You’re invited to attend Hull Museums’ two day Queer Voices in Museums symposium on exploring queer history and heritage with eight of the most exciting expert queer voices working with museums in interpretation and audience engagement. Sessions will run for 45 minutes each, with a presentation by the guest speaker followed by a Q&A. This event is open to all museum and heritage sector professionals of all career levels and a Zoom link will be sent to guests ahead of the symposium.

Thursday
Facilitator (both days) Dan Vo, Project Manager, Queer Heritage and Collections Network
10am Katie Cassels, Family Programmes Producer, National Maritime Museum
11am Claire Mead, Freelance Curator and Educator
12pm Jon Sleigh, Freelance Arts Educator and collaborator with Queer British Art

Friday
10am Lauren Field, Research and Documentation Assistant: Social History, Hull Museums
11am Mouj Anjum, Trustee, Queer Britain and Board Member, Imaan
12pm Keith Jarrett, Poet and Educator and collaborator with Tate Lates
1pm Jay Hulme Poet and Educator

Hull Museums working in partnership with Arts Council England, are committed to LGBTQ+ representation within all that we do. Recently we have been working on increasing the inclusion of LGBTQ+ narratives in our research, interpretation, and programming through new approaches to community engagement and co-curation using digital. Pride is an important event for us to show LGBTQ+ families and individuals that we support them in their own hometown. For this symposium we have invited expert guests who work across the region and around the country to help us think about how we can continue to bring Pride to our collections and help us show that we honestly and completely represent the communities around us. Museum and heritage sector professionals from across the UK are encouraged to join as what is explored will be able to be applied to many local collections and help us all open up our museums to LGBTQ+ audiences.

Following the event a short survey will be emailed to you to help us understand how we did. This will feed into our NPO Annual Survey submission to Arts Council England.