OTP Festival Hub Invitation
· Opens: 3rd August 2021
· Closes: Extended to 30th September 2021
Please read the following information and then follow instructions to apply -
Dear Colleague,
Many thanks for your kind interest in hosting the OUTing the Past Festival Hub in 2022. OUTing the Past (OTP) are delighted to be partnering with Schools OUT UK an educational charity that has worked with teachers and the wider educational sector within Europe and beyond for over forty years.
Schools OUT, founded LGBT+ History Month, which is celebrated each February in the UK. The theme for 2022 is LGBT+ political artists for information click here.
The application form provides key advice to you on what is required to host a Festival hub and provides us with information to allow us to assess the application. We do appreciate that form-filling can be a pain, but in this case - it is important. Should you have any queries please email.
Safeguarding Us, You and Our Festival
This will be our 7th annual event, given the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and to increase the accessibility of the festival we have moved to a ‘hybrid’ festival. The hybrid approach enables flexibility with the changing Covid rules, keeps us all safe, our OTP Coordination Team members, our OTP Partners and their staff, and our potential Festival presenters and audiences.
We aim to have all 2022 OTP Gazette Presentations pre-recorded, so that they are available to you for your event and then after LGBT+ History Month on the OTP YouTube channel. As in past years, OTP Hub Partners will create their own Festival Programme from the OTP Gazette. You will be asked to choose presentations that have not been chosen by any other hub, so it will work on a first come basis.
As usual each OTP Festival Hub Programme will have its own dedicated date and time during LGBT+ History Month to maximise engagement. The benefit of a hybrid approach is that you can add a virtual option to accompany an in-person event, allowing your programme to be shared with a global audience increasing accessibility and reach.
To ensure our festival is representative we will ask each Festival Hub to include equal opportunities monitoring as part of audience sign up to their event and share this data with OUTing the Past & Schools OUT. Any information provided will be treated as strictly confidential and will be used by Outing the Past & Schools OUT for statistical purposes only. No information will be published or used in any way, which allows any individual to be identified.
OTP Festival Hub Presentational options:
1. OTP’22 Festival Virtual Format (Pre-Recorded) – This virtual celebration during LGBT+ History Month will broadcast your OTP Festival Hub Programme showcasing LGBT+ History via the OTP YouTube site and on your own platforms.
2. OTP’22 Festival Virtual Format (Live) – This option seeks to provide an Interactive Virtual Festival Hub during LGBT+ History Month, at which sequenced live presentations are made and followed by a moderated Q&A session. The session would be recorded to share after the event on the OTP YouTube site and on your own platforms. WiFi access and Zoom compatibility will be required.
3. OTP’22 Festival In-Person with Virtual Format – This option is for those OTP’22 Festival Hub Partners who seek to create a physical celebration at their venue during LGBT+ History Month (Covid rules permitting). The in-person event could use pre-recorded presentations or in person presentations. The event would be streamed live and/or recorded to share after the event on the OTP YouTube site and on your own platforms. WiFi access and Zoom compatibility will be required.
4. OTP’22 Festival In-Person – This option is for those OTP’22 Festival Hub Partners who seek to create a physical celebration at their venue during LGBT+ History Month (Covid rules permitting). The in-person event could use pre-recorded presentations or in person presentations.
Whichever option is best for you, perspective Festival Hub Partners will require a degree of technical support, though the organisational structure and staffing remains largely intact. At 10am on Friday 1st October 2021 we will meet with all Hubs over Zoom so we can offer you all the chance to meet each other and go over arrangements.
Kind Regards,
OTP Coordination Team 2022
OUTing the Past
To Apply:
To apply please complete the application form on Survey Monkey (find it here) and return the Festival Hub 2022 confirmation (DOWNLOAD HERE) to salsanders2003@gmail.com by Friday 3rd September 2021.
OUTing the Past - Our Festival Coordination Team 2022: Caroline Paige, Emma Vickers, Gary Buckden, Jeff Evans, Jenny Ardrey, Ken Valente, Maisie Barker, Sue Sanders & Lynne Nicholls on behalf of Schools OUT UK.
OUTing the Past – Our Festival Partner: Schools OUT UK.
OUTing the Past – Our Academic Advisory Panel (History): Dr Elisabeth Engebretsen (University of Stavanger), Dr Emma Vickers (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Fia Sundevall (Stockholms Universitet), Dr Jana Funke (University of Exeter), Dr Jeff Evans (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Jen Grove (University of Exeter), Dr Jeremiah D. Scully (University College Cork), Dr Brian Lacey, (Retired Archaeologist and Former Director of the Discovery Programme, Dublin), Prof. Molly Merryman (Kent State University), Prof. Rainer Schulze (University of Essex) & Prof. Ken Valente (Colgate University, USA).
OUTing the Past - Our Distinguished Patrons: Aderonke Apata (Founder of African Rainbow), Alison Oram (Professor in Social and Cultural History, Leeds Becket University), Angela Eagle (Member of Parliament for Wallasey since 1992 & Government Minister 2007-2010), Bernard & Terry Reed (GIRES: Gender Identity Research & Education Society), Charles Upchurch (Associate Professor of History, Florida State University), Christine Burns (Equality and diversity specialist, podcaster, campaigner), Cyril Nri (Actor, director and writer), Gareth Thomas (Welsh International rugby player, Active Captain British and Irish Lions), Harry Cocks (Associate Professor, Department of History , University of Nottingham), Ian McKellen (Actor & Campaigner), Ian Rivers (Professor of Education for Social Change, Dept. Education, University of Strathclyde), Jeffrey Dudgeon (Activist & Historian), Jeffrey Weeks (Emeritus Research Professor in the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University), John Amaechi (NBA Basketball player, psychologist & broadcaster), Labi Siffre (Poet, songwriter and singer), Matt Cook (Professor, History & Gender Studies, Birkbeck, University of London), Peter Tatchell (Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation and Human Rights Activist.), Phyll Opuku-Gyimah (Founder of Black Pride), Sheila Rowbotham (Professor & Simon Research Fellow, University of Manchester), Stephen Whittle (Professor of Equalities Law in the School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University), Tom Robinson (Musician, Broadcaster & LGBT Activist).
OTP celebrates our Partners Supporters & Sponsors that have generously afforded their enthusiastic support of this unique annual Festival of LGBT+ History that includes: Arts Council of England | Belfast City Council | Ben Cohen Foundation | Birmingham Museums & Galley | Bishopsgate Institute | Bolton Library & Museums Service | Bournemouth University | Brighton Pavilion & Museums | Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives | British Museum | Campaign for Homosexual Equality | Cara-Friend | Charleston Trust | Cork City Council | Cork Gay Project | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Government of Ireland | Diva | DLPiper | Exeter City Council | GFest | Gay Times | Harvey Milk Foundation | The Higgins @ Bedford | IMAGINE Festival | Imperial War Museum | Kilmainham Goal Museum | Lancashire Archives | LGBT Foundation | Leeds Museums & Galleries | Leicester Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Centre | Liverpool John Moores University | London School of Economics | Museum of Free Derry | Museum of Liverpool | Museum of London | National Archive (UK) | National Gallery of Ireland | National Queer Archive of Norway @ Bergen University | National Maritime Museum | National Museum of Ireland | New York Irish Centre | NW UNITE the Union | Peoples History Museum, Manchester | Peter Tatchell Foundation | Pride Cymru | Public Record Office of Northern Ireland | Queen’s University Belfast | Schools Out (UK) | The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust | Shrewsbury University Centre | Södertälje konsthall | Somerset Libraries | Sunderland University | Tupilak: Queer cultural workers in the Nordic area | Ulster Museum | Ulster University | UNISON: Northern | University College Cork | York LGBT HM | Ulster Museum | Ulster University
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