Sunday Social

Pink Narcissus

Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating the avant-garde masterpiece of queer cinema, Pink Narcissus. This event is a collaboration between Bijou Stories and the Triangle Centre in Deptford. On Saturday, the 14th of October, 2023, we invite you to immerse yourself in a kaleidoscope of captivating visuals and live performance from: Keziah – a multi-disciplinary […]

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 […]

In Living Memory

An 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 […]

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 […]