Hold It Up was a day long drop-in workshop, done in collaboration with artists Frankie Mazzotta and Florian Hynam. It took place on the 14th of August at Hyde Park Art Club.
The workshop celebrated 50 years of Pride in the UK, and explored the history of pride through banner making. We provided participants with reading material, fabric, paint etc. and encouraged them to either leave their banners with u s or to take it to Leeds Pride with them. The banners that were left with us were sewn as one large communial banner and taken to Leeds Pride. (If you happen to have photos of us at Leeds Pride with the banner, please do send them to me :) )
some photos from the workshop:
some photos of participants with their banners :) :
a person holding up a banner saying "queer disabled pride"
a person holding up a banner that says "enjoy your drag queen story hour"
a person holding up a banner that says "brown queers exist"
a person holding up a banner that says "biphobia stops here"
a person holding up a banner of a drawing depicting a kiss and text that says wlw (women loving women)
me, holding up a banner saying "beware of the lavender menance"
a person holding up a banner that says "no cops at pride"
two people holding up banners saying "mullet gays against capitalism" and "transexual against capitalism"
two people holding up differently decorated banners that say "love is love"
This is Florian, Frankie and I taking the banners with us to Leeds Pride 2022
