ALWAYS HERE
Untold Stories from the LGBT+ Community In North Staffordshire
Exhibitions and a new Publication that explore and celebrate LGBT+ lives, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England to save, protect and share our LGBT+ heritage.
ALWAYS HERE is a socially engaged photography and heritage project. Through workshops, meetings, interviews, photoshoots, research and oral histories, participants have shared their experiences and defining life moments. Over the past two years, memories and lives shaped by changing social attitudes, political reform, and local and national events, have been explored and recorded.
This Autumn exhibitions are taking place as follows;
— Spode Museum – 19 September – 30 November
— The New Vic Theatre – 15 September – 12 October
— Hanley Library – 8 October – 30 November
— Stoke Library – 10 October – 16 November.
The project material will become a new LGBT+ public archive, the first in the city and wider region, that records these histories, a fitting legacy at the Stoke-on-Trent Archives Service.
Scroll down for photo galleries of each exhibition.
Thank you to our partner GRAIN Projects and to all those who took part in the photography, interviews and workshops over the last 18 months to make this project possible
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