Queer Tales: Women's Lives Reenacted - Pay as you can
In these complex modern days, we still find ourselves in the urgency of routes that keep battling gender inequality or discrimination, and that contribute to the “better world” we have hoped to live in. Academia and cultural production may have progressed over the last 40 years on how the woman's self is embraced. However, it is still important to ask ourselves the extent to which all this has been expanded to less/non-academic spaces and collective practices, or to communities where gender is not the only source of tension. Inspired by feminist and queer efforts, Queer Tales will showcase stories that interrogate dominant narratives on women and their diversity.
This event offers the general public an audiovisual output and a series of short performances that focus on women's queer experiences and that have been informed by the community of St Andrews, and which have been creatively co-led by the Colombian actor, producer and acting tutor, Silvia Santamaría; the Colombian scholar Paula Barreiro, and the 25-26 Performing Arts Officer of St Andrews Students' Association and President of the Mermaid Performing Arts Fund, Bella Hirst. The event will conclude in conversation with Latin American scholar, Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos (University of St Andrews) and a Q&A with acting coaches and performers. The overall event, hosted by artist Mary Delphine Freedman, will also be accompanied by a small exhibition comprising selected work from preliminary workshop sessions by the perfomers.
This event is part of a larger EDI project that Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos has developed alongside students Ciara Rooney (School President for Modern Languages) and Emily Hadfield (Spanish Student Convenor). This has also been made possible by the generous support of different suppporters and their commitment to our community and professional development, such as the University of St Andrews's School of Modern Languages, Students' Association, Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS), EDI Project Fund, and the Embassy of Colombia to the United Kingdom.