LIVERPOOL'S 10th Homotopia festival has already unveiled two big name shows - David Hockney at the Walker and April Ashley at Muesum of Liverpool. However the Boy George photography show is now open at Camp & Furnace and John Waters and Sandi Toksvig are all to come. Not forgetting X Ray Spex.
Here is the full list of things to come.
JOHN WATERS ‘THIS FILTHY WORLD’ 8 November 8pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
The incomparable writer, director and actor John Waters’ one-man show is a vaudeville act that celebrates the film career and obsessional tastes of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash.” The creator of Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Serial Mom and more than a dozen other cult hits, focuses on his early negative artistic influences and his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, and the extremes of the contemporary art world.
Tickets £20, £26 Box office 0151 709 3789 and here
BOY GEORGE & TRADEMARK (AKA MARK WARDEL) THIS WAY OUT
30 October – 25 November 11am- 5pm Camp and Furnace
This collaborative exhibition is the first DJ and photographer (who knew?) Boy George has publicly exhibited his photo/graphic artworks. Working with club culture pop painter TradeMark, the exhibition explores identity, specifically the notion of the constructed identities adopted by anyone trying to live outside the heterosexual mainstream.
Boy GeorgeBOY GEORGE – IN CONVERSATION 14 November 6pm St George’s Hall. Tickets £16 Box office 0151 709 3789. Free
GERM FREE ADOLESCENTS 30 October – 25 November 11am – 5pm The Met Quarter
Combining rare and original artefacts donated to LJMU Special Collections and Archives by former X-Ray Spex manager Falcon Stuart this exhibition documents the life and music of Poly Styrene (Marion Elliot Said). FREE
ENGLAND’S EROTIC DREAM 30 October – 25 November 11am-5pm The Met Quarter
Featuring photographs from LJMU’s Special Collections and Archives including England’s Dreaming: the Jon Savage Archive, this exhibition focuses a queer gaze on London’s early punk scene. FREE
EARTHFALL CHELSEA HOTEL, 1 & 2 November 8pm Unity Theatre
Take a journey to New York’s Chelsea Hotel with award-winning Earthfall. A voyeuristic exploration of its inhabitants lives, loves and longings. From Andy Warhol to Jack Kerouac and Dylan Thomas to Patti Smith, stories both true and false combine through radical dance, live music and film capturing significant moments in the history of this rebel artist mecca. £10 (£8 concs) Box office 0844 873 2888
England's Erotic DreamSANDI TOKSVIG MY VALENTINE 5 November 8pm, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Comedian, novelist, actor long-standing host of Radio 4's News Quiz and Excess Baggage Sandi will be performing her uniquely witty evening of stand-up, stories and fascinating facts and also signing copies of Valentine Grey after the show. £20, £26 Box office 0151 709 3789
NEIL MCKENNA FANNY & STELLA, 6 November 6pm The Bluecoat
An extraordinary true tale of cross-dressing and gay sub-culture in 19th-century London is revealed in Neil McKenna’s new book, Fanny & Stella. His dazzling account of the arrest and sensational trial of Fanny Park and Stella Boulton – scandalously revealed to be two young men – is a meticulous evocation of the underbelly of Victorian society.
£6/£5 Box Office 0151 702 5324 and here
DICKIE BEAU LOST IN TRANS, 6th November 7.30pm, Unity Theatre
Performance phenomenon and gender dis-illusionist, Dickie Beau takes inspiration from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' for his latest show presenting a poetic performance of personal discovery and transformation.
£10/£8 Box office 0844 873 2888 and here
JOSEPH MERCIER & PANICLAB OF SAINTS AND GO-GO BOYS
7 November 7pm and 8 November 7pm & 9pm Unity Theatre
In a hedonistic world decorated with cheap glamour, three outcasts create their own distorted version of a family as they seek a different kind of Sainthood through glorious self-destruction.
£10/£8 Box office 0844 873 2888 and here
Stella And FannyDIVA DEBATES LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX, BABY! 7 November 6pm The Bluecoat
Jane Czyzselska, Campbell X, Paris Lees, Caroline Walters, Dr Meg Barker.
Free but pre-booking advised Box Office 0151 702 5324 and here
CHEW DISCO: VOL 12 FEATURING MS VAGINAL DAVIS 8 November 9.30pm The Kazimier
Queer DIY party and multimedia project Chew Disco welcomes legendary performance and multimedia artist, filmmaker, musician, and drag-punk figure Ms Vaginal Davis.
£7 (£5 Advance/NUS) £15 (Advance ticket PLUS Manchester-Liverpool return coach travel) here
ROSANA CADE WALKING: HOLDING 9 November 2pm-5pm outside Museum of Liverpool
A woman with a shaved head takes your hand in a station. A large man dressed in black follows you down an alley. A white haired woman hugs you good-bye as you leave. Walking:Holding is a one-on-one walk through town, in the hands of strangers.
DANCE TRIPLE BILL: DENADA DANCE THEATRE/ GARY CLARKE/ TMESIS THEATRE
9 Nov 7pm Unity Theatre
A night of new works featuring female dancers.
£10/£8 Box office 0844 873 2888 and here
DAVID HOYLE IN THE COMPANY OF FRIENDS 9 November 9pm Unity Theatre
Join England’s avant-guardian for a night of live art, poetry, conversation and music. Featuring special guests Julie Holestar and Gerry Potter. ‘David Hoyle is no drag’ Nancy Durrant The Times
£10/£8 Box office 0844 873 2888 and here
‘I AM DIVINE’ 10 November 6.30pm Picturehouse at FACT
REGIONAL PREMIERE. Jeffrey Schwarz’ enlightening documentary about a unique person – follow Divine’s life from humble Baltimore beginnings to superstar status as the Queen of Cult.
£8/£6 Box office 0871 902 5737 and here
CAZ ‘N’ BRITNEY PRESENT 'MIS LES' 13 Nov & Sat 16 Nov 8pm, 14 Nov & Fri 15 Nov 9.15pm
Written and performed by Keddy Sutton and Gillian Hardie. Mis Les - a Revolution in Rollers promises the return of Caz ‘n’ Britney, with a brand new show after their sell out stretch in 'Scottie Road The Musical'.
£14/£12 Box office 0844 873 2888 and here
LE GATEAU CHOCOLAT BLACK 14 & 15 Nov 7.45pm (matinee 2.30pm 15 Nov) Unity Theatre
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you" Maya Angelou. Le Gateau Chocolat has a story to tell. This is an intimate portrait of the Nigerian born baritone and his own personal battles.
£10/£8 Box office 0844 873 2888 and here
RONALD WRIGHT IN CONVERSATION 16 November 2pm Walker Art Gallery
Rupert Smith explores the world of Ronald Wright, spiritualist writer, gay magazine illustrator, celebrity portrait artist, author, artist’s model and psychic medium,
Beefcakes And DrippingBEEFCAKES & DRIPPING, 17th November 2pm, Walker Art Gallery
British gay culture went deep underground after the Second World War. A secretive network grew up around the boom in bodybuilding and physique magazines, which became a covert gay press, supplying British men with erotic images, contacts and a sense of belonging at a time of vicious legal persecution. Rupert Smith uncovers a vibrant, erotic gay visual culture in magazines like Man's World, Health and Strength and Man Alive, illustrated with work by the brave, eccentric photographers and models who created some of the most striking images of gay desire in the 50s and 60s. Both events are free but pre-booking essential at the Walker Welcome Desk or call 0151 478 4199.
I AM A WOMAN NOW 16 Nov 2pm, Museum Of Liverpool
This powerful documentary directed by Michiel van Erp gives us privileged and rare access to some of the first generation of trans* women. Among the stars are April Ashley MBE and some other performers who originally met as professional female impersonators at the famous Parisian nightclub, Le Carrousel.
Free
HOUSE OF SUAREZ VOGUE DECO AND OTHER STORIES 16 November 6pm The Bluecoat
Developed in collaboration with Aviance Milan (NYC’s House of Milan) - Vogue-Deco is a new dance work that pushes the boundaries of the company’s previous pieces and promises stunning performances from Darren Suarez and Aviance Milan with selected artists hand-picked from the new House of Suarez Training Academy. The evening will also showcase House of Suarez signature Vogue-ography works created throughout 2013.Supported using public funding by The National Lottery through Arts Council England.
£10/£8 0151 702 5324 and here
AFFRONT!, 16 November 81 Renshaw Street
Enter the unpredictable world of Affront! Psychedelic performances by Liverpool LGBT artists tackling the theme of labelling. Featuring Grim Outlook, Caustic Widows, Austin Hewitt, Tom Burroughs and more. Affront rounds off the final day of live performances for this year’sHomotopia festival. £5 on the door
ALVIN BALTROP & GORDON MATTA-CLARK THE PIERS FROM HERE
7 December – 9 February 2014 Open Eye Gallery
The exhibition focuses on the area of the Piers in New York City during the mid-1970s, and speaks of the state of abandonment and dilapidation these underwent as a consequence of the oil crisis that reconfigured the geography of the city. Whilst Gordon Matta-Clark pursued the idea that art could act as a catalyst for urban regeneration and land re-appropriation, Baltrop investigated the life at the margins, mapping hedonistic displays of flesh, occasional sexual intercourse, corpses that could be mistaken for sleeping squatters (and vice versa) and other traces of humanity hidden amongst the interstices of society, notwithstanding the sense of freedom and liberation originating in the sexual revolution.
FREE
