EVENTS ETC Tuesday 30 July to Tuesday 13 August 2019

EVENTS ETC Tuesday 30 July  to Tuesday 13 August 2019 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 Tuesday 30 July Queerdirect Spoken Word Night: Known You for a Minute 7 - 8:30 pm Autograph, 1 Rivington Place, (Old Street area) London EC2A 3BA £4 concessions; £5 standard James Baldwin: The Price Of The Ticket (film) 8:30 pm Peckham Plex Cinema,  95A Rye Ln, Peckham, London SE15 4ST £4.99 Friday 2 August Friday Lates feat. In Conversation: Queer Perspectives 6 - 9 pm National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, Charing Cross, London WC2H 0HE FREE Saturday 3 August Pride Saturday at The Marly: Let's Have A Kiki - Voguing Party 8 pm - midnight Marlborough Pub & Theatre 4 Princes St, Brighton BN2 1RD £12.50 - £20 Club Kali BOAT Party  10 pm - 3 am Club Kali Bar & Co Party Boat, Temple Pier, Victoria Embankment, London WC2R 2PN from £7 H U N G A M A : D U P A T T A P A R T Y  (club night) 10 pm - 3am The Yard Theatre, Unit 2A, Queen's Yard, London E9 5EN £10 on the door 🏳‍🌈 Rum & Skittles 🏳‍🌈 (club night) 10 pm - 4 am @ Favela, 65 Crowndale Rd, Camden Town, London  NW1 1TN Limited £7 early bird tickets; Standard tickets £10; More on the door!!  Thursday 8 August BEYOND 'There's always a black issue Dear' (film screening with q&a) 6 - 8 pm Tavis House, 1 - 6 Tavis House Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA FREE Friday 9 August Desi Boyz Arabian Night (club night) 11 pm - 3 am Desi Boyz London, The Venue, 229 Gt Portland St, London W1W 5PN from £10 Saturday 10 August Meetup.com Group: The Black LGBTQ+ Project (open to gay men of all races.) Picnic in the Park... Hyde Park of Course! 3 pm Check meetup.com for more details. C'est CHIC Vogue Ball Meltdown festival 4:30 - 7:30 pm Meltdown, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX  FREE Tuesday 13 August Voguing With Jay Jay Revlon (workshop) Peckham Palms, Unit 1 - 10 Palms Arcade, Bournemouth Close,  London SE15 4PB  £6 - £30 Later Events Saturday 24 August House of Rainbow Summer CookOUT 3:30 pm House of Rainbow, 90 Crownfield Rd, Stratford,, London E15 2BG £5 (Please note this event does take place 24 August, despite the error on the linked page.) Notices Eagle Street Pad, Airbnb in the heart of Shoreditch    Great flat, clean, spacious with outside space Great for a weekend in central London transport links are on your doorstep The location lends to an abundance of choices of bars and restaurants a great place To spend the week or weekend. Also happy to take long term bookings at competitive prices. Click on pics for further information. Zinzi Minott Carving Space  It is really hard making a work like this.  A work that no one has asked for. What I understand about this work so far, is that it is not only a commitment to my community. That I will speak with my loudest voice, my work, Fi Dem, Fi us,  fi  we. It is a commitment  to myself. It is a commitment to fight for myself, my work and my practice. Making work like this is really hard. When you spend time wondering, "what am I doing?" and "why am I using this voice?". Maybe this is the wrong voice for me. When the recognition is few and far between, why keep making the work? I saw Faith Ringgold Speak this week (Thank you Hayley Reid for making me go. I needed to go, and you may have just saved this video). She said  “Don’t worry about if they like it, Do you like it? Please yourself. Do you like it? It’s yours” I think I really needed to hear that! Making this work in such a charged month has been difficult. A month full of the deaths of so many of my Trans Sisters, RIP! I fear for the lives of my Trans siblings.  Sudan is ablaze. It is the anniversary of the Pulse shooting, and I remember the vigil we had in Vauxhall. In a few hours I will take the train to Latimer Road and walk for all those lost in the Grenfell tower and my loves who are too traumatised to walk today too. Pride month feels like a rainbow has been dumped on my head in the strangest of ways this year. I’ve never seen so many rainbows and felt so unsafe before. The flag used to mean safety, stuck to a window. A complicated safety, that only a Black femme lesbian with door knockers and a South London accent will get, but safety no less.  Now it just means it is June. Maybe we need a new flag now, one  that does mean safety again. They’ve slung the Black and Brown (for me and us, I guess) in the Rainbow flag this year and it seems to have made some of the LGBTQI+ people mad, and let us know that maybe it was never our flag as Black and Brown LGBTQI+ people, but some welcome it. Some welcome me.  And it is also Windrush Day on 22 June. And again it is not getting the attention it needs. It deserves. It really hurts me. That some people still do not have their papers still cannot travel freely, but mostly that this country locked the borders on countless countries once they no longer needed the labour. Everyday I’ve sat down to edit this video, and I have thought, “Why bother Zinz?” I am making it for my community, I am making it for myself. I am making it to heal some of the wounds of families torn a part at the boarder, and the ones that never met. I am making it for my friends dad that got sent home, and my dad who couldn’t go to his mums funeral. I am making it for my friend that just got citizenship, and a woman I used to love that could not move freely. I am making it because I cannot afford to fly home. I am making it because my Gran worked for 52 years in the NHS and all she got was a watch, a bad pension and a painful death for retirement. Not many will call me if I don’t make this work, but I can see this will be a life long commitment nevertheless, to push myself to make this when I feel like giving up, and being quiet. This year I wanted to give up on this work. Mostly because I feel ignored/ it feels ignored. But it is ok. It is ok to be ignored, or feel ignored. Being by seen everyone, being acknowledged is not what this work is about. Although, it would be nice. It is not why I started this piece. I wanted to make a commitment to my community. At a family funeral a few weeks ago, an aunt I had never met said, “I know you, don’t we know you”  she said pointing to her husband and describing my work, she had seen Fi Dem last year. I have no idea how it got to her, it was not through me or me immediate family. But she had seen it. I’ve never felt so proud of that video, as I did in that moment. These are the things I am trying to hold front and centre in my mind.  So I re-commit to this work, to make it every year for my community, fi mi people dem. The Caribbean migrants that came to this country and scrapped if off it’s knee’s and have received nothing but violence before that moment, and ever since. This work is about me and my community. This work is about me and my community. This work is about me and my community. This work is about me and my community. This work is Fi Dem. Fi us. Fi we.   ANDREW ASIBONG THERAPY (Please click photo above for website and contact details etc.) Dr Andrew Asibong, PhD, BPC reg. I believe that lasting internal change is possible when we are ready for it, no matter how stuck or desperate a situation may seem. But we often need more than to be just ‘ready’. We may need structure, support and an empathic witness to the process. These are the things I try to offer. My name is Andrew Asibong, and I am a counsellor and psychotherapist based in North Finchley in North London, with specialist expertise in inter-cultural psychotherapy, and particular interest in complex trauma disorder, including racialised trauma. I qualified from the professional training at the Tavistock Clinic in London, part of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Since then, I have worked with a diverse range of clients, both in the NHS (East London NHS Foundation Trust) and in other organisations. I am a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and I am a registered professional member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), abiding by their code of ethics. Before becoming a full-time therapist, I was for 15 years a university lecturer and researcher. A lot of my early research revolved around the problem of how to depict human beings in the process of fantastical transformation. This question of metamorphosis – the perplexing but miraculous capacity for change at the heart of a life – has continued to fascinate me over the years, less as an intellectual ‘problem’ and more as an emotional and spiritual possibility. Please feel free to call or email if you'd like to arrange an initial 90-minute consultation to see if we could work together.  "Pressed" Questionnaire We are currently recruiting individuals, who identify as male, to take part in my online survey for my dissertation project.  It’s on social stress and it’s impact on mental health outcomes (I’m studying psychology) and it’s  anon of obvs. There’s also 3 £50 amazon vouchers up for grabs as well 💃🏽 (As always, click on picture for link.) Here at colourfull, we were frustrated with the lack of research looking at the experience of LGBTQ people of colour (PoC) at work in today's world. So rather than complain, we decided to look into this ourselves and are collaborating with award winning journalist, Salma Haidrani to carry out research and investigate this important issue. Lessons  In The Life - The Black Queer Curriculum (Workshops & networking)     Being Black and Queer in the UK  - what they didn't tell you in school BlackOut UK will bring together men of African descent who identify as gay/bi/trans or same-gender-loving (SGL) from across London in a relaxed and welcoming environment to share learning and fellowship, build networks, and develop relevant materials for other Black gay/bi/trans/SGL men and the communities of which they are part about our shared histories and future. Through a series of ½ day workshops, Lessons In The Life will create the materials for a ‘Black Queer Curriculum’, pooling our expertise in order to provide guidance and resources for other Black queer men – in particular those who have recently ‘come out’, and those who are new to the UK and/or London. The workshops will also be learning opportunities for participants who will be able to add to their knowledge as well as be supported by other Black queer men in developing skills which will be useful in their lives and in future collaborative activity with BlackOut UK. The workshops and curriculum will be delivered by a multi-disciplinary, inter-generational, team of Black queer men who will also be key partners in disseminating the outputs through their personal networks. Contact us if you'd like to get more involved with delivering Lessons In The Life email: blkoutuk@gmail.com                                    Dates                                    9 June Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963 By: Gemma Romain This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an aristocrat's valet in rural Wales; a Black queer man in 1930s London; an artist's model; a law student, a recruit to the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps and Prisoner of War during the Second World War. Gemma Romain explores the intersections of these diverse aspects of Nelson's life... FILM: VISIBLE, Campbell X; Kayza Rose How do Queer people of Colour (QPOC) find out about our history? How can we know about our history when so much becomes myth and gossip or when historians research through a Eurocentric ciscentric heteronormative paradigm? VISIBLE explores the challenges of QPOC history. VISIBLE is directed by Campbell X and produced by Kayza Rose. 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's Psychotherapy Practice My name is Joel Simpson. I am a psychotherapist with a private practice in Willesden Green, North West London. My website provides information about me and my approach.  I welcome clients who present with diverse cultural, gender, sexuality and relationship expressions and non-binary individuals. Saying the ‘unsayable’; feeling the ‘unfeelable’ You may be exhausted from holding secrets and shame. You might want a safe, confidential space to reclaim your inner & outer voice; re-vision your life; speak your truths beyond long-held silence, and to explore and engage with your personal power, yearnings, creativity and heart.  I offer space to attend to the unsayable and to feelings that struggle to be bared. Contact me if you feel numb, lost, stuck, caught in a pattern, or in crisis. Perhaps you’re suffering with anxiety, disappointment, loss, identity issues, relationship & family issues, addictions, sexual violations, childhood & adult trauma and unnamed issues that disturb you.  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, heard and accepted - just as you are. There’s an invitation to explore your protective masks and consider who you’ve been and might be/become. 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. 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. 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.   Wolves in the City Podcast Fierce Productions Interview and Reading by Ama Josephine Budge. Fierce Productions is a collaboration between Hakeem Kazeem and Ajamu ...  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.   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 Psychotherapeutic 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.) The ruckus ! Black LGBTQI Archives https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/london-metropolitan-archives/the-collections/Pages/rukus.aspx 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 Documentary: Visible - LGBTQ Portraits & Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora (click photo for more info on this fascinating film) Contact:  maxarthurmantle@yahoo.com   BlackOutUK - for Black Gay Men, weblink Want to change how you receive these emails? 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