EVENTS ETC Tuesday 30 October 2018

EVENTS ETC Tuesday 30 October 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 Available now Open Book: Michael Donkor, Jackie Kay on Audre Lorde (radio programme) Also see Notices below. Until Saturday 24 November Soufiane Ababri's ♪ Here is a Strange and Bitter Crop ♪♪ Opening (exhibition) Check for times. SPACE, 129-131 Mare St, Hackney, London E8 3RH FREE Tuesday 23 October  Bar Wotever (lgbt cabaraet) 7pm - 12 midnight The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London SE11 5HY £6 - £12 MHYSA (film) 9 - 11:30 pm ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH £5 - £10 Tuesday 23 October - Saturday 3 November Burgerz by Travis Alabanza 7:30pm Hackney Showroom, 13-15 Amhurst Terrace, Hackney, London E8 2BT £10 - £20 Tuesday 30 October  Bar Wotever (lgbt cabaraet) 7pm - 12 midnight The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London SE11 5HY £6 - £12 Tuesday 30 October - 17 November Sweet Like Chocolate Boy (theatre play) 7:30 pm The Brockley Jack Studio Theatre 408-410 Brockley Rd, London SE4 2DH £13 - £16 Thursday 1 November Monét X Change [London] (music; comedy) 6 - 10 pm The Grand, 21- 25 St John's Hill, Clapham Junction, London SW11 1TT  General £20; Meet & Greet £35 Friday 2 November Hungama Presents Diwali Superstore at Dalston Superstore (club night) 10 pm - 3 am Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland High St, Dalston, London E8 2PB  £8 on the door Saturday 3 November Afonja’s Minstrel – a Troubadour’s Tale (music & performance)  7:30 pm Longfield Hall, 50 Knatchbull Rd, Camberwell, London SE5 9QY £5 No Direction Home: The Cocoa Butter Club (cabaret) 8:30 - 9:30 pm Camden People's Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Rd, Kings Cross, London NW1 2PY £16 Club Kali's Kaliween Treat Night  (club night) 10 pm - 3 am Club Kali, Huckster London, 4 Kingdom St, Paddington Central, London W2 6BD £7 - £12 Sunday 4 November Meetup.com group: London Queer Muslims - Ijtihad of Wilayah (spiritual friendship) 1 - 4 pm Join Meetup.com group for more details. Poetry LGBT - Halloween Fancy Dress Edition (performance poetry) 5 - 9 pm The Glory, 281 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8AS £5 payable on the door. (As usual performers are not required to pay). Wednesday 7 November Meetup.com group: LOCS (Lesbian of Colour Socials) - #SistahsReading 6:30 pm Join Meetup.com group for more details. FOC It UP! (Femmes of Colour) FOC-in Fall (stand up comedy) 7 - 10 pm Phoenix Arts Club 1 Phoenix St, London WC2H 8BU  £7 in advance, £10 on the door. No lack of fun for lack of funds - email focitupcomedy@gmail.com for more info on concessions. Thursday 8 November Film Africa: Deltas, Back To Shore & Sega (film) 7 pm Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd, Tottenham Green, Tottenham, London N17 4RX £10 May of interest to the wider community.   QUEER LATES (lgbt caberet) 9 pm - 12 midnight Theatre Royal Stratford East Gerry Raffles Square, London E15 1BN £15; £18 on the door Candid: A story of struggle, conflict and survival (theatrical performance) 8 pm Canada Water Theatre and Library 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR £15   Friday 9 - Thursday 29 November Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. (film) 7 pm Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Rd, Tottenham Green, Tottenham, London N17 4RX £7 - £9 May of interest to the wider community. Sunday 11 November Wacky Racists : NONONOvember (stand up comedy) 6 - 9 pm Aces & Eights - NW5, Aces And Eights Saloon Bar, 156-158 Fortess Rd, Tufnell Park, London NW5 2HP £4.50 (+£1 booking fee)   Monday 12 November GFEST 2018 Launch at Ally Pally (lgbt arts festival) 6 - 8:30 pm Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, Wood Green, London N22 7AY FREE (please register) Notices Contribute your skills to Black Out UK We depend for content on our writers, filmmakers and photographers who volunteer their time and efforts. In return we hold networking events and writer workshops for contributors. If you are black and gay in the UK and have got something to say, say it here. Written articles should be short – ideally 400 – 750 words – and should seek to appeal to a non-expert audience, avoid jargon, and if published elsewhere in advance must have the necessary permissions regarding copyright. Films and photography should be original or come with the necessary permissions for publication. Contributors will share copyright with BlackOut UK under a Creative Commons licence – www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 which means that they will be able to publish the article elsewhere, as long as credit is given to BlackOut UK. 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. Southwark LGBT Network 2018 Borough Wide Survey  If you have connections with Southwark, please add your name to the form on the photo link and the survey will as some future point be sent to you. 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 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. 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. 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 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