The Audacity

Did you know that the collective noun for gargoyles is “an audacity”?

What better title, then, for a brilliant Outburst Arts project that invites you to imagine queer gargoyles for the new Belfast Stories building in the heart of the city!

Gargoyles are monstrous structural and decorative waterspouts, playful demons and fierce guardians of spaces. Centering the role that queer communities often have in protecting “otherness”, imagination and new ways of thinking – qualities that make all cities vital and full of possibility – we imagine our gargoyles not only as guardians of the city but as a defiantly creative response to the demonisation of difference.

Over the next few months, sculptor John Rainey and Creative Producer Jane Morrow invite you to join us for hands-on workshops, talks and happenings, exploring monster power, queer possibility and visible diversity in the city.