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MLF Live Events 9 - 18 October 2021

MLF Digital event dates 1 - 30 November 2021

Seán Hewitt - Portal for Derek Jarman

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Seán Hewitt - Blue

After Derek Jarman, Blue (1993)

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Seán Hewitt - The Slur of the Heart

After Derek Jarman, Queer (1992)

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Clare Shaw - Carbon Landscape Poems

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Monthly storytelling workshops for 2-6 year olds and their families

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