Byre World 2025-26 - Queer Tales: Women’s Lives Reenacted
Byre World 2025-26 concludes Tuesday 21 April 2026 with Queer Tales: Women’s Lives Reenacted.
In these complex modern days, we still find ourselves in the urgency of routes that keep battling gender inequality or discrimination, and that contribute to the “better world” we have hoped to live in.
Academia and cultural production may have progressed over the last 40 years on how the woman’s self is embraced, through multiple works that “break the constraints of the masculine tradition” and where “the personal truly becomes the political” (Lipton & Mackinlay, 2017: 39-40). However, it is still important to ask ourselves the extent to which all this has been expanded to less/non-academic spaces and collective practices, or to communities where gender is not the only source of tension.
Inspired by feminist and queer efforts, Queer Tales will showcase stories that interrogate dominant narratives on women and their diversity. Led by the Colombian actor, producer and acting tutor, Silvia Santamaría, this event offers the general public a series of short performances that focus on women’s queer experiences and that have been informed by the community of St Andrews. The event will conclude with a Q&A with Santamaría and performers, hosted by Latin American scholar, Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos (University of St Andrews).
The overall event will also be accompanied by a small exhibition comprising selected photographs from preliminary workshop sessions, blog excerpts, and testimonials by students, staff and community members.
Join us at the Byre Theatre, St Andrews - Tuesday 21 April 2026, 6pm. Pay What You Can £6/£4.