Campfire Stories and Queer Contemporary Collecting
Date: 24/11/2024 14:00
Join us for a Double Bill from 2-4pm on Sunday 24th November in the Nerve Centre Derry-Londonderry. These two archive events spotlight LGBTQIA+ perspectives in the archives. The Northern Ireland Now Project presents queer contemporary collecting in a screening and discussion at 2pm. Campfire Stories, a student-led immersive film is immediately after at 3pm. Please join us for both.
Campfire Stories is a soundscape experience combining archival footage with current queer voices and those of generations past.
University of Ulster Cinematic Arts students Em McCaughey, Laurie Crothers and Elizabeth Gibson present a campfire story experience that hears from LGBTQ+ voices using the richness of the Northern Ireland Screen Archives to bridge the conversation from past to present. Gather round the fire and settle in for an immersive audio queer event.
Starts at 3pm. Duration 60 minutes. Book your free ticket on the Foyle Film Festival website: https://foylefilmfestival.org/whats-on/campfire-stories-a-queer-soundscape-experience
Queer Contemporary Collecting is a celebration of local, contemporary queer culture with a special screening and discussion of collected videos from LGBTQIA+ participants on the Northern Ireland Now Project. This ‘work in progress’ screening and discussion will showcase a selection of video content that participants have brought together, as well as some of their thoughts on the importance of recent queer history being archived. Contributions have come from members of the BeU group, organised through Rainbow Project Belfast and the Trans Resource Centre as well as participants from Here NI Belfast and the LGBTQIA+ Heritage Project.
Starts at 2pm. Duration 30 minute screening followed by 20 minutes discussion. To book a free place contact Elspeth Vischer: e.vischer@nervecentre.org
Northern Ireland Now is a contemporary collecting project in partnership with Northern Ireland Screen which addresses underrepresentation in the Digital Film Archive and champions equality, diversity and inclusion.
Both events take place the Nerve Centre, Magazine Street, Derry-Londonderry. Contact the venue for access information. You will be able to attend both events, please make sure to book a separate ticket for each event.