Batting For Both Teams
Back in January, I attended the launch of a fascinating project from New Writing South - the 'Hear Us Out' Festival, featuring pieces written and performed by older LGBTQ people. It was a great evening, and as they were asking for writers and performers to help expand the project, I put my name down for a workshop.
My first piece was a 'satellite piece' written from the point of view of a character in someone else's autobiographical recording. That was fun to write, and the original plan was for all of our pieces to be performed on stage by proper actors - however when lock down intervened, we were asked if we could record them ourselves for interim audio presentation on the Festival's website. This presented me with a bit of a challenge, as my mobile phone is practically antique, with no camera and no recording facility. However we made do with a digital camera, held by Mr B with a piece of paper obscuring the aperture. This seemed to go down well, and I was asked to record another contributor's satellite piece too, as they hadn't wanted to do it themselves.
By now I was getting into the swing of things, and having been kindly told I was a 'pleasure to work with', I said I'd be interested in writing or recording a piece around someone's experience of being bisexual. I mentioned that back in the 1980s there'd been a whole debate around whether bisexuals should be allowed to join the newly opened London Lesbian and Gay Centre, and that I'd been afraid to come out as bi, and had instead signed the declaration saying I identified as a lesbian just so I could get into the place with my (lesbian) partner.
The upshot of this was that I was asked to do an autobiographical piece of my own - no longer than five minutes, so no waffling on (always a challenge for me!) and recorded for the website in the same way as the others.
And here it is, up on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsjUH...
You can access some of the other contributors' pieces here - they're putting up a new one each week:
http://hearusout.live/video-audio/
Enjoy!
My first piece was a 'satellite piece' written from the point of view of a character in someone else's autobiographical recording. That was fun to write, and the original plan was for all of our pieces to be performed on stage by proper actors - however when lock down intervened, we were asked if we could record them ourselves for interim audio presentation on the Festival's website. This presented me with a bit of a challenge, as my mobile phone is practically antique, with no camera and no recording facility. However we made do with a digital camera, held by Mr B with a piece of paper obscuring the aperture. This seemed to go down well, and I was asked to record another contributor's satellite piece too, as they hadn't wanted to do it themselves.
By now I was getting into the swing of things, and having been kindly told I was a 'pleasure to work with', I said I'd be interested in writing or recording a piece around someone's experience of being bisexual. I mentioned that back in the 1980s there'd been a whole debate around whether bisexuals should be allowed to join the newly opened London Lesbian and Gay Centre, and that I'd been afraid to come out as bi, and had instead signed the declaration saying I identified as a lesbian just so I could get into the place with my (lesbian) partner.
The upshot of this was that I was asked to do an autobiographical piece of my own - no longer than five minutes, so no waffling on (always a challenge for me!) and recorded for the website in the same way as the others.
And here it is, up on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsjUH...
You can access some of the other contributors' pieces here - they're putting up a new one each week:
http://hearusout.live/video-audio/
Enjoy!
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