OTP 2022 Hub - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
OUTing the Past Festival 2022
On Thursday 17th February 2022, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust will be joining OUTing the Past Festival, in our third year as a festival hub.
The festival will take place, as it did in February 2021, virtually via Zoom. We are looking forward to welcoming a variety of fantastic speakers, to share their knowledge and discuss their recent research into LGBT+ history.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is an independent charity that promotes the enjoyment and understanding of Shakespeare’s work, life and times. We believe that Shakespeare can be, and should be, for everyone. Through our involvement in OUTing the Past Festival, as well as through artist commissions and other programming, we hope to demonstrate how there is meaning to be found in Shakespeare for LGBT+ communities and individuals all over the world.
We are committed to uncovering the LGBT+ voices that can be found in our collections. Through the development of our Proud Shakespeare resource guide, we have sought to bring these voices to the forefront, putting the spotlight on objects, archival records and library materials which contribute to an understanding of LGBT+ history in Shakespeare’s time and beyond.
OUTing the Past Festival enables the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, as a festival hub, to deliver a programme of presentations which show how LGBT+ history and Shakespeare’s work, life and times intersect. In previous years, presentations have explored the bisexual nature of Shakespeare’s sonnets, and notions of gender identity in the performing of Shakespeare’s characters. In 2022, the festival presentations will span from new reinterpretations of the Trust’s existing and developing collections, to new art inspired by Shakespeare and created by LGBT+ artists during lockdown.
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