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As part of the celebrations of GCN’s 30th Birthday, we are mounting a beautiful retrospective exhibition at the Gallery of Photography in Meeting House Square during the Dublin Pride Festival. The exhibition will chart the history of Ireland LGBT+ community over the past three decades through the pages of its community magazine, Gay Community News (GCN).
Curated by GCN's founder, Tonie Walsh, the GCN30 exhibition will use archival material from our beloved publication to tell a momentous story of social change, driven by activists who envisioned an Ireland where all people were equal.
Join us as we present the key moments that shaped LGBT+ Ireland, from decriminalisation to marriage equality and gender recognition, 30 years of political, cultural and social progress documented and celebrated.
GCN is the national LGBT+ press in Ireland and is the oldest publication of its sort in the world. All of you, our readers are part of this story, and all of you have been part of GCN over the years.
As a publication made by the community for the community, we feel that crowdfunding mirrors our values most. We really want you to be part of this history-making exhibition, so we’re asking you to come on board to help fund it. Be there with our team as we present a look-back at 30 momentous years of a little publication that changed lives, and get some fabulous rewards along the way!
The money we raise thanks to your generous contribution will be used for venue hire, to design, mount, produce and launch the exhibition in style, and to reward our wonderful pledgers.
We have already secured funding from The Community Foundation of Ireland to begin work on this ambitious project. All we need now is your support to bring it to life.
You can read more about the history behind our exhibition here.
Thank you for taking the time to read about GCN30 Exhibition. We hope that you will support us and join us in celebrating 30 years of queer Irish life.
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WE DID IT!!!
Hello!
Our Fund It campaign has come to an end today and we are absolutely delighted to say we reached our target!!!
In fact, we did better than that - we reached a whopping 11,920€ !
We would like to send a very heartfelt, massive, THANK YOU to all of you wonderful people who donated, shared our campaign and helped make this possible.
Your contribution to funding the #GCN30 Exhibition, as well as the contribution towards GCN in the past 30 years, is very much appreciated and we cannot wait to present you it to you… It’s going to be amazing!
This is us saying ‘thank you’ for all your support!
One last thing: REWARDS! We are working on putting together your rewards and will get in touch with you soon, stay tuned. :)
All the love,
The GCN Team
WE DID IT!!!
Hello!
Our Fund It campaign has come to an end today and we are absolutely delighted to say we reached our target!!!
In fact, we did better than that - we reached a whopping 11,920€ !
We would like to send a very heartfelt, massive, THANK YOU to all of you wonderful people who donated, shared our campaign and helped make this possible.
Your contribution to funding the #GCN30 Exhibition, as well as the contribution towards GCN in the past 30 years, is very much appreciated and we cannot wait to present you it to you… It’s going to be amazing!
This is us saying ‘thank you’ for all your support!
One last thing: REWARDS! We are working on putting together your rewards and will get in touch with you soon, stay tuned. :)
All the love,
The GCN Team
We are SO close!!!
Hello wonderful funders!
We are SO close to our target!!!
To mark the last two days of our campaign and give it one last push, we just released a new hilarious video parody, "Fund It Actually".
We had a lot of fun shooting the video and we hope you guys enjoy it too.
You can view it here.
Thank you so much to all of you lovely folks who helped us get this far, we truly appreciate all your support!
The GCN team
7 days to go: we reached 74% of our target, thank you to all our amazing funders! Check out our new promo video, shot entirely in one take!
Hello!
To mark the last week of our campaign, we just released a new video update, shot all in one take: 5 things you need to know about the GCN30 Exhibition.
You can check it out here. We had a lot of fun shooting it.
We would like to take this opportunity to send a massive THANK YOU to all our wonderful funders who have already pledged a whopping 7.4k... we couldn't have got this far without you!
We have only 1 week left to reach our 10k target to make this first of its kind, marvellous multimedia exhibition happen, we know we can make it with your support!
If you haven't done it already, please consider funding the GCN30 Exhibition and keep sharing our campaign page, our Facebook / Twitter updates with friends and family and spread the #GCN30 love!
Thank you all so much once again for your generous contribution,
The GCN team
Just over two weeks to go: we have a new video and reached 40% of our campaign, keep spreading the #GCN30 love!
Hello!
Last week we went to some of our favourite spots in Dublin to shoot a new, fun video update for our #GCN30 Exhibition campaign.
Check it out here, we hope you like it...Can you name all the different locations?
We have some good news as our campaign just hit 40%!
We would like first of all to thank each and everyone of you for your generous pledges, we couldn't have got this far without you.
We have just over 2 weeks to reach 60% of our 10k target. It seems like a distant goal, but we are confident we can make it with your support!
Please keep sharing our campaign page, our videos, our Facebook and Twitter updates with friends and family and spread the #GCN30 love!
Thank you all so much for your support,
The GCN team
We reached 3k!
A huge shout out to our latest pledgers who got us to 3k!
#GCN30 Exhibition - thank you for the latest funders who helped us reach 2k!
We just hit 2k on our campaign! Thanks to all the amazing funders who pledged so far! 8k to go
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