ULLI is proud to present at 10am, Saturday, June 26,2021 via a ZOOM program:
GATEWAY TO HEAVEN
A Presentational Talk by CLARE SUMMERSKILL
Clare Summerskill wrote and produced a play called Gateway to Heaven based entirely on older LGBT people’s memories which, with Arts Council funding, toured twice to theatres around the UK. It was then made into a film version for Age Concern (now Age UK). After The Metropolitan Police saw the film, they commissioned Clare to make another film made in the same way from interviews, about the relationship over the last seventy years or so between the police and older LGBT people. This film was called Queens’ Evidence and is still used by The Met as a training resource. Clare has since worked on several other theatre projects with older LGBT people including a production, Staying Out Late, which was created from a series of drama workshops resulting in a performance, addressing the issues of older people being gay and in care. In her talk, Clare will be speaking about these projects and she will also present deeply moving and occasionally hilarious extracts from contributors’ oral histories.
Clare has recently completed her doctorate in verbatim theatre at Royal Holloway University of London. She is currently editing a book for Routledge about LGBTQ oral histories around the world and she is Chair of the LGBTQ Special Interest Group in the Oral History Society.
The program will be a ZOOM event hosted by ULLI. Once registration is underway, registrants will be contacted with the ZOOM link and with instructions. ULLI has now purchased from ZOOM a plan allowing up to 100 participants.
An email address and means to access the internet are required: tablet, laptop, desktop, cell phone. To register: email- ullipleasanthill@gmail.com.
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