BRITCHES does exactly what we Louis Weaver, the Queer Skills For Queer Artists need art that is set, and made, in troubled WE NEED YOU TO GET INVOLVED! infamous SPLIT All day workshop, Birmingham LGBT times to do – send us out with questions’ BRITCHES, are Centre, Sat 9 November, 11am-5.30pm Have you got a story to share about The two of the foremost figures MIRO MAGAZINE Alter Ego Poetry Workshop | Gale? Have you got photos or videos in queer performance art Dean Atta, Birmingham Hippodrome, from its history? Are you interested in volunteering to help record this and lesbian identity - its an ABOUT THE SHOW: Saturday 9 November, 1pm honour to have them with us at fascinating history? For more details visit: Queering the Sector: Meaningful SHOUT. Unexploded Ordnances Combining a Dr Strangelove-inspired www.shoutfestival.co.uk or get in touch. Care, Meaningful Change Conference, (UXO) is a hopeful, whimsical, performance with a daring forum Friday 8 November, 10am-5pm Nightingale50 is supported with funding human exploration of ageing, for public conversation, Unexploded from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. anxiety and the unexplored Ordnances (UXO) explores ageing, potential in each of us. anxiety, hidden desires and how to look forward when the future is uncertain. (Image: Juno Birch | SHOUT opening Party | pg 4) 16 17 Snow Hill FESTIVAL MAP All information is correct Birmingham at the time of going to print, Cathedral subject to change, please visit the website for more information. Our SHOUT Festival Google Map is Library of available on our website: Birmingham www.shoutfestival.co.uk Centenary Square Moor Symphony Street Hall

BIRMINGHAM LGBT CENTRE 38-40 Holloway Circus, B1 1EQ BIRMINGHAM NIGHTINGALE CLUB New Street 18 Kent St, B5 6RD Bullring THE LOFT 143 Bromsgrove St, B5 6RG THE VILLAGE INN 152 Hurst St, B5 6RY Mailbox BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME Hurst St, B5 4TB DANCEXCHANGE 1 Thorp St, B5 4AU BIRMINGHAM REP Broad St, B1 2EP THE OLD JOINT STOCK 4 Temple Row, B2 5NY BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Chamberlain Square, B3 3DH SOUTHSIDE BIRMINGHAM OPEN MEDIA (BOM) 1 Dudley St, B5 4EG THE ELECTRIC CINEMA 47-49, Station St, B5 4DY MIDLANDS ARTS CENTRE (MAC) Cannon Hill Park, Queen's Ride, B12 9QH 45/47 BUS 18 19 18 10 MIN DRIVE 19 LISTINGS

DATE TIME EVENT PRICE VENUE P Hedwig and The Angry Tue 5 7pm £5 + The Nightingale 2 Inch Reel Herstories: The Penthouse @ Wed 6 7.30pm Rebel Dykes and £5 + 3 The Loft Lounge The Archivettes Thu 7 7.30pm Deep in Vogue £5 + The Nightingale 4 £5 adv, Birmingham Fri 8 7.30pm Hit the Ode 7 £8 otd Hippodrome Sat 9 8pm Queer and Now £5 Birmingham REP 8 The Old Joint Sun 10 3.30pm Algorithms £10 + 9 Stock Sunday 17 Nov, from 12pm Where do we go from Birmingham Mon 11 7.30pm here? Queerness and £4 + Museum & Art 10 Faith Gallery SHOUT OUT FAB! THE from Tue 12 8pm Are you Proud? MAC 11 £8.35 COMMUNITY DAY FABULOUS Jaivant Patel Dance | from Wed 13 7.30pm MAC 12 YAATRA £8.50 MAC BIRMINGHAM, KIDS PARTY QUEEN'S RIDE, B12 9QH John Waters: £27.50 Birmingham 2pm, £4 per person Wed 13 8pm - 13 This Filthy World £32.50 Hippodrome from ABOUT THE DAY: ABOUT FAB: Wed 13 11pm A Dirty Shame The Electric 13 £8.20 Taking over MAC’s public spaces is This year’s SHOUT OUT will Birmingham Open Thu 14 7pm A BOM Birthday FREE 14 a packed programme of live music, also include a very special daytime Media (BOM) creative workshops, performances, and family party aimed at children Birmingham Fri 15 8pm SHOUT Vogue Ball £10-17 15 crafting from local LGBTQ+ artists and families. Hippodrome and community groups. Expect talks, We’re bringing all of our most SPLIT BRITCHES | from activities, and an opportunity to socialise Sat 16 7.45pm Birmingham REP 16 glittery and colourful friends to Unexploded Ordnances £15 all for free. SHOUT OUT is also host throw a FABULOUS family party from SHOUT OUT Community to our annual much loved programme with music, DIY costume making, Sun 17 FREE MAC 21 12pm Day of short films. Curated by the brilliant fun games, and of course, a disco. Rico Johnson Sinclair from CineQ, this FAB! The Fabulous Suitable for ages 3+, so bring your Sun 17 2pm £4 MAC 21 year’s programme shines a light on the Kids Party little ones and get ready to boogie! issues and experiences of LGBTQ+ Travis Alabanza | from Sun 17 6.30pm MAC 22 communities the world over. BURGERZ £8.50 Thu 21, Nathaniel Hall | The Old Joint 8pm £10 + 23 Returning to MAC for 2019 is probably our favourite day of the Fri 22 First Time Stock festival, the annual SHOUT OUT Community Day! Come along for the whole day or just stop by for an hour, there’s always something going on. A full line up for the day will be announced on www.shoutfestival.co.uk 20TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT SHOUTFESTIVAL.CO.UK 21 21 Sunday 17 November, 6.30pm Thurs 21 & Fri 22 November, 8pm TRAVIS ALABANZA | BURGERZ NATHANIEL HALL | FIRST TIME MAC BIRMINGHAM, THE OLD JOINT STOCK THEATRE, QUEEN'S RIDE, B12 9QH From £8.50 4 TEMPLE ROW WEST, B2 5NY £10 +

‘Although fragile, Alabanza is sassy ABOUT THE SHOW: and witty, feeding off the audience like ‘First Time has made a timely Can you remember your first time? a seasoned cabaret star and riding the generational update to the story of Nathaniel can’t seem to forget his. unpredictability of the interactive format’ acquiring and living with HIV. But this To be fair, he has had it playing on repeat THE GUARDIAN is an intensely personal story, and in for the last 15 years. HIV+ theatre-maker, staying true to that, Hall has created Nathaniel Hall, presents a funny and something universal and deeply moving' frank autobiographical solo show about staying positive in a negative world. ATTITUDE MAGAZINE

ABOUT THE SHOW: After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, Travis Adding to a line-up of Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. absolute icons is the How they’re cooked. How they feel and unfathomably talented smell. This show is the climax of their (and award winning) Travis Alabanza obsession. Exploring how trans bodies whose performance in BURGERZ survive, BURGERZ is a performance blew us away. Their show is smart, OK, so technically the festival finishes on Nov 17 but we couldn’t that is timely, unsettling and powerful. funny, searingly painful, and one of let Nathaniel Hall’s hilarious and important show pass us by. He took the most powerful experiences we’ve the Edinburgh Fringe by storm this summer, and now he’s coming to had in the theatre. It’s an urgent call IMPORTANT INFO: Contains real meat Birmingham. Coinciding with National HIV testing week, Friday’s performance to arms to all of us to be better allies being cooked, haze, a loud noise and will include a post-show discussion with Dr. David White from the Birmingham and to demand a better future. themes of harassment and violence Heartlands HIV Service. 22Suitable for ages 14+. 23 23 Unforgettable performance, powered by you 0844 338 5000* birminghamhippodrome.com *Calls cost 4.5p per min plus access charge.

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THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL SAT 14 SEPT - THURS 14 NOVEMBER SOFTLY SPOKEN COLLECTIVE | RYAN KEARNEY | IF MEMORY SERVES BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME, MOVING IN FREE HURST STREET, SOUTHSIDE B5 4TB FREE

ABOUT THE PROJECT: Moving In is a collective re-imagining Softly Spoken Collective If we wrote a list of of what queer spaces could and should (Bethany Slinn, Liz the things we were feel like for those who need them. It’s Ord, & Hazel Sealeaf) most passionate about a creative consultation; throughout have a uniquely brilliant way of Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ history, SHOUT Festival, we’ll be holding mutual thinking about the future. fighting against the closure of learning workshops to ask the community When we first heard their proposal queer spaces, and platforming what we need and want, how do we make to bring communities together to Midlands artists would be at the queer spaces accessible to everyone, and collaboratively design what the top of it. If Memory Serves covers what is Utopia for LGBTQI+ spaces ideal queer space might look like all of these and more. Running in the Midlands. The results will be we fell in love. The SHOUT Artist alongside SHOUT’s Nightingale presented back to the community in is Residence position is a chance 50 project (which aims to preserve multi-form artistic imaginings, designs, for artists to expand their practice the history of Birmingham’s first and ideas in early 2020. and work with local LGBTQ+ gay bar), Ryan Kearney’s sensitive communities - Moving In was Details of how to get involved in the project and nuanced exhibition is full of the perfect fit. will be announced online in October. powerful memory and intricate detail from 50 years of the Nightingale Club.

ABOUT THE PROJECT: If Memory Serves is a research project narrating the Nightingale Club’s previous venue on Thorp Street, which in 1994 was acquired for the Hippodrome’s expansion. Through a combination of first-hand accounts and archival material, artist Ryan Kearney’s exhibition considers the role of memory in forming a queerer archive, while encouraging discussions around the regeneration of the city's LGBTQ+ spaces.

INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NIGHTINGALE? Don’t miss a series of new specially Have you got a story to share about commissioned murals which will be the Gale? Are you interested in getting unveiled at the SHOUT opening party involved in a new project about (page 4) and on display permanently preserving the history of the Gay Village? at the Nightingale Club! For details visit: www.shoutfestival.co.uk 27 26 27 v

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birminghamrep @birminghamrep @therepbirmingham Funded by: Registered in England 295910 Charity No.223660 28 birminghammuseums.org.uk 29 WORKSHOPS / TRAINING / SKILLS / LEARNING HEY, ARTS SECTOR! Friday 8 November, 10am - 5pm QUEERING THE SECTOR: MEANINGFUL CARE, MEANINGFUL CHANGE

Saturday 9 November, Saturday 9 November, 1pm 11am - 5.30pm QUEER SKILLS FOR ALTER EGO QUEER ARTISTS POETRY WORKSHOP | DEAN ATTA £5: independent artists BIRMINGHAM LGBT CENTRE, BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME, & producers/unwaged 38-40 HOLLOWAY CIRCUS, B1 1EQ BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME, HURST STREET, SOUTHSIDE B5 4TB £20: funded organisations HURST ST, SOUTHSIDE B5 4TB

Being an artist is an amazing thing, but it’s Who would you be in another body? In our adversarial political climate, Sessions will focus on: also full of complicated skills to master and Another life? Another world? With a queerness offers strategies, possibilities • Supporting queer artists, on tour hoops to jump through. We know it can be super power? With a million pounds? and ways of working that are original, and inside institutions. tough, especially when you’re at the early With nothing holding you back? In cooperative, sustainable and can • Class, disability, and what barriers stages of your career so we’re launching a this poetry workshop you will explore empower marginalised communities. stops queer people from accessing new initiative for queer artists to help give your alter ego, inspired by comic book Grand Union Gallery, The Marlborough the arts. you the practical and professional skills characters, drag performers, and the Pub & Theatre (New Queers on the • Tokenism and representations of to kick-start your careers. Consider this gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece. Block) and SHOUT Festival present an race in queer art. the ultimate artist glow-up day. The Queer • Regional perspectives of queerness Named one of the most influential informal day of provocations, discussion Skills for Queer Artists Day does exactly and meaningful engagement outside LGBT people in the UK by the and networking for the arts and heritage what it says on the tin, we’re bringing some of urban centres. Independent on Sunday, Poet Dean sector exploring how we can better of the UK’s leading queer producers and Atta follows hosting Hit The Ode with support queer artists, audiences, We will welcome artists, researchers, artists to run a day-long programme of an unmissable poetry workshop open and communities. curators, community organisers to come workshops covering a range of topics: to all presented with Apples and Snakes. together, share, and learn from examples • How to build a budget of sector-leading work with queer £5 + • Knowing your worth Come join us as communities. Drawing on experience • How to get your work booked across artforms and curatorial practices, we unpack the • How to market yourself including theatre, performance, and visual ways the sector can • How to make organisations art, we will offer an intersectional view of better support queer artists, aware of your work queerness providing practical approaches audiences, and communities. to responding to the specific needs of, Spaces are limited. £10 + 30 and barriers that face our communities.31 BELove SEXY - BEis CONFIDENT Love Your sexual health is important. Love yourself and love your partners. Southside Be in control and confidently enjoy your relationships.

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