Words We Live By: A Guide to LGBTQ+ Language
Until Sunday 29 September 2024
FREE
This Project Lab installation features a glossary produced by members of LGBTQ+ youth groups in England.
The guide helps us to understand the language used by many young LGBTQ+ people to describe their lives and their identities so that we can better support them through their journey into adulthood.
Language changes all the time, and so the words the young people involved in this project have put forward - and the definitions they’ve given them - will be different to those of people from other generations and other parts of the world.
Visitors to this installation can suggest words that you might have included if you were compiling your own glossary of LGBTQ+ words; your contributions will be added to a digital archive produced by the University of Nottingham.
Visitors will also have the chance to learn key LGBTQ+ words in British Sign Language, thanks to a collaboration with the charity Deaf Rainbow.
If you want to follow the project on different social media account, find them here:
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What's On
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Tuesday 31 December, 7pm
Rest in Peace - NYE Cocktails & Crime
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Until Sunday 29 September 2024
Project Lab - Words We Live By
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Friday 25 - Sunday 27 October, Wednesday 30 October- Saturday 2 November 2024, 5pm
Kids' Ghost Hunter Tours
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Friday 25 - Saturday 26 & Wednesday 30 October - Saturday 2 November 2024, 6pm & 7pm
Victorian Condemned
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Submissions open until Wednesday 25 September
Picture This: Hope
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Select dates from Saturday 21 September to 23 November 6pm and 7pm
Ghosts of the Gaol
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Wednesday 2 October, 6pm - 8pm
The Nottingham Witch Finder
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Thursday 14 November, 6pm - 8pm
Edwardian Criminals
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Friday 13 September, 10am-12pm
The Dream of Nature
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Thursday 28 November - Saturday 21 December 2024, 6.30pm
The Spirit of Solstice: A Festive Murder Mystery
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Select dates April - September 2024
Guilty?! - A National Justice Museum Escape Room
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Saturday 10 February - Sunday 3 November 2024
Juvenile In Justice
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Saturday 14 September, 10.30am and 2pm
Connections: A Walking Tour - Heritage Open Days
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Friday 25 October, 10am - 12pm
Create and Make
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Friday 20 September, 10am - 12pm
Shapes and Shadows
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Friday 27 September, 10am - 12pm
Embellish and Embroider
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Friday 18 October, 10am - 12pm
Drumming Hope
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Friday 04 October, 10am-12pm
Liberty and Liberation - CANCELLED
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Friday 11 October , 10am-12pm