Queer Media

Queer Media Festival

Contact, Manchester Sat 7 Feb

Do you dream of getting a job working in the media? Or simply enjoy storytelling? Celebrate LGBT storytelling and find out how other LGBT people have been successful in the media at the annual Queer Media Festival on Saturday 7th February hosted as part of Queer Contact from 11 am to 6pm at Contact, Manchester. The chat show styled day will be hosted by film director Mike Buonaiuto (Credence, #LoveAlwaysWins), journalist Aashi Gahlot (Editor of SHOR LGBT online portal) and poet, playwright, director Cheryl Martin. 

Queer Media Festival showcases several short films (Alone With People, What’s Your Sign, Brace), performances (Rebecca Swarray & Pink Triangle Theatre) and will feature in-conversations with over twenty guests who work in the media. Hear about the journey they have undertaken to make their voices heard from Anna McNay (DIVA), Paul Brand (ITV), Rikki Beadle-Blair (director of FREE) transgender YouTube video bloggers Alex Bertie and transmedia storyteller Jan Libby plus many more inspiring guests. 

Vinny & Luke from YouTube’s V-Squared channel will be presenting Queer Xtra with  backstage interviews and vox pops. Plus the Queer Vine Machine will be landing in the foyer for everyone to transmit positive Vine messages back into the social media sphere. 

Whilst the festival is underway across the city at the TV studios in MediaCityUK will be the newsroom of Queer Agenda, a maverick underground queer news round-up whose pilot episode will be broadcast live at the Queer Media Festival later that day. Students and LGBT journalists will be working together throughout the day to put together a news round up through a queer perspective. A behind the scenes documentary film crew will follow the trials and tribulations of the news team, as they aim to get Queer Agenda produced and broadcast in one day. 

Each February, as part of LGBT History Month, Contact brings Queer Contact a ten-day festival of events spanning performance genres and including both emerging artists and the best of established UK and international work. The 2015 programme is Contact’s biggest yet.

LISTINGS INFORMATION – QUEER MEDIA FESTIVAL

Sat 7 Feb, 11am to 6pm. Tickets: £15 (conc. £10)  BSL Interpreted

Contact, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6JA.

Tickets http://www.contactmcr.com/qmf  / 0161 274 0600

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Published: 15-Jan-2015: (2925)