Jun 26 at 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Holburne Up Late – Queer Bath
The Holburne celebrates the second year of Queer Bath festival with this very special Up Late.
From 5pm gain free entry to our collection galleries and discover the Queer Holburne Trail via the Bloomberg app.
Take advantage of discounted rates to our temporary exhibition (5pm – 8.30pm)
Enjoy a summers evening in our Garden café and terrace or join in with our very special Queer Bath Silent Disco.
Queer Bath Silent Disco 7pm – 10pm
£10 / £8 open concession – BOOK HERE
Calling all Divas, Dancing Queens and Queer Icons in the making! Get ready to light up the Holburne as we transform the Café and Terrace into a full-blown Silent Disco spectacular. Grab your headphones, choose your channel, and dance under the stars with a soundtrack as bold and brilliant as you are. With a buzzing bar, gorgeous museum vibes, and a crowd ready to serve looks and moves, this is your moment to shine. Step into the night, claim your spotlight, and let the Holburne become your dancefloor.
JoelleTaylor 7pm – 8pm
Join Joelle Taylor Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021 and the Polari Prize 2022 in conversation with Manganaro about her books C+NTO and its recent sequel Maryville
Joelle Taylor is the author of four collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted both for theatre, and into a television screenplay. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to Brazil. She is a Poetry Fellow of the University of East Anglia and the curator of the Koestler Awards 2023 and has judged several poetry and literary prizes. Her novel The Night Alphabet was published in Spring of 2024 and was named both a Spectator and Guardian Book of the Year. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. Taylor was recently honoured with a DIVA Award for Excellence and named as number 15 in the Independent’s 2024 Pride Power list
