As we enter 2015, we have a number of events coming up that I’d encourage you to pop in your diaries right away. More details about all of them will follow soon but for now here are two key dates to scribble down.
NB: We’ll also have a big announcement about another exciting event coming soon! …
Saturday 28 February 2015, 12:00 – 17:30
Free
In recognition of February being LGBT History Month, we welcome you for an afternoon of free activities. Join curators, guest speakers and filmmakers to explore alternative queer readings of museum objects, discover queer histories and consider how sexual identity can inform how we interpret the past.
We’ll be announcing the exact programme nearer the date – as a teaser I will simply suggest that any fans of Denton Welch should be sure to come along!
DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS (ANDERS ALS DIE ANDERN)
Sunday 29 March 2015 13:00-15:30
The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre
£4, £3 concessions
Join us for the screening of a film selected by members of the V&A’s LGBTQ Working Group, as part of the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival.
One of the first sympathetic portrayals of homosexuals in the cinema, this German film was produced during the Weimar Republic and first released in 1919. The story for the film was co-written by Richard Oswald and the renowned physician and sexologist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. For decades all copies were thought to have been destroyed and lost forever.
Featuring an introduction by curators, exploring links between the film’s subject matter and the V&A’s collections, and a Q&A with special guests, this screening will also be accompanied by a short documentary about Sara Davidmann’s transgender project ‘Ken To Be Destroyed’ (2014).
I would like to quickly add a big thank you to the inspirational Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for their help with this. Outfest UCLA Legacy Project is the only program in the world devoted to preserving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender moving image media becoming lost to deterioration and neglect and I encourage you all to find out more about their important work here.
