OUTing the Past Dublin 2021 - Breaking Down Barriers with Dan Vo

NMI - Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks

OUTing the Past Dublin 2021 The International Festival of LGBTI+ History on 21st – 27th March 2021.

<h2>The National Museum of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland and Kilmainham Gaol Museum are delighted to present OUTing the Past Dublin 2021.</h2>OUTing the Past Dublin 2021 The International Festival of LGBTI+ History on 21st – 27th March 2021, bringing LGBTI+ history to a wider audience in an exciting, inspiring and thought-provoking programme of online events.We are joined by Dan Vo, a Victoria and Albert ambassador and founder of the volunteer-led LGBTQ+ tours at the museum. Titled, Breaking Down Barriers, Dan will deliver a live presentation of original research conducted with 50 galleries, libraries, archives, museums across the UK engaged in LGBTQ+ programming. Dan will also be joined by Kris Reid for a Q&amp;A session. Kris Reid is a PhD Candidate at Ulster University. His research focuses on museum-based activism within the context of LGBTQ+ heritage, exploring the pathways and barriers towards museum engagement with issues of social justice.Currently a freelance museum consultant on LGBTQ+ programing at the National Gallery and Tate Britain, Dan previously developed LGBTQ+ tours for Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd National Museum Cardiff as well as the Bridging Binaries tours for the University of Cambridge Museums: Fitzwilliam Museum, Polar Museum, Zoology Museum, Museum of Classical Archaeology, and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He also helped train the volunteer team of guides for the British Museum LGBTQ Tours.Dan promotes diversity, equality and inclusion in the UK museum sector as a trustee of Culture 24, Museums Association Transformer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Arts Marketing Association Future Proof Museums. He is a patron of LGBT+ History Month, a Stonewall BAME Role Model and is on steering committees for the Pitt Rivers Museum Beyond the Binary project and Queer Britain, as well as a member of the Historic England Expert Advisory Group.During lockdown he was the host of Museum From Home a daily interview on Twitter Live with museum professionals which was picked up for broadcast on BBC Arts and was number 1 trending in the UK on Twitter on April 30, 2020. He also hosts a monthly radio programme on Alphabet Radio broadcasting on Soho Radio Culture Channel called The Past Is Queer. Please note this is a live event. A link will be sent to participants the day before the event. ​

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