Manchester City Council

THE MANCHESTER ROOM@CITY LIBRARY AND GREATER MANCHESTER COUNTY RECORD OFFICE (WITH MANCHESTER ARCHIVES) OPEN ON 28 JUNE 2010.

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Anyone interested in the history of queer arts may be pleased to know that the archive of queerupnorth is now accessible. Dance and debate, clubs and comedy, literature and live art, films and fairies, plays and puppetry, thespians and theory - these are just some of the experiences on offer these last fifteen years at Manchester's very own international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) arts festival, queerupnorth.

The bewildering variety of work presented is reflected in the organization's archive which, thanks to a Heritage Lottery funded project to catalogue and repackage it, is now accessible at the Greater Manchester County Record Office by prior appointment.  The collection as a whole includes promotional materials, artists' files, photographs, and film. In addition, an oral history project has recorded the memories and experiences of those involved with the festival in past years.

The catalogue to the archive can be viewed on the Access to Archives web site, and some digitised material is also available  the queerupnorth website.