arts festival

Queer Notions

Queer Notions was the first curated Queer Arts program in Dublin's LGBTQ Pride celebrations. The mini festival of queer ideas and performance from Ireland and beyond took over Project Arts Centre from June 22nd -25th 2009. Co - Produced by THISISPOPBABY & Calipo Theatre Co. the festival included music, comedy, performance art, drag, film, theatre and documentary theatre.

What the flyer said...

THISISPOPBABY and Calipo Theatre Company present a celebration of queer performance and ideas from Ireland and beyond, as part of the 2009 Dublin LGBTQ Pride Festival.

This year’s programme includes: Playwright Phillip McMahon's exhilarating All Over Town, a backpacker’s adventures in the dark underbelly of Sydney’s seedy gay scene; Graphic Artist Niall Sweeney’s poignant and funny performance lecture charting the rise of the Alternative Miss Ireland pageant; and Victor and Gord, a compelling and moving show from rising Irish director Una McKevitt about the complexities of family and friendship.

Alongside hotly anticipated shows from UK artists David Hoyle and Bourgeois & Maurice, Panti (the High Queen of Ireland) takes part in some late night debauchery, while writer and activist Tonie Walsh curates an evocative exhibition from the Irish Queer Archive.

And not to be missed, our special post-Pride march screening of Before Stonewall a landmark in Queer history on film.

What the papers said...

"Screamingly funny and deeply disturbing...barged through every comfort zone, bulldozed the mainstream and asked if it was really possible to create an exhilarating and terrifying space where anything was permissible?"
- The Irish Times

What we say...

Phillip:  It started as a show and grew into a festival without telling us! The week was inspiring, uplifting, challenging, exhausting, stressful...all washed down with questions and beers in Project's bar.

Jenny: My o my, how queer everything was that week.

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