Queer Florida: Southern Oral Histories (2022)
By Han Powell
Queer Florida is a multimedia oral history project documenting the stories of LGBTQ+ people who are making efforts to organize, create, and build community in in the diverse, politically-fraught landscape of Florida. Each interview is conducted in a physical space that is meaningful to the narrator—a rural gay bar that closed during the pandemic, the front porch of a beloved late grandfather, a local park that was the site of a first queer kiss, and more. The narratives that emerge explore our connection to nature, the queerness of the environment, and ask how our stories of self are rooted in the swamplands of home.Click here to RSVP for this year's opening reception!
Then be sure to check out the upcoming LIVE EVENT with the curator
Wednesday, May 11, 6 PMFilming Oral History: A Dialogue of Home
Co-sponsored by OHMA and Residency Unlimited Join three artists as they explore our universal connection to place and home through oral histories in three distinct geographical spaces: the rural farmlands of Cuba, the queer swamplands of Florida, and Wiradjuri land. Narratives of resilience and survival, collective memory, gender and identity, and multi-generational community are an invitation to consider what home means to you. How do we deal with the dying—of both people and place? How does the land hold the stories we tell? This event will screen three curated short films, followed by a Q&A moderated by Pippa Mott, Guest Curator at Residency Unlimited, a non-profit art organization that supports the creation, presentation and dissemination of contemporary art through its unique residency program and year-round public programs. A limited number of tablets and headphones will be provided for the listening and viewing of additional multimedia works by the artists, but attendees are encouraged to bring their own devices and headphones to explore at their own pace.
Refreshments will be served. Masks are required. Capacity is limited—don't wait to RSVP.
Continue the conversation and dance the night away at the afterparty at Congress Bar, just around the corner.
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