EVENTS ETC from Tuesday 28 April to Tuesday 12 May 2020

EVENTS ETC from Tuesday 28 April to Tuesday 12 May 2020 General online links https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online/default.aspBOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=flareathome https://luxurylondon.co.uk/things-to-do-in-london/this-weekend/online-things-to-do-march-2020 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/c/the-best-online-events-to-attend-right-from-your-home-cwwqhpk/ https://www.timeout.com/london   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 Online Activities Only THREE WOMEN, THREE STORIES - Lesbian Visibility Week 2020   Daily Ask Jide (online support) 10 am & 5 pm twitter: @revjide, @HouseOfRainbow insta: @HouseOfRainbow_   www.houseofrainbow.org tel. office. 020 8555 9222/ mobile 07507510357 whatsapp: 07521130179 gerrardmartindance Yoga (online yoga classes) Mondays & Fridays 10 am; Wednesdays 7 pm Online Insta: GERRARD MARTIN DANCE GMD Jay Jay Revlon Voguing Classes & Tutorials Forbidden Games: The Justin Fshanu Story Netflix Our Dance of Revolution (film) Available as part of BFI Flare online. See red link above. See also full selection of BFI films of interest. Homecoming A Short Film about Ajamu (link of full film behind title above) BFI online FREE Part of Leeds Queer Film Festival A list of some of the films from the LQFF, including those following, that are featured here, that feature people of colour. A number of such films are specified in Events Etc 14 April. All films are FREE to watch. The Attendant Tuesday 28 April Bar Wotever Show Online! April 28th! (queer cabaret) 7:30 - 9 pm Donations welcome. Wednesday 29 April Online Class / Art of Movement - WERK (dance) 12 pm noon BST 10 € Fill in the form in the link to reserve yourself a space on 'Trans Person of Colour Workshop' to talk with other TPOC about wht needs to change with healthcare and criminal justice to centre trans people of colour's safety and wellbeing. 6:30 pm Click link for more details. Thursday 30 April Prepster + THT present: Covid-19 & HIV 3 pm online May be of interest to the wider community. Sunday 3 May Join Joshi at GIN FILMY GUPSHUP - Chat with Writer/Director of Shubh Mangal Zyada Savdhan (queer film discussion) 3 pm online For those eligible for membership of the Gay Indian Network only. Film discussed can be purchased  from Amazon Tuesday 5 May FUBU (For Us By Us) 6 - 8 pm Online event   Bar Wotever Show Online! May 5th! (queer cabaret) 7:30 - 9 pm Donations welcome. Wednesday 6 May Online Class / Art of Movement - WERK (dance) 12 pm noon BST 10 € Sunday 10 May Zoom Black Connection Gathering ❤️ 5 - 7 pm Online via Zoom (contact me via link behind pic so I can put your name forward to join whatsapp group) For Black Gay men over 50 only Tuesday 12 May Bar Wotever Show Online! May 12th! (queer cabaret) 7:30 - 9 pm Donations welcome. Notices BlackOutUK - for Black Gay Men, weblink The Hub: The Blackout UK App - Stay Connected! (for BAME gay men) Try Google apps and Apple store for app.    Forced Out by Kevin Maxwell Published 7 May 2020 Online Resource ‘Into exile: theological perspectives on hearing the voices of Black queer Pentecostal men seeking asylum in the UK’  OMARI HUTCHINSON a PhD researcher in race, sexuality and gender. His article: ‘Into exile: theological perspectives on hearing the voices of Black queer Pentecostal men seeking asylum in the UK’ has been selected by the Editor of Practical Theology to feature in a free-access promotional campaign. As part of this campaign, this article has been made free to access until the end of June. The Routledge Religion and Philosophy twitter account will be tweeting about this according to the following schedule:  11-Mar 04:00 14-Apr  08:30 28-May 12:00 29-Jun   03:00 Routledge Philosophy and Religion (@Routledge_Phil) | Twitter The latest Tweets from Routledge Philosophy and Religion (@Routledge_Phil). Research in philosophy and religion ...   Online Resource PRESS RELEASE: Global Black Gay Men Connect: Meet Our founding Board of Directors (Marc of Globalbgmc.org)   'Wastewomxn'- Queer Afro-Asia Album Fundraiser! Check out the band ATK and their music and fundraiser for their forthcoming album Wastewomxn.  ATK is a trans-continental band of absolute wastewomxn consisting of Queer Unbinary Aliens; Adedamola Bajomo, Tobi Adebajo & Kyoko Takenaka. Creating queer punk fusions fuelled by their Yoruba and Japanese cultures and diasporic existences, look out for their debut album 'Wastewomxn' out Feb 2020.   Fundraiser  https://chuffed.org/project/wastewomxnqueerafroasiaalbumfbclid=IwAR0vyggb9RMSeW4PT_714Jb1ADvLDLPJyFAfoaHcvNkPuRg7UPNqt3jfvsA     Black Pervert's Network Stories Ajamu: Joyful Insurrection by Stephen Isaac-Wilson | Random Acts - YouTube In this short film, we celebrate the life and career of photographer and artist Ajamu, and use him as a conduit to explore the black British gay sexual experience. 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.   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. Hopewell Counselling Services “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming owenership of that freed self was another.”     Toni Morrison Life can be complex: full of unexpected twists and turns. Depression, anxiety, stress, illness and bereavement might overwhelm and leave you feeling stuck. Perhaps you feel isolated, unsure, weary - or  a mixture of feelings that are hard to express. I work as a confidential, non-judgmental counsellor, who’ll support you to make meaning of what may have happened in your life; resourcing you for your current life and journey ahead. My name is Marlene Simpson-Thomas. I offer face to face and online counselling services in London: Parks Inner Child Therapy (PICT), couples counselling, counselling for adolescents and children, mediation and group work. My private practice is located in Dollis Hill/Willesden Green, North West London. Please reach out if you’d like to make an enquiry. 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. 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. 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 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)   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.   Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

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