August 2015 opening doors london events listings

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2015 Opening Doors London August groups and activities

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In August Issue - Look out for: 

Trans* Pride in Brighton Saturday 25 July

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The Queer Saint Tuesday 11th Aug

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Intergenerational LGBT Drama Workshop: 19th Aug

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Movies o I love you Philip Morris Wed 19th Aug o All About My Mother Thurs 20th Aug o Kinky Boots Sunday 23rd o Gerentophilia Tuesday 25th

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Mixed Outings In Art on Tues 4th & 25th

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Saturday 25th JULY Trans* Pride in Brighton

We will be meeting at Victoria Station outside the big W.H. Smith in the middle of the station at 8:00am so that we have time to buy tickets and get a train around 8:30am. We are hoping to get there by 10am at the latest.

We have also been invited to the “Brighton Switchboard & Breakfast Club” by the older lgbt worker Helen to join them for breakfast in Brighton at the beginning of the day. http://www.thebreakfastclubc afes.com///home to join them for breakfast in Brighton at the beginning of the day. If you prefer to make your way straight to the Breakfast Club: 16-17 Market Street, Brighton BN1 1HH. Helen will be there from 9:45. If you prefer to go straight to the ODL stall, we will be in Dorset Gardens from 11:30 onwards (see front page item 3).

Meet: Victoria Station – 8am Monday 3rd Mixed Tower Hamlets ODL East Drop-in Positive East, 159 Mile End Rd, London, E1 4AQ. Come and join our friendly East London afternoon social.

This drop in will have the

marvellous Geoff Juden to talk about the East London Garden Project. We will include ‘A Voice For Older People’ as a regular slot in the last half hour of our drop-ins. This is an opportunity to give your views on services in Tower Hamlets, whether you live, work, or socialise in the borough and this will be fed back to the Older People’s Reference Group.

Call Nic Humberstone on 07538 392 104 or email: Nicola.Humberstone@ageukca mden.org.uk Drop in any time between 4pm – 6pm Mixed Group Barnet Diners’ Club and Games meeting in partnership with Age UK Barnet.

The Red Lion, High Street, Barnet, London, EN5 5UW. Come along to this friendly group for a drink or meal…

Excellent Carvery or Vegetarian options (with lots of vegetables) £6. http://www.tobycarvery.co.uk /theredlionbarnet/carvery/ Tube: High Barnet. Buses: 107, 234, 263, 307, 326, 384.

Pub car park (parking ticket price refunded with meal purchase).

For more information call Amanda Radonich at Age UK Barnet on 020 8432 1415.

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Park, Lauderdale House is an arts and education centre.

“Annual Photographic Competition” Private View 7.30 – 9.30 pm Text Chris on 07958 257 541 Or email: outingsinartevents@gmail.com

to confirm.

Lauderdale House Highgate Hill Waterlow Park N6 5HG www.lauderdale.org.uk Nearest Tube: Archway Buses 143,210,271 ODL Quarterly Group Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9NA. Interested in writing and putting together our ODL Q magazine? Put your enthusiasm to work and learn on the go. We need writers, editors, and illustrators. Help make your magazine look exciting and engaging. http://openingdoorslondon.or g.uk/newsletter/ Drop in or email us at: odl.quarterly@ageukcamden.o rg.uk 6pm – 8pm

Tuesday 4th

Wednesday 5th

Mixed Outings in Art 1st Event A walk in the park...

A return visit to “Lauderdale House”, built in 1582 and set in the beautiful Waterlow

Anchor Housing/ODL Mixed Art Group Chigwell Court, 99 Balance Road London, E9 5SQ. The art group will be held in the communal room. Basic

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Volunteer artists on hand.

2pm-4pm

café. Please feel free to bring your own cakes.

Every Friday 10am – 12pm Sunday 9th

Men’s Pimlico Social Pimlico Room, back of: St. Saviour’s Church, St George’s Square, London, SW1V 3QW. Friendly drop-in coffee evening. 6pm – 9pm Thursday 6th ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT computer drop-in Computer Suite, Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9NA. Our LGBT friendly drop-in session provides you with an opportunity to receive IT assistance and guidance from knowledgeable volunteers and staff. For more information please contact Tony or Kamye on 0207 239 0400.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm Mixed Newham Dinner Club Stratford Circus, Theatre Square, Stratford, London, E15 1BX. CANCELLED AS ATTENDEES HAVE MOVED TO OTHER GROUPS DATE CHANGE This month’s Men’s “Older, Gay & Positive” group will be on Thursday 13th August.

Friday 7th Mixed Friday coffee & cake club Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9NA. Come in for a chat and cake at this peer led social group. Hot drinks can be purchased in the

Mixed ‘Second Sundays’ Social Group Chelsea Theatre, 7 Worlds End Place, Kings Road, London, SW10 ODR. Come and join our friendly bunch for a delicious light lunch, £4 per person.

Members will need to RSVP to Fiona by Friday 7th on fiona.addison@ageukcamden. org.uk or call 07435 356 951.

12.30pm – 3.30pm Monday 10th Line Dancing Mixed Tea Dance TAKING A BREAK FOR AUGUST WHILE PETER IS ON HOLIDAY. BACK IN SEPTEMBER Tuesday 11th Men’s Group Walk Prepare to be surprised and captivated by the most desirable of London's collection of lovely old villages.

It's Summer and we need to get away from London to a quiet rural village in the rolling hills with ancient dwellings, crumbling churchyards, leafy narrow lanes with steps leading to peaceful cul-de-sacs of charming cottages coloured with beautiful gardens full of flowers. An artistic, musical and literary community would make it especially interesting, allowing us to share and enjoy their independent stores, tea

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shops and numerous traditional Inns. A former spa, to which Londoners have resorted for centuries; our August 2hr walk will take us to Hampstead. If you would like to join the walk you can either: Text/leave a message on the walking group mobile number which is 07804 329 416.

Or, Email to: odwalksgroup@gmail.com We need your full name and the name of any other Opening Doors member coming with you. Alan (Geoff’s partner) will them confirm the meeting point details. There is room for up to 24 people. If you would like to participate please book.

These walks are proving popular so if you find yourself unable to come along, having booked, kindly let us know so that your place can be offered to someone else.

2.15pm for 2.30pm start.

Walk from 2.30pm – 4.30pm Men’s Group Speaker Night Henderson Court Resource Centre, 102 Fitzjohn’s Ave, London, NW3 6NS (entrance on Prince Arthur Rd).

Tonight’s speaker is Adrian Clark, who will be discussing and reading from his book Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson.

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Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. murdered in his bath by a jealous boyfriend in 1956, the art world lost one of its wealthiest, most influential patrons. This compellingly attractive man, adored by Cecil Beaton - his 'queer saint'; a man who was called a legend by contemporaries, who was the subject of two scandalous novels, and helped launch the careers of Francis Bacon, John Craxton and Lucian Freud, fell victim to a fortune-hungry lover. Elegant and hungrily sexual, Peter Watson had a taste for edgy, disreputable boyfriends. His thirst for adventure took him through the cabaret culture of 1930s Berlin, the demi-monde and aristocratic salons of pre-war Paris, English high society, and the glitz of Hollywood's golden age. Along the way he met Gore Vidal who described him as 'a charming man, tall, thin, perverse.'

Social 6pm – 7pm.

Talk from 7pm. (After the talk some members also head to a local pub for a drink.)

Wednesday 12th NOTE: CHANGE OF DATE Intergenerational Feminist Reading Group Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9NA An informal space for discussion of feminist ideas & texts with the aim of encouraging a dialogue between different generations of feminist thinkers, activists and supporters. We will be looking at ‘The Culture of Romance’,the seventh chapter

of Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex. Copies of the text will be available at the group.

However, the text is simply a springboard for discussion as discussion and our own live experience will be the main focus of the group. So it is not essential to read the text beforehand and if you want to come along for interesting discussion that is absolutely fine too. 6pm to 7.30pm Thursday 13th ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT computer drop-in See Thursday 6th for more details.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm PICNIC MONTH Men’s “Older, Gay & Positive” Group Tavis A&B Meeting Room, Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9NA. This month the group will be an indoor picnic. Please bring in some food to enjoy and share. As ever, there will be the chance to chat at this support and social group for gay and bi men aged 50 and over who are living with HIV. 6pm – 8pm Friday 14th Mixed Friday coffee & cake club See Friday 7th for more details.

Every Friday 10am – 12noon Mixed ODL East Dinner Club Positive East, 159 Mile End, Road, London, E1 4AQ.

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£6 for a delicious meal and great company. Pre-booking is essential, please email: Nicola.Humberstone@ageukca mden.org.uk or call/ text Nic on 07538 392 104 stating your name and contact number by Monday 6th.

Drinks: 6pm Dinner: from 6.30pm Ends: 9:30pm Monday 17th Bi Visibility Group Woburn Room, Tavis House, 16 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9NA Open social and discussion group for anyone who would like to think about the question "What does bisexuality mean to you?"

No need to book.

6pm – 8pm Tuesday 18th Women’s Walking & Herstory Is taking a break for August.

Back in September.

Wednesday 19th Barnet Roving Lunch Club Ye Olde Cherry Tree Inn. The Green, Southgate, London N14 6EN. Each month this lunch club will try a new venue and sample the different cuisines available in North London’s largest borough.

This month we're at a lovely 18th century coaching inn, in Southgate. It still retains much of its old charm, and maybe also the odd highwayman's Page 3

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For more information please contact Fiona: 07949 054 806 http://www.vintageinn.co.uk/ yeoldecherrytreesouthgate/ Free parking.

Nearest Tube: Southgate (Piccadilly) Mainline: Palmers Green (Great Northern) 12.30pm – 2.30pm Mixed Outbox LGBT Theatre talk and sharing

Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 62-64 Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY. Outbox produce devised theatre with a company of all LGBT performers, focussing on telling the forgotten and unheard stories of the gay community. Noticing the lack of social mechanisms for younger and older LGBT people, Outbox want to create theatre that brings these people and their ideas together.

We are inviting you to a rehearsal where you can hear more about the project and see some of our work. This will be an opportunity for you to meet younger LGBT people and have a fun afternoon working together.

We are also looking for participants who would like to share their stories about their LGBT identity. All members of

the community would be very welcome and a female interviewer can be organised if requested. The interviews may be used in our next production coming up in September.

If you would be interested in being interviewed, please contact Ben on ben.buratta@cssd.ac.uk or 07877 124 448 Venue is opposite Swiss Cottage station, Jubilee Line (exit 2).

2pm – 3.30pm Mixed ODL Ealing/ West London Social and Support Group run in partnership with Age UK Ealing & Outwest.

ECIL (Ealing Centre for Independent Living Management Centre), 1 Bayham Road, West Ealing, London W13 0TQ (5 minutes walk from the previous venue The Lido Centre.)

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order to be near his soul-mate.

All welcome. Refreshments served. For more details please contact: Derek.Freeman@ageukcamden. org.uk 2.30pm – 4.30pm Anchor Housing/ODL Mixed Art Group (see 5th for more info).

Men’s Group Pub Social Kings Arms, 23 Poland Street, London W1F 8QL

Come along for a social chat, share some time over drinks and snacks at this peer led group.

7pm – late ODL Quarterly Group Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9NA. (see Tuesday 4th for Details) Thursday 20th

Jim Carrey’s irrepressible whirlwind of a performance drives the incredible real-life story of Steven Jay Russell, a con man who ends up in prison and falls in love with fellow inmate Phillip Morris.

When Morris is released, Russell will do anything to be reunited with him, repeatedly escaping from prison in increasingly inventive style in

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‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT computer drop-in See Thursday 6th for more details.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm Women’s Film Night G24 Common Room. Foster Court, Malet Place, London Independent Cinema.

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After her son is killed in an accident, Manuela leaves Madrid for her old haunts in Barcelona. She reconnects with an old friend, La Agrado , who introduces her to Rosa.

Meanwhile, Manuela becomes a personal assistant for Huma Rojo, an actress currently playing Blanche DuBois in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. “All About My Mother” traces the delicate web of friendship and loss that binds these women together.

The movie is dedicated to the actresses of the world, so it's not surprising that all the performances are superb.

Entrance into UCL is opposite Waterstones on Torrington Place. Foster Court is on the right. Half way along there is an archway on the right, with a set of automatic double doors.

The Common Room is through the doors, up 3 stairs but also has step-free access.

Social: 5.30pm Film: 7pm -9pm Friday 21st Mixed Friday coffee & cake club See Friday 7th for more details.

Every Friday 10am – 12noon Saturday 22nd Mixed Coffee Evening Meeting at Tufnell Park Tube station at 7.45 p.m. Mike will be hosting the coffee evening.

Please remember to bring cakes with you. Phone 07581 647 344 for more details.

Tufnell Park Station is closed for 9 months. Can still meet at the Station if need be. Buses 4, 134 and 390 all pass by the Station.

7.45pm – 10pm Sunday 23rd Sunday Lunch & Film Club Henderson Court Resource Centre, 102 Fitzjohn’s Ave, London, NW3 6NS (entrance on Prince Arthur Road).

This month’s film is: Kinky Boots

A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.

Directed by Julian Jarrold Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts.

Lunch available for £5, this month’s lunch will be Shepherd’s Pie with vegetables, vegetarian or fish option: please advise when

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booking. Booking for lunch essential, please call Chryssy on 020 7239 0400, before Friday 26th July.

Social from 12pm Lunch from 1.00pm Film at 2pm Monday 24th British Museum ‘Desire and diversity’ LGBT Object Trail with a volunteer team from The Breakfast Club

British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG Join the team from The Breakfast Club to follow the trail set up by British Museum: “While evidence for same-sex (gay and lesbian) desire has often been overlooked in the past, museums and their collections can allow us to look back and see the diversity of human desire and gender throughout history.”

The Breakfast Club will also be treating everyone to a free tea or coffee at the BM café during the visit.

If you’re planning on coming to this event please sign up at odlbmtrail.eventbrite.co.uk Or call us on 020 7239 0400.

Meeting point: The Court Café (in the north-east corner of the Great Court) Meeting time: 11am End time: Approximately 1pm Tuesday 25th Mixed Outings In Art 2nd Event Page 5

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Lauderdale House Highgate Hill Waterlow Park N6 5HG “Pride in the House” 13th Annual Exhibition of works by LGBT artists.

fixation on old men is unnatural and unhealthy perhaps even sexual. When his mother a nurse at an old folks home, offers Lake a summer job there, he jumps at the opportunity. Gradually, Lake discovers that the old people in the institution are being given psychotropic drugs to keep them in a catatonic state. But why and what can Lake do about it?

Social: 6pm Film starts: 7pm Wednesday 26 Private View 7.30 - 9.30 pm With free wine!

Text Chris on 07958 257 541 to confirm. www.lauderdale.org.uk Nearest Tube: Archway Buses 143,210,271

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Mixed Exercise Walking: Discover Wanstead “Flats”, Wanstead Park and Lakes , Wanstead Golf Course and Green.

Men’s Film Night: Henderson Court Resource Centre, 102 Fitzjohn’s Ave, London, NW3 6NS. (Entrance on Prince Arthur Road).

Lake is an unusual boy: he is a young man with an old soul who discovers he has an odd fixation on the elderly.

Realizing that someday, if fate allows, he will be one himself, he is particularly fascinated by old men. He imagines their age to be a beautiful thing and recognizes how these men were once young and vibrant and attractive, as he is now.

Although Lake has a girlfriend, Desiree, he wonders sometimes if his

Join Clive for a 4-5 mile walk.

We cross the bridge and find ourselves in large, wide open, semi wild spaces. The “Flats” include lakes and sporting areas. Conservation groups ensure the land does not become just “green concrete”.

A suburban side road brings us to Wanstead Park Tea Hut by mid-day. People can rest or wander. We will later visit The Grotto, various lakes, the Map Tree and enjoy the different landscapes. We will pass the golf course, cricket club and Green.

Bring water, energy snacks for the journey, sunglasses, walking footwear.

Lunch: Mid-day at Tea Hut in

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Wanstead Park. Bring Packed Lunch or reasonably priced hot and cold drinks & sandwiches, meals are available.

No booking needed.

Meeting point: Manor Park Mainline Station.

Meet: 10.45am Walk starts: 11am prompt.

Walk ends: 3.30pm (approx.)

End point: Wanstead Underground/Central Line.

Thursday 27th ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT computer drop-in See Thursday 2nd for more details.

10am – 1pm Mixed Islington Older LGBT Drop-in London Friend, 86 Caledonian Road, N1 9DN. In partnership with London Friend, this social group is a place to meet friends for a coffee, chat and optional board games!

2pm – 4pm LGBT Death Café Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9NA. Nigel Dodds from Saint Joseph’s Hospice will facilitate the group. Gather over tea and cake to talk about death and dying in an informal and relaxed environment. For further information contact n.dodds@stjh.org.uk or phone Kate 020 7239 0447 4.30pm – 6pm

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Friday 28th Mixed Friday coffee & cake club See Friday 3rd for more details. Every Friday 10am – 12 Informal Art Group Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA Join Angie & Lesley for an informal art group for all abilities - come and do your own creative thing, or improve and expand your drawing skills

with gentle guidance from an experienced volunteer teacher. Whether you are a traditional sketcher or an outrageous Avant Gardist, this group will supply encouragement, support, plenty of dialogue and maybe an exhibition. Basic materials provided, but feel free to bring your own sketchbooks and non-messy kit. 12.30pm – 3pm

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Questions about groups, events and activities?

If there’s contact details next to the specific event you’re looking at, please use those to find out more information.

Otherwise please contact us on 020 7239 0400 or ODL.Info@ageukcamden.org.uk

LGBT* Befriending Scheme

Please remember that the Opening Doors Befriending Scheme is now operating in all of the South London Boroughs. So if any of you who live in South London feel you could benefit from the regular visits of a volunteer befriender, or if you have any friends, neighbours or relatives who could benefit, please contact the Befriending Coordinator; Paul Webley on: 020 7239 0400 or Email: odl.befriending@ageukcamden.org.uk

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