OTP 2020 Hub Programme - National Museum Of Ireland, Dublin - Day 3
Due to the temporary closure of all cultural institutions in Ireland in response to current events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the OTP Dublin event has been postponed until further notice. Further information about rescheduling will be available in due course.
The National Gallery of Ireland, National Museum of Ireland and Kilmainham Gaol Museum are delighted to present OUTing the Past Dublin 2020: The International Festival of LGBTI+ History on 20th – 22nd March 2020 bringing LGBTI+ history to a wider audience in an exciting, inspiring and thought-provoking programme of events.
Following the festival’s hugely successful Dublin debut in 2019 at the National Gallery of Ireland, this year sees three of the capital’s most popular cultural institutions host events across the city.
From a drag story time tour at the National Gallery, to events exploring clothing as a means of expressing self-identity at the National Museum, Collins Barracks, and a keynote lecture at Kilmainham Gaol, OUTing the Past aims to provide a platform for fresh perspectives on and new insights into past attitudes and behaviours related to sexuality and gender.
22nd March 2020
National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks
Admission free, booking required. Please click here to book.
1.20-1.30
Welcome
Lynn Scarff, Director, National Museum of Ireland
AV Theatre
1.30-2.10
Opening Key Note
Dan Vo
Queer Eye for the Museum
AV Theatre
This presentation will focus on the volunteer-led projects Vo has pioneered at the University of Cambridge Museums and Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales including the multi-award winning LGBTQ Tours at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The presentation will highlight the ways in which other cultural institutions may consider similar LGBTQ activities.
2.10-2.30
Reclaiming the Link with the Past: The Importance of the “Pink Triangle” for LGBTIQ History and Political Activism
Rainer Schulze
AV Theatre
This presentation links the generation of gay men (and LGBTIQ people more widely) persecuted under the Nazi regime (and before) through the “AIDS crisis” of the 1980s and 1990s to the present, creating an awareness of past struggles which continue to cast a long shadow on LGBTIQ lives until today.
2.30-3.00
Tea & Coffee
Ante Room
3.00-3.20
Fashion as LGBTQI+ Activism
Taryn de Vere
AV Theatre
Fashion as LGBTQI+ Activism demonstrates the power of fashion as an activist tool, while also offering a reflection on the largely unexplored territory of supporting a small trans child through social transitioning.
3.20-3.50
Iam; CAMP Project
Bríd Murphy & Darren Collins
AV Theatre
Iam is a video and sound installation that resulted from the collaboration between Darren Collins, a Traveller and LGBTQI+ activist, and visual artist and LSAD undergrad Bríd Murphy.
Murphy and Collins will discuss the work, which aims to address the challenges that arise from identifying with multiple minority identities and the complex dynamic of identifying as LGBTQI+ and Traveller.
3.50-4.20
It’s What You Wear
Sara R Phillips
AV Theatre
Sara R Phillips will examine the part the clothing has had played for the trans-community over the past 200 years, through her own personal story and an exploration of the Irish trans-archive.
4.30-5.00
Tea & Coffee
Ante Room
5.30
Closing Event: Musical performance concluding with some very special guests.
Palatine Room
Events happening on site in line with OUTing Past Presentations:
*Please note the events listed below are drop-in with no booking required.
2.00-3.30
Rainbow Workshop
Learning Resource Room
Join this free drop in family workshop with artist Fala Buggy, exploring the theme of Rainbows. Meet people, learn new creative skills and try something new, in a friendly and engaging space.
1.00-4.30
Esther & Oscar at Collins Barracks
Denis Kehoe - Novelist and lecturer in Visual Culture at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin.
Clarke Square
Kehoe has developed two alter-egos, Esther Raquel Minsky and Oscar Esterson and will spend the duration of the opening hours of the Museum occupying the courtyard, engaging with the space as both Oscar and Esther. Kehoe will move between genders throughout the day and perform different personas (the soldier, the seamstress, the sailor) in a series of walks, dances and physical movements.
The performance will continue on site in Clarke Square for the duration of the OUTing the Past Collins Barracks event.
Click here to book you place for free.