HERE’S TO YOU MRS. ROBINSON
Performing Queer Subjectivities Conference
Fri. 13th Nov. – Sunday 15th Nov.
Brian Friel Theatre,
Drama & Film Centre (QFT building)
Registration fee £45 /£30 students
(Some events have free public
admission, please see schedule for details)
In association with OUTBURST, Drama Studies at Queen’s University Belfast is hosting a conference and a weekend of related events. All events take place in the Drama and Film Centre, 20 University Square, Queen’s University. The conference will gather together academics and artists interested in exploring ideas about the place of queer performance – artistic, social or political – in contemporary society and the responses to these performances.
For more information on the conference and details on how to register, visit the Queen’s University Drama Studies page HERE
SATURDAY 14th
A series of panels covering subjects such as the political implications of Queer performance in Ireland, Queer theatre North and South and the politics of dancing. Papers range from an analysis of recent debates in the media in the South about the ‘performance’ of the LGBTQ community during and around Pride 2009 to the interrogation of sexual shame in dance performance Perverts! by queer and feminist collective PanicLab.
There will be a keynote address by Professor Brian Singleton, Trinity College Dublin, and the launch of Queer Performance in Ireland, a new collection of writings edited by David Cregan, (Carysfort Press).
Panel discussion 2pm
The Place of the Queer Arts Festival
(Free Public Session)
Speakers include Dee Heddon (University of Glasgow, author of ‘A Visitor’s Guide to Glasgay!’), photographer Daniel Holfeld, Predrag Pajdic (contributor, Queer Zagreb) and Ruth McCarthy (OUTBURST).
SUNDAY 15th
Rehearsed Play Reading 3pm
Smilin’ Through by Billy Cowan
(Free Public Reading)
Belfast 98. Peace? Not if mother-from-hell Peggy
Morrow has anything to do with it. But with her queer son on hunger strike and a singing Mountie wooing her with big musical numbers, will she be able to keep up the fight?
Directed by David Grant.
Followed by a panel discussion with David Grant, Billy Cowan, Sean Caffrey and Brenda Murphy.