News updates for December 2012 – February 2013

● LGBT History Month ‘Time for Change-Now!’ exhibition touring details

● Bournemouth University Sports Faculty ‘sport and discrimination’ initiative

 

January and February 2013 diary dates for the Time for Change-Now! exhibition

 

Images above from the JBG? Time for Change-Now! touring exhibition launch at the National Football Museum (Manchester), and the Holocaust Memorial Day 2013 event at the Lighthouse Theatre (Poole, Dorset)

 

Locations, venues and events at which the exhibition resources are contributing to LGBT History Month 2013

 

Poole (Lighthouse Theatre) Holocaust Memorial Day 'Communities Together building bridges) - 27th January
Manchester (National Football Museum): Just a Ball Game? 'Time for Change-Now! 2-4th February exhibition, with formal VIP event on 4th to launch the exhibition touring programme                                                       Manchester: One-day exhibition facilitated by 'Just a Ball Game?' at 'Taurus Wine Bar & Bistro,' Canal Street: 5^th February
Poole Borough Council libraries tour: 31st January to 4th February
Bournemouth Borough Council libraries tour (Bournemouth, Kinson, Boscombe): 5th - 17th February
Bournemouth University Students Union LGBT History Month exhibition touring at the Talbot and Lansdowne campuses: special main event planned for 27th February

Bournemouth University sports faculty anti-discrimination survey-based initiative

Time for Change – Now! Olympics legacy anti-homophobia exhibition project creator Alan Mercel-Sanca is client for an important anti-homophobia in sport survey-based Bournemouth University Sports Faculty. Director of Just a Ball Game? Lindsay England, with her great expertise (that has for a number of years been informing national debate, progress and change in this crucial area of anti-discrimination work) has been providing invaluable input to the university team in support of their project.

The research findings from the survey work will contribute to the creation of a guidelines paper in which current gaps and effective engagement issues in tackling homophobia in sport and making sport more inclusive for LGBT’s, will be identified.  The paper will be principally intended for the use of the UK sports industry, amateur and professional sports clubs, and especially for school PE & sports departments/teachers. 

A summary report of the research findings will be made public on 15^th April.