Thames Pride

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 […]

Raising the Wreck

UPDATE -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 […]

Poppies

Join 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 […]

Get nautical with Wig OUT!

LGBTQ+ mental health campaign

Do 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 […]

Sweatshop RESCHEDULED

As part of LGBTQ+ History Month we are delighted to present a rehearsed reading of The Dear Love of Comrades (1979) by Noel Greig

Where To, Now the Sequins have gone?

Where 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 […]

Where to, now the sequins have gone – exhibition

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 […]

Angels Descend on Paris

This event has been rescheduled Thurs 29 Sep 4.30pm for 5pm – 7pm Angels Descend on Paris is a play by radical gay playwright Noel Grieg. First performed at The Albany in 1975, the play was inspired by Noel’s fear of the sight of neo-Nazis on the streets of London. The play received positive reviews […]

Animal Magic

Animal Magic is an informal social event and chat show hosted by Caroline Smith and Paul Green. Animal Magic explores the inner animal in relation to queer identity, an identity often forged outside of the heteronormative mainstream culture and adapted in response to a combination of social norms and peer interactions. We will be joined […]