Join us for the Thames Pride launch celebration. Thames Pride is a festival for, and created by, the LGBTQ+ community of Lewisham and Greenwich. Over the coming months participants will be invited to work with a range of artists, writers and performers to help shape and deliver a grassroots Pride for 2024. We will be […]
Read More Thames PrideUPDATE -Following the success of the reading at the National Maritime Museum the cast was invited to Newington Green Meeting House to read again. We are now looking at more ways to bring the play, which has garnered a lot of interest from its viewers, to a wider audience. Join us for a rehearsed reading […]
Read More Raising the WreckJoin us for another rehearsed reading of a Gay Sweatshop classic. Noel Greig’s queer, anti-war text was born of cold war fears of the early 80s and explores how men kill each other because they do not know how to love. The reading will be rehearsed in the morning and then open for a public […]
Read More PoppiesAn exhibition celebrating In Living Memory, Goldsmiths University’s Borough of Culture project collecting a people’s history of the Borough of Lewisham is now open to the public at The Richard Hoggart Building. Documenting each of the projects that made up the programme, including Where to, now the sequins have gone? the exhibition is located in […]
Read More In Living MemoryDo you want to help make a mental health awareness campaign for, and by, the LGBTQ+ community? Avant-Gardening CIC/Bijou Stories will be running a number of drop-in sessions where you can help to plan, storyboard, film, or star in a short promo film that signposts mental health services available in the Borough of Greenwich. You […]
Read More LGBTQ+ mental health campaignAs part of LGBTQ+ History Month we are delighted to present a rehearsed reading of The Dear Love of Comrades (1979) by Noel Greig
Read More Sweatshop RESCHEDULEDWhere To Now the Sequins Have Gone? is an ongoing project exploring the communities that developed around the many gay venues that existed in the 1970s – 2000s. The stories that people have shared about their experiences give us an alternative narrative and unique perspective on the socio-political history of the times and help us […]
Read More Where To, Now the Sequins have gone?We are opening Wednesday 21st September – Saturday 8 October (closed Mondays) The exhibition is open from 12:30pm to 7pm Tuesday – Saturday. Sequin Sunday opening hours are 12:30pm – 3:30pm Stories from the lost gay bars of Lewisham haunt this pop-up LGBTQ+ space that will be taking over the We Are Lewisham shop in September. Part exhibition […]
Read More Where to, now the sequins have gone – exhibitionSunday 25th September 12:30pm – 3:30pm Sunday 2nd October 12:30 – 3:30pm Book your FREE tickets here: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/10439/sequin-sunday Each Sunday will be a take on the traditional gay pub Sunday afternoon cabaret with singalongs, special guests and a discotastic playlist of anthems from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Hosted by MC Alotta Nerve prepare for […]
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