The future is queer.

For Tails of the City, our landmark publication series for Belfast 2024, Outburst invited four queer writers to share ideas around queer experience and urban life. But we have one final edition we want to publish, and we want it to be written collectively.

Belfast: A Queer Manifesto is a wildly hopeful and uncompromising vision of what a future queer city can look like.

Taking starter provocations from four local queer artists and writers, we invite you to join us at the Black Box to respond and bring your own ideas, big or small, magical or practical, anonymous or authored.

More details coming soon!

And stay after the event (or come later at 8:15pm) for a very special one-off listening party for Stacey Gregg’s stunning audio time travelogue DISCO DYKES, which was commissioned as part of our Belfast 2024 project. We’ll turn the lights down and get comfy on the floor (or chairs, whatever feels good for you) for one of the most evocative, funny and moving pieces of queer writing we’ve had the pleasure to share with you

EVENT INFORMATION

BSL Signing provided for Belfast: A Queer Manifesto

This is a relaxed event

We’ll have pizza, will include gluten free option.

Bar will be available

B.Y.O.P (Bring your own pillow!) Or inflatable or mat for Disco Dykes. It’s an audio piece and best experienced in the most relaxed way for you. Chairs will be provided but you are welcome to bring any other seating or lying down options.

Duration: Belfast A Queer Manifesto (60 mins) Disco Dykes (90 mins). We will aim to have the event finish no later than 22:00 for public transport options but you can leave any time you like.

Outburst is excited to partner with the Irish language festival Liú Lúnasa to kick off our first event in Are You On the Bus?, our Belfast 2024 project in partnership with Kabosh and Paperxclips!

TAILS OF THE CITY is a series of essays by queer writers and thinkers based in Belfast and beyond, that explores queer experiences of The City and urban life from different perspectives. We’ll be releasing four of these specially commissioned booklets between now and the festival in November.

Our first booklet is Faiteach – Aiteach (Shy – Queer) and will be launched at this special Outburst Salon event looking at the connections between queer experience and Irish language.

Cá mhéad den tuiscint atá againn ar cé muid féin agus cárb as dúinn a bhaineann leis an teanga a labhraíonn muid?

In Faiteach – Aiteach, scrúdaíonn an cainteoir dúchais agus an scríbhneoir Gaeilge Dónall Mac Giolla Chóill, a rugadh i nDún na nGall, le brí fhileata, an t-eispéireas aerach mar a bhaineann le haistriú ón tuath chuig lárionad uirbeach agus na naisc idir feiceálacht an aiteachais agus feiceálacht na Gaeilge i gcathair Bhéal Feirste.

How much of our understanding of who we are and where we are from is related to the language that we speak?

In Faiteach – Aiteach Donegal-born native speaker and writer Dónall Mac Giolla Chóill examines, with poetic poignancy, the rural-to-urban gay experience and the connections between queer visibility and Irish language visibility in the city of Belfast

Please note that this event will be in Irish.

­­Admission to the event includes a drink and a copy of Faiteach – Aiteach

Series Editors: Ruth McCarthy / Caleb Roberts / Dominic Montague

Booklet design: Ezra Pinkerton

TAILS OF THE CITY is part of ARE YOU ON THE BUS? a Belfast 2024 commission in partnership with Kabosh and Paperxclips