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9-18 November 2017
Main funder Lead Partner
Supported by
OUTBURST TEAM
Artistic Director
INTRODUCTION Ruth McCarthy
After a great 10th anniversary festival last year, we did what people often Admin & Operations
do after a big celebration – had a bit of rest and then lots of quiet, Kathy Young
interesting conversations and contemplation about what’s next. Fran Cavanagh Event partners
We started this year’s programing with the idea of Changes.
As LGBTQ+ people, what’s changing around us and in our lives? Additional Programming
What needs to change and what’s stopping that?
What questions do we need to ask, at this time and in this place? Film:
How is art, culture and performance interacting with these tensions and Cian Smyth
how are they responding with new stories and new ways of looking at Michael Staley
things, not just for those with a queer identity but for all of us?
We wanted to find work and creative ideas that look at where we are now Queer At Queen's:
and imagine possibilities, realities, alternatives, consequences, histories, Trish McTighe
ideas, joys, affirmations and resistances, well into our queer futures. Kurt Taroff
We hope that Outburst 2017 creates spaces for you all to do just that.
OUTBURST BOARD
Ruth McCarthy Cian Smyth
Artistic Director Marie Quiery
Simon Rea
Hilary McCollum
Outburst is what we all bring to it. Thank you to the artists, producers, Judith McGimpsey
companies and venues who create and host events. Kim McAleese
Edel Murphy
SPECIAL THANKS TO: Federica Ferrieri
Colette Norwood Lizzie Devlin Siobhan Barbour
David Codling Pedro Donald Fidelma Carolan Outburst Arts Festival is a limited
Luisa Michelsen Ross Anderson-Doherty Gemma Hutton company and a Northern Ireland
All at British Council Ellen Murray Terry McGaughey Charity, number NIC102016.
Trish McTighe Naomhan O'Connor All our volunteers
Kurt Taroff Stephen, Anna and Colin Outburst is a space for creative ideas
Monica Pearl Susan, Michael and all at QFT and feral thinking.
The viewpoints expressed through
Charity Partner Festival Club
Film Hub NI Rachael & team at Black Box
events at Outburst are not
Sharon Curran Alyson Campbell
necessarily shared or endorsed by
Alice Kennelly Simon Magill & team at the MAC sponsors, funders or partners.
THEATRE & PERFORMANCE Outburst 2017 is dedicated with love to Patrick Sanders (1976-2017)
Sat 11th & Sun 12th
November
Black Box
5pm
Adult £10 Child £5
Family Ticket £22
No Income FREE*
4+
TEATRO LA PLAZA presents
Simón El Topo
(Simon the Mole)
Outburst has had some very special visitors over the years but
we’ve never had a mole from Peru. Until now.
Simón el Topo (Simon the Mole) is a joyful hymn to freedom and
a theatrical delight for both children and adults that encourages
understanding and acceptance of difference.
Simón lives in a tunnel with his family and loves flowers,
butterflies and finding things in the clouds. He doesn’t understand
that there are “things for boys” and “things for girls” and is sad
when he realizes he is not as his parents and others expect him to
be. When events send Simón on the most important journey of his
life, he gains the strength and security he needs to become a hero
by just being himself.
Performed in the international language of Mole and presented by
Outburst for the first time this side of the equator, Teatro La
Plaza’s magical puppet show is like nothing you’ve ever seen before
and the perfect tool for starting conversations with children about
homophobia and gender stereotypes.
Showtime approx. 45 mins
Both shows will be followed by a child-friendly Q&A with the
puppets and actors. On Sunday this will be followed by a short
discussion on how we address homophobia with children, with
contributions from The Rainbow Project and HereNI.
*see ticket link for details
Fri 10th November
Black Box
8.30pm sharp
£12 / £8
18+
CONTACT & SWITCHFLICKER
present
Diamond
Created in collaboration with Olivier Award-winning director
Mark Whitelaw, Outburst favourite David Hoyle stars in a
scripted stage show that explores LGBT history in the UK
spanning the 60-year period from 1957 to 2017.
Weaving intimate personal experiences with landmark political
and social events, Diamond charts David’s rise from gay
adolescent in Blackpool to Channel 4 anti-drag queen cult
phenomenon. Revisiting events such as the Wolfenden
Report, the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, the repeal
of Section 28 and the lives of prominent gay figures such as
Alan Turing, this rousing and moving theatre show offers bare
moments of personal reflection, fresh insights into queer history
and a timely reminder of what we still have to fight for.
With special guests The LipSinkers, Diamond is a unique
celebration that navigates counter-cultures and queer
experiences to lift up anyone with a song of liberation in their
heart.
Please note that this is a theatre show and will start at 8.30pm
sharp. Latecomers may not be admitted. Doors 8pm.
Directed by Mark Whitelaw
Producer and Dramaturge Jayne Compton
Sound Design Richard Torry
Lighting design Lawrence Rekkie
Visuals and photography Lee Baxter
Supported by Arts Council England
Sat 11th November
Black Box
9.30pm
Development supported by FREE ADMISSION
18+
Cake Daddy
The Single Launch
Check out Cake Daddy’s 7"…
Long-time Outburst artists and collaborators Ross Anderson-
Doherty, Marty Byrne, Alyson Campbell and Lachlan Philpott
(Bison, To Build a Bear, Qabarett, The Trouble with Harry,
GL RY) are coming together with spatulas and wooden spoons
to shake, slap and bake Cake Daddy, a chequered Battenberg of
a show that will be premiering in full next year at Outburst 2018.
This delicious new interactive banquet will plunge you belly deep
inside the experience of fat/ness, exploring the fabulosity and
fortitude required to step into the world as a fat person today.
To give you a taste of what’s in the oven, we present the world
premiere and launch of Ross and Marty's Cake Daddy single,
Cake Daddy's Recipe (Fat Is A Verb).
Come and gorge on Daddy's slice o' vinyl disco heaven!
Strictly limited edition single available to buy at event.
Creative Team: Ross Anderson-Doherty & Marty Byrne,
Alyson Campbell, Lachlan Philpott, Siobhán Barbour, Jonathan
Graffam.
Cake Daddy’s Recipe (Fat is a Verb) by Ross Anderson-Doherty and
Marty Byrne
Fri 10th, Sat 11th,
Sun 12th, Fri 17th
Sat 18th, Sun 19th Nov
Starts at Dark Horse
See times below
£8/ £5
16+
KABOSH presents
Quartered
A Love Story
Belfast’s streets and public places are many things to many people:
spaces to come together, spaces that divide or unite us, places to
party, places to pull, places that liberate, places that contain.
Written by Dominic Montague and directed by Paula McFetridge,
Belfast, A Love Story, is a promenade experience combining audio and
theatre that explores the idea of queer space and queer experiences
of spaces in our city. As LGBTQ+ people, are our city streets different
to us? When the queer maps and boundaries are drawn physically
and psychologically, who holds the pen?
Brought to life by Kabosh and informed by interviews with LGBTQ+
people in Belfast, this interactive guided walk through our unofficial
queer quarter and surrounding streets opens up a new conversation
about how gender and sexuality inform and shape how we move
through our city and how our city moves through us.
The performance begins at The Dark Horse, Hill Street and ends at
The Sunflower Bar, Union Street. Duration: 1 hour approx.
Audience capacity is four people per session.
You are encouraged to bring your own headphones,
additional headphones will be available on site.
It's a promenade performance so dress for the weather!
Contains some strong language.
Fridays and Saturdays during festival
Times: 11:45, 12:15, 12:45, 13:15, 14:45, 15:15, 15:45, 16:15
Sundays during festival
Times: 12:45, 13:15, 14:45, 15:15, 15:45. 16:15
Please book in advance.Sat 11ú Samhain
Sat 11th November
An Chultúrlann
8pm
£5
18+
TheatreofplucK presents
Liú Lúnasa presents
An Cabaret Queeráilte
Tá Outburst agus Liú Lúnasa ar bís an chéad imeacht riamh dá
leithéid i stair na nGael a fhógairt – An Cabaret Queeráilte! Beidh
manglam blasta de na healaíontóirí is Queeráilte agus is Gaelaí ag
dul ar an ardán sa Chultúrlann i gcroílár na Ceathrún Gaeltachta.
Beidh meascán mearaí ann de cheol, damhsa, drámaíocht agus
ealaíona éagsúla eile le haisteoirí, amhránaithe agus aithriseoirí
den scoth. Is í Madonna Kebab a bheas mar bhean an tí agus ar
na haíonna speisialta a bheas ann tá Conor Torbóid, Conall Mac
Corraidh agus Chris Mac Phaidín.
Seo imeacht nár mhaith leat a chailleadh – ní bheidh sé ag tarlú ach
an aon uair amháin!
Coinnigh súil ar leathanach Facebook Liú Lúnasa le tuilleadh sonraí
a fháil.
Beidh beár ann ar an oíche.
Outburst and Liú Lúnasa are thrilled to announce the first ever
Cabaret Queeráilte! This mouth-watering cocktail brings together the
queerest of Gaels and the most Gaelic of queer artists on the stage
of the Cultúrlann on the Falls Road, in the heart of the Gaeltacht
Quarter. Madonna Kebab will be our MC for the night, with Conor
Torbóid, Conall Mac Corraidh and Chris Mac Phaidín among our
special guests.
Don’t miss out on this historic, one-night-only event!
Keep an eye on the Liú Lúnasa Facebook page for more details.
The venue has a bar.Sat 11th & Sun 12th
Sat 18th & Sun19th
November
The Barracks
7.30pm
£10*
18+
TheatreofplucK presents
Tactics for Time
Travel in a Toilet
A place to hide. A place to feel. A place to time travel!
The toilet cubicle lock flicks from VACANT to ENGAGED, and
four teenagers escape out of time and space.
There is no fixed past or present, but there can only be one
future. The possibilities are not limitless.
Which future should they choose? And will it really get better?
Belfast’s own queer performance company celebrates its tenth
year with a startling new production.
Combining technology, music, and design, TheatreofplucK’s
anniversary show dispels the myths of the documented past
and presents a radical vision of our future. Politics is personal
in this poetic production at their new queer performance space,
The Barracks.
*donation to Rainbow Project
This production forms part of the Queer Visions of Peace project in
association with Ulster University and Queen’s University and is funded
by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.Sun 12th November
Lyric Theatre
8pm
£25.50 / £15 conc.
16+
TheatreofplucK presents
Ten Plagues
Mark Ravenhill & Conor Mitchell's award-winning AIDS polemic
comes to the Lyric stage for one night only, performed by the
composer Conor Mitchell and singer Matthew Cavan (aka Cherrie
on Top).
Tracing one man's journey through a city in crisis, Ten Plagues
charts the great plague of 1665. Part torch song, part Schubert, this
groundbreaking piece of music-theatre was originally written for
iconic singer Marc Almond and is presented here for the first time in
Northern Ireland.
Drawing its title from the perspective of the biblical Israelites who
survived the plagues wrought upon the Egyptians and projecting
that take on survival forward in time to 1665 when the Black Death
(The Great Plague) devastated London, it draws parallels with the
20th century emergence of AIDS - The Gay “Plague” as it was
homophobically labelled in sections of the media - and the impact
of living through the onslaught of that modern disease.
Ten Plagues is followed by a cabaret of Ravenhill/Mitchell's QUEER
CABARET SONGS, performed by Nigel Richards (Phantom of the
Opera) and directed by Kate Guelke.
A thrilling triumph. Bravo! MMMMM What's on StageMon 13th & Tues
14th November
Upstairs at The MAC
8pm
Various £12 - £18
16+
OUTBURST & TINDERBOX
in association with the MAC present
There's a Bishop
in my Bedroom
If you’ve ever been whacked by the crozier you’ll know how it feels!
Written and performed by Richard O’Leary, There's a Bishop in
my Bedroom is a hugely entertaining new one-man show that
riffs on the familiar local theme of religiously mixed marriage
to address a very contemporary topic: same-sex love and equal
marriage.
Emerging from Outburst’s New Queer Writing workshops with
Tinderbox Theatre Company last year, this performance
combines Irish oral-tradition storytelling with folk theatre to take
on sex education, sourcing illegal condoms in 90s Dublin, falling
in love, religiously mixed and same sex relationships and facing
the realities of end of life care. Based entirely on Richard’s own
extraordinary story, we follow his early years as a would-be
priest in Cork through to coming out as a gay man and falling in
love with a Protestant minister who would become his life-long
partner.
Directed by Patrick J O' Reilly, this is wonderfully feral, funny, raw
and deeply affecting storytelling theatre that will leave you in no
doubt about the power of real love and commitment.
Written & Performed by Richard O'Leary
Director Patrick J O'Reilly
Dramaturge Hanna Slattne
Designer James WatsonWed 15th & Thur 16th
November
The American Bar
7.30pm
£6.50
18+
Pintsized Theatre presents
A Cock & Bull Story
In the confines of a boxing changing room, an up-and-coming
fighter and his coach prepare for an important match. As they
psych up for the big fight that will take them from nowhere to
the somewhere of unlimited booze and women, it emerges that
Travis experiences sexual arousal in the ring. This is disturbing
to homophobic Jacko and creates an unexpected
psycholological and physical tension between the two friends,
as notions of masculinity are challenged.
Directed by Terence Keeley and performed by emerging
professional actors and theatre-makers in Belfast, A Cock
and Bull Story is Richard Crowe and Richard Zajdlic’s brilliantly
written gritty and fierce journey of discovery, brought to life for
Outburst in the American Bar in the heart of Belfast's Sailortown.Fri 17th November
Black Box
8pm (doors 7.30pm)
£8 / 6
18+
The Butch
Monologues
The Butch Monologues is a powerful and humorous collection of
secret stories exploring sexuality, vulnerability and desire,
taken from interviews with butches, masculine women and
gender rebels living world-wide.
A storytelling collaboration between hotpencil press: an
independent publishing house co-founded by the writer, Laura
Bridgeman; Vital Xposure, a dynamic touring theatre company
under the creative leadership of disabled artist, Julie McNamara;
and The Drakes, this is the continuation of project by a group of
butches, transmen and gender rebels who joined together in the
spirit of masculine solidarity, with the aim of promoting female
masculinity and butch pride.
To celebrate the publication of The Butch Monologues book,
Julie Mac and Doc will perform some of the stories, joined by
local butch dykes, transmen and trans masculine guys who
partcipated in their storytelling workshop the day before the
event, so that our stories here are included too!
See Participation section for details on how you can get
involved and tell your story.Sat 18th November
Black Box
8pm (doors 7.30pm)
£12/ £8
18+
Triple Threat
Get ready for the explosive sell-out hit of Edinburgh’s 2016
Fringe and one of the smartest and funniest underground shows
of the decade!
Post-popular prodigy Lucy McCormick and her Girl Squad
present a trashstep-dubpunk morality play for the modern world,
based on the greatest story ever told. Via a Nu-wave holy trinity
of dance, power ballads and performance art. Lucy puts her
best foot forward in the face of existential deadlock, inviting you
to join her in airing out some festering dirty laundry.
Directed by performance legend Ursula Martinez, Triple Threat
is a jaw-dropping, wild, boundary smashing queer performance
that takes on celebrity culture, religion and Christina Aguilera in
a gloriously transgressive tonic for the times we live in.
The logical endgame for popular culture. Time Out
Filthy and utterly hilarious. The Stage
One of the most extraordinary and extreme performers on the
Fringe MMMM The ScotsmanSat 18th November
Black Box
Doors 9.30pm
£8
18+
Queertopia:
The Minceball
Queertopia is back to see Outburst 2017 out in style!
Join your homoparental performance muthers Gemma Hutton/Dick
Von Dyke and Electra La Cvnt as they welcome a host of local up-and-
coming genre-non-cornforming queer artistes to the stage.
With very special guests - so special we're getting the good forks out
and covering the damp patch with a Titantic tea towel - Stephen Fae
and Dirtbird from Dublin's brilliant SPICEBAG cabaret night.
Expect unncessary amounts of glitter, pure boldness and an eclectic
mix of performance, spoken word, music and dancing til late with DJ
Pony.
Queertopia development supported by Outburst through British
Council.VISUAL ARTS
Fri 17th November
The Barracks
7.30pm
FREE
16+
Ed Madden: Ark
In a spring of floods, a son returns to rural Arkansas to help care
for his dying father.
Ed Madden’s Ark is a poetry book about family, about old
wounds and new rituals, about the extraordinary importance of
ordinary things at the end of life, about the gifts of healing to be
found in the care of the dying. At once a memoir in verse about
hospice care and a gay son’s book-length lament for a father
who cut him off a decade earlier, Ark is about the things that can
be fixed, and those that can’t.
Ed will read selections from the writing.
Ed Madden is originally from Arkansas and was named the first
Poet Laureate of Columbia, South Carolina, in 2015. He teaches
at the University of South Carolina and is the author of three
previous books of poetry—Signals (USC, 2008), which won the
South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Prodigal: Variations (Lethe,
2011), and Nest (Salmon, 2014).Launch
Thurs 9th Nov 6.30pm
Golden Thread Gallery
Continues to Dec 20th
11am - 5pm each day
(except Sun and Mon)
FREE Admission
16+
VideoBrasil & Outburst
in association with
Golden Thread Gallery
presents
Forms of Resistance
Containing video works from the 19 editions of Videobrasil
Festival, donations from artists and pieces commissioned in
Videobrasil's residency programs, the Videobrasil Historical
Collection in São Paulo hosts the most important archive of
video production and video art from the Global South.
Within this vast audiovisual library it is possible to recognize in
different moments – directly or indirectly– the presence of a
certain LGBTQI perspective. In this exhibition, curated by
Videobrasil's Gabriel Bogossian for Outburst, documentaries
and single channel videos bring the voice of a community that,
although not formally articulated, share a history marked by
violence, but also by original, inexhaustible forms of resistance.
Works by
Cândido José Mendes Almeida and Hélio Alvarez, Ruy Solberg,
Rita Moreira, Karol Radziszewski, Kika Nicoleta, Akram Zaatari,
Roy Dib, Virgina de Medeiros, Luiz Roque, Maria Kramar, Bita
Razavi, Clive van den Berg, Hui Tao.
Curator’s Talk by Gabriel Bogossian
Friday 10th Nov, 12.30pm at Golden Thread GalleryLaunch
Thurs 9th Nov 6pm
Artcetera Gallery
Continues to 25th Nov
11am - 5pm each day
(except Sundays)
FREE Admission
All
How to Unexplode
The Illustrated Life of Patrick Sanders
Illustrator, performer, artist, activist, clown doctor and one of
the founding members of Outburst, Patrick Sanders wore many
hats, each one more creative, generous and profoundly human
than the next. A gentle radical, his work ranged from the absurd
and playful to the unapologetically incendiary in responding
to inequality, prejudice and political homophobia in Northern
Ireland.
Patrick’s death by suicide earlier this year robbed many of a
beloved friend and creative co-conspirator but also took from us
a unique voice and an emerging talent who was just beginning
to get recognition for his inspired and insightful work.
Exploring and confronting local politics, world events and social
issues through cartoons and illustrations, he sought to educate
where possible and brilliantly lampoon where not.
How To Unexplode invites you to step into Patrick’s world, with
work ranging from political magazine illustrations to comic
strips about everyday queer experience. Created in collaboration
with close friends and family, this exhibition offers just a small
selection from the large body of work that Patrick left behind
and gives us a glimpse into the mind of a wonderful artist
whose legacy is one of joy, resistance and glorious mischief.
How To Unexplode is dedicated to fearlessness, to love and
above all to hope.Launch
Thurs 9th Nov 6pm
PS² Gallery
Continues to 2nd Dec
Wed-Fri 1pm - 5pm
Sat 12pm - 4pm
FREE Admission
All
Amber
Hawk Swanson
In 2006, New York-based artist Amber Hawk Swanson (b. 1980)
commissioned a life-sized sex doll to be made in her own
image, which she then went on to use in a series of documented
performance works over the following decade, collectively titled
Amber Doll Project.
This exhibition explores the feminist and queer potentials of
this ambitious—and ongoing—project, focusing on the highly
ambivalent identifications that arise between artist, doll and
viewer throughout the work and on Hawk Swanson’s use of the
hyper-gendered, hyper-sexualised doll body as a performative
vessel through which she critiques and indeed destabilises fixed
notions of gender, sexuality and identity.
Curated by Clare Gormley
Artist’s talk by Amber Hawk Swanson on
Saturday 11th November at 1pm, PS² Gallery.
Additional presentation by Amber at Queer at Queen's event on
Friday 10th Nov. See Queer at Queen's for details.Throughout festival
Black Box
Green Room
FREE Admission
All
UsFolk presents
Outburst:
Illustrated
As special Outburst project, Belfast’s UsFolk illustration agency
=is proud to present a collective body of new work from local and
international illustrators on its roster.
Focusing on the diverse sea of local and international queer
talent taking part in this year’s festival, Outburst: Illustrated will
see some of UsFolk’s finest talk artist-to-artist with people in
this year’s programme to find out what inspires and drives them
Illustration: Electra by Jamie Baird
in their life and work, and what change they see as crucial in the
world right now in 2017.
The outcome of this process will be a one-off exhibition of
illustration work based on these individuals, collectives,
movements and events. Expect everything from raw portraits to
alt event posters, and everything in between.
This is Outburst, Illustrated.Launch
Fri 10th Nov 5.30pm
Belfast Exposed
Continues to 23rd Dec
11am - 5pm each day
(except Sun & Mon)
FREE Admission
All
Anthony Luvera
Let Us Eat Cake
Let Us Eat Cake is an exhibition by Anthony Luvera made in
collaboration with a group of seven LGBTQ+people living in
Northern Ireland. Over nine months the artist worked with
participants in workshops, meetings, and through online
platforms to compile research, create photographs, and publish
a blog that explores what it means to be queer in Northern
Ireland today. Let Us Eat Cake celebrates the LGBTQ+
communities of NI and calls into question issues of identity,
representation and equality.
The exhibition forms part of the Queer Visions of Peace project
in association with the Traditional Justice Institute at Ulster
University, and Queen’s University, and is funded by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council.
Check out the project at letuseatcake.blogFilm
in partnership with
FILM
with thanks to
Peccadillo Pictures
The Film Collaborative
Latido Films
Curzon Artificial Eye
Film Hub NI
A Fanstastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio / Chile / 2017/ 104mins
Mon 13th Nov. 6.20pm QFT £6.70 / £5
Ahead of its 2018 cinema release, we’re delighted to bring you a
special advance screening of one of the most highly accaimed
queer films of the year.
Nightclub singer Marina and her older partner Orlando are in love and
planning for the future. After an evening celebrating Marina's birthday
Orlando falls seriously ill and dies on arrival at the hospital. Instead
of being allowed to mourn her loss, Marina is treated with suspicion.
The doctors don't trust her, she’s investigated by detectives, Orlando's
ex-wife forbids her from attending the funeral and his son threatens to
throw Marina out of the flat she shared with his father. In the depths
of her grief Marina takes on the very same forces that she has spent a
lifetime fighting as a trans woman to finally become who she is now -
a complex, strong, forthright and fantastic woman.
Winner of the 2017 Silver Bear and Teddy Awards and Chile’s official
submission for the 90th Academy Awards™, A Fantastic Woman
features a mesmerising debut by trans actress Daniela Vega and is
one of the most powerful trans stories we’ve seen on screen to date.
Unmissable.
Special thanks to Curzon Artificial Eye.
MMMMM The Guardian
Contains scene of transphobic violence.Signature Move Chavela
Dirs: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi / USA / 2017 / 93mins
Dir: Jennifer Reeder / USA / 2017 / 82mins
Tues 14th Nov. 6.20pm QFT £6.70 / £5
Mon 13th Nov. 8.30pm QFT £6.70 / £5
Queer heroes don’t come more captivating than Chavela Vargas - rumoured
Signature Move is a dryly funny look at modern families and the complexities lover of Frida Kahlo and Ava Gardner; bold, rebellious, sexual pioneer; raw,
of love in its many forms. Zaynab is a thirty-something Pakistani lesbian passionate performer. Chavela is a fascinating look at the unconventional life
lawyer living in Chicago who begins a new romance with Alma, a confident of the beloved singer, whose fiery renditions of Mexican popular music and
and vivacious Mexican-American woman. Zaynab’s recently widowed mother triumphant return to the stage late in life brought her international fame.
has moved in with her and spends her days watching Pakistani TV dramas
while searching for a potential husband for her only daughter, who has also Born in Costa Rica in 1919, Vargas ran away to Mexico City as a teenager
secretly taken up lucha-style wrestling. Zaynab tries to keep both her love life to sing in the streets. By the 1950s, she had become a household name in
and her wrestling a secret from her mother who knows more than she lets her adopted country for both her enthralling voice and her beauty. The film
on. With some genuinely laugh-out-loud moments, great Mexican wrestling centers around the singer's first public appearance after 15 hard years lost to
scenes and wonderful performances all round (especially Fawzia Mirza as alcoholism and heartbreak. At 81, in the final years of her life, Chavela comes
the sexy and quirky Zaynab), this is a comedy that celebrates the many faces out as a lesbian and rises into her momentous third act, becoming a muse to
of modern queer American life at a time when stories of real diversity are filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, earning a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, and
needed more than ever. selling out performances at prestigious concert halls around the world.The Wound
Dir: John Trengove / South Africa, Germany,
Netherlands &France / 2017 / 88mins
Wed 15th Nov. 6.20pm QFT £6.70 / £5
Beach Rats
Dir: Eliza Hittman / USA / 2017 / 98mins
Tues 14th Nov. 8.30pm QFT £6.70 / £5
Groundbreaking in subject matter and unflinching in its examination of
Frankie, an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn, is having traditional manhood, The Wound is a hard-edged and beautifully wrought film
a miserable summer. He escapes the bleakness of his home life by that turned heads at festivals across the world this year.
causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men In the Xhosa community of rural South Africa, lonely factory worker Xolani
online. When his chatting and webcamming intensify, he finally starts takes time off to be a caretaker to young men during Ukwaluka, an annual rite
hooking up with guys at a nearby cruising beach, despite having a of passage to symbolise the move from boyhood to manhood.
girlfriend. As Frankie struggles to reconcile his competing desires, his What brings him back each year is not tradition or duty but the opportunity to,
decisions leave him hurtling toward irreparable consequences. however briefly, re-establish his sexual relationship with his childhood friend
A big hit at Sundance this year, Beach Rats is a beautifully shot and fresh and fellow caregiver Vija, who now has a wife and family in town.
take on coming of age as a sexually confused man in a working class When Kwanda, Xolani’s defiant gay young initiate, learns of Xolani's best kept
family and one of the most compelling queer films of 2017. secret, tension builds as patriarchal masculinity is called into
question and choices must be made between the old ways and the new.PARTICIPATE After Louis Dir: Vincent Gagliostro / USA / 2017 / 100mins Wed 15th Nov. 8.30pm QFT £6.70 / £5 Artist and former AIDS activist Sam (Alan Cumming) is disillusioned with the world around him. Battlewounded and struggling with survivor's guilt after the deaths of many friends and lovers, he resents the complacency of his former comrades and derides the younger generation's seeming indifference to the politics of sex and death. When an unexpected intimacy with a younger man challenges Sam's understanding of modern gay life, the unconventional romance forces him to deal with the trauma of his past and his fear of an unknown future. Smart and refreshing in its awareness of more complex LGBTQ experience, After Louis boasts excellent performances from Cumming and Zachary Booth (Keep the Lights On) and intelligently explores the contradictions and generational differences that we navigate in the 21st century.
The Butch
Monologues
Workshop
Thurs 16th Nov
Artcetera Studio
Join Julie McNamara and Laura Bridgeman, 6.30pm - 9pm
writers and performers of brilliant Butch Monologues, FREE Admission
for a workshop on storytelling your experiences as
butch dykes and trans masculine people. 16+
Participants will have an opportunity to take part in
The Butch Monologues performance event in the Black
Throughout Festival
Box the following evening (performing is not essential, you can just take part in
Greg Thorpe Black Box Green Room
the workshop if preferred).
A Mile of
Wed-Fri 10am - late
Please register in advance at participate@outburstarts.com and let us know if
Sat-Sun 11am-late
you have any access needs.
FREE Admission
Black Paper
books v cigarettes
“When the New York Times bought its first fax machine, ACT UP faxed Originated by CCA, booksVcigarettes is a reading
them a mile of black paper to protest their silence on AIDS, effectively group that creates an informal and friendly
shutting down the machine.” – Greenwich Village History atmosphere in which to explore challenging and
This collaborative art installation commemorates, celebrates and compelling texts and ideas.
conceptually revives an activist ‘zap’ by ACT UP New York, to memorialise Taking its name from George Orwell’s essay that
those lost to AIDS, to inspire our own HIV/AIDS activism today, and to assessed the price and value of reading against
offer a medium to share thoughts, ideas, memories, intentions, activist other pursuits, the focus of Outburst’s events in
messages, questions and emotions inspired by the ongoing pandemic. partnership with CCA is queer thinking and ideas.
The intention of the original ACT UP action – to shut down We read and discuss one short essay or book
communication – is lovingly subverted into an opportunity to make our chapter out loud as a group and share thoughts as
voices heard. we go. No need to prepare or read before – just turn
All contributions are welcome and warmly invited. up and we’ll read together.
Sat 18th Nov
The work is accompanied by assorted audio relating to HIV/AIDS to For the festival edition we've chosen Stone Butch
Black Box Green Room
inspire contributions. Materials are provided for visitors to make their own Blues, Leslie Feinberg’s 1993 classic ground
11am
work. breaking novel about American white working class
FREE Admission
On Saturday 11th Nov at 11am in the Green Room, the artist Greg Thorpe butch lesbian identity that resonates strongly in
will host a ‘teach in’ with the piece, including a discussion of the work, 16+ relation to contemporary complexities of
some short film, music, performance and conversation. gender and sexuality.
Bring questions, ideas and topics you’d like to cover. Everyone welcome.
This workshop is free to attend but limited number of space available.
Register your interest via the Trans Resource Centre onTrans YouTube Workshop
Trans Comedy
The Belfast Trans Resource Centre is
launching a new Trans Youtube group! Sat 11th Nov Sun 12th Nov
Belfast Trans
Workshop & Show
Black Box Green Room
Following on from Jake Edwards and Resource Centre 2.30pm
Alex Bertie's workshops held in August, 1pm - 5pm FREE Admission
we will be hosting a four-hour FREE Admission
workshop for trans, non-binary and After the roaring success of UNISON’s comedy
16+
gender questioning people. event this year during Pride, with some brilliant
The workshop will be hosted by Kate local trans performers taking to the stage for
Adair, presenter and researcher with BBC the first time after training with comedian
Gemma Hutton, the Belfast Trans Resource Supported by
The Social and previously a contributor
on My Genderation YouTube channel, Centre is collaborating with Queertopia to bring
and Naomhán O'Connor, non-binary trans you their first ever trans stand up event!
rights activist, video editor and social Open for all to attend, the afternoon will be
media freelancer, also a previous hosted by Gemma and will feature trans,
contributor on My Genderation. non-binary and gender questioning performers,
Bring questions, ideas and topics you’d including newcomers.
like to cover. The comedy event will be preceded by a
This workshop is free to attend but workshop, facilitated by Gemma, for trans
limited number of spaces available. people who fancy giving stand up comedy a go.
For full details on how to take part, email
Register your interest by emailing participate@outburstarts.com to register.
participate@outburstarts.com All abilities and experiences welcome!special events
Kippie Gaming Sat 18th November
11am - 4pm
Workshop FREE Admission
Registration required
Join the digital creatives at Kippie to create a 14+
brand new level of a brand new game in 1 day!
For this one-day workshop you will work in a
small group to write a script, design game play,
create graphics and learn some of the basics
about programming to make a new game level
inspired by our experiences of being LGBTQ+
in Northern Ireland. No previous knowledge of
programming necesary.
Want to get involved?
Email participate@outburstarts.com to reserve
your place
Kippie CIC is a community-focused company
working with young people in Northern Ireland
through storytelling and mobile games. They are
currently working with young LGBTQ+ people in
the Foyle area on developing digital games that
promote inclusion.Fri 10th Nov
11am - 5pm
Sat 11th Nov
1pm - 5pm
Queer at Queen's 2017 Brian Friel Theatre
Queer Sex? Now?
FREE Admission
18+
Outburst's performance and academia strand, in
partnership with Drama Studies at Queen's University
Belfast, brings you two days of world class
performances, art and speakers.
As battles rage over same sex marriage, AIDS, and government oppression of
queer people around the world (and here in Belfast), the fight for basic rights
and the discourse of normalisation have obscured the radical sexuality that
characterised the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and 70s.
At Q@Q 2017, we will explore the frontiers of queer sexuality (and indeed all
sexuality) at the present moment, both in the world and in aesthetic
representation.
How far can we push representations of queer sexuality in public?
Is the overall push for equality worth a forced performance of prudity?
And to what extent has that forced performance become ingrained in queer
minds, creating a generation that views gay sex through a heteronormative lens?
We are delighted to welcome the following speakers: acclaimed performance
artist Holly Hughes, artist Amber Hawk Swanson, whose Amber Doll Project
is running as part of Outburst, Glyn Davis (Edinburgh College of Art) who will
be discussing pre-AIDS sexualities, Gemma Commane (Birmingham City
University) talking about female empowerment in kink industries, Ed Madden
(University of South Carolina) on normalization and marginalization in gay
cultures, and Lazlo Pearlman (Northumbria University) on the erotics of the
Trans* body in performance.
The event is free and open to the public - all are welcome.
For full schedule and to reserve a place, visit Outburst website.
For more information contact Kurt Taroff k.taroff@qub.ac.uk or
Trish McTighe t.mctighe@bham.ac.uk
Performance
HOLLY HUGHES
Saturday 11th Nov. 7.30pm Brian Friel Theatre £8
Internationally acclaimed performance artist Holly Hughes maps the troubled
fault lines of identity. Her combination of poetic imagery and political satire
has earned her wide attention and placed her work at the center of America’s
culture wars.Fri 17th November
The MAC
7.30pm
£15/ £12 early bird
18+
The MAC presents
Andrew Logan's
Alternative
Miss World
Film Screening & In Conversation
Andrew Logan Alternative Miss World, 2009 Photo by Robyn Beeche © The artist. Courtesy the artist
+ After Party with Venus Dupree
In conjunction with their current exhibition Shonky: The
Aesthetics of Awkwardness, the MAC and Outburst invite you to
an evening dedicated to Alternative Miss World: a pageant that
celebrates freedom of expression in the most creative,
outrageous way possible.
Created by artist Andrew Logan in 1972, Alternative Miss World
is a riotous, queer celebration of the art of dressing up. It is not
about beauty - it's about transformation - and when it comes to
costume absolutely anything goes.
A special screening of The British Guide to Showing Off – Jes
Benstock’s documentary on the history of Alternative Miss
World – will be introduced by artist, self-confessed maximalist
and Shonky curator John Walter, who will be joined in
conversation by the legendary Andrew Logan.
Afterward, get ready to party the night away with DJ Venus
Dupree on the decks spinning everything from Disco to Italo
and Deep House. In the spirit of Alternative Miss World, come in
your most dazzling attire. There’ll be a prize for the best (most
alternatively) dressed!Sat 18th Nov
Black Box
Green Room
1pm
FREE
18+
Campbell X: Desire
Outburst is delighted to welcome London-based film-maker Campbell
X to Belfast, for a special screening of a new short experimental film,
Desire. Best know for the critically acclaimed feature film Studlife,
Campell's work gives voice to black urban LGBTQ+ experience and
explores female masculinity and trans masculinity in a refreshingly frank
and empowered way
Desire is a beauifully shot ode to desire and attraction for
transmasculine people, transmen, butches, studs and masculine of
center (MOC) people assigned female at birth, featuring images, voices
and experiences that we rarely see or hear on screen.
Campbell will introduce the film and talk about the ideas behind the
work.t
3pm OUTITUDE
Film Taster
Film-makers Sonya Mulligan and Ger
Moane are currently completing
Outitude, a crowdfunded film
that documents the Irish lesbian
community, exploring grassroots
activism, collectives, community,
academia and politics from1970 to
lesbians: who's looking? present day.
Photo: Bobby Miller
Sonya will present a preview taster of
what will be the first dedicated film
on Irish lesbian experience, North and
South, and we'll be talking about why it's
important to tell our own stories.
4pm DEBS GATENBY
Lesbians:
Sat 18th Nov
Black Box Green Room Manchester comedian Debs Gatenby has performed everywhere from Duckie
2pm-5.30pm in London to Afterglow Festival in Cape Cod, as well as touring widely with
Who's Looking? £5
18+
Hi, Anxiety and A Place Called Happiness, her acclaimed theatre shows about
depression and our obsession with happiness. She's also one of Outburst's
favourite funnywomen, so we've invited her to be our Comedian in Residence
Outburst presents an exciting and to respond with her observations on modern lesbian life.
afternoon of performance, film She pulls off the difficult trick of reducing you to tears of both hilarity and
and discussion that explores sadness Time Out
lesbian experience, history and
visibility and asks questions about
lesbian visibility in arts and
4.20pm GCN TOWN HALL TALKS
culture.
LESBIANS: WHO'S LOOKING? Panel Discussion
GCN is Ireland's long running LGBTQ+ news and
2pm TWO GIRLS by Una Mullally entertainment magazine and we are delighted to bring their internet
Two girls wake up in love. But then a relationship befalls them. broadcast discussion series GCN Town Hall Talks to Belfast for the first time.
This work in progress reading by Una Mullally, is an extract from Alone Join our special guests Una Mullally, Debs Gatenby, Sonya Mulligan, Lisa
Together, her long poem about the overlapping lives of a group of queer Connell (GCN) and others to discuss lesbian representation in the arts and
Dublin women, trying to find each other while barely holding on to media. Is it still hard to see lesbians – even though in some ways we are
themselves. Supported by the Centre Culturel Irlandais. more available to look at in mainstream culture than ever, with lesbian
Una Mullally is an Irish journalist and broadcaster. She is a columnist with characters, lesbian films, lesbian tv shows? Are some lesbians still more
The Irish Times and The Guardian. visible than others when it comes to cultural representation?
Chaired by Dr. Monica Pearl, University of Manchester.TICKETS, VENUES & ACCESS BLACK BOX
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Queer Arts Green Room
10am-4pm
Outburst aims to make our events
accessible and we are working with venues
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Symposium
FREE
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Symposium at Outburst, we are delighted to host a No symbol if suitable for all ages
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networks for queer work. partial access. Call to check.
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Outburst's Artistic Director Ruth McCarthy and São Toilet Available Tel: 07784 404205
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Outburst Arts @OutburstArts outburstartsOUTBURST PROGRAMME 2017 AT A GLANCE
THURSDAY 9th Nov Opening: How to Unexplode Artcetera Gallery 6pm
Opening: Amber Hawk Swanson PS2 Gallery 6pm
Opening: Forms of Resistance Golden Thread Gallery 6.30pm
FRIDAY 10th Nov Queer Arts Symposium Black Box Green Room 10am-4pm
Curator's Talk: Form of Resistance Golden Thread Gallery 12.30pm
Queer At Queen's: Queer Sex? Now? Brian Friel Theatre 11am-5pm
Opening: Let Us Eat Cake Belfast Exposed 5.30pm
Quartered The Dark Horse Various from 11.45am
Diamond Black Box 8.30PM
SATURDAY 11th Nov A Mile of Black Paper events Black Box Green Room 11am
Quartered The Dark Horse Various from 11.45am
Artist Talk: Amber Hawk Swanson PS2 Gallery 1pm
Queer At Queen's: Queer Sex? Now? Brian Friel Theatre 1pm-5pm
Trans YouTube Workshop Trans Resource Cent. 1pm-5pm
Simón El Topo Black Box 5pm
Tactics for Time Travel in a Toilet The Barracks 7.30pm
Holly Hughes Performance Brian Friel Theatre 7.30pm
An Cabaret Queeráilte An Chultúrlann 8pm
Cake Daddy Record Launch Black Box 9.30pm
SUNDAY 12th Nov Quartered The Dark Horse Various from 12..45pm
Trans Comedy Event Black Box Green Room 2.30pm
Simón El Topo Black Box 5pm
Tactics for Time Travel in a Toilet The Barracks 7.30pm
Ten Plagues Lyric Theatre 8pm
MONDAY 13th Nov FILM: A Fantastic Woman QFT 6.20pm
There's A Bishop in My Bedroom The MAC 8pm
FILM: Signature Move QFT 8.30pm
TUESDAY 14th Nov FILM: Chavela QFT 6.30pm
If you're in crisis or despair or know someone who is,
There's A Bishop in My Bedroom
FILM: Beach Rats
The MAC
QFT
8pm
8.30pm
call Lifeline 24/7 on 0808 808 8000.
WEDNESDAY 15th Nov FILM: The Wound QFT 6.20pm
A Cock and Bull Story The American Bar 7.30pm
FILM: After Louis QFT 8.30pm
Calls to Lifeline are answered by qualified crisis
counsellors who can provide immediate support. THURSDAY 16th Nov
The Butch Monologues Workshop
A Cock and Bull Story
Artcetera Studio
The American Bar
6.30pm
7.30pm
Calls are free from landlines and mobiles.
FRIDAY 17th Nov Quartered The Dark Horse Various from 11.45am
Alternative Miss World The MAC 7.30pm
Ed Madden: Ark Black Box 7.30pm
The Butch Monologues Black Box 8pm
SATURDAY 18th Nov Books V Cigarettes Black Box Green Room 11am
Kippie Gaming Workshop Details on registration 11am
Quartered The Dark Horse Various from 11.45am
Campbell X: Desire Black Box Green Room 1pm
Lesbians: Who's Looking? Black Box Green Room 2pm
Tactics for Time Travel in a Toilet The Barracks 7.30pm
Triple Threat Black Box 8pm
Queertopia Black Box 9.30pm
(Textphone: 18001 0808 808 8000) Throughout Festival Outburst: Illustrated Black Box Green Room 11am-5pm
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