Blackpool’s newest multi-artform festival, Queer Amusements, lit up the North-West from April to September 2024. A new short film from Tiktok Award nominee James Barnett (best known for his channel @makemeaoffer with parents Teresa and Michael), Queers in Blackpool, shines a light on the people who were involved, the town it took place in, and […]
This September, Marlborough Productions celebrates 15 years of creating and supporting boundary-pushing, cutting-edge queer performance, parties, heritage and radical gatherings. A catalyst for queer culture and community, Marlborough Productions has worked alongside writers, performers, activists, changemakers and more, including Juno Dawson, Travis Alabanza, Harry Clayton-Wright, David Hoyle and Thick & Tight.
Queer Heritage South – run by the team from queer producing company Marlborough Productions – has announced initial support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the development of its project Queer Heritage South: Live Archive, which aims to create a city-wide, long-term strategy for the collection, archiving, and sharing of our city’s rich LGBTQ+ […]
The programme has commissioned these new artists to embark on a six-month development period across New Queers on the Block’s national network
Still buzzing from a jam-packed Brighton Fringe programme and clad in his retro lavender style – a look I’ve come to associate with the man behind the Marly – I sat down with Tarik Elmoutawakil to discuss the challenges and rewards that come with programming queer performance.
