Glasgow Leatherdykes: From History to Today
21st August, 12pm – 3pm | £12 / £5 – £25
What does leather mean to you? What does it mean to build a community around it?
Glasgow Leatherdykes are a trans-led group who run lesbian bar nights and bootblacking circles. This session explores queer history, leathercare and bootblacking, and the structure that has developed around these practices. They present a history of leatherdyke spaces, before giving attendees a chnace to learn some techniques themselves.
Trans Masc Studies: The Del LaGrace Volcano Archive
16th August, 2-4pm | £12/ £5 – £25
Join Trans Masc Studies’ Ellis Jackson Kroese for a deep dive into the film archive of Del LaGrace Volcano, screening a selection of works exploring queer identity, BDSM culture, and embodied politics. Bringing together documentary footage, experimental film, and archival material, the screening traces Volcano’s influential role within queer and trans visual culture across several decades.
In this joint screening and in-conversation between the two artists, Jackson Kroese weaves Volcano’s work into their ongoing practice of preserving and activating trans histories, considering the archive as a living site of memory, community, and resistance. The event will open space for reflection on how queer and trans lives are documented, shared, and sustained through moving image practices.
Remi Graves: Making Objects Speak
18th August, 3-5pm | £18 / £12 – £25
‘Outrageously magical things happen when you mess around with a symbol’ David Hammonds, Artist
Poet Remi Graves leads a writing workshop exploring the narrative and symbolic potential of objects. Inspired by the artefacts on display in History is A Home the workshop will encourage participants to draw out the memories, symbolisms and possible future lives of objects they hold dear. We’ll lean on texts from Remi’s book coal as well as work by other writers and contemporary artists to explore the lives of objects and where they might take us. Participants are encouraged to bring an object (or image of an object) with them.
Artist Talk: Sadao Hasegawa
25th August, 5:30 – 6:30 | £12 / £5 – £25
Join EAF for an artist talk diving into the work of Sadao Hasegawa, one of post-war Japan’s most influential gay fetish artists. Showing in Scotland for the first time, EAF exhibition Carnal Desires reveals the fantastical queer worlds of Hasegawa’s paintings: where idealised male forms encounter mythic creatures, hybrid animals, and divine bodies unbound by earthly limits.
Featuring unearthed pieces from the archives of Tokyo’s Gallery Naruyama, many of which have never been shown before in the UK, this talk will celebrate the life and legacy of Hasegawa, and the impact of his erotic queer cosmos on artists for years to come.
The talk will be led by Dr Cole Collins and Dr Patrick Carland-Echavarria, two scholars whose work sits at the intersection of queer art history, translation, and cultural exchange. Collins is a researcher, editor and writer specialising in queer art and Dada, and has chaired sessions for EAF and Edinburgh International Book Festival on queer art, literature, and film. Carland-Echavarria is a cultural historian whose research focuses on queer literature and media in postwar Japan, and whose recent curatorial work includes the exhibition The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939.
The exhibition features paintings that graphically depict nudity, sex, and fetish practices, including bondage and beastiality.