EVENTS ETC Tuesday 28 August 2018

update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list EVENTS ETC Tuesday 28 August 2018 View this email in your browser View updates on: https://events-etc.blogspot.co.uk ALWAYS CLICK ON  PICS AND UNDERLINED ENTRIES FOR MORE CONTENT. Thank you! Share this list widely Until Saturday 1 September Ritual Without Belief - Saturday Tours 2pm Gasworks Gallery, 155 Vauxhall St, Vauxhall, London SE11 5RH Until Sunday 2 September Evan Ifekoya: Ritual Without Belief (exhibition) 9am - 6pm Wednesday - Sunday (during exhibitions or by appointment only) Gasworks Gallery, 155 Vauxhall St, Vauxhall, London SE11 5RH FREE Available now Open Book: Michael Donkor, Jackie Kay on Audre Lorde (radio programme) Also see Notices below. Tuesday 21 August Meetup.com group: London Queer Muslims - Eid Zikir (Special Event) 7 - 9pm Join Meetup.com group for more details. Bootylicious Carnival Special Dancehall vs Afrobeat (club night) 10pm -6am 66 Albert Embankment, Lambeth, London SE1 7TP from £8 Thursday 30 August Evan Ifekoya: Screening & Conversation 6:30 – 8:30pm Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall St, Vauxhall, London SE11 5RH Friday 31 August Meetup.com group: Black Queer Women in London - V&A Friday Late 6:30pm Join Meetup.com group for more details. OPULENCE V: Queer Techno Party (club night) 10pm – 4am Five Miles, 39b Markfield Rd, Tottenham, London N15 4QA £7 (+ £1 booking fee) Saturday 1 September Boom For Real (film) 7pm Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd Tottenham Green, London, N15 4RX from £8.50 (includes 50p commission)   Meetup.com group: LOCS (Lesbians of Colour Socials) - Don't Be Bored, Come & Play a Board Game with Dinner/Drinks 7:30 - 11pm Join Meetup.com group for more details. Club Kali September Party (club night) - Secret Location 10pm - 3am near Tottenham Court Rd Station, Oxford St, London W1D 2DD from £8 Exilio presents Tattoo Party (club night) 10pm - 3am Exilio LGBT Latin Dance Club, Temple Pier, Victoria Embankment, London WC2R 2PN £10 R & She: The Queens Of Hip-Hop & R&B (club night) 11pm - 6am Sedition London, 217 City Road, London EC1V 1JN £8 Sunday 2 September Meetup.com group: London Queer Muslims - Ijtihad: Ashura & Justice 1 - 3pm Join Meetup.com group for more details. Poetry LGBT Open Mic Night At The Glory (performance poetry) 5 - 9pm The Glory, 281 Kingsland Rd, Hackney, London E2 8AS  £5 (Also attended by Meetup group LOCS Lesbians of Colour Socials) Wednesday 5 September Lgbtq+ History Club: The Haringey Vanguard Project (talk) 6 - 8pm LGBT History at London Metropolitan Archives 40, Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB FREE Meetup.com group: LOCS (Lesbians of Colour Socials) - #SistahsReading 6:30pm Join Meetup.com group for more details. Thursday 6 September Let’s Talk: Queer POC - Media Edition (open mic show) KU BAR 30 Lisle Street, London WC2H 7BA  Manuscripts of Timbuktu (film) 7pm Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd Tottenham Green, London, N15 4RX from £8.50 (includes 50p commission) May be of interest to the wider community. The KOC Initiative VIII: Birthday Bash! 7:30 - 11:30pm The Glory 281 Kingsland Road, London E2 8AS  from £6 Friday 7 September Day 1: Black Sound Film Festival  from 6:30pm Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd Tottenham Green, London, N15 4RX £20 day ticket, £45 weekend pass May be of interest to the wider community. Ancient Astronomers of Timbuktu (film) from 6:30pm Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd Tottenham Green, London, N15 4RX £8.50 (includes 50p commission May be of interest to the wider community. Saturday 8 September Resis'dance: Theatre of the Oppressed (workshop) 12 midday - 4pm Somerset House Studios New Wing, Somerset House, WC2R 1LA Londo Meetup.com group: London LGBTQ Femmes of Colour - Science of Black Hair 2pm Join Meetup.com group for more details. Day 2: Black Sound Film Festival  7pm Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd Tottenham Green, London, N15 4RX £20 day ticket, £45 weekend pass May be of interest to the wider community. SHD Events: The Late Sessions - An Ode to Afropunk (club night) 8pm - 2am Upstairs at the Ritzy Brixton Oval, London SW2 1JG  £12 Sunday 9 September Faggamuffin Bloc Party (club night) 12 midday - 6pm Bohemia Place, Hackney, London E8 1DU Enquire for further details. Day 3: Black Sound Film Festival 7pm Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd Tottenham Green, London, N15 4RX £20 day ticket, £45 weekend pass May be of interest to the wider community. Notices Brixton Reel - Call for Submissions Brixton Reel Film Festival are looking for Black LGBTQIA people to talk about their experiences with mental health and how they have overcome, or currently manage, their specific mental health concerns. They are offering £50 for people who participate. Participants are required to have a conversation with the team, to make sure everyone knows what is being ask of them both emotionally and as a contribution. If you're interested please fill in their google form here: http://bit.ly/BrixtonReelBAMELGBTFilmTestimonial The timeline for this recruitment and shooting of films is very tight and needs to be completed by the end of August. Kickstarter Campaign Beer'yani Bae - 'Life is but a drag' : Theatre Play  - Please Donate A one-man show - an interactive theatrical piece using different performance art elements. #DesiDrag Hold - A Novel by Michael Donkor Moving between Ghana and London, Hold by Michael Donkor is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go. Paperback Ebook Fi Dem - New Work by Zinzi Minott Fi Dem, is part of the continued investigation into Blackness and Diaspora and the first of a body of work that will be made annually on the anniversary of the Empire Windrush docking in the UK 22nd June 1948. The piece journeys through Minott's personal diasporic journey's and takes this moment of Windrush Day to focus on those that move and have been moved. Those who stay and cannot leave and all of the slippage in between. Shifting between personal and community moments of loss and joy that sits at the border she hopes this work can add to a conversation about these experiences. Please click link on pic above to watch her exploratory short film. Contributions Sought for Blissful Chaos We are looking for images and film shorts to show in screen projections during the event that depict black and people of colour celebrating their kink! Photos of you, your toys, playmates, outfits etc. (all with consent!). NOTE: images must be your own! Send high resolution images as .jpeg and video .mp4 or .mov files to blissfulchaos198@gmail.com  Deadline 27 June 2018.    The Sexuality of Malcolm X  (article by Christopher Phelps) Busy Being Black Podcast Busy Being Black with Josh Rivers is the podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives.   Ask Jide (faith advice) Tune in weekly at 10am for a response to all your questions about being gay and a Christian. (Check details by clicking on pic) 020 85559222; 07507510357 Wolves in the City Podcast  Kills , Fierce Productions 2018 Fierce Productions is a collaboration between Hakeem Kazeem (Film Programmer) and Ajamu (Artist). Through a series of ‘quick and dirty‘ interviews and portraits we will be capturing the fierceness of our QTIPOC kin folk regionally, nationally and internationally. “ surely our desire for radical social change is intimately linked with our desire to experiencing pleasure, erotic fulfilment, and a host of other passions” (bell hooks)  The Marc Thompson Interview  by Fierce Productions The Joy Gharoro - Akpojotor Interview  by Fierce Productions BeamBlock Yoga BeamBlock Yoga is a new holistic workout system using a unique elevated platform - the BeamBlock. BeamBlock is at the heart of this practice. Often described as the equivalent of a gym workout BeamBlock Yoga challenges flexibility, stability and strength more than a yoga mat or any other piece of yoga floor equipment. Click on the photo above to see what instructor Thierry Giunta and BeamBlock can do for you.   K M Brown Photography & Design K. M. Brown, PhD Master of Social Work and Public Administration Social Sciences Instructor Email: KMBrownDesigns@gmail.com Mister Sancho is a film about two 'Ignatius Inspires' projects by composer & creator Juwon Ogungbe (pictured) Film by Nadeem Ali Gay Star News wants your stories on being Black and Gay. You can email the editor by clicking on the picture above. Sista! - An Anthology On Sale Editors: Rikki Beadle-Blair, John R. Gordon, & Phyll Opoku - Gyimah This groundbreaking new anthology explores the challenges, joys, heart-aches, rewards and experience of same-gender-loving women of African African-Caribbean descent with connections to the UK - including bi women, transwomen and mixed race women. Contributors include Andreena Bogle-Walton ~ babirye bukilwa ~ Chardine Taylor-Stone ~ Christina Fonthes ~ Clementine Ewokolo Burnley ~ Delphine Spencer ~ Doreene Blackstock ~ Eileen Bellot ~ Germaine Joseph ~ Gray Akotey ~ ‘Jenn’ ~ Jennifer Daley ~ Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor ~ Kayza Rose ~ Kesiena Boom ~ Lettie Precious ~ Mica Hamilton ~ Mojisola Adebayo ~ Monica Beadle ~ ‘Nea Semba’ ~ Olivette Cole-Wilson ~ Phyll Opoku-Gyimah ~ PJ Samuels ~ Remi Graves ~ Sokari Ekine ~ Roxanne Simone ~ Roxene Anderson ~ Rue Gumbochuma ~ Tamara McFarlane ~ Valerie Mason-John ~ Yrsa Daley-Ward For more information you can also visit teamangelica.com Educational Consultancy CredUKation is the concept of Oneness and Ayanna. Bringing creativity into the mainstream curriculum and adding a cultural twist. FE, Sixth Form, Secondary. MISSION STATEMENT Email: info@credukation.com web: credukation.com Twitter: @credukation Help raise £1500 for an Education Exchange trip to a school in Uganda. Students and teachers from London going to Uganda for cross cultural educational exchange. Psychotherapy Counsellor & Developmental Group-work Facilitator The power of psychotherapeutic counselling If you're considering beginning counselling you may feel some resistance. You're on the verge of making a life-changing and life-expanding decision so this is perfectly natural. It may feel like you're standing on a beach looking out at the vast sea. The ocean like an inviting yet also frightening and unexplored potential in your life. You are tempted to walk in and swim with a sense of freedom, excitement and release. Yet, you feel reluctant to take those first steps towards the water, for fear of being swept off your feet and carried away by a tide you can't control. Are you ready to take your first proactive strokes? Counselling allows you to embrace your anxieties, sense of loss and unexplored trauma and step toward an understanding of yourself that is deeper and more real. As a result, in time, you'll be able to live with a greater connection to your inner power, ability and authentic self.  Counsellor/Therapist in Camberwell, Southwark - near Elephant and Castle Welcome, I'm Haydn Forde and I've been a practising therapist in Camberwell, Southwark for the past 11 years. I am committed to providing psychotherapeutic counselling in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment. I can work on an open-ended basis or for an agreed time period, with the aim of offering you space to reflect on personal issues that might be challenging you at the moment. "From the indigo, an even deeper blue" This phrase was used in 13th century Japan in some Buddhist literature to celebrate the beauty that came from the indigo plant - as a metaphor to illustrate human potential for growth and transformation. Sometimes when we are faced with challenges, it's difficult to see the woods from the trees; however as a counsellor/therapist, my aim is to offer space where, together we could look at what might be happening for you....and in so doing find a way to use these challenges as rich earth from which to grow. (As always click on pic for links)   Project BlackoutUK London Project BlackoutUK London is a unique opportunity to build connections with a diverse group of black queer/gay/bi/sgl creative men in London, create a shared platform for your voices, build your skills, knowledge, profile and networks, and develop a new way of building communities in which black queer lives matter. Project Blackout UK London is a 12-month public conversation between up to twelve black queer men in London.  Participants will be recruited to reflect the diversity among black queer men in London, but also for their skills as writers, performers, filmmakers, photographers, designers, journalists, poets or visual artists at various stages of their careers. Click pic above for more info. The Art Machine (Survey) The Art Machine (an organisation that focuses on telling the stories of oppressed and underrepresented people in society) is currently engaging in market research on the representation of LGBTQ people of colour (poc) in British Media.  If you are an LGBTQ person of colour, would you be kind enough to fill out their survey. Please click pic above for the link. Joel Simpson Counselling Service My name is Joel Simpson. I run an integrative, heart and soul led, counselling practice in Willesden Green, North West London, NW2. This website provides information about me and my approach. Time and space for you You may feel lost, stuck, caught in a pattern, at a crossroad or in crisis. You may have experienced trauma, tragedy or loss. Your body may be expressing itself in ways that you’re not yet able to process. You may not be able to identify causes of your suffering, which can feel mystifying and unsettling.  Your usual ways of coping might feel redundant. You might feel out of balance in relationship to friends, family, food, work, alcohol, drugs, sex, the cyber world, and so on. You may have held secrets and shame and want to find courage to reclaim your own voice and speak your truths. You may feel conflicted with cultural, religious, familial and societal expectations.  You may have had counselling or psychotherapy before and want to return, or you may be new to therapy. Embarking on a therapeutic journey, with me, creates time and space just for you to be seen and heard while exploring what life is presenting you with. Being seen and heard can evoke a sense of liberation and relief, it can also feel daunting. With this in mind, you’ll be met within a confidential, non-judgmental, empathic setting. Ask Steve Morris, Business Consultant If you own a service-based business and you need more clients, I’d like to help you go from zero to fully booked. It's a headache to decipher which marketing efforts work vs those that are low return. I'll help you figure out what to focus on at the right time so that you spend your time and money wisely as you grow.   I helped one former client, Sarah triple her income and start the transition out of the day job she hated - in 10 weeks. Interested in having similar results? Join my coaching program where I personally walk you through strategies you can start using right away to get your first 10, 20, or 30 clients. I only have a few slots available. Drop me a message right now at steve@zerotofullybooked.com to get more information. Check out  www.zerotofullybooked.com or join me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/zero2fullybooked I'm on Twitter, Linkedin, and Facebook Arline Steadman, Bespoke Furniture Maker Arline is the founder and creator of STEADMAN bespoke wood craft. She creates bespoke wooden interior design and product solutions for private homes and trade at any scale. Arline draws her inspirations from impressions and art she collects on her travels around the world. Her ambition as an interior designer is to leave a legacy with each and every one of her designs. Arline has 15 years of experience in the interior design and property development industries. Her creativity as well as professionalism and experience make her the one stop shop if you are looking to add character and originality to your property. Get in touch today to discuss your ideas.   arline@steadmanbespoke.co.uk   (And as usual, please click on pic above for website link, ed.) Hakeem Kazeem, Filmmaker Wants Interviewees for Podcast Interviewees wanted for a podcast to archive coming out/coming in/growing up LGBT experiences. Working title: Collapsing The Closet. As It’s interview based, he’d just like to gauge people’s interest in being interviewed. He thanks you for your interest. The ruckus ! Black LGBTQI Archives http://rukus.org.uk Africa Rise Website (Sexual health and community) Man On website Listen to the very useful podcasts from this site based in Nigeria and aimed at the LGBTQ community.For example podcast 1, entitled: Discovered, Abandoned, Depressed! - Max, is really helpful in that it views depression as a result of our point of view in a given situation and recommends that we somehow change a negative one to a positive. Go on, have a listen!   LGBT Spectrum (previuosly known as LGBT People of Colour) Have events on various times. Please join group to find out more about them. Magda’s Lesbian Lover  (film) Who Taught You To Hate? (documentary short film) By Basil Kinghorn Sweet Taboo: The Film Adapted by Mojisola Adebayo, Directed by Campbell X, Produced by Gail Babb 2015 funny, irreverent and relevant.   Heart Of The Matter – Episode 1 – Homosexuality & the Church With Reverend Rowland Jide Macauley & Dr Rahul Rao (documentary film) Appeals NEW BOOK: “POR MARICÓN” “Por maricón,” a play by Roberto Ramos-Perea has just been published by Publicaciones Gaviota and is on the shelves at local book stores in Puerto Rico (see Librería La Tertulia). “Por maricón” [which roughly translates as “Because you are a faggot”] was staged at the Theater of the Puerto Rican Athenaeum in the spring, receiving positive reviews. The piece is a stage work by playwright Roberto Ramos-Perea based on research by historian César Salcedo Chirinos at the General Archive of Puerto Rico on the trial for sodomy against a Puerto Rican mulatto tailor named Francisco Sabat and a Spanish sergeant named José Colombo, one of least know court cases in nineteenth century Puerto Rican history. Ramos-Perea explains, “The word maricón [faggot], used in the title of this theatrical piece comes from the indictment, the accusing dossier, and other documents that César Salcedo researched regarding this notorious case. The government itself used the word as part of the cruel, unjust and torturous accusation against the Francisco Sabat, whose homosexual relationship with Sergeant Colombo in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1842, was revealed by two women. The word used in the historical documents was presented as a distinct category of criminalization, upon which my imagination as a playwright elaborated a historical play.” Based on an article (in Spanish) by Gabriela Ortiz Díaz: https://prpop.org/2016/04/de-peso-historico-por-maricon/ (also see http://dialogoupr.com/tag/por-maricon/ and https://www.facebook.com/tertuliavsj/) [Shown here: a detail from the original poster for the theatrical premiere.] BlackOutUK - Website for Black Gay Men in the UK    Documentary: Visible - LGBTQ Portraits & Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora (click photo for more info on this fascinating film) Contact:  maxarthurmantle@yahoo.com   Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list