The Govanhill Queer Community Banner Project
Help Us Make an LGBTQIA+ Banner for Govanhill
Are you LGBTQIA+? Do you stay, work or play in Govanhill?
Category is Books and Govanhill Baths Community Trust invite you to help make a banner as a celebration of our diverse community. Working with poet Dean Atta and artist gainAgain (Drew Taylor Wilson), the Govanhill queer banner project looks to gather words and images to collate into a banner for and by the queer community in and around the southside of Glasgow.
There are various ways to get involved, including creative writing workshops (online), collage making and fabric work (at home), all leading towards the creation of a banner for the LGBTQIA+ community. No prior experience is needed, and we hope that the project can bring us together while we stay at home during COVID 19.
Thank you to Glasgow Life Arts Development Scheme who have funded this project.
If you have questions or to express interest, please email 💌 govanhillqueer [at] gmail [dot] com 💌
Queer Banner Words
We are working with poet Dean Atta to collate and gather words from the LGBTQIA+ community about our collective experiences, histories, relationships and life in Govanhill. ✏️
✨ You can get involved in any or all of the following ✨
Creative Writing Workshops online, 4th May, 2-4pm and 28th May, 7-9pm. Email to sign up.
Open call for Writing Submissions. Full info here.
Responding to Questions via the form here.
Responses will be used in the collective creation of the community banner.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th JULY 2020
Queer Banner Images
We are working with artist gainAgain to gather visual imagery from the queer community, creating a beautiful snapshot of the Glasgow southside's queer community. 🎨
✨You can take part by ✨
Making embroidered fabric plaques at home with materials and instructions provided. A pdf with further information is here, and to have your materials pack delivered, sign up here.
Open call for Visual Submissions. Full info here.
Contributions will be used to create the fabric and visuals of the community banner.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th JULY 2020
About Dean Atta
Dean Atta was named one of the most influential LGBT people in the UK by the Independent on Sunday. His debut poetry collection, I Am Nobody’s Nigger, was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. His novel, The Black Flamingo, won the Stonewall Book Award 2020, is shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and YA Book Prize, and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Dean also writes a regular column for Attitude magazine.
About gainAgain
gainAgain [Drew Taylor-Wilson] is a small textile workshop, based in Queens Park - Glasgow, founded in 2014. gainAgain specialises in making soft furnishings for interiors from upcycled/recycled/waste fabrics, turning unwanted clothes, fabrics scraps and off-cuts into something new! With a bold aesthetic and always a keen attention to colour and pattern. gainAgain has been a regular stockist of Category Is since the shop opened, and were a big seller in the now closed Rags To Riches shop on Victoria Road.