A Day with Outback

Tickets

Booking your free ticket is via Eventbrite £0

Location

Kresen Kernow, Redruth

Dates

Tue 13th June, 2023
This event has already happened
10:30 am |
10.30am - 4pm

About this event

A Day with Outback: A Lesbian Lifeline, with Queer Kernow.

Book now to come and explore the Outback issues with Queer Kernow and Dreadnought South West.

On an unassuming shelf here at Kresen Kernow lie two boxes of queer joy. They contain 140 issues of the Outback Newsletter for Lesbians in Cornwall and the Far South West: a newsletter written, produced, and distributed by a group of gay women based primarily in Penzance between 1996 and 2008.

Self-published LGBTQ+ magazines were an incredibly important resource to the community in pre-internet days. For the first time, lesbian women living in rural areas of Cornwall and the far South West were able to make contact with one another, plan events, organise protests, provide support and ultimately grow a community. Newsletters like Outback helped build the LGBTQ+ community in Cornwall, and their impact cannot be underestimated.

Booking is via Eventbrite, please see our website for more details.

The Rebellious Sounds Archive is currently popping-up for display at Kresen Kernow and is available to access during the day. Other Dreadnought South West and Rebellious Sounds Archive events are also on this week – see the rest of the Kresen Kernow what’s on.

This event is supported by the Heritage Fund and made possible by players of the National Lottery.

Contact

01209614430 | https://kresenkernow.org/event/a-day-with-outback-a-lesbian-lifeline/

Accessibility

Details

Kresen Kernow is fully wheelchair and pushchair accessible, with lifts to all levels and automatic main entrance doors. Accessible toilets are available on both floors, with a fully-equipped Changing Places toilet also available on the ground floor. Separate baby changing facilities are also available on the ground floor. If you are arriving by vehicle, there are six accessible parking spaces at the Tesco side of the building and a level entrance into the building. If you are arriving on foot or wheels, from Redruth town centre, the closest entrance is at the end of the public path which runs through the old brewery site, from Chapel Street to Kresen Kernow.

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