The queerupnorth Archive
Queer arts, artists and culture - an Archives for All Project
Respondent or information from other source:
None received. Info taken from HLF and other websites
Aims, policies, purpose/impetus for project:
Manchester possesses one of the largest and most important Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities in the country. The community has made a significant contribution to the recent history of Manchester and queerupnorth are an important part of this. We are also an important part of the history of arts and performance in Manchester and the international history of queer arts and performance. Our story is hidden in its archives and the memories of those involved in it. The paper archives will be catalogued & deposited at Manchester Archives. Those moving images which are deemed of historic importance to Manchester & NW will be catalogued & donated to the NW Film Archive. Grant will be spent on Project Archivist, training, travel expenses, laptop, scanner, oral history, equipment, moving image cataloguing equipment, preservation materials, exhibition & promotional material.
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Key individuals and roles involved:
Paid or voluntary, training in oral history:
Project will train & use volunteers to record memories of those involved in queerupnorth
Project funded by:
Management of project:
The project, led by queerupnorth, in partnership with Manchester Archives & Local Studies and Archives 4 All
Format of interviews:
How interviewees are selected and located:
Interview running time:
Copyright in interviews. Assignment rights?:
Location of interview copies. Accessibility to public/format:
Master recordings will be deposited with NW Sound Archive but copies will be made available locally.
Collection contact details/website:
Interview transcripts/lists of topics or other content indexes:
Cataloguing Catalogue of archive, together with links to selected digital material on queerupnorth website, will be made available via A2A website. Manchester Archive and Local Studies office:
Future plans for project/interviews?:
Materials used for publications, exhibitions, conferences, radio/TV programmes or performances etc or future plans for this?:
Archive will be basis for touring exhibition & learning day. In Feb 2008 exhibition will tour Manchester's local libraries & community centres as part of LGBT History Month exhibition. Exhibition will also form part of queerupnorth festival in May 2008 which is 16th (age of consent) anniversary. Learning day for LGBT community about archives & heritage will also be organised during festival.
Project website: The queerupnorth Video Archive
List on a joint (possibly STR website):
Join listserv/emailing list/forum:
Further information:
List of interviewees provided: List supplied by Northwest Sound Archive
RONNIE BURKETT b.10 JUN 1957 LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA
2007.0158 TALKS ABOUT BECOMING INVOLVED WITH THE QUEER UP NORTH FESTIVAL IN MANCHESTER HAVING MET TANJA FARMAN AND GAVIN BARLOW IN NEW YORK. TALKS OF HIS MARIONETTE PUPPET THEATRE AND DESC VENUES AND OTHER ACTS AND CHANGE OF PUBLIC ATTITUDE TO GAYS
24MINS 40 SECS
TANJA FARMAN b.1963 WATFORD
2007.0160 TALKS ABOUT SETTING UP QUEER UP NORTH FESTIVAL IN MANCHESTER WITH GAVIN BARLOW BASED IN THE GREEN ROOM, OBTAINING FUNDING AND FINDING ARTISTS TO PERFORM. TALKS OF GAY CULTURE, PEOPLE INVOLVED WITH QUN AND THE CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE
50 MINS 34SECS
GAVIN BARLOW b.1967 MANCHESTER
2007.161 TALKS ABOUT SETTING UP THE QUEER UP NORTH FESTIVAL IN MANCHESTER IN 1992 WITH TANJA FARMAN BASED IN THE GREEN ROOM. DESC PERFORMERS, OBTAINING FUNDING AND SUPPORT, RESPONSE OF LOCAL AND GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY AND CHANGES TO THE FESTIVAL.
ADRIAN HOWELLS b.1962 BAPCHILD, KENT
2007.0161 TALKS ABOUT INVOLVEMENT WITH THE QUEER UP NORTH FESTIVAL IN MANCHESTER, HIS PERFORMANCES AT THE FESTIVAL IN PLAYS SUCH AS 'THE HOMOSEXUAL', OTHER ARTISTES, THE PUBLIC RESPONSE AND THE GAY SCENE
MOJISOLA ADEBAYOR b.28 JULY,1971 LONDON
2008.0118 TALKS ABOUT HER WORK AS A FREELANCE THEATRE PRACTIONER, HER SHOW MOJ OF THE ANTARTIC WHICH WAS PERFORMED AT QUEER UP NORTH 2007.
27 MINS 20 SECS
JAHEDA CHOUDHURY
2008.0120 TALKS ABOUT HER WORK AS CO FOUNDER OF SPHERES WHERE SOUTH ASIAN LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER WOMEN CELEBRATE THEIR SEXUALITY AND IDETITY IN THEATRE. ALSO TALKS ABOUT HER WORK AS AN ACTRESS AND INVOLVEMENT WITH QUEER UP NORTH
73 MINS
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