Update: meetings and deadline; live theatre broadcast
Network meeting cancelled
Today’s Network meeting had been cancelled, as a result of having had the World AIDS Day stall and event last week (as well as general busyness!). Details of how much we raised for North Yorkshire AIDS Action should follow shortly. The next open meeting will now be in February. If you’re keen to get more involved in the meantime, contact Andy.
National Theatre performance broadcast at City Screen
Tonight (Tuesday 9 December) at 20:00, City Screen will be showing a live broadcast of a performance of John at the National Theatre. The production, put together by DV8 Physical Theatre, features themes of homosexuality and is “an honest representation based on direct testimony” according to company leader Lloyd Newson. For more information, see the synopsis below or visit the City Screen event page.
Internationally renowned DV8 Physical Theatre bring their powerful new production to the National Theatre.
DV8 Physical Theatre has produced 18 highly acclaimed dance-theatre works and four films for television, which have garnered more than 50 national and international awards.
The company’s new production, John, authentically depicts real-life stories, combining movement and spoken word to create an intense and moving theatrical experience.
Lloyd Newson, DV8’s Artistic Director, interviewed more than 50 men, asking them frank questions, initially about love and sex. One of those men was John.
What emerged was a story that is both extraordinary and touching. Years of crime, drug use and struggling to survive lead John on a search in which his life converges with others’, in an unexpected place, unknown by most.
York LGBT History Month upcoming deadline and open meeting
York LGBT History Month are holding their second open meeting at 17:30 on Wednesday 10 December in PH/011. If you are external to the university, this is in the Phoenix Centre; please see the campus map for details of where to find the building. Our ‘How to find us‘ page might also be useful.
The meeting will be to gain last-minute inspiration and advice – in advance of the upcoming Friday 19 December deadline for submission of events into the 2015 programme – and to meet others involved in York LGBT History Month 2015. There’s a Facebook event that you can join.
York LGBT Forum meeting agenda and newsletter
The next meeting of the Forum will take place on Thursday 11 December in SK/128. If you are external to the university, this is in the Skell building; please see the campus map for details of where to find the building. Our ‘How to find us‘ page might also be useful. The agenda for the meeting and the Forum’s latest newsletter are below.
