Rommi Smith: The Map Where We Meet and Other Queer Stories
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Description
The Map Where We Meet and Other Queer Stories: writers as cartographers on the crossroads of change.
A Lecture-as-Performance & Discussion with Rommi Smith.
Rommi Smith is a poet, playwright, performer and the first British Parliamentary Writer in Residence. A John Barnard Scholar at The University of Leeds, UK, Smith’s transdisciplinary, practice-led PhD, artfully combines scholarship with performance, focusing on the history of women jazz and blues musicians. In this lecture which fuses poetry, music, performance, and archival evidence, Smith builds up the narratives of her subjects and their historical contexts, whilst considering the roots of her doctoral research path.
Smith’s presentation marks the start of three-month research and writing period in NYC. She will be accessing archives and continuing writing and researching a new collection of poems, one of the outcomes of her PhD process. The resulting poetry collection will be published by Peepal Tree Press.
Smith is a grateful recipient of the following financial assistance from The University of Leeds: an Impact Grant, a Researcher Mobility Grant and a School of English Grant.
An earlier version of this presentation was given at the Archives Libraries and Museums LGBT Conference, London, in 2016.
This lecture-as-performance is written and performed by Rommi Smith. It is a collaboration with the following artists and creatives:
Juliet Ellis: Director and Filmmaker
Jason Hird: Dramaturg
Jenni Molloy: musician and composer
Mat Lazenby: Designer
Ros Steen: vocal coach
Hazel Holder: Dialect Coach
Tenzin Haarhaus: sound recordist and sound engineer
Matthew Elliot: Technician, UK
Organizer CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies
Organizer of Rommi Smith: The Map Where We Meet and Other Queer Stories
The Center for LGBTQ Studies provides a platform for intellectual leadership in addressing issues that affect Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender individuals and other sexual and gender minorities. As the first university-based LGBTQ research center in the United States, CLAGS nurtures cutting-edge scholarship, organizes colloquia for examining and affirming LGBTQ lives, and fosters network-building among academics, artists, activists, policy makers, and community members. CLAGS stands committed to maintaining a broad program of public events, online projects, and fellowships that promote reflection on queer pasts, presents, and futures. CLAGS makes its home at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
CLAGS's efforts to promote an academy where homophobia, sexism, racism, and classism are studied and not enacted depend on the generosity of our members. The basic membership rate of $40 ($20 for students or individuals with limited income) includes advanced notification of all public events and a subscription to our biannual newsletter.
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