With support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the project will provide a number of reminiscence workshops and opportunities for members of the trans community to share their experiences. One outcome of the project activities will be a 12 month exhibition in collaboration with the Museum of Liverpool.
The new exhibition will use April’s personal collection of documents, photographs, letters, newspaper cuttings and television clips to chart her journey from George Jamieson, through her early career at sea with John Prescott, to cabaret performer for Einstein and Dali, her life-threatening gender reassignment surgery in 1960, and to the present day.
At the launch event, April Ashley and Gary Everett, Homotopia’s Director, were joined by senior representatives from National Museums Liverpool, the HLF, Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council to outline the project activities and resulting exhibition scheduled to open in the autumn of 2013.
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