Adult Museum Late: Dear Dear How Queer

Follow the white rabbit and enjoy talks with Professor Kiera Vaclavik, meet Wonderland characters, enjoy bingo and performances from Oxfordshire Drag Collective and more. Curiouser and Curiouser!

Dressing-up encouraged!

Ticket price includes exclusive gallery entrance and entertainment throughout the evening.

Please be aware that age ID will be required at the Bar.

Adults 18+

19:00-22:30

Programme:

Alice in Wonderland: The Drag Cabaret
19.30-20.30 & 21.00-22.00 The Woodshed
Welcome to Alice in Wonderland: The Drag Cabaret with Oxfordshire Drag Collective! Featuring Hannah Clift as the Drag mad hatter, Cairo Ali as the Cheshire Cat, Lujane Oud as the Caterpillar, Scarlett Von Kok as the Queen of Hearts, and Sera Tonin as Alice. Get ready for an evening of Drag and fabulous performances!

Zine Making with Imperfect Bound Collective
19.30-21.30 Whispering Wood
Oxford-based queer zine collective Imperfect Bound welcome you to a drop in workshop where you can create your own Wonderland inspired Zine in the atmospheric Whispering Wood.

‘Alice is a Boy’ talk with Professor Kiera Vaclavik
19.30, 20.30, 21.30 The Magic Common Room
As this talk will reveal, the queer afterlife of the Alice books is a compelling story which has yet to be fully told. Here we will explore questions concerning identity and gender fluidity within the original text and then show how these elements have been picked up in a selection of subsequent adaptations, reworkings and performances.

Grandad’s Pride & Flag Making with Harry Woodgate
20.00-21.00 Small Worlds (with reading at 20.30)
Join award winning author and illustrator Harry Woodgate on the giant bed in the patchwork land of Small Worlds. Listen to Grandad’s Pride and create your own mini pride flag. Harry writes and illustrates diverse, inclusive stories that inspire young readers to be creative, kind and proud of what makes them unique. Grandad’s Camper, the debut title in the series, won Waterstones Children’s Book Prize Best Illustrated Book in 2022 as well as a Stonewall Book Award Honor from the American Library Association and the Children’s Illustrated Book of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2023. In partnership with Andersen Press.