While the London Metropolitan Archives are closed Haringey Vanguard has been focussing on forward planning for the project, specifically developing our website and thinking of ideas for our end of project exhibition, which will take place at Bruce Castle Museum.
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Haringey Vanguard Exhibition at Bruce Castle Feb 2019.
If you’ve got any ideas of themes, activities for the exhibition, please let me know. We want to make the most of this historic space in an engaging and thought provoking way.
We’ve had a couple of new volunteers who signed up for transcribing which is good news., so we are nearly finished the interviews we have so far.
We will trying out online video conferencing app Zoom to see if that’s a way we can carry out interviews. If that works, then as we don’t know how long we will be in lockdown, we can continue our interviews remotely.
So many hours in the day….
In such a difficult time, it’s great that so many institutions are putting their content online for free to help people pass the time. These are a few picks you may not have seen.
While the LMA is closed you can continue to search our catalogue and browse our Digital Documents and Research Guides. You can also visit Collage – The London Picture Archive to enjoy our photograph, print and map collections. If you’d like to watch a selection of our films, please visit our YouTube channel
@LGBTIQoutside project have a virtual Cafe Queero on Twitter.
Books
Also Internet Archive’s Open library project have a range of classic LGBTQ+ titles to listen to or read online. They are on twitter @internetarchive
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Check their link here but you have to sign up.
https://openlibrary.org/subjects/lgbt
Films
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/black-lives
These films – although not specifically LGBTQ+ – are a mix of shorts, docs and interviews which provide a fascinating insight into black lives in the UK dating back to the early 29th century, and is a lovely collection of archive footage and films which have been collated.
Do join LMA’s LGBTQ+ History Club’s first foray into the digital arena…
Queer history is full to the brim with untold narratives of small acts of defiance. An Elizabethan woman stitches a beard from her pubic hair to marry the woman she loves. A Punjabi-speaking Muslim girl tries to make her parents understand who she is by translating the untranslatable. A drag queen fighting in World War II must literally lip sync for her life.
How do you go about adapting these for the stage?
Join Sam Arbor and Clodagh Chapman – together comprising two thirds of LGBT-led theatre company Bedlam Chorus – as they reflect on the making of buttterfly, “a brilliant show full of heart – it’s history that is far from dull and has been smacked through a queer kaleidoscope of charm, dark humour and vibrancy”. The Guardian
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/butterfly-lgbtq-history-club-tickets-103318578650
If things are tough – reach out!
Even if you consider yourself quite resilient, the fact that the lockdown is continuing for an unknown period of time, can get to you, and things do change over time. If you need help these links may help.
Well being
UK Black Pride has been cancelled for this year. This article talks about that and lists for the BAME LGBTQ+ community.
UK Black Pride is postponed – but it’s vital for LGBTQ+ community to stay connected during lockdown
For those who are based in Haringey there are some links that might help.
Haringey Council news –
https://twitter.com/haringeycouncil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
They have a team called Connected Communities –
Connected Communities line on 020 8489 4431. The line is open Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4.30pm.
Wise Thoughts – A local LGBTQ+ are offering telephone support.
https://haricare.haringey.gov.uk/adults/cat/vendor/2847
Local online support/news can also be found via – https://nextdoor.co.uk/news_feed/
There are also local whats app groups.
There’s a great local group who serve hot food daily to vulnerable and self isolating people. They are the North London Community Consortium. You may have seen them recently on the ITV news.
https://www.northlondoncommunityconsortium.co.uk/
Food banks – https://www.trusselltrust.org/
A Time to Reflect
A lot of people in the LGBTQ+ community have likened this current pandemic to the HIV and AIDS crisis in the 80’s. If you want to read out more about this article is a good start –
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/22/coronavirus-aids-epidemic-san-francisco
This is all a bit overwhelming at the moment so please stay safe and check on any elderly neighbours.
Veronica
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