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2015 Opening Doors London November groups and activities Some highlights this month:
Tue 10th: Men’s Group Walk explores Angel, Islington Tue 10th: At the Men’s Speaker Night geographer and urbanist Matthew Gandy discussing "Queer Ecology: Nature, Sexuality, and Heterotopic Alliances". Mon 16th: Self-guided exploration of The British Museum with volunteers from The Breakfast Club Tue 17th: Explore Cutty Sark and around with the Mixed Exercise Walking Group Wed 18th: Men’s Group Pub Social will be meeting at Halfway To Heaven Tue 24th: Women’s Herstory Group visits the Science Museum Tue 24th: Mixed Outings in Art Visits The Wellcome Collection Wed 25th: Explore Oral History with Clare Summerskill Sun 29th: Mixed Outings in Theatre visits the panto ‘Tinderella’ Movies o Sun 15th: Some Like It Hot o Wed 18th: A Portrait of James Dean o Thu 19th: Fire o Tue 24th: Greek Pete
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Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. Monday 2nd November Tuesday 3 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. 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, EN5 5UW. Come along to this friendly group for a drink or meal. Excellent Carvery or Vegetarian options (with lots of vegetables) £6.
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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 Wednesday 4th 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 materials will be provided for the informal drop-in session. Volunteer artists on hand. 2pm – 4pm 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 5th
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). 7pm – 9pm
‘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
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opportunity to receive IT assistance and guidance from knowledgeable volunteers and staff. For more information please contact Tony on 0207 239 0400. Every Thursday 10am – 1pm PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE: Men’s “Older, Gay & Positive” Group will happen on Thursday 12th November this month. Friday 6th Mixed Friday Coffee and 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 café. Please feel free to bring your own cakes and biscuits. Every Friday 10am – 12pm Sunday 8th Mixed ‘Second Sundays’ Social Group Chelsea Theatre, 7 Worlds End Place, Kings Road, London SW10 ODR. Join us for a delicious light lunch for £4 per person. Members need to RSVP by Friday, 6th November to Fiona: fiona.addison@ageukcamden. org.uk or call/text 07435356951 12.30pm – 3.30pm Monday 9th Mixed Tea Line Dance Tavis House Café, Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA. Page 1
Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. 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. Drinks and cakes will be provided but please feel free to bring your own to share. Please bring LGBT* friends of any age. 5.30pm – 7.30pm Tuesday 10th Men’s Group Walk
To understand the Angel, Islington, and the fascinating area around it, you need to remember that this was the arrival point in London of stage coaches from the North. From here you would transfer and make your way into the City or Westminster. This is why there were more Inns, Hotels and Places of Entertainment than anywhere else in London. Formerly open fields, an idyllic village, pleasure grounds for the growing metropolis, a prosperous suburb and Victorian housing development, the area around the Angel, Islington, is today one of the most exciting and interesting parts of London outside its City and West End. For our November walk, we shall be uncovering its secrets and revealing its surprises as we weave our way through its
bustling market, its fine squares, its hidden passageways, and its canal and gardens. Prepare to discover why the Angel is the only place on the Monopoly Board that is not a street or railway station. If you would like more info or to join the walk you can either: Text or leave a message on: 07804 329 416. Email: odwalksgroup@gmail.com We need your full name and the name of any other Opening Doors member coming with you. Alan will then confirm meeting point details. There is room for up to 24 people. 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. Arrive: 2.15pm for 2.30pm 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).
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example of Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington, North London. This Victorian cemetery and former arboretum is now a nature reserve at the centre of growing tensions over its use and meaning ranging from conservative ideas about heritage and public order to radical visions of an inclusive public space where social difference and bio-diversity can happily co-exist.” Social 6pm – 7pm. Talk from 7pm. (After the talk some members also head to a local pub for a drink.) Wednesday 11th Intergenerational Feminist Reading Group: Cancelled for this month. We are looking for a speaker for the December meeting to try to revive the group and talk about how we see the future of the group. Numbers of women attending have been very low so if you would like the group to continue please come along on 9th December at 6:00pm at Tavis House. Thursday 12th
Tonight’s speaker will be London based geographer and urbanist Matthew Gandy discussing "Queer Ecology: Nature, Sexuality, and Heterotopic Alliances". “In this talk I discuss the
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‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in See Thursday 5th October for more details. Every Thursday 10am – 1pm Men’s “Older, Gay & Positive” Group Tavis A&B Meeting Room, Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA. Page 2
Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. This month the group will be a picnic month. Please bring food to share and enjoy if you are able to. If you aren’t able to bring food, please come anyway. As ever, there will be the chance to chat at this support and social group for LGBT* men who are living with HIV. 6pm – 8pm
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: Some Like It Hot
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 Friday 13th Mixed Friday Coffee and Cake Club See Friday 6th for more details. Every Friday 10am – 12pm Mixed ODL East Dinner Club Positive East, 159 Mile End, Road, London E1 4AQ. £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 9th. Drinks: 6pm Dinner: from 6.30pm Ends: 9.30pm
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Marilyn Monroe stars with Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis in this crazy comic caper. Lunch available for £5.This month’s lunch choices are: Chicken and veg Fish and veg Vegetarian option Please advise of your choice when booking. Booking for lunch essential, please call Chryssy on 020 7239 0400, before Friday 20th November. Social: 12pm Lunch: 1pm Film starts: 2pm Monday 16th British Museum ‘Desire and diversity’ LGBT Object Trail with a volunteer team from The Breakfast Club
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British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG Join the team from The Breakfast Club to follow the self-guided 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 http://odlbmtrail2.eventbrite.c o.uk Or call us on 020 7239 0400. Meeting time: 11am End time: Approximately 1pm 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?" Bi visibility group welcomes Fred Langridge to lead a discussion. Fred says “almost all of us were put into one of two gender boxes - boy or girl as soon as we were born. This is an opportunity to reflect on what it’s like for people who may have been put into the wrong box or who feel that they don’t fit in either box.” This free event is open to bi people over 50 and their Page 3
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approximately 1.5 hours followed by lunch. Wednesday 18th Barnet Lunch Club at The White Lion In partnership with Age UK Barnet.
Mixed Exercise Walking This walk will be a gentle 3 miles from Mudchute Farm followed by Island Gardens and finishing Greenwich.
Our destination, The Cutty Sark, is in easy sight from the start point but we will divert around Mudchute Farm and cross the road to enjoy the best view of the National Maritime Museum from Island Gardens. The whole frontage can be seen across the Thames. We will proceed via the foot tunnel to Greenwich Town Centre a where we will have lunch. There is an optional visit to the Royal Observatory up the hill following lunch. Lunch: Most of us will want to get out of the cold by enjoying a lunch in the The Gate Clock JD Weatherspoon’s pub. Or you could bring yourself a packed lunch to eat overlooking the river. Meeting time: 11.45am prompt Meeting point: Cross Harbour DLR station ticket lobby End point: Cutty Sark DLR End time: The walk will take
www.theoldwhitelionfinchley. co.uk Lunches from £8. If the weather's pleasant, we'll be in the rear garden. We are opposite the Phoenix community cinema so we can see a film afterwards if there's something good on: http://www.phoenixcinema.co.uk /whatson/
Free pub car park. Nearest Tube: East Finchley. Buses: 102, 143, 234, 263, 603, H3. 12.30pm – 2.30pm 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.)
A Portrait of James Dean “This biopic depicts the years before James Dean became a cinema
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idol, imagining his affair with an unnamed male roommate and other men and women in his life.” All welcome. Refreshments served. For more details please contact: Derek.Freeman@ageukcamde n.org.uk 2.30pm – 4.30pm Anchor Housing/ODL Mixed Art Group See Wed 4th for more info. 2pm – 4pm ODL Quarterly Group See Tue 3rd for more info. 6pm – 8pm NEW VENUE Men’s Group Pub Social Halfway To Heaven, 7 Duncannon Street, London WC2N 4JF
Come along to Halfway To Heaven this month and let us know if you’d like this to be our new monthly meeting spot. Come along for a chat over drinks. 7pm – late Thursday 19th ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in See Thursday 5th October for more details. Every Thursday 10am – 1pm Women’s Film Night G24 Common Room. UCL Page 4
Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. Foster Court, Malet Place, (off Torrington Place), London WC1E 7JG We will be showing “Fire” Deepa Mehta’s 1996 film about two Indian women stuck in loveless marriages. As the two women recognize their similar situations, they grow closer, and their relationship becomes far more involved than either of them could have anticipated. HOW TO GET THERE: 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. Social: 5.30pm Film: 7.30pm – 9pm Friday 20th Mixed Friday Coffee and Cake Club See Friday 6th for more details. Every Friday 10am – 12pm Tuesday 24th Women’s Herstory Group Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD
Visit the Science Museum for two small exhibitions on Victorian hero(ine)s. Julia Margaret Cameron the photographer, and Ada Lovelace, the computing visionary. Afterwards we can take the bus to see Seasonal decorations. Meet: 11am Meeting point: Main Entrance Mixed Outings in Art Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
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Greek Pete (2009) 75 min Director: Andrew Haigh. Stars: Peter Pittaros, Lewis Wallis, Tristan Field.
A year in the life of a London rent-boy. Social: 6pm Film starts: 7pm Wednesday 25th
A return visit to the Wellcome Collection for this intriguing exhibition featuring works of Art and Devotion: “Tibet’s Secret Temple”. Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism. Coffee and cake afterwards. www.wellcomecollection.org Please text Chris for booking: 07958 257 541 Meet: 2.30 pm Meeting point: Main Entrance Entry: Free Bus: 10, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 59, 68, 73, 88, 91, 134, 168, 205 Tube: Euston Station or Euston Square. Men’s Film Night: Henderson Court Resource Centre, 102 Fitzjohn’s Ave, London NW3 6NS. (Entrance on Prince Arthur Road).
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ONE OFF MIXED EVENT “SPEAK OUT” with Clare Summerskill Tavis House, Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA. Speak Out is intending to create a LGBTQ oral-history/ memorabilia archive, recording histories in danger of being lost forever. Over a two year period people will be invited to contribute to a digital archive of document based material. A website will also be created and we are going to produce an exhibition at LMA next Spring. Clare Summerskill has been employed to be the Outreach Oral Historian on this project. She is in the process of conducting a minimum of 40 interviews with LGBTQ Londoners as well as offering training to the volunteers in what she terms LGBTQ Specific Oral History, whereby they are then encouraged to conduct their own oral histories for this Page 5
Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. project. Clare will be bringing some scanning equipment along, so if anyone has anything they would like to be scanned to then be employed and displayed in the LMA archives, that would be wonderful – ie: front covers of old LGBT magazines, LGBT related newspaper cuttings, photos at Pride, Flyers of LGBT theatre shows and gigs, or other events, personal pics, anything of LGBT historical interest. 6pm – 8pm Signposting and Information Service Do you want advice? If you need help in the home, or you are confused about tax, have questions about your pension, benefits or housing etc contact our ODL signposting team at odlsignposting@ageukcamden .org.uk or 07961 937 621.
Thursday 26th ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in See Thursday 5th October for more details. Every Thursday 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 6pm – 7pm Friday 27th Mixed Friday Coffee and Cake Club See Friday 6th for more details. Every Friday 10am – 12pm Informal Art Group Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA Join Angie 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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Sunday 29th November Mixed Outings in Theatre Above the Stag Theatre, Arch 17, Miles Street, Vauxhall, London SW8 1RZ. (Close to Vauxhall bus, tube and rail stations.)
Tinderella: Cinders Slips it in Above The Stag Theatre’s award-wining pantomimes are the must-see, magical show of the season, bursting with laughs, songs, spectacle and all the traditional Panto tomfoolery. “Once upon a time, a slave boy called Cinders lived with his murderous stepmother and her daughters in a little landlocked kingdom. This kingdom boasted a prince whose balls were the envy of the world. Indeed, there was no happier sight in all the kingdom than the prince’s balls in full swing.” To book tickets directly with the theatre visit http://www.abovethestag.com /shows/ and scroll down to the find the event on this time and date. You can also book tickets on 020 7381 4187, although the line isn’t always staffed. £12 Meet in theatre bar at 1pm Matinee show starts at 2pm
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LGBT* Befriending Scheme
Are you feeling lonely or isolated? Can’t get out so easily anymore? Are you finding yourself spending more and more time alone? Living in London can become a lonely experience as you get older, especially as you can’t get out and about as you used to. Having somebody to spend time with and talk to can make all the difference. The Opening Doors London Befriending Scheme might be able to help you. The Befriending Scheme aims to reduce the stress of loneliness and isolation, increase people’s confidence and enable older people to maintain their independence. The scheme matches a volunteer Befriender with an older person for regular social contact. So if you feel you could benefit from the regular visits of a volunteer befriender, or if you have any friends, neighbours or relatives who could benefit, or if you would like to become a Volunteer Befriender please contact the Befriending Coordinator Paul Webley on 020 7239 0400 or odl.befriending@ageukcamden.org.uk
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