Homotopia is the international festival of queer arts and culture, which runs each November in Liverpool. The organisation supplements its three-week celebration of gay culture with Trailblazer events and an innovative social justice and youth engagement programme throughout the year.
The festival has forged important partnerships and collaborations with Liverpool galleries and arts venues to offer insightful exhibitions of gay arts across the calendar.
The making of Archetype.
David Hoyle explores identity, types and labels from gay culture in this post Olympian interrogation of the body, muscle, ageing & size.....
An afternoon romp in the Walker's Sculpture Galllery. Featuring live art & performance from Darren Pritchard, Rhyannon Styles, Julie 'Psycho' Jones and Gerry Potter.
As part of Andrew Logan's 'Welcome to My World' exhibition at The Gallery in Liverpool, Andrew also held an alternative fashion show, highlighting some of his amazing work.
David Hoyle explores identity, types and labels from gay culture in this post Olympian interrogation of the body, muscle, ageing & size.....
An afternoon romp in the Walker's Sculpture Galllery. Featuring live art & performance from Darren Pritchard, Rhyannon Styles, Julie 'Psycho' Jones and Gerry Potter.
Today was the final day of the Council House Movie Star installation at Camp & Furnace. Here's a short slice.
An immersive theatre & live art experience. Council House Movie Star captures the sublimely bizarre characteristics of the everyday life of Gale Force, an ageing WAG/HAG queen (and failed child star of OMO Washing Powder) in her resurrected Council House. Audiences are invited to step through the front door into Gale's dated council house interior. Visitors might see Gale or her social worker Dawn Patrol, friend Donna Reah or international drag queen Cris D'Bray. There is also a 15 minute film shot in the original council house in Manchester. What happens when drag queens get old in this unforgiving, youth obsessed, Jeremy Kyle world?
Council House Movie Star has been funded by Edge Hill University and is a collaboration between performance artist, dance maker and Senior Lecturer Mark Edward (Department of Performing Arts, Edge Hill University) and award winning film makers and Senior Lecturers Rosa Fong and Dr Mark Fremaux (Department of Media, Edge Hill University).
Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw have been partners both offstage and on since the late 1970s. In this whistle stop tour of their life together they explore some of their favourite scenes, some obscure gems and some things completely new. Direction Bette Bourne. Writers Neil Bartlett, Nicolas Bloomfield, Bela Borgia, Jimmy Camicia, Constantin Cavafy, Ray Dobbins, Tim Fountain, Dorothy Parker, Paul Shaw, Oscar Wilde
One of the exhibition Curators, James Lawler introduces Andrew Logan's work.
Andrew Logan has exhibited his jewellery and sculptures all over the world from India to Beverley Hills, St Petersburg to Mexico, creating commissions for The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and The Flowers East Gallery, London.
Andrew famously created the Alternative Miss World events which have been an exciting and creative part of London's cultural calendar since the early 1970′s. These spectacular events played host to a diverse and wide ranging cast of renowned artists, designers and actors, (e.g David Hockney, Derek Jarman and Brian Eno) and featured in the recent film 'The British Guide to Showing Off'.
Now Homotopia will premiere a retrospective show of Andrew's sculptures, portraits and jewellery which will include work from his own sculpture museum in Berriew, in the Welsh Marches, as well as new commissions created for the exhibition.
Horsemeat/A Beautiful Hell/Bitter Suite
Award winning choreographer Gary Clarke, in association with Edge FWD and 12 Degrees North, brings together 3 of his most recent dance works in an electrifying evening that will move, excite and enthral.
Mentored and directed by the late Nigel Charnock, Horsemeat is a bold, brash and brutally honest autobiographical solo that confronts the gritty realities surrounding love, life, sexuality and the pains of growing up.
Following a sell out run at this year's Edinburgh Festival, A Beautiful Hell sees 9 young men present a vivid landscape of dreams and desires that explores the notion of exclusion and what it's like to be an outsider.
For his most recent work, Clarke throws together 6 women, 1 man and a room full of envy. Bitter Suite is a fast, furious yet incredibly touching portrayal of human relationships.
1 Dancer
1 Audience
1 Song
1 Experience
1 is a brand new dance experience from the multi award winning Choreographer Darren Pritchard.
Commissioned by Homotopia
Despite criminalisation, persecution and the threat violent homophobic attacks, Uganda's LGBTI community celebrates the country's first Gay Pride event on the shore of Lake Victoria, Entebbe, Uganda, 2012.
Rachel Adams is a documentary and portrait photographer who works with sub-cultures internationally, capturing otherwise unseen aspects of life.
You can support them here www.ugandans4rights.org
An immersive theatre & live art experience. Council House Movie Star captures the sublimely bizarre characteristics of the everyday life of Gale Force, an ageing WAG/HAG queen (and failed child star of OMO Washing Powder) in her resurrected Council House. Audiences are invited to step through the front door into Gale's dated council house interior. Visitors might see Gale or her social worker Dawn Patrol, friend Donna Reah or international drag queen Cris D'Bray. There is also a 15 minute film shot in the original council house in Manchester. What happens when drag queens get old in this unforgiving, youth obsessed, Jeremy Kyle world?
Council House Movie Star has been funded by Edge Hill University and is a collaboration between performance artist, dance maker and Senior Lecturer Mark Edward (Department of Performing Arts, Edge Hill University) and award winning film makers and Senior Lecturers Rosa Fong and Dr Mark Fremaux (Department of Media, Edge Hill University).
The year-long exhibition of legendary gay artist Tom of Finland ended in December 2011 attracting a record audience of 90,000 to the logomo space where it was presented for the year long EoCC programme. The exhibition which opened in January 2011 was part of the official programme for Turku European Capital of Culture 2011 and presented by Homotopia in partnership with Turku 2011 Foundation and the Tom of Finland Foundation Los Angeles. The exhibition was a key highlight of the Homotopia Festival when Liverpool was European Capital of Culture in 2008 attracting record audiences of 7000. The major retrospective of works on paper with 70 rare and iconic drawings from (1944-1989) on special loan from the permanent collection of the Tom of Finland Foundation Los Angeles. A film written and directed by Mies Mikkonen.
UK Premiere
The Arabic word "Habibi" is the male connotation of darling/my beloved. Based on a true story, this moving dance piece from Austria's most prolific touring dance company explores the struggle of two gay Iranian teenagers.
14 November 7.30pm
Bluecoat Chambers, School Lane, L1
A brand new play about legendary music manager Brian Epstein in the year that celebrates 50 years since The Beatles came together and is the first major production at the new refurbished Epstein Theatre.
The play charts Epstein's adult life and illustrious career from drama school days to managing the world's biggest pop group. Brian's short life was crammed with success and controversy; an intelligent gay man whose presence, taste, vision and passion left a lifelong impact on the world. Brian was born in Liverpool in 1934 to Jewish descent and died in 1967 of an accidental overdose at the age of 32.
Created by Jen Heyes and Andrew Sherlock starring Andrew Lancel as Brian Epstein.
A supremely well-sung and coolly contemporary look at one of the most intriguing questions of musical theatre -- just what is it that makes a woman in trousers so appealing ? Mezzo-soprano Jessica Walker and theatre director Neil Bartlett conjure up an entire world, from the swaggering cross-dressers of the Victorian Music Hall, to the ambiguous boy-heroes of Mozart and Strauss.
Devised by Neil Bartlett and Jessica Walker
Performed by Jessica Walker
Directed by Neil Bartlett
Pianist James Holmes
Winner Best Documentary Teddy Award Berlinale 2012 Winner Cinema Fairbindet Prize Honourable Mention Jury Award Sheffield Documentary Festival 2012 In a country where ninety-five percent of the population condone the criminalisation of homosexuality, a group of queer activists are fighting to prevent this legislative proposal from going ahead. This film describes the life of David Kato, Uganda's first openly gay activist, and his comrades-in-arms. His is a life constantly pervaded by fear of attack, but also characterised by moments of happiness and celebration. Events take a tragic turn when David Kato is found dead in his bed having been bludgeoned to death. In its quietly observational way, this film portrays an exceptionally homophobic and Christian-fanatical environment, the extremity of which helps to strengthen Uganda's LGBT community.
Caz 'N' Britney hit the Unity stage with a journey from Primark to prison in a two-woman musical comedy that will bring tears to your eyes and aches to your belly!
Supported through Queercore artist development programme.
Amy Lamé invites you to her birthday party. Morrissey's invited too; will
he arrive clutching a bunch of flowers? Will he turn up at all? Cake and quiffs, balloons and beer, party poppers and pass the parcel collide against a soundtrack of teenage obsession in this immersive, interactive show/party.
by/starring: Amy Lamé
directed by: Scottee
The drag show at the end of the world.
Drag fabulist Dickie Beau shapeshifts through a soundscape of lost souls in this theatrical 'trip' to an underworld of icons in exile. An adventure in found sound, 'Blackouts' brings to life extraordinary audio artefacts to tell the story of the dark sides of stars estranged not only from society, but also from themselves....
Andrew Logan has exhibited his jewellery and sculptures all over the world from India to Beverley Hills, St Petersburg to Mexico, creating commissions for The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and The Flowers East Gallery, London.
Andrew famously created the Alternative Miss World events which have been an exciting and creative part of London's cultural calendar since the early 1970′s. These spectacular events played host to a diverse and wide ranging cast of renowned artists, designers and actors, (e.g David Hockney, Derek Jarman and Brian Eno) and featured in the recent film 'The British Guide to Showing Off'.
Now Homotopia will premiere a retrospective show of Andrew's sculptures, portraits and jewellery which will include work from his own sculpture museum in Berriew, in the Welsh Marches, as well as new commissions created for the exhibition.
Presented by Homotopia as part of the Independents Liverpool Biennial
The opening of Duggies Fields exhibition in Liverpool on 14th September 2012. Presented by Homotopia as part of the Independents -- Liverpool Biennial.
Duggie Fields' work is a stunning combination of popular and classical imagery reworked by the artist into his own signature style. The exhibition includes paintings, prints and objects which open a window into Fields flamboyant world with pieces from his archive as well as previously unseen work. For this exhibition selected iconic images are presented in a new way, with his high colour, post-Pop figures, turned into large wall mounted perspex sculptures.
Duggie Fields trained at the Chelsea School of Art in the 1960's. He has held solo exhibitions in London, Tokyo and New York. We are delighted to present, for the first time in the North West, an anthology of his dynamic and dazzling paintings and imagery.
The Gallery Liverpool, Stanhope Street, L1
15th September-15th October
A film by Federico Fianchini, showcased on Homotopia.tv to celebrate the opening of 'Welcome to My World: Duggie Fields'.
Presented by Homotopia as part of the Independents -- Liverpool Biennial.
Duggie Fields' work is a stunning combination of popular and classical imagery reworked by the artist into his own signature style. The exhibition includes paintings, prints and objects which open a window into Fields flamboyant world with pieces from his archive as well as previously unseen work. For this exhibition selected iconic images are presented in a new way, with his high colour, post-Pop figures, turned into large wall mounted perspex sculptures.
Duggie Fields trained at the Chelsea School of Art in the 1960's. He has held solo exhibitions in London, Tokyo and New York. We are delighted to present, for the first time in the North West, an anthology of his dynamic and dazzling paintings and imagery.
On 8th June 2012, Homotopia brought 12 local housing providers together with organisations representing disabilty, race, gender and religion, Merseyside Police and the Crown Prosecution service to raise awareness of Hate Crime and the role of the housing sector in early intervention and prevention.
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Council House Movie Star - Live Art Experience
A Right Pair - BETTE BOURNE & PAUL SHAW
Andrew Logan - Welcome to My World. A look around the exhibition
Gary Clarke - Horsemeat/A Beautiful Hell/Bitter Suite
Uganda Pride - Exhibition Opening
EPSTEIN -- The Man Who Made The Beatles
Blackouts: Twilight of the Idols
Andrew Logan - Welcome to My World
Welcome to My World - Duggie Fields
