The first ever IDAHO 50 takes place on Thursday May 17th. A historic and groundbreaking initiative led by Homotopia as part of its social justice and education outreach programme. The 50 organisations supporting IDAHO 50 are Liverpool Cathedral, University of Liverpool, John Moores University, Voodou, Training Plus Merseyside, Puschka, Aftathought Training, Unite Union, Seen Media, [...]
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Homotopia in partnership with the Tom of Finland Foundation Los Angeles have been instrumental in securing funding to begin work on the personal archive of Touko Laaksonen (Tom Of Finland) and will form part of a major partnership with The Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art & Åbo Akademi Library, Laaksonen’s family and the City Of Turku who want to gather permanent collections [...]
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Homotopia Liverpool will continue its hugely successful international programme in Sweden. The year-long exhibition of legendary gay artist Tom of Finland which attracted a record audience of 90,000 in Turku, Finland will now be touring to the prestigious Kulturhuset Stockholm in June 2012 for 3 months. The exhibition was a key part of Turku European [...]
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Support International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia. The inaugural launch of IDAHO 50 on May 17th 2012 will be a high profile and visible display of action against homophobia & transphobia on Merseyside. The first city to create, participate & engage in IDAHO 50. Homotopia has collaborated with 50 Merseyside companies & organisations who will [...]
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Call for submissions for Homotopia 2012. The festival seeks new work from artists, theatremakers, producers and promoters for consideration for the autumn festival to be held in Liverpool in November 2012. Every November is a month long critically acclaimed programme and we are interested in different levels of engagement, participation & artist development which could be early R&D, new [...]
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The Living & The Dead Paintings and scuplture by John Kirby at Walker Art Gallery and presented in partnership with Homotopia attracted 45,000 visitors making it one of the key highlights of homotopia’s year round programme. The exhibition was the first retrospective of work by the Liverpool born artist John Kirby. The Living and the [...]
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