The seventh edition of this special partnership event celebrates the influence writers have on each other across generations.
The seventh edition of this special partnership between Bealtaine and ILFD celebrates the influence writers have on each other across generations. Playwright, writer and activist Sara Phillips, will talk with Jayne A. Quan, author of All This Happened, more or less, a collection of essays exploring the intersection of loss, grief, memory and the power of love and healing through the lens of a body in motion.
Jayne A. Quan is a queer, transmasculine, non-binary Asian American who received their Master of Arts from University College Dublin. Their work has been featured in Banshee Call & Response, First Person PBS, and Advice for and from the Future. They were shortlisted for the 2019 Cosmonauts Avenue Non-Fiction Prize. They grew up in the sunshine off the coast of California, worked as a photographer in New York, and lived for a time in Dublin, Ireland.
Sara Phillips is writer, playwright and trans activist working globally. Sara is the Co-Chair of the International Trans Fund, the Co-Chair of Transgender Europe and is also the founder, researcher and archivist of the Irish Trans Archive. She was Chair of Ireland’s National Trans Organisation, Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) for over 10 years and while in that role she was one of the lead negotiators of Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act 2015. She is a recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Historical and Literary Award from Universal College Dublin (UCD). As well as her many magazine articles, history lectures and poetry, her theatre work includes Quiescent (Kilkenny Arts Festival, 2022) and forthcoming chapter in the upcoming anthology Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland Reader (Four Courts Press, October 2024).
Join Sara and Jayne for an exploration of their work and lives, the art that has shaped them and the importance of the stories they have to tell.
This event will be chaired by writer, editor and programmer James Hudson. His writing is published with Monstrous Regiment, Southword Editions, Pop Up Projects, The Stinging Fly, The Liminal Review, Channel and Neon Hemlock. He is co-editor of TOWER, a digital magazine centring discomfort and taboo.
Event made possible with the support of the Rowan Trust.
Presented in partnership with The Bealtaine Festival.