Queer Company

29th Feb 2020

We’re working with Queer Artist Amy Pennington to bring together a new group of young people living in St Helens who identify as LGBTQ+/ LGBTQ+ curious/ an ally to work on a new arts project.

Project Details

Creative Team

Artist: Amy Pennington
Producer: Kate Houlton
Culture Hubs Producer: Thomas Dukes
Film maker: Sophie Mallet
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Through conversations and creative workshops Amy will work with young people to compare and contrast Amy’s experiences growing up queer in a small town in the 90s with young people’s experiences of growing up and living in St Helens:

What are the differences?
What has stayed the same?

This collaboration will culminate in two new artworks which will take the form of a piece of writing and an accompanying film work.

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Dressed to look like Ellen Degeneres in that famous episode of Opera, where Ellen came out. Amy wears a blonde wig a white t-shirt and a black jacket.

4:3 - a film by Amy Pennington

Film screening

Before HD, 4:3 was standard TV ratio. Growing up queer in the 1990s, under Section 28 and in a small northern town, it was Amy’s ratio – a limited square portal into a queer education.

Queer Treatment- Creative Workshop with Amy Pennington

We’re inviting Homotopia audiences the opportunity to take part in a special one-off workshop with Amy exploring queer representation, queer childhoods and re-enactments in response to Amy Pennington's film 4:3.

Amy Pennington is dressed in black and is wearing a bright pink wig. They have a dart board hung around their neck so that the target rests on their chest. They are on stage performing, holding a microphone

Queer Company Call Out

Calling all young people living in St Helens identifying as LGBTQ+ / LGBTQ+ curious/ or an ally* (*someone who supports LGBTQ+ people, a friend or mate)

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