Looking for a unique activity for your LGBTQ+ staff network or community group – or for something to bring new visitors into your museum or gallery? Get in touch if you’d like to hire me to run a walking tour or creative workshop inspired by queer history!

Walking tours | #RainbowPlaques workshops | Creative workshops

Walking tours

Discover Leeds or York’s hidden queer history! With flexible starting points and lengths, I can create a social or team-building activity to suit you: get outside, spend some time together and learn to see your city in a new light.

(Image above © Olivia Hemingway, Historic England)

#RainbowPlaques workshops

Together with Helen Graham (University of Leeds), I originated the #RainbowPlaques project, and I coordinate it today. #RainbowPlaques workshops invite participants to make temporary cardboard plaques marking spaces significant to queer history – whether it’s somewhere with wider significance (like the site of the UK’s first ever national trans conference) or somewhere personally important (like the place where they came out to their mum). The project empowers ordinary people to determine which histories are worth recording, and to create their own forms of commemoration – and the temporary displays of plaques make the queer history of a city visible.

I’ve been commissioned to run #RainbowPlaques workshops by West Yorkshire Queer Stories, the Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, and the V&A Museum. If you’d like to discuss arranging a workshop for your organisation, event, class or youth group, please contact me!

If you’d like to run your own #RainbowPlaques workshop, the template is free for everyone: you can download a PDF here. Feel free to contact me for tips – and we’d love it if you’d archive them on social media using the hashtag too.

Creative workshops

I run monthly workshops for The Bookish Type‘s Queer History Club – and I could run one for you too! Brooch-making inspired by the queer language of flowers; blackout poetry that brings out the queerness erased from historical sources; collage, textile art or coaster-making inspired by the objects in your museum…get in touch and I can design something that meets your goals, whether that’s a social activity for your community group or a new, queer audience for your organisation.