Creative Dundee

Platform: Why Queer Game Jams Are Important / with Kirsty Fraser

For the first Platform of the new semester Weave by Abertay are teaming up with Dundee Pride to highlight the importance of LGBT+ equality, awareness and inclusion within Dundee and our communities. GENERATORprojects in hosting this edition on 20 September between 6-7:30pm.

Join the talk by Abertay graduate and programmer Kirsty Fraser. Kirsty is the co-organiser of the award-winning international queer game jam, Rainbow Game Jam. Her talk will highlight the current struggles for Queer representation in modern day games and how we can work to help combat this.

Before the talk begins attendees will get the chance to look around GENERATORprojects current exhibition ‘The Queer Dot: Our Space, Our Experience.’ Created by local arts collective ‘The Queer Dot’ this show intends to amplify queer voices across the spectrum and explore what it means to be a queer artist living and working within Dundee, Scotland.

 

 


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