Trans Studies MSc Digital Humanities 🎓 @BFIFilmAcademy Young Programmer 🎬 @QScreen Pre-Screener 🌈 @orionbooks Editorial Intern (Oct 2021) 📚
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2 Aug 2021
I’m loving my role as a #BFIFilmAcademy Young Programmer - excited for the opportunities ahead!
2 Aug 2021
We are delighted to introduce @transingabout as our next 2021/22 #BFIFilmAcademy #YoungProgrammer 👋🥰
Erick is 22, based in London & passionate about trans and queer art. As a YP Erick is most looking forward to curating events for BFI film festivals!! 🎪🎉
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17 Sep 2022
This is so exciting! The T Project in Singapore are doing such important work for the trans community and this book documents them beautifully @thetprojectsg
Thrilled to receive @transingabout's acquisition for the @UCLSpecColl Poetry Store as a result of their Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize win. ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/…
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
13 Jun 2022
My next play, Sound of the Underground,
co created and directed by @debbiehannan will be coming to Royal Court downstairs Jan 2023. I am a bit shook but also so v excited to show you what we got coming. 😈💋🚀
13 Jun 2022
Sound of the Underground
Written by Travis Alabanza co-created & directed by Debbie Hannan
19 Jan. - 25 Feb.
Legends of the London queer club scene take over the Royal Court Theatre. Expect punk, profanity and a fierce fight about workers' rights.
bit.ly/SOUNDOFTHEUNDERGROUND
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
4 May 2022
Are you a trans historian or queer history student? Here’s a fantastic & massively important trans history research opp, incl oral history training, archive exploration, live event programming & exhibition curation @BishopsgateInst gires.org.uk/gires-projects/…
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30 Apr 2022
I loved my time as a BFI Film Academy Young Programmer! Highly recommend it! Feel free to ask any Qs
29 Apr 2022
Do you want to be the next BFI Film Academy Young Programmer? Applications are now open! 🥳
We’re looking for 10 Young Programmers to help us shape and promote the BFI Film Academy events programme 2022/23!📽️
Apply here 👉 bit.ly/3Kp4Wc6
Deadline is Thursday 5 May!
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28 Apr 2022
My collection of trans print materials won runner-up in the Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize last year. I can highly recommend applying. Application deadline: May 3rd
27 Apr 2022
Lastly, to apply - follow the directions on our website! Any kind of book or ephemera collection is welcome as long as it is a cohesive collection. Applications are open to students at London based universities!
Good luck!
ucl.ac.uk/library/collection…
Photo: @transingabout
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ALT Snapshot of a shelf of books about transgender people.
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
21 Apr 2022
We’ve got lovely run of @DIVAmagazine in #LGBTQ #archives @BishopsgateInst but can anyone help our own librarian diva @bookelf_ceri with gaps? We’re after 151, 154-155, 158, 163, 165-167, 169-174, 176-186, 188-199, 202-203, 248, 282 onwards…
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
11 Apr 2022
Winner of #BFIFutureFilmFestival Special International Mention, Spencer Glassman, will be chatting about their film to @transingabout as part of this weeks SCENE 👏 Award supported by London School of English🎞️
Watch comedy/drama This Time with Feeling bit.ly/3Jf6x3o😍
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24 Mar 2022
So excited to chat to @Cailleah about Between Us – a film about a trans and non-binary couple in rural Japan 🌈🇯🇵
24 Mar 2022
Don't forget to head over to our instagram channel
@bfifilmacademy today at 16:00 to hear from director of Between Us @Cailleah as part of our @BFIFlare SCENE!🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Hosted by BFI Film Academy Young Programmer
@transingabout 😍
Watch Between Us here! bit.ly/3IqJceW
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
21 Mar 2022
Head over to our instagram channel
@bfifilmacademy this Thursday 24 March at 16:00 to hear live from the director of Between Us, Cailleah Scott-Grimes, as part of our @BFIFlare SCENE series! Hosted by @transingabout 😍
Watch Between Us here! bit.ly/3IqJceW
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16 Mar 2022
I’ll be interviewing @Cailleah about her film Between Us next Thursday on Insta Live 🌈
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
28 Feb 2022
One Week left to Apply! Pitch your film project to industry professionals at Trans Film Pitch at @BFIFlare to take your project to the next stage of its journey. We've had an amazing repsonse so far😍✨🎥🎉 thank you to all who've applied. Apply/Share!#TransFilms #TransFilmPitch
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
28 Feb 2022
The whole Bishopsgate Institute team has come down to take a look at our exhibition, Out and About! in The Curve at @BarbicanCentre.
Come down and see 40 years of London’s LGBTQ history.
Details >> bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/…
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
28 Feb 2022
Such an amazing turnout at Out and About! in The Curve at @BarbicanCentre. Many of the attendees being those who’ve contributed to our collections, with their items on display. Be sure to go check it out, running till Monday 21 March.
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
24 Feb 2022
📣OPEN CALL! Announcing TRANS FILM PITCH✨ In collaboration with BFI Flare I've created an event to support and enable trans filmmakers in the UK and to cultivate a closer-knit community. Apply Now! Deadline Mon 7th March theb.fi/34ZzCSD #TransFilmPitch #BFIFlare
24 Feb 2022
Are you a trans, non-binary or gender non-conforming filmmaker? Pitch your film project to industry professionals at Trans Film Pitch at #BFIFlare to take your project to the next stage of its journey theb.fi/34ZzCSD
ALT Trans Film Pitch
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
24 Feb 2022
Did you know you can watch all the incredible short films that screened at the 2022 #BFIFutureFilmFestival FREE on BFI Player?
Tune in and watch them here: bit.ly/3IjKJnG
Hurry – there’s only 1 week left! 🎬
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24 Feb 2022
Future Film Festival was a success! Wish I could have been there ✨
23 Feb 2022
Shout out to our Young Programmers who delivered stand-out events at the Future Film Festival 2022!
From SCENE interviews, to Lunchtime Lives, to the wealth of interesting discussion they fostered during their in-venue panels, our Young Programmers truly did a stellar job✨👏
22 Feb 2022
Can’t wait to be there next week!!
22 Feb 2022
Volunteers masked and ready to help at Mardi Gras Film Festival tonight! Come see a queer film with us! #mgff22
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21 Feb 2022
ONE WEEK TO GO! @BishopsgateInst take-over of the Curve Gallery @BarbicanCentre is nearly here. Forty exhibits of #LGBTQ wonderfulness, image displays, facsimiles for you to browse & maybe the odd freebie for you to take home! Can't wait to see you there! barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202…
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
16 Feb 2022
Call out! I did all my best learning on the London cabaret scene - and now I wanna make a show about it. Looking for all the club legends, performers, ghouls, freaks to be in it. Apply with us here: royalcourttheatre.com/castin…
16 Feb 2022
We’re looking for performers to be involved in the development and performance of a new play by Travis Alabanza, directed by Debbie Hannan.
Closing date: Monday 28 February 2022 at 6pm.
Find out more: bit.ly/3rPimrD
#CastingCallout
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Erick Jackaman retweeted
14 Feb 2022
“Underrepresented” sounds like a random accident rather than what it is, the result of a deliberate plan of exclusion.
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