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'Celebrating, preserving and sharing the LGBTQIA+ film heritage of Kent and the South East' was an Our Screen Heritage project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and led by Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton in partnership with Queer Heritage South.
It ran from November 2021 – April 2023.
The project was dedicated to working with two LGBTQIA+ organisations in the South East – Folkestone Pride and Margate Pride – so that together the organisations could collect, curate and exhibit films/moving images related to the life of our LGBTQIA+ communities. This new collection has been preserved, digitised and catalogued and been made freely available to us all to see.
Our Screen Heritage was shaped by two key activities.
The first was the creation of a team of volunteer curators. Queer Heritage South ran workshops introducing the volunteers to heritage issues, the work of archives and the importance of having an intersectional approach in this work.
The second activity was SASE’s open call for new films to use and preserve. SASE encouraged submission about all aspects of LGBTQIA+ life in the region. This was bolstered by the work of the Pride and volunteer teams, who spent hours in their own communities collecting and recording new footage, ensuring that these stories are preserved as part of the collection.
Additional work also took place in Brighton, where students curated the footage collected as part of the project. In Worthing, in collaboration with Photoworks, workshops were run with LGBTQIA+ young people who responded to the themes of the project and created their own films.
Margate LGBTQIA+ film heritage
In Margate, following on from a series of introductory events and workshops the team of Margate volunteers created three events to showcase their project outputs, these were known as the ‘Condiments trilogy’:
> ‘The Weirdness of Queerness’
> ‘archive as (Quiet Rebellion)’
> ‘Films ‘n’ Chips’
Folkestone LGBTQIA+ film heritage
Folkestone Pride is an LGBTQIA+ led community organisation that organises Folkestone’s annual town-wide Pride Festival as well as events throughout the year.
It seeks to promote tolerance, inclusion and community, whilst also acknowledging and celebrating diversity. Its summer parade is its biggest event – in 2019 there were over 1,000 people in attendance. In addition, it provides safe spaces for people to meet, socialise, and learn. It is proactively involved in raising awareness, educating, and advising on issues that face this community.
Following on from a series of introductory events and workshops the team of Folkestone volunteers created a series of seven events and exhibitions to showcase their project outputs, these ranged from library displays, to performances to exhibition tours. Each of the exhibitions focused on a theme that the curators thought of particular importance. The events were were:
> A display at Folkestone Museum
> Future Archive Exhibition
> Pride, Protest and Parties exhibition
> Families and Leisure exhibition
> Nature exhibition
> The Origins Untold Takeover Tour
> Final Gala and Show
Brighton LGBTQIA+ film heritage
Whilst the majority of Our Screen Heritage’s work took place in Folkestone and Margate, there were also many submissions of footage from the local community in Brighton. SASE also worked with a group of University of Brighton students to display and curate films collected as part of the project as well as objects and stills from SASE’s collection to celebrate LGBTQ+ history month.
Acknowledgements
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage fund, Our Screen Heritage was made possible thanks to the hard work, time and dedication of the teams at Margate and Folkestone Pride, as well as our partners at Queer Heritage South. Screen Archive South East were also lucky to work with wonderful videographs Tiff Cryer and Hayley White as well as videographers Shaun PRICKIMAGE and Alex Davies.
It ran from November 2021 – April 2023.
The project was dedicated to working with two LGBTQIA+ organisations in the South East – Folkestone Pride and Margate Pride – so that together the organisations could collect, curate and exhibit films/moving images related to the life of our LGBTQIA+ communities. This new collection has been preserved, digitised and catalogued and been made freely available to us all to see.
Our Screen Heritage was shaped by two key activities.
The first was the creation of a team of volunteer curators. Queer Heritage South ran workshops introducing the volunteers to heritage issues, the work of archives and the importance of having an intersectional approach in this work.
The second activity was SASE’s open call for new films to use and preserve. SASE encouraged submission about all aspects of LGBTQIA+ life in the region. This was bolstered by the work of the Pride and volunteer teams, who spent hours in their own communities collecting and recording new footage, ensuring that these stories are preserved as part of the collection.
Additional work also took place in Brighton, where students curated the footage collected as part of the project. In Worthing, in collaboration with Photoworks, workshops were run with LGBTQIA+ young people who responded to the themes of the project and created their own films.
Margate LGBTQIA+ film heritage
In Margate, following on from a series of introductory events and workshops the team of Margate volunteers created three events to showcase their project outputs, these were known as the ‘Condiments trilogy’:
> ‘The Weirdness of Queerness’
> ‘archive as (Quiet Rebellion)’
> ‘Films ‘n’ Chips’
Folkestone LGBTQIA+ film heritage
Folkestone Pride is an LGBTQIA+ led community organisation that organises Folkestone’s annual town-wide Pride Festival as well as events throughout the year.
It seeks to promote tolerance, inclusion and community, whilst also acknowledging and celebrating diversity. Its summer parade is its biggest event – in 2019 there were over 1,000 people in attendance. In addition, it provides safe spaces for people to meet, socialise, and learn. It is proactively involved in raising awareness, educating, and advising on issues that face this community.
Following on from a series of introductory events and workshops the team of Folkestone volunteers created a series of seven events and exhibitions to showcase their project outputs, these ranged from library displays, to performances to exhibition tours. Each of the exhibitions focused on a theme that the curators thought of particular importance. The events were were:
> A display at Folkestone Museum
> Future Archive Exhibition
> Pride, Protest and Parties exhibition
> Families and Leisure exhibition
> Nature exhibition
> The Origins Untold Takeover Tour
> Final Gala and Show
Brighton LGBTQIA+ film heritage
Whilst the majority of Our Screen Heritage’s work took place in Folkestone and Margate, there were also many submissions of footage from the local community in Brighton. SASE also worked with a group of University of Brighton students to display and curate films collected as part of the project as well as objects and stills from SASE’s collection to celebrate LGBTQ+ history month.
Acknowledgements
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage fund, Our Screen Heritage was made possible thanks to the hard work, time and dedication of the teams at Margate and Folkestone Pride, as well as our partners at Queer Heritage South. Screen Archive South East were also lucky to work with wonderful videographs Tiff Cryer and Hayley White as well as videographers Shaun PRICKIMAGE and Alex Davies.
| Short title | Our Screen Heritage |
|---|---|
| Status | Finished |
| Effective start/end date | 1/10/21 → 1/02/23 |
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