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Jay Bernard

Contains 6 collection items, 12 performances, 18 in total. Currently showing 18 in total.

Jay Bernard is from London and works as a writer and film programmer at BFI Flare (London's LGBT film festival). They (preferred pronoun) are the author of three pamphlets, The Red and Yellow Nothing (2016), English Breakfast (2013), and Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl (2008), and have been featured in numerous anthologies and magazines, including TEN: The New Wave, Voice Recognition, Out of Bounds: Black British Writers and Place and Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology.

Jay recently worked on Rewind Fast Forward, an HLF funded digital film archive project around the work of Sandi Hughes, and has previously worked with Wotever DIY Film Festival. They co-programmed the first queer tech symposium at BFI Flare in 2016, entitled Year Dot: Queer film and technology since 1986.

Other projects include The Sound and the State (an ongoing poem/film/lecture premiered at the 2016 Document Human Rights Film Festival),100, a three-site poetry installation commissioned by Art on the which focused on the New Cross Fire and what it meant for the West Indian migrants and activists involved. Taken from http://jaybernard.co.uk/page/1-About.html

  • Audio recording of Furnace Dec 2003 pt I

    Audio recording of Furnace Dec 2003 pt I

    12/12/2003
    Minidisc recording of first half of ‘Furnace’ showcase at BAC, featuring Joseph Coelho, Jay Bernard, Aoife Mannix, Jane Kinninmont, Jessica Okoro, Janine La Rosa, Shahanara Rakiun, Gemma Cammidge & Thalbir Shokar
  • Audio recording of Furnace Dec 2003 pt II

    Audio recording of Furnace Dec 2003 pt II

    12/12/2003
    Minidisc recording of second half of ‘Furnace’ showcase at BAC, featuring Joseph Coelho, Jay Bernard, Aoife Mannix, Jane Kinninmont, Jessica Okoro, Janine La Rosa, Shahanara Rakiun, Gemma Cammidge & Thalbir Shokar
  • Furnace

    Furnace

    12 December 2003 at 
    Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
  • Shine

    Shine

    1 April 2004 at 
    Croydon Clocktower (22)
  • Furnace

    Furnace

    2 April 2004 at 
    Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
  • Tales of the City

    Tales of the City

    25 June 2004 at 
    Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
  • Fast Forward

    Fast Forward

    22 August 2004 at 
    Trafalgar Square (2)
  • Photos of Fast Forward show at Trafalgar Square

    Photos of Fast Forward show at Trafalgar Square

    22 August 2004
    Envelope of 80 photos from Fast Forward performance at Trafalgar Square, with associated performances from the same event (trapeze artists, etc). Also contains three sheets of negatives.
  • Video recording of Spaghetti Junction

    Video recording of Spaghetti Junction

    7 October 2004
    Mini-DV tape of Spaghetti Junction show at Poetry Café.
  • Spaghetti Junction

    Spaghetti Junction

    7 October 2004 at 
    Poetry Café (5)
  • The Furnace Showcase

    The Furnace Showcase

    10 December 2004 at 
    Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
  • Audio recording of Furnace (Dec 04)

    Audio recording of Furnace (Dec 04)

    10 December 2004
    Minidisc recording of Furnace showcase (Dec 04) at BAC.
  • Back to Black

    Back to Black

    18 August 2005 at 
    Whitechapel Gallery (18)
  • Spit Lit: Loud & Proud

    Spit Lit: Loud & Proud

    5 March 2006 at 
    Oxford House (London - Bethnal Green) (2)
  • Audio recording of Apples and Snakes in Soho (Nov 07) pt II

    Audio recording of Apples and Snakes in Soho (Nov 07) pt II

    14 November 2007
    Minidisc recording of first half of Apples and Snakes in Soho show (Nov ’07) at Soho Theatre, featuring Michael Rosen and Jay Bernard.
  • Apples and Snakes in Soho

    Apples and Snakes in Soho

    14 November 2007 at 
    Soho Theatre (68)
  • twofive

    twofive

    17 December 2007 at 
    Cargo (2)
  • Apples & Snakes in Soho

    Apples & Snakes in Soho

    24 June 2009 at 
    Soho Theatre (68)
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