Queer Care
As part of the year-round programme, The Queer Care Caravan has been exploring resilient LGBTQIA+ community-led care across a Film Library exhibition and workshops. The project comes to a close on 22 March, with the Festival offering a space to delve deeper into themes of the exhibition with the final workshop of the series, cinema screenings and informal Morning Meetings.
The Queer Care Caravan is a library of resources and series of events inspired by the use of caravans as a therapeutic retreat. Three artists from Scotland, the Netherlands and Canada hosted by BFMAF explore resilient LGBTQIA+ community led care.
The project explores how care and knowledge are shared—past and present—to support LGBTQIA+ people’s rights and wellbeing.
The Film Library features a curated selection of video works and ephemera exploring queer care, including materials from Edinburgh Action for Trans Health and AIDS activism. Free events offer the opportunity to make friends and share films, walks, conversations and meals.
Queer Care Caravan workshops and events are facilitated by LGBTQIA+ artists Cannach MacBride, Conal McStravck, and Mikki who have curated queer and trans media and community care resources with cooperation from from Lothian Health Services Archive, Edinburgh, Tyne and Wear Archives and UK trans mutual aid groups and transnational LGBTQIA support groups, past and present.
A chance to drop-in, meet up and softly extend the themes of the project: community care, self care and palliative care as three pillars of care drawn by lgbtqia+ support groups and alternative healthcare. Pastries and tea included!
An event series, resource and film library inspired by the use of caravans as a therapeutic retreat. Join us throughout the festival as three artists from Scotland, the Netherlands and Canada hosted by BFMAF explore resilient LGBTQIA+ community led care.
Stemming from Cannach MacBride and Conal McStravick’s research with video and performance artist Mikiki, this programme focuses on Collective Care and Self Care, exploring practices of inheritance, resistance, speculation and survival across generations.
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A participatory workshop exploring grief, communitarian care, and ways of imaging what we might palliate – led by Toronto/Tkaranto–based artist and community activist Mikiki.
Lesley Loksi Chan’s poignant work of archival intimacy blends fragments of her research notes with the unfinished footage of Lloyd Wong, a man who documented his life living with AIDS in the early 1990s. Rough and unprocessed, her film explores the meaning of queer inheritance, of incompletion, and the act of repeated looking.