LGBTQ
Text Artefact Identity: Horace Walpole and the Queer Eighteenth Century
Strawberry Hill House 268 Waldegrave Rd, Twickenham, London, United KingdomThis conference will bring together scholars and curators from the disciplines of Literature, Cultural History, Art and Architectural History, and Heritage to investigate LGBTQ perspectives on the “long” eighteenth century. […]
Case Studies Live: Preparing for Pride, LGBTQIA+ Learning and Engagement
Creating Queer Learning Programming: Our first speaker is Claire Mead. Claire will speaking about her work on Anne Lister Online: Digital engagement around historical lesbians . Exploring the question "How can we create new engaging digital content linked to lesbian historical figures within museums and heritage? " Claire will speak about her digital engagement work […]
Rural Voices – The Rural Museums Network Seminar Series
Online , United KingdomThe Rural Museums Network is pleased to launch its new Seminar Series – tailoring contemporary thinking and practice to those who work with rural life collections, providing practical suggestions and support. Join us for monthly tea break seminars this October, November and December to hear expert panels discuss how rural collections and rural sites can […]
LGBTQIA+ Awareness Training – hosted by Curious Arts
This 2.5hr training session aims to raise awareness, increase confidence around the use of inclusive language and provides a greater understanding of the intersectionality of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Rural Voices – The Rural Museums Network Seminar Series
OnlineThe Rural Museums Network is pleased to launch its new Seminar Series – tailoring contemporary thinking and practice to those who work with rural life collections, providing practical suggestions and support. Join us for monthly tea break seminars this October, November and December to hear expert panels discuss how rural collections and rural sites can […]
LGBTQIA+ Awareness Training
OnlineSupporting gender identities and sexual orientations, exploring approaches to best practice and learning how to be more proactive, accessible, inclusive and informed. Curious Arts deliver LGBTQIA+ Awareness Training to ensure […]
How to Queer a Painting
OnlineWhat makes an artwork queer, and how do you begin exploring art from a queer perspective? Researching LGBTQ+ experiences is notoriously challenging. Our stories are so often left out of the narrative of human history. Still whilst there is a lot of talk of the importance of inclusion, we often forget the most important part… […]
Finding the Words: Queer Language in Heritage
Zoom , United KingdomLed by Claire Mead, this session will look at how to use contemporary queer language when discussing people of the past. Together, we will learn and practice how to use […]
Decolonising Portrait Collections and Interpretation: Care, Repair and Intersectional Re-Imaginations
Online , United KingdomA webinar for museum, gallery and heritage professionals and academics engaged with portrait research, interpretation and display. How can we use portraiture to unearth erased or invisible histories or challenge colonial narratives? And what role does the radical imagination play in decolonial and intersectional curatorial practices and interpretations of portraiture? This event will engage with […]