The Quilt
8 | The Wave
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Episode notes
Cornwall has a long history of drawing artistic types, for the space, the light, and the rhythm of the waves.
In this final episode of The Quilt, Tash travels to the South West for a personal exploration of how queer creatives especially have been inspired in the region. They meet Veronica the queer pirate created by artist Scamp Niemz and queer historian Sophie Meyer, sing sea shanties with artist Rhys Morgan of Seaweed in the Fruit Locker, spend a night in the old home of the poet Charles Causley, and speak to Eirian Pascoe-Jones, one of the lesbians who illustrated a community newsletter called The Outback.
They say that history is cyclical. But it can also be seen, and felt, as a sea wave: coming and going perhaps, but always ready for you to immerse yourself.
For this episode, we’d like to thank Dr Jen McDerra, Queer Kernow, Alice Howard at Kresen Kernow, Stuart Slade at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, all the members of Seaweed in the Fruit Locker, The Charles Causley Trust and Exeter University Archives.
‘Angel Hill’ is published in Causley’s Collected Poems 1951-2000, published by Macmillan.
The Quilt is an Aunt Nell Production, in partnership with Queer Britain, the UK's first and only LGBTQ+ museum, and funded by Mindsets and Missions.
It is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith.
Music by Rhiannon Takel.
The assistant producer was Marnie Woodmeade.
The associate producers for Queer Britain were Sue Shave, Siân Williams and Katharine Dick.
Mixed and mastered by David Pye.
Mindsets + Missions is funded by UK Research and Innovation in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and delivered by the Museums Association in partnership with The Liminal Space and the Association for Science and Discovery Centres.
Queer Britain museum is located at Granary Square, Kings Cross in London. It is free to visit and is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6pm.
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