HISTORY
HISTORY
1º Queer Arts Symposium
Outburst Festival 2016, Belfast NI
+ International symposium on queer arts, featuring artists, performers, producers and activists from Brazil, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Ireland, Jamaica, Colombia, USA, Canada and Argentina. Networks building.
+ Americas programme presenting the brazilian production of the British play “The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven” (Brazil), The Tribe exhibition, by Simone Harris (Jamaica) and Caribbean Queer Visualities (Small Axe, Columbia University).
Image: Is That a Buoy by Nadia Huggings
2º Queer Arts Symposium
Outburst Festival 2017, Belfast NI
+ International symposium, (Americas, Europe, Africa and Middle East) co-curated by Outburst and Natalia Mallo (Argentina/Brazil). Network consolidation and reflection meeting.
+ Americas programme presenting the family show “Simón el Topo” (Peru) and “Forms of Resistance” (Brazil), an exhibition curated in partnership with Videobrasil (the most important collection of videoart from the global south).
3º Queer Arts Symposium
SAT – Semana de Arte Trans 2018, Montevideo Uruguay
+ Outburst Americas Collective encounter
+ International Trans Arts Symposium
+ Arts and Education Americas programme (music, visual arts, photography, film, dance) curated by Leho de Sosa and Delfina Martinez.
4º Queer Arts Symposium
“Curating as Gesture”
Risco Festival 2018, Sao Paulo Brazil
+ Symposium focused on curation as a gesture in the face of censorship, lack of public policy and queer arts persecution.
+ Outburst Americas Collective encounter
+ Americas programme featuring Susy Shock (Argentina), Simone Harris (Jamaica), Delfina Martinez, Leho de Sosa (Uruguay) and Brian Solomon (Canada)
Outburst Americas Training Programme
Kingston, Jamaica 2019
+ Training programme “Creating and Curating Spaces”, planning and management workshop with focus on Queer Arts. Produced by 360 Artists (Simone Harris) and delivered by Ruth McCarthy (Northern Ireland) and Natalia Mallo (Argentina/Brazil)
+ 1º Queer Arts showcase during the Beyond Homophobia / Navigating the State Conference 2019, University of the West Indies
5º Queer Arts Symposium
+ El Alto publication launch
+ Americas Showcase
Ouburst Festival 2019, Belfast NI
+ Symposium with guests from the Americas, Europe and Middle east. Discussions, exchange and networks building.
+ Americas showcase featuring Susy Shock (Argentina), Dani Nega (Brazil), Ghana (Jamaica) and Ali Gua Gua (Mexico)
Image: Susy Shock, Dani Nega, DJ Craca, Ghana and Ali Gua Gua.