Opening Doors London: Events
2017
February 2017
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February 2017
Calling all members! Have you, your partner or any older LGBT* person you know, had experience of using domiciliary care services or been a resident of a care home? If the answer is YES – please get in contact with us. Opening Doors London is aware that some older LGBT* people have experienced prejudice and blatant disregard for the rights and wellbeing of older LGBT* service users/residents – and would like to work with service providers to address this. We are teaming up with Thinking Violets, an independent television production company, to develop a documentary highlighting the issues around this subject and we are reaching out to care homes and domiciliary care providers to provide training and consultancy. So if you have a story to tell – whether good or bad please contact Alice: training@openingdoorslondon.org.uk
Vacancy for Admin Support Volunteer
Coming up this month …
The ODL team is looking for an office based Admin Support Volunteer to support our operation. We are looking for someone with some IT knowledge who will be able to answer and redirect emails, maintain spreadsheets and answer telephone enquiries. Ideally we would like someone who has three days a week free to offer. Full training will be given. For more information please contact the Volunteer Coordinator Chryssy at chryssy.hunter@openingdoorslondon.org.uk or call 020 7239 0400
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Wednesday 15th February “The 1976 Act and Beyond: A Tale of North and South” Wednesday 22nd February London Friend tea and biscuits older LGBT* drop-in celebrates LGBT History Month with a book swap! Front cover: 50th anniversary of the enactment of Sexual Offences Act in July 1967
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Behind the open door … Chryssy Hunter - Volunteer Coordinator ODL
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Wednesday 1st February
Mixed Exercise Walk with Clive: Bacon and Leather, Pendrells Oak Brekkie and Leather Lane Market Prowl “Oddly, 300-year old Leather Lane Market has nothing to do with the leather trade – the name comes from a local merchant centuries ago called Le Vrunelane. Running between Chancery Lane and Clerkenwell Road between 10am and 2pm Monday to Friday, this weekday market wields a wide array of produce from fruit and veg to well, leather goods.” Look out for: Penderels Oak pub; St Alban The Martyr Church; Chancery Lane shops; market stalls and Hatton Garden. Meeting time: 11am Food plans: Pendrel’s Oak Weatherspoon to meet for a hot drink or breakfast if wanted. (Breakfast £4.89 - £5.89. Free refill filter coffee/tea £1.35).
I recruit, induct and train volunteers for ODL. When someone needs a volunteer or volunteers for a group, an event of for befriending for example, they ask me and I recruit people. I also keep all the records up to date and carry out the background checks that we have to run. I am passionate about creating environments that support people in general and in particular older LGBTQ people. This involves recruiting the right people to help us, engaging with our members, many of whom also volunteer for us, and aware that people’s contributions all make a difference. We have a very diverse group of volunteers and I am delighted that this diversity is at the very heart of our organisation I am proud that the trans and gender nonconforming swimming group TAGS that I helped set up with my friend Roberta Francis, won the ASA David Sparkles Innovation Award in 2016. I am proud of my achievements working in far and distant places around the world, and most of all I am proud of my children!
Walk start time: 12pm Meeting location point: Pendrel’s Oak Weatherspoon 283–288 High Holborn, London WC1V 7HP - opposite Sainsbury’s and sited midway between Holborn and Chancery Lane on the Lincoln’s Inn side of High Holborn. It is better to take a short walk downhill from Holborn Station. We will meet on seats facing Sainsbury’s. NB Buses routes along High Holborn Tube Bus Stop P for 521, 8 and 243. Check TFL but it’s a short walk. Miles: 1 to 4 depending on the weather End location point: Possibly returning via Farringdon Station or Chancery Lane. Central London so numerous buses whenever you wish. No booking necessary. Just turn up
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Anchor Housing/ ODL Art Group
changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. Written, shot and acted with a riveting, hot-blooded urgency that reminds you the struggle it depicts is not only an on-going one – but one which shakes up this most well-behaved of genres with a surge of civil disobedience.”
Chigwell Court The art group will be held in the communal room. Basic materials will be provided for the informal drop-in session. Volunteer artists on hand.
Men’s Pimlico Social Pimlico Room, Friendly drop-in coffee evening. 6pm – 9pm
Thursday 2nd February
Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in Computer Suite, Tavis House Our Age UK Camden 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 on 020 7239 0400.
10am – 1pm Friday 3rd February
Friday Coffee and Cake Club Café, Tavis House
Director: Sarah Gavron Stars: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter Cost £5. Booking for lunch essential. RSVP before Wednesday via: https://feb2017odlsundaylunch.eventbrite.co.uk or calling 020 7239 0400. Social: 12pm, Lunch: 1pm, Film starts: 2pm
Monday 6th February
Opening Learning Group Room A75, Queen Anne Building, University of Greenwich Come in for a chat at this mixed peer led social group. Hot drinks can be purchased in the café. Please feel free to bring your own cakes and biscuits. Every Friday 10am – 12pm
Sunday 5th February
Sunday Lunch & Film Club Henderson Court Resource Centre Join us for a lovely home cooked lunch before we watch the film. Suffragette (2015) 1h 46min “Set in 1912. The beginnings of a movement that changed the lives of ordinary women: Maud is a working wife and mother whose life is forever P a g e |4
Valerie Remy: Lesbian Trans* Woman. Long standing LGBT+ activist and historian will present her talk ‘LGBT+ Culture in Weimar Germany 1918 – 1933’ There will be a presentation followed by a discussion on the issues raised. 3pm – 5pm
Peer led coffee and tea social The Breakfast Club The team from The Breakfast Club are providing free tea and coffee for ODL members at this peer led monthly social. Just turn up to meet other ODL members. Sometimes The Breakfast Club team will be able to pop in to say hello too. 4 – 6pm
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Tuesday 7th February
Thursday 9th February
Havering LGBT over-50s Social Group
‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer
Tapestry Stanton Gate
drop-in
Havering LGBT+ Forum is proud to present a new social group for LGBT* older people in the east London/ Essex area. This is a great opportunity to meet up with old friends and make new ones from in and around the Havering area in east London/ Essex. So if you are age 50 or over and would like to experience some smashing social company within a safe and welcoming space, please come along. Free tea, coffee and biscuits, plus we have a great team of dedicated volunteers who will warmly greet you and introduce you to like-minded people who also identify as LGBT. To register an interest or for more information, please contact ODL on 020 7239 0400 or info@openingdoorslondon.org.uk. 3pm – 5pm
See the first Thursday of the month for more details. Every Thursday 10am – 1pm
Outings in Theatre: We Raise Our Hands In The Sanctuary at The Albany The Albany
Peer led Creative Writing Group Tavis House ODL member Pat would like to invite other ODL members to join a non-taught Creative Writing Group for people who would like to come together to write. Contact Kate for further information kate.hancock@openingdoorslondon.org.uk 020 7239 0400
2pm to 4pm Wednesday 8th February
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London Friend tea and biscuits older LGBT* drop-in London Friend In partnership with London Friend, this social group is a place to meet friends for a coffee, chat and optional board games! 12.30pm – 2.30pm
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“New best friends Michael and Joseph reckon they can do better than what’s on offer in the London gay disco scene of 1981.So one on the decks, one on the lights, they build their own underground club, where devotees can escape the racism, hardship and homophobia that still stalk the city’s streets. And it looks like they’re going to conquer the world until ambition, addiction and the dawning onslaught of AIDS threaten to tear them apart. At a time when nightclubs are being closed across the capital and rampant gentrification is sweeping away LGBT pubs and bars, We Raise Our Hands In The Sanctuary tells its uplifting story with drama, contemporary dance and the club sounds of the 1980s. It’s a celebration of the crucial importance of queer spaces and the power of gay friendship.”
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Book your own tickets directly on www.thealbany.org.uk/ or via the Albany Box office on 020 8692 4446 Tickets: £8 tickets with promo code “RAISE8” Meet Liam in the bar/ foyer from 7pm before heading into the auditorium at 7.15pm Performance starts: 7.30pm
Friday 10th February
Friday Coffee and Cake Club See first Friday of the month for more details. Every Friday 10am – 12pm
ODL East London Dinner Club Positive East
All welcome at this friendly monthly Friday night meal in East London. Why not come along to enjoy a meal as you meet new people? £6.50 for dinner and great company. Booking essential before Wednesday via: https://feb2017odleastdinnerclub.eventbrite.co.uk or 020 7239 0400. Start: 6pm Dinner: from 7pm Ends: 9pm
Sunday 12th February
Second Sundays Social/ Lunch Group Chelsea Theatre
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Monday 13th February
Bridge and Scrabble Club Lumen Café On the second and fourth Monday of the month the wonderful Black Olive Cooks at the lovely Lumen Café will provide space for ODL members to play Bridge and Scrabble. Beginners welcome! Scrabble boards will be provided. Lumen Café are offering ODL members discounted tea for 50p and filter coffee for 80p. Beginners welcome. No need to book.
2pm – 4pm
Tea Line Dance Tavis House Café
Join us for our tea dances whether you are an experienced dancer, a beginner or have never danced before –there is room for all! Peter will instruct and lead us in Line Dancing. Please bring LGBT* friends of any age. Peter’s teaching each week is stand-alone so don’t worry if you have not been before – all will be explained on the night.
5.30pm –7.30pm Tuesday 14th February
Mens' Group Walk: Piano factories 1415 for 1430 start Piano factories, an important canal lock, a vibrant market, a world famous theatrical and music venue, horses, railways, music halls and a lady in a van:
Join us for lunch. We'll be ordering our food from a local cafe, Mona Lisa, which serves a wide variety of delicious hot meal. No RSVP required. 12:30pm-4pm
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Wednesday 15th February
“The 1976 Act and Beyond: A Tale of North and South”
Where else could we be exploring but Camden Town, the focus of our February excursion. We meet at Mornington Crescent Station, itself the subject of an hilarious BBC radio show, and will do our best to avoid the thousands of young tourists intent on buying a pair of Doc Martins or getting a tattoo. To join: Text or leave a message on the walking group number 07804 329 416 but you will need to wait for a reply before you can be sure that a place has been booked for you, or better still
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Book a free ticket on Eventbrite (using password "town"), which will instantly guarantee you a place: https://menswalkinggrroupcamdentown.eventbrite.co.uk
Men’s Speakers Night Henderson Court Resource Centre Gary Ginnaw, player-manager, Bexley Invicta FC
Make new friends and try new activities with members of the older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* community. ODL membership is free and is aimed at all who identify as LGBT*, and are over 50. We have members from across London, and beyond. As well as our events, we also offer: A befriending service Policy, campaigning and training
Marking 50th anniversary of enactment of Sexual Offences Act, 1967 this is a special Opening Doors London/ Outings in Art event, in collaboration with “Spectrum”, LGBT* staff network of London School of Economics and LSE Library.
Gary Ginnaw is the player-manager of football club Bexley Invicta FC. The club is open to all – regardless of sexuality, ability or experience – who want to play football in an LGBT-friendly setting. Gary will be sharing his experience of playing with the club and talking about homophobia in football. “Peter Scott-Presland will be giving a talk to mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of sex between men and launch the Opening Doors London "ODL50" programme. Peter is author of Amiable Warriors, Volume 1: A Space to Breathe, the story of the gay pioneers who founded the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, 1954-1973”
Social: 6pm Talk: from 7pm (After the talk some members also head to a local pub for a drink.)
Anchor Housing/ ODL Art Group Chigwell Court The art group will be held in the communal room. Basic materials will be provided for the informal drop-in session. Volunteer artists on hand.
2pm – 4pm
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7pm – 9pm Tickets: Free but limited number available Booking essential on: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-1967-act-andbeyond-a-tale-of-north-and-south-tickets-30840109598
or 020 7239 0400.
Thursday 16th February
Women’s Film Night CHANGE of VENUE to Henderson Court We will be watching ‘Tipping the Velvet: ’ Erotic and absorbing...Written with startling power; Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music
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hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine.
Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins. Social from 5:30. Film 7pm
Alternative Doors MEMBERS! Feel free to share events, exhibitions and happenings with one another at: alternativedoors@openingdoorslondon.org.uk
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Tuesday 21st February
Peer led Creative Writing Group Tavis House Café 2-4pm
ODL member Pat would like to invite other ODL members to join a nontaught Creative Writing Group for people who would like to come together to write. Contact Kate for further information kate.hancock@openingdoorslondon.org.uk 020 7239 0400 3pm – 5pm
Wednesday 22nd February
London Friend tea and biscuits older LGBT* drop-in celebrates LGBT History Month with a book swap! London Friend Bring your LGBT* themed novels, plays and history books to swap with new friends in celebration of LGBT* History month at the In partnership with London Friend, this social group is a place to meet friends for a coffee, chat and optional board games! 12.30pm – 2.30pm
Friday 17th February
Thursday 23rd February
Friday Coffee and Cake Club
‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in
Tavis House See first Friday of the month for more details.
10am – 12pm Monday 20th February
East London ODL Drop-in An ODL event held at Positive East Come and join our friendly East London afternoon social. 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 East London, whether you live, work, or socialise there. This will be fed back to the Older People’s Reference Group. Drop in any time between 4.30pm – 6.30pm P a g e |8
See the first Thursday of the month for more details. Every Thursday 10am – 1pm
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Friday 24th February
Friday Coffee and Cake Club Tavis house See first Friday of the month for more details. Every Friday 10am – 12pm
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research and activism about ageing and bisexuality. She works at the Open University. All bi people and allies welcome. Light refreshments provided. 6-8pm
Tuesday 28th February
Tony's Walk about, Talk about, and Pig out: Nunhead
Informal Art Group Tavis House Join Angie and Alan 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.
Join Tony for a 1½ mile walkabout, (+ optional extra 1½ miles past some interesting shops) in Nunhead. We walk (partly uphill) to Telegraph Hill Park. The upper park gained its current name from a semaphore telegraph station which was constructed on the summit of the hill circa 1795. The signalling station was one of the points from which news of Wellington's victory at Waterloo was flashed to London. Weather permitting, there is an excellent view of Central London.
Monday 27th February
Bridge and Scrabble Club Lumen Café See second Monday of the month for details. 2pm – 4pm
The lower park has a pond, formal garden, children's playground, and an interesting monument to antislavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, created in 2008 by children from a local school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_Hill,_Lewisham
Secondly, the Crossway cafe, serving all day breakfasts, lunches, salads and burgers. https://www.zomato.com/london/crossway-cafe-nunhead/info
Lumen Café Black Olive Cooks
Bi The Way Group Tavis House "Getting bi at 50+: coming out and staying out." Join us for a talk by Rebecca Jones who will look at some of the issues older people confront around claiming and sustaining bisexual identities. Rebecca is bi, nearly old enough to join the group and does P a g e |9
Thirdly (optional, a further 1½ miles), a walk along Evelina Road (Nunhead's 'High Street') and East Dulwich Road finishing at East Dulwich station. We will pass a traditional butcher's shop, a greengrocers, a bakers/cakeshop, a fishmongers, a hardware shop, a hardware store, the 'Lighthouse Cathedral', a quick glimpse of Peckham Rye Common. Then an Italian ice cream and chocolate shop, Goose Green, a charity shop, a musical instrument shop, another hardware shop, before we finally reach East Dulwich station. There are several buses along here, if tiredness takes over. http://www.southlondonguide.co.uk/peckham/nunheadshops.htm
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Meeting Time: 1pm Meeting Point: Nunhead train station Finishing point: Nunhead station (or East Dulwich station after the optional further walk)
Men’s gentle exercise class
February 2017
Make new friends and try new activities with members of the older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* community.
Henderson Court Resource Centre Exercise is free medicine! Come and join a class to stretch, energise and have fun. You don’t need to bring any kit, just come along and give it a go. Suitable for all abilities and levels of fitness. Free to attend. 6.30pm – 7pm
ODL membership is free and is aimed at all who identify as LGBT*, and are over 50. We have members from across London, and beyond. As well as our events, we also offer: A befriending service
Policy, campaigning and training
Men's Film Night Henderson Court resource centre Any Day Now (2012) 1h 38min In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.
Questions? Questions about groups, events and activities? If there are contact details next to the specific event check the back of this publication to find the full details. Call 020 7239 0400 or email info@openingdoorslondon.org.uk
Director: Travis Fine Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva Social: 6pm Film starts: 7pm
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Dates for your diary
Sunday 5 March 2017 Outing to Amersham Fairground Organ Museum
Sunday 5 March 2017 Sunday Lunch & Film Club Henderson Court Resource Centre Join us for a lovely home cooked lunch before we watch the film I love you Phillip Morris Starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Cost ÂŁ5. Booking for lunch essential. RSVP before Wednesday via: https://mar2017odlsundaylunch.eventbrite.co.uk or calling 020 7239 0400. Social: 12pm Lunch: 1pm Film starts 2pm
Wednesday 26th April 2017 Calling all members! The Board of opening Doors London would like to invite members to join them at Mercers, Tower Place West, London EC3R 5BU from 9.30am to 1pm followed by lunch. This is an exciting time in the development of ODL – there are both lots of opportunities and challenges. So we thought it would be useful to meet each other and share thoughts on the development of ODL. To book https://odlmembers2017.eventbrite.co.uk or 0207 239 0400. Places are limited.
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Venues & How to Get There The Albany Douglas Way, Deptford, SE8 4AG The Breakfast Club in Battersea Rise The Breakfast Club, 5-9 Battersea Rise, London SW11 1HG Travel: 0.5 miles walk from Clapham Junction Railway Station. Buses 35 and 37 pass Clapham Common Northern line underground station 1.1 miles away and stop outside the café at the “Eccles Road” bus stop. Chelsea Theatre 7 Worlds End Place, Kings Road, London, SW10 0DR. Chigwell House Anchor Housing/ Art Group Community Room Chigwell Court, 99 Balance Road London E9 5SQ. Greenwich University Room A75, Queen Anne Building, University of Greenwich, Greenwich Campus, London SE10 9LS Havering LGBT Tapestry Stanton Gate, Mawney Road, Romford RM7 7HL Transport: 0.7 miles walk from Romford station with connections to Upminster, Stratford and Liverpool Street. Henderson Court Resource Centre 102 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, London NW3 6NS. (Entrance on Prince Arthur Road) London Friend 86 Caledonian Road, N1 9DN Lumen Café 88 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RS Transport: 0.3 miles from Russell Square underground station or 0.4 miles from King's Cross St. Pancras London station. No need to book. Pimlico Room Back of St. Saviour’s Church, St George’s Square, London SW1V 3QW. Positive East 159 Mile End Road, London E1 4AQ. Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON) G24 Common Room, UCL Foster Court, Malet Place, (off Torrington Place) London WC1E 7JG Travel: Come into UCL from the entrance opposite Waterstones on Torrington Place. Foster Court is on the right and half way along there is an archway also on the right, with a set of automatic double doors on the right - the Common Room is through those doors and up 3 stairs but also has step-free access.. From the start of 2017 we will be scheduling Sunday Lunch and Film Club on the first Sunday of each month wherever possible. But please check listings for exact date
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