A number of events and activities are taking place throughout February in Sheffield to mark LGBT History Month 2016.
Check back here for the most up to date listings, as well as on our Google calendar.
* PLEASE NOTE: Events details are still coming together and are subject to change...
* PLEASE NOTE: Events details are still coming together and are subject to change...
Wednesday 3 February
E.D.E.N Film Productions - Worksop Savoy Cinema Screening 6pm
E.D.E.N Film Productions - Worksop Savoy Cinema Screening 6pm
An end of project celebration and screening of the two films produced in the Heritage Lottery funded Something About Us, a project that sees young people from the Worksop-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group W.O.W, researching what it was like to be LGBT in the past compared to today, especially in their local area.
The young people of W.O.W will be presented with DVD’s, certificates and posters to recognise their hard work throughout the duration of the project. There will be an Q&A after the screenings.
More TBC (inc Eventbrite link)
Sunday 7 February
Showroom - Film: All About My Mother
Post-film event: Voto a Pedro!
For full information, times, tickets and
special post-film events, see
http://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/lgbt-history-month
https://www.facebook.com/events/183356055353339/
https://www.facebook.com/events/183356055353339/
Tuesday 9 February
LGBT Café: LGBTQI Health Awareness event
(LGBT Sheffield & Drink Wise Age Well
Sheffield)
People, games, info, activities, freebies,
fun - 12 noon onwards
18-20 Union Street, Sheffield, S1 2JR
Wednesday 10 February
Showroom - Film: Addicted to Fresno
Post-film event: Chick Habit (featuring Chicks
with Decks DJ set)
For full information, times, tickets and
special post-film events, see
http://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/lgbt-history-month
https://www.facebook.com/events/183356055353339/
https://www.facebook.com/events/183356055353339/
Friday 12 February
E.D.E.N Film Productions & Sheffield Hallam University 6pm
Screening of the two films produced in the Heritage Lottery funded Something About Us, a project that sees young people from the Worksop-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group W.O.W, researching what it was like to be LGBT in the past compared to today, especially in their local area.
There will be an Q&A after the screenings.
Tuesday 16 February
LGBT Café: Trans* Clothes Swap/Cosmetics/Wellbeing
event
18-20 Union Street, Sheffield, S1 2JR
Register via Eventbrite at:
Thursday 18 February
Showroom - Film: Priscilla Queen of the
Desert
Post-film event: Start Your Engines!
For full information, times, tickets and
special post-film events, see
Friday 19 February
Sexual Health Sheffield @ The University of
Sheffield
LGBT+ sexual health talk
Showroom - New Release:
Freeheld (12A) - The exceptional Julianne
More stars as Police Lieutenant Laurel Hester who falls terminally ill and
spends the rest of her life fighting to change the Domestic Partnership Act
with her partner Stacie. A captivating emotional drama based on a true story.
For information and tickets, see http://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/cinema/
Saturday 20 February
E.D.E.N Film Productions & The University of Sheffield - 7pm
Screening of Trashing Transphobia, a film produced by members of the LGBT community in Sheffield. Trashing Transphobia aims to tackle the discrimination that the transgender community often face. It follows Laura Holt, speaking with members of the transgender community alongside charitable organisations.
There will be an Q&A after the screenings.
More TBC
Monday 22 February
Sexual Health Sheffield @ The University of
Sheffield
LGBT+ sexual health screening event
Sheffield Hallam University - documentary
screening:
'Families Like Ours' - E.D.E.N Film
Productions
7pm-8.30pm
The Void, Owen Building, City Campus,
Sheffield, S1 1WB
Tuesday 23 February
Sandra Baker-Donnelly @ LGBT Café: Pride of Place / LGBT Heritage Project
We want to know which places and spaces are important to you. Spaces are a vital and fascinating part of our LGBTQ heritage and include everything from bars and nightclubs and houses lived in by lesbian, gay and trans people to meeting places for LGBTQ activists.
Come and share your memories on a map of Sheffield. Your words will be added to a national online map of LGBTQ heritage that has been set up by the Pride of Place project. Any photos or other ephemera you have connected with places in Sheffield could be photographed or scanned on the day and added to the online project.
Venue: LGBT Sheffield Café, 18-20 Union Street, Sheffield, S1 2JR
Date: Tuesday 23rd February
Time: 5.30 onwards
What should I bring? Plenty of cash to buy coffee in support of the LGBT Centre and any photos or other documents relating to places and spaces in Sheffield.
Contact: gayhistorysheffield@gmail.com
Thursday 25 February
Lecture on LGBT+ and Mental Health by Dr Nuno
Nodin (from PACE London)
The University of Sheffield Students' Union
6pm onwards
Friday 26 February
Trouser-Wearing Characters:
Rose Collis brings her acclaimed one-woman
musical cabaret show to Sheffield Central Library as part of an Arts
Council-funded tour for LGBT History Month 2016.
Carpenter Room, Sheffield City Library
Doors 6.30pm; show at 7pm
Tickets £5
Climax - Foundry, Studio & Fusion
The University of Sheffield Students' Union,
Western Bank, Sheffield
Monday 29 February
LGBT+ History exhibition
12pm - late; Foundry @ The University of
Sheffield
'Pride' film screening @ The University of Sheffield
Talk by Mike Jackson and Dave Lewis (from
LGSM)
7pm onwards
Eventbrite ticket link to come
What else is happening?
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam will be flying the rainbow flag throughout the month at Hallam Square - keep an eye out for it! There will also be information and resources on stands at Owen Atrium Level 5 (1st-12th) and Collegiate Heart of the Campus (15th onwards).https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/thebigpicture/
https://www.facebook.com/SignalatSHU
The University of Sheffield's LGBT+ student Committee are putting together a photo exhibition to be displayed in the Students' Union as part of their LGBT+ History Month Campaign.
The final exhibition will take pride of place during LGBT History Month (February)
Sheffield Student's Union are also marking LGBT+ History Month 2016 this February by 'celebrating the past and looking to the future'. The month will feature a varied programme of events to help us explore and discuss LGBT+ History, LGBT+ Life in Sheffield today, and Global LGBT+ Perspectives. These events are open to people of all backgrounds and identities and are all free to attend.
For more info please contact Alex Prestage, Equality and Liberation Coordinator, Sheffield SU - a.prestage@sheffield.ac.uk, 0114 2228730.
https://twitter.com/LGBTSU
LGBT Café
Open every Tuesday between 10.30am and 5.30pm
18-20 Union Street, Sheffield, S1 2JR
https://www.facebook.com/LGBTSheffieldCafe
https://twitter.com/LgbtCafe
https://www.facebook.com/LGBTSheffieldCafe
https://twitter.com/LgbtCafe
PitStop+
Sexual health service for gay and bisexual
men in Sheffield - open every Thursday evening from 5pm-7pm, at Sexual Health
Sheffield’s Central Clinic - http://www.gaysheffield.co.uk/Pitstop/
Trans Active
Swimming sessions - every 2 weeks
Sheffield Sapphics - LGBTQ+ Women's group
Various planned activities during February -
more info at
Hidden Perspectives
'Orange is the New Bible' Symposium
For more info, see http://hiddenperspectives.org
