LGBTI+ Awareness Week Programme 15th to 21st May 2023
LGBTI+ AWARENESS WEEK MAY 15 th - 21 st 2023 IDAHOBIT – Together always: united in diversity
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Programme 2023
MONDAY 15 TH MAY 4.45pm – 6pm LGBTI+ Awareness Week 2023 Launch Venue:
7.30pm
LGBTI+ Culture Night Blue Jean Irish Short Jungle by Alan Hopkins Triskel Arts Centre Reception spronsered by COOLGREY Screening of Blue Jean and Irish Short Jungle by Alan Hopkins Tickets free but must be booked online: Triskelartscentre.ie
Venue:
Atrium, Civic Offices, Cork City Council
4.45pm
Raising Rainbow Flag
5pm
Launch of LGBTI+ Week, Welcome: Siobhan O’Dowd LGBTI+ Inter-Agency steering group chair. Music: Choral Con Fusion Formal launch of LGBTI+ Week by Lord Mayor Cllr Deirdre Forde 30 Years: Decriminalising Homosexuality to Criminalising Hate Crime Guests of Honour: Arthur Leahy LGBTI+ Activist & Campaigner
THURSDAY 18 TH MAY 12.30pm
UCC LGBT Staff Network
–3.30pm
+ UCC Dept Applied Social Studies Shtepps, Hub UCC Jane Traies - Oral History/Ethnographic work with Lesbian Refugees & Asylum Seekers Respondent : Collette O’Regan LGBT Ireland
Venue:
Luna Lara Liboni – Policy Officer, Irish Council for Civil Liberties
6pm
Readings from Slant by author Katherine O’Donnell followd by Q&A with Orla Egan.
5.30pm
Reception
TUESDAY 16 TH MAY 10 – 1pm
Cork City Flag Raising
Venue:
Cork City Central Library
Venue:
Collins Army Barracks, St Finbarr’s GAA Club Westgate Foundation St Lukes Home Cork GAA / Páirc Uí Chaoimh HSE Health Campuses St Finbarrs, Hospital, St Mary’s Health Campus, CUH Sexual Health Network - LGBTI+ inclusion for Healthcare Professionals and Support Workers in Sexual Health Register at:www.sexualhealthcentre.ie Speakers: Konrad Im - Gay Project Ciara Mulchay Linehan - Linc Aaron O’Sullivan - Sexual Health Centre
Friday 19 TH May 11-1pm
Cork City PPN Consultation
Venue
Gay Project, Venue Sawmill Street, Cork T12CX32 Cork City PPN Consultation on Community Well-Being Statement with LGBTI+ Community Rainbow Picnic at the Páirc Family Friendly Picnic with music, food court, fun & games and Fairytales for Everyone
1 – 2pm
SATURDAY 20 TH MAY 2pm - 5pm
Zoom link
Venue:
Marina Park, Cork City
SUNDAY 21 ST MAY 10.15am
2.00- 4.30pm Public Services and Community Organisations Responding to Hate Venue: Cork City Central Library
IDAHOBIT Day Service St Annes Shandon With Rev Meghan Farr & Congregation of St Anne IDAHOBIT Address:
Speakers: Luna Lara Liboni ICCL, Siobhan O’Donoughue Hope and Courage Collective David O’Brien Cork City Library
Cork City Library Multi day events for LGBTI+ Awareness Week 9am - 5pm Cork City Central Library
WEDNESDAY 17 TH MAY 10am - 1pm
IDAHOBIT Day Seminar: Conversations on LGBTI+ Elder Healthcare & Housing
Monday 15 th to Friday 19 th 9-5pm Foyer .
LGBT Exhibition - The day Ireland made world history: Dr Ann Louise Gilligan, Dr Katherine Zappone and the journey to marraige equality - Curated by Deirdre Swain Screenings of “I’m here, I’m Home, I’m Happy” - Orla Egan Cork LGBT Archive Film Library foyer Monday 15 th & Wednesday 17 th Inclusive Story Time – Fairytales for Everyone
Venue: City Council Chamber Featuring Tonic Housing UK, LGBT Ireland – Champions Programme and Aisteach Queer Housing Co-op Info at lgbti@corkcity.ie 6pm - 7.30pm Inclusive Workplaces Showcase & Proud
Ally Student Network Launch UCC Graduate Attributes Programme, UCC LGBT Staff Network, UCC LGBTQ Society, UCC EDI Unit, Work with Pride & VMware Aula Maxima, University College Cork
10.30am
Venue:
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Cork City LGBTI+ InterAgency Group
Cork City marks May 17 th , the International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia annually by organising an LGBTI+ Awareness Week to coincide with IDAHOBIT Cork’s LGBTI+ InterAgency Group has representation from all of the public agencies, LGBTI+ NGOs and community representatives. This week we come together to challenge homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia and biphobia and to demonstrate the solidarityof the city with LGBTI+ communities, here and globally, in collaboration with the Rainbow Cities Network. Cork City has been privileged to participate in EU For Citizens Policy initiative as a Rainbow City and to host the participating cities in City Hall this January . We look forward to the publication of the Rainbow Cities LGBTIQ Good Practise Guide this IDAHOBIT and believe that it will help support cities and municipalities to become welcoming and inclusive spaces for LGBTIQ communities. In a world grown increasingly intolerant and threatening, the importance of marking IDAHOBIT is essential: this year’s theme speaks of the need for LGBTI+ communities and their allies to stand together, to stand strong, united in all of our glorious diversity. In 2023 we also mark the 30 th Anniversary of the Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Ireland; Victorian- era law which forced gay men to conduct their personal and private lives in secret for fear of legal sanction and which had a chilling effect on the entire LGBTI community. Decriminalisation was a major milestone in the history of LGBTI
Communities in Ireland and a significant step towards advancing human rights and inclusion for LGBT people. Now 30 years on, while undoubtedly much progress has been made , these rights are constantly questioned in political discourse, on social platforms and in mainstream media. 2022 was reported by ILGA as the most violent year for LGBTIQ people. In Ireland we have experienced that increase in violence and hate speech at the same time as efforts are underway to criminalise Hate Crime. At a time when hard-won advances for LGBTQ+ communities around the globe are increasingly under threat, the power of solidarity, allyship and community across identities, borders, and movements has never been more necessary.
IDAHOBIT 2023- Together always: united in diversity #CityofWelcomes
#AllOfU s
LGBTI+
Cork County LGBTI+ Awareness Week Monday May 15 th 3pm Raising the Progress Flag at Youghal Town Hall followed by OUT at Café, Cumann na Daoine P36WY82 Thursday 18 th May 7pm Film Screening Lily Savage Shorts & Orlando, Cumann na Daoine P36WY82 Monday May 15 th to Friday May 19 th Cork County LGBT Inter-Agency with FRCs & Community Centres Rainbow Families Information Poster & Drop-In.
Information: hayleycummannadoine@gmail.com
HWCR Programme - social prescribing services in Cork and Kerry celebrate IDAHOBIT 2023
Information: ritabevan@familyresource.ie
Cork City LGBTI+ InterAgency Group
Cork LGBTI+ Inter Agency Steering Group Membership: Cork City Council: Kieran O’Connell, Rebecca Loughry, Sandy McGroarty HSE Cork Kerry Community Healthcare: Kevin Mooney An Garda Siochána: Gardaí: Marie O’Neill & Lorraine O’Donovan Department of Social Protection: Tom Cronin Tusla Child & Family Agency: Denise Twohig Cork Education & Training Board: Mary Ryder Cork City Library: Thomas Talbot Cork City Partnership: Margo Hayes Sexual Health Centre: Aaron O’Sullivan
Gay Project: Ailsa Spindler Linc – Advocating for Lesbian & Bisexual Women: Kate Moynihan, Secretary CESCA/Ballyphehane Togher CDP: Siobhán O’Dowd, Chair Defence Forces: Sinead Twomey - Navy Jean Fitzgerald - 1 Brigade Gender Advisor Keith Green - Band of 1 Brigade Mercy University Hospital/ South/South West Hospital Group: Margaret McKiernan
Gender Rebels: Hayleigh Black
Cork LGBTI+ Awareness Week is supported by
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