This event is part of the Queer Care Caravan, an artist residency hosted by The Burr of Berwick exploring resilient LGBTQIA+ community-led care across a Film Library exhibition, workshops and screenings.
Inspired by the use of caravans as a therapeutic retreat, 3 artists from Scotland, the Netherlands and Canada spend time in Berwick-upon-Tweed sharing radical approaches to care taken by the resilient LGBTQIA+ community.
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 monthly events offer the opportunity to make friends and share films, walks, conversations and meals.
Film still:
Q-LOXXX • Nika Sorzano • 2026
Curated by Cannach MacBride for the Queer Care Caravan Film Library
Archival Material:
FROGS Leaflets • Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard • Copyright Lothian Health Services Archive • Courtesy of University of Edinburgh • 1980s – 1990s
Scottish Gay and Lesbian Frogs (and Other Animals) • Harper • Speaking Out Project Zine 7 • Courtesy of University of Edinburgh • 2022
Community Care Workshop
Drawing on knowledge of community care and mutual aid organisers, we will think about methods like resource sharing, letter writing for prisoner support, and DIY healthcare, as well as ways to share that knowledge through sound. This workshop will explore care as a range of political practices that involve maintenance, pleasure, conflict, sustenance, and scarcity.
Led by Rotterdam-based artist Cannach MacBride, the workshop will include grounding exercises, an intro to basic audio recording, and making care maps exploring relationships of care and community. We will explore ideas of care and communities that include formal and informal relationships with people, structures, systems, more-than-human beings, and places.
Together we will discuss needs, capacities, and ways to nurture both, and reflect on organising strategies towards building communities of care that others have tried out. The group will share discussions, food, and have the option to work with sound as an expressive medium by recording messages/stories/sounds and suggesting songs for a mixtape about community care.