Originally from South Wales, Liam was a NDCWales associate and Royal Ballet Junior associate before studying contemporary dance at Coleg Gwent in Newport. This led Liam to London to complete his degree at London Contemporary Dance School. Upon graduating Liam joined Richard Alston Dance Company, touring nationally and internationally for 8 years. During his time in the company Liam was nominated 7 times in 6 consecutive years at the Critics Circle National Dance Awards. In February 2018 he won Best Male Dancer 2017. Liam then went on to dance with BalletBoyz for 2 years. He has also danced works by James Cousins, Eleesha Young-Drennan, Bob Cohan, Iván Pérez, Christopher Wheeldon, Xei Xin, Maxine Doyle, Martin Lawrance, Kim Brandstrup, Paul Roberts for BBC The Greatest Dancer and Jay Ravell for Years and Years Pyramid Stage set at Glastonbury. Liam made his choreographic debut in November 2020 with 'The Three Sections' for FFIN Dance and has recently created 'Murmurations' for Ballet Cymru. Currently Liam is working freelance and teaching on the BA course at London Contemporary Dance School.

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The Bookish Type is a queer indie bookshop in Leeds. They started out by running pop-up bookstalls in 2019, then set up a website and finally opened the shop in September 2020.

They sell a range of queer literature: fiction, children’s books, YA, memoirs, poetry, short stories, zines, non-fiction, colouring books and graphic novels. They champion LGBTIQA+ authors and books with queer themes and characters because they know the importance of seeing yourself – and your community – represented.

They are a community bookshop so aim to actively support and work with the local queer community. They have a Pay It Forward scheme, run Queer History Tours around Leeds and hold Secondhand Sundays to raise money for good causes. They offer discounts to local book groups and Joe, our Saturday Boy, runs a book group for older LGBTIQA+ people in collaboration with the Leeds LGBT+ Community Consortium.

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