Against Our Vanishing
A Queer Audio Trail of Rye
Date: Always available just download the audio trail
Location: In the town of Rye or anywhere you are
Against Our Vanishing is a free audio trail that uncovers the LGBTQ+ history and culture of Rye. Delve into the rich queer undercurrents of the town in the company of its famous writers and artists like Henry James and Radclyffe Hall. Walk in the footsteps of the queer people of Rye, whose lives are interwoven with its streets and East Sussex’s vanishing coastline.
Against Our Vanishing is a Climate Art commission, created by Diarmuid Hester and produced by David Bramwell, generously supported by BridgePoint Rye and developed in partnership with the National Trust.
iPhone users: Safari streams the audio trail file instead of downloading it. To minimise the risk of interruptions caused by signal dropout, download the file to your computer then transfer it to your iPhone via iTunes or similar.
Creative Team
The creator of Against Our Vanishing is academic, writer, and broadcaster, Dr Diarmuid Hester. Dr Hester researches LGBTQ+ culture and space at the University of Cambridge, and his work has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1. In 2020 he was named one of ten BBC New Generation Thinkers, defined as ‘an academic who brings the best of scholarly research to a broad audience’. Dr Hester’s new book, Nothing Ever Just Disappears: A New History of Queer Culture Through its Spaces will be published by Allen Lane/Penguin in 2023.
David Bramwell is an award-winning performer and producer who has worked with BBC Radio for many years. As a monologist he has toured several solo shows and performed at Soho Theatre, Somerset House, The De La Warr Pavilion, Tate St Ives, TEDx,WI, Idler Academy, MOMA, Wilderness and Port Eliot festivals and the Lowry Theatre.
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