shoutfestival.co.uk @SHOUTfestival @SHOUT_festival FESTIVAL OF QUEER ARTS & CULTURE Image: Juno Birch | SHOUT opening Party BIRMINGHAM 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 Gay Village, 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, BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME, 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.