Quaker draws TV stars to Bolton Pride event
‘We need to draw together, support each other in these troubled times and this changing world.’
A Bolton Quaker’s films were shown to celebrate Bolton Pride this summer.
The invite-only film festival at Bolton Hospice was introduced by former Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh who played the character of Hayley.
Rosie Adamson-Clark, from Bolton Meeting, who wrote, produced and directed the films, has spent years raising funds to help people and families in the community. She told the Bolton News: ‘I am thrilled that Bolton Hospice are hosting the LGBTQ+ short festival screening three of my short films about equality, opening up discussions around LGBTQ+ issues, and highlighting the importance of every kind of relationship being valued and recognised.’
The actor Maxine Peake will open a showing of Rosie Adamson-Clark’s films at HOME in Manchester on 20 August.
Rosie Adamson-Clark told the Friend: ‘We need to draw together, support each other in these troubled times and this changing world.’
The Bolton Quaker also promoted the hospice, where she is a patient, and LGBT Foundation on the Tony Bridge Show on Bolton Radio. She told the Friend that she had been given three months maximum to live and ‘is trying to fit a lot in’.
This includes another poem published in an international literary journal, Orbis, in September, and two new films in Kino Shorts on 18 August and the Kinofilm Festival from 19-26 October in Manchester.
The Pride film event at the hospice will be shown on Zoom on 24 August.
In 2015, Rosie Adamson-Clark won the first Bolton Pride award from actor Ian McKellen for her equality campaigning and work for minority groups. The work was focused on LGBTQ+ issues in healthcare settings. In 2014, she and her wife Chris Smith had one of the UK’s first Quaker same-sex weddings. Their 2008 civil partnership was converted to a full Quaker marriage, organised by Bolton Quakers, who, she says, ‘fought for it to happen’.
In 2021, she told the Friend: ‘I am not afraid of dying. It is the leaving behind of those I love that is my grief.’
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