One contributions to our DIY plaques event in May 2014
28th February
1-4pm
Meet at 1pm at Friends Meeting House
In York there are over seventy blue plaques around York commemorating famous people or events.
To celebrate York LGBT History Month 2015, we invite you to create your own rainbow plaque telling the LGBT history of our city. Together we’ll mark places of personal significance and political importance, highlighting the diverse stories that run through York’s streets. We’ll then distribute (the safe and easily removable) cardboard plaques around the city, recording the stories and photographing them for an archive of the day.
There are two options for sharing your histories, stories and memories:
1) Send us your plaque entries in advance and we’ll get them printed out on our cardboard rainbow plaques to be ceremoniously unveiled on the day. Deadline for this is 22nd February.
2) Drop in during the afternoon to customize one of the rainbow plaques.
The event is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s ‘Connected Communities’ programme via a research project ‘How should decisions about heritage be made?’
Organised by: York’s Alternative History and the York:Living With History project
York: Living with History 