Songbook Session with Umami Monae

The Songbook Sessions continue with Umami Monae leading a workshop with attitude! Umami will help you discover your inner Drag Queen and create a fierce character to tell your stories. Join us at Metro Centre in New Cross for a crash course in attitude as part of Songbook.

Making the songbook

We are delighted to be at Greenwich’s Queer Circle (link to map) for the second of two workshops with artist and designer Marleigh Layne. We are going to be making props for Songbook – a great opportunity to get creative whilst meeting new people. (PS. You don’t have to have been to the first session […]

All hail the King!

We are delighted to have King Frankie Sinatra join us for a Songbook Session where they will guide you into finding your inner King. You can use your new found persona to help you tell your Songbook story or just have fun with this introduction to being a Drag King. Don’t forget to book your […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sequin Sundays

Sunday 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 […]

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 […]