April requested no flowers for her funeral but that a donation be made in her name to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital who supported her so much as a child. Again you can do so by following the link below. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aprilashleymbe
A short film documenting April’s visit to Liverpool for her 80th birthday where she was also awarded Honour of the City.
After 17 months and 930,000 visitors the ground-breaking exhibition April Ashley; portrait of a lady, about the life of the Trans icon, model and actress will officially closed on Sunday March 1st at the Museum of Liverpool. Commenting on the popularity of her exhibition and its closure April Ashley said; “It has made me very…
An international conference organised by the LGBT arts and social justice organisation Homotopia and National Museums Liverpool. The Un-straight Museum explored the role of cultural institutions, curators, and archivists in representing marginalised communities and promoting diversity. It took place in the Museum of Liverpool where the major exhibition exploring Trans* experience, ‘April Ashley: portrait of…
Some of the feedback from the opening of the April Ashley exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool.
This is one of the films that appears in the April Ashley, Portrait of a lady exhibition, currently on at the Museum of Liverpool. The slideshow is narrated by April.
The ‘April Ashley, portrait of a lady’ touring exhibition arrived in Liverpool’s Central Library today on it’s journey around community libraries in the north west of England. Pictured with one of the panels and the book is Archivist Helena Smart who helped start the entire exhibition process by providing invaluable assistance to our volunteers when…
Below is a look at the original plans made of the exhibition by Designer Olivia du Monceau. These plans show how the exhibition was put together allowing us to have a visual sense of the space and how the different elements to the exhibition related to each other, before signed off on the print and…
Eight of Sara Davidmann’s trans* portraits are exhibited in the ‘April Ashley: Portrait of a lady’ exhibition. Davidmann has taken photographs in collaboration with people from the UK trans* community since 1999. Her photographs offer an important counteraction to mass media representations/misrepresentations of trans* people. 1. Jenny-Anne and Elen, 2009 2. Mates, 2012 3. Nikki,…
Over 40 people gathered in the April Ashley exhibition in the Museum of Liverpool yesterday – 20th November – to pay their respects to all the transgendered people who have been victims of Hate Crime. There were 238 known murders of Trans people last year – however only 60 countries collate information on Trans Hate…
Designer, Olivia du Monceau takes a tour of the space and talks about some of the design considerations that have gone into the making of the exhibition.
Here’s are some photos taken by Sara Davidmann at the exhibition launch last week. Thank you Sara.
Here’s some more responses to the exhibition to from people on Twitter since the launch of the exhibition. @MuseumLiverpool @HomotopiaFest viewing the exhibition of April Ashley. Amazing story. Giving inspiration and hope to others. — Julie O'Grady (@julie_ogrady) September 29, 2013 EXPOSICIÓN > 'April Ashley: Retrato de una dama' explora la vida de primer icono…
The 26th September saw the official opening of the April Ashley: portrait of a lady exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool.
This book contains extracts taken from oral history interviews conducted between October 2012 and July 2013. They are part of the April Ashley heritage project and exhibition April Ashley; portrait of a lady. This collection of interviews features a variety of people whose gender identity and/or expression differs from the sex they were assigned at…
