Refugee Week 2024 Screenings

Queer Fighters of Ukraine (extended cut) plus Q&A

Wednesday 19th June 2024, 5pm
Lucem House, 78 Corporation Street, St Helens WA10 1GQ
FREE, booking required

Screening of the extended cut of Rebel Queers' Queer Fighters of Ukraine, followed by a Q&A

Queer Fighters of Ukraine
Alex King and Angelika Ustymenko, 2023, 29 mins

Queer Fighters of Ukraine reveals the experiences of young, queer soldiers after over a year of full-scale war. Former LGBTQ+ activists and queer party DJs now in units near the frontlines share their perspectives on balancing queer identities with life in the military. This is an exclusive screening of the full, extended version of this film.

Doors open from 4.30pm, ready for the films to start at 5pm. This event will finish around 6.15pm.

Please be aware that the content of this film may be emotionally challenging, including references to: violence, mental health, death and suicide, homophobia and transphobia. This event is for attendees aged 18+.

This event is not affiliated with any political party.

About Rebels Queers

Before the full-scale invasion, subversive collective Rebel Queers would defy the heteronormative and patriarchal world by scrawling on the walls of Kyiv: ‘Queer Sex,’ ‘Make Queer Punk Again'. Today, they are focusing on creating short films to support queer people in the Ukrainian army.

No Pride in Detention and Panel Discussion

Friday 21st June 2024, 6pm
Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane Liverpool, L1 3BT
FREE, booking required

Presented in collaboration with Sahir and Rainbow Migration for Refugee Week 2024.

No Pride in Detention
Rainbow Migration, 2022, 10 mins

LGBTQIA+ people come to the UK fleeing persecution. But instead of finding safety here, some are locked up in detention centres where they face LGBTQIA-phobic bullying, harassment and abuse. No Pride in Detention (2022) was created by Rainbow Migration, with LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers in Liverpool City Region.

The short film will be followed by a panel discussion, including detailed accounts of lived experience as an asylum seeker in the UK.

Speakers:

• Manono (Many Hearts One Member with experience of detention)

• Jared (Many Hearts One Heart Member)

• Emma Webb (Campaigns Manager, Rainbow Migration)

• Arthur Britney Joestar (Moderator, Heart of Glass)

Doors open from 5.30pm, ready for the films to start at 6pm. This event will finish around 7.30pm.

Please be aware that the content of this film may be emotionally challenging, including references to: violence, mental health, death and suicide, homophobia and transphobia. This event is for attendees aged 18+.

This event is not affiliated with any political party.

About Many Hands One Heart

Many Hands One Heart is a well-established support network led by Sahir in Liverpool that provides a safe, supportive and confidential meeting space to enable lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or trans, non-binary or non-gender conforming people seeking asylum and refugees in Liverpool (and the surrounding areas). The group provides peer support as well as receiving information, advice and support from external guest speakers and professionals.

Safer Spaces

These events will use Heart of Glass' Safer Spaces Agreement to create a space that aims to be as welcoming and respectful as possible.