Wednesday, January 29th
18:00-19:30
90-120 mins
This talk is suitable for all ages.
The land is queer is a collaborative workshop where we will explore queer ecology and dream up spaces that reconnect us in community with our human and nonhuman kin.
In the same way queerness is not one way of being, queer ecology understands there is not one way of knowing. Queer ecology is a questioning, an unravelling of the dominant colonial narrative. A part of it researches non-human lgbtq folk but it is also a deeper nonlinear understanding.
Colonialism uses binaries as a tool of oppression and alienation. By building reciprocal relationships in community with the understanding that our queerness is natural and we are nature we can work to heal our alienation.
We will start the session with a working agreement for the online space we will be sharing. This will be followed by a short talk where I will share my understanding of queer ecology. Then together we will work with some prompts to imagine queer ecological spaces.
Access information:
This workshop will be fully interpreted in British Sign Language (BSL)
I will use Zoom’s inbuilt whiteboard as our main tool for communication and collaboration. This allows for adding text, photos and drawings. I will set this up at the start, you will be free to use it at any time during the session. It will replace sharing in a go round as I find this a very hard structure to work with in zoom, if we find we want to engage in conversation via microphone then we can but this won’t be essential to communication.
Feel free to bring along physical materials to brainstorm with if you’d like as you can share this via photo upload or on camera. Cameras do not have to be on to engage with this workshop. We will set up a working agreement for the space at the start of the session.
Closed captioning is available through ZOOM.
The Queering Wales connecting people project is run by On Your Face.
On Your Face is a social enterprise bringing visibility to the LGBTQ+ creatives of Wales through queer cultural events in the rural areas, an online directory (onyourfacecollective.org) and the creation of paid jobs for the community across Wales.
To find out more check out on Instagram @onyourfacecollective or at www.onyourfacecollective.org
Contact the gallery for all access information.
Telephone: 01792 516900