October 2015 Opening Doors London events listings

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8th Oct: Mixed Day Trip to Dungeness with The Breakfast Club – limited availability 15th: ODL Annual Health Information Fair: ‘Planning Ahead’ 21st: NEW VENUE for the Men’s Group Pub Social at “Halfway To Heaven” 22nd: Mixed Outing to Kew Gardens joint event with Brighton Older LGBT* Project 27th: Discussion about Men’s groups at Henderson Court Movies: 15th A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 18th My Own Private Idaho 27th In Bloom

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Wednesday 30th September VITO Project film screening of Les Invisibles with talk by Opening Doors London The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, Renfrew Road, London SE11. (10 minutes walk from Elephant and Castle) Les Invisibles (2012) French documentary directed by Sébastien Lifshitz. Les Invisibles gives a face to the unseen and a voice to the inaudible, spinning a sedate, respectful account of the French gay rights movement as experienced by its foot soldiers. The film will be introduced by Chris Barlow from ODL and Theresa Heath, founder and director of the Wotever DIY Film Festival, and followed by an open discussion. http://www.reshapenow.org/v ito-project Cafe/ bar opens: 6.30pm Film starts: 7.30pm Cost: Free ODL Quarterly Q12 Members magazine - Festive Issue on Food!

Write about FOOD! memorable meals and disasters, recipes and tips, cakes and cocktails - all you can write about food and eating for ODL Q12, - due out in December. We are hoping to put together a tasty issue but we need your help. Send your contribution by Monday 26th October, maximum length 250 words, to: odl.quarterly@ageukcamden.o rg.uk or the Tavis House

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Thursday 1 October ‘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 on 0207 239 0400.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm 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 Art Club. Basic materials provided, but feel free to bring your own sketchbooks and non-messy kit. 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

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.

Friday 2nd 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

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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).

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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 7th Mixed Day Trip to Dungeness with The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club are inviting members of ODL to join them for a day trip to Dungeness.

The day will start with an early meeting in central London before a two hour coach trip to New Romney Station. There the group will have hot drinks before a ride on a mini steam train takes them into Dungeness. Once in Dungeness, there will be the opportunity to walk along the rocky shingle beach, or on the roadside, towards Derek Jarman's famous garden. After a potter around the area the group will head in for a fish

and chips lunch, courtesy of The Breakfast Club, before returning back to the coach and heading back to London.

Booking essential as spaces are very limited. Book via http://odldungeness.eventbrit e.co.uk or by calling us on 020 7239 0400 Cost: Free Timings: 9am – 6pm approx 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 8th ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in See Thursday 1st October for more details.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm 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

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Friday 9th Mixed Friday Coffee and Cake Club See Friday 2nd 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 5th.

Drinks: 6pm Dinner: from 6.30pm Ends: 9.30pm Sunday 11th Mixed ‘Second Sundays’ Social Group Chelsea Theatre, 7 Worlds End Place, Kings Road, London SW10 ODR. Mixed 'Second Sundays' Social Group - Third Birthday Party!

We are celebrating our third birthday party this month. We welcome any new and all past members to come and join the party. There will be live music, birthday cake and a light lunch - £4 per person.

Members need to RSVP by Friday, 9th October to fiona.addison@ageukcamden. org.uk or call/text 07435356951 12.30pm – 3.30pm Monday 12th Mixed Tea Line Dance Page 2

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Tavis House Café, Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA. 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 13th Men’s Group Walk

October's walk will be an odyssey of discoveries and contrasts, traversing the southernmost part of Islington and the northern fringe of the City of London.

Do you really know what goes on inside the Silicon Roundabout? Why is this neighbourhood a mecca for non-conformists? We shall discover remarkable places of worship, amazing burial grounds, a popular street market, the site of Shakespeare's early theatre and two of the City of London's most acclaimed housing estates.

Add to the mix, surprising small parks and gardens, a whole orchard in a street and an innovative and

outrageously expensive planting scheme, connected by secret alleyways and passages.

You will come to know a part of London that you might not have believed existed.

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).

Tonight’s speaker will be Ben Buratta, lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and artistic director of Outbox Theatre. Outbox are a theatre company who make work with the LGBT* community – specifically intergenerationally. Ben will be talking about his latest production Hookup and what he learned about hooking up in the LGBT* community today.

Social 6pm – 7pm.

Talk from 7pm. (After the talk

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some members also head to a local pub for a drink.)

Wednesday 14th Mixed Exercise Walking Falling Leaves – A Longer Walk Challenge.

Join Clive for a 6 mile walk to Epping Forest in its autumnal glory, but toilet facilities are limited! There are many distinctive paths and areas of the forest. We will go via The Stubbles to pass behind The Warren, cross Epping New Road and continue to Connaught Waters and Rangers Road. This route is weather dependant.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a long walk and there will not be toilet facilities for long stretches of the route.

Meeting point: Loughton (Station Lobby) Meet: 10.45am Walk starts: 11am prompt.

Lunch: Either bring packed lunch to eat outside one of the establishments. Or bring money and we will choose where to eat out of Chingford Golf Course Café, The Butlers Retreat or The Bikers Hut. Walk ends: 3.30pm (approx.)

End point: Chingford Mainline Station (Bus Routes Available) Intergenerational Feminist Reading Group PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE TO 2nd WEDNESDAY of EACH MONTH Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA We have a new volunteer, Rebecca Nicholson, to Page 3

Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. coordinate the group so this is an opportunity to shape the future of the group. Please come along if you have any ideas as to how you would like to see the future of the group and as next month we will be reading the concluding chapter of The Dialectic of Sex, the reading you would like to discuss.

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: Dialectics of Cultural History & Feminism and Ecology, the ninth & tenth chapters 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 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 – 7.30pm Thursday 15th October ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in See Thursday 1st October for more details.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm

Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA Cost: free This is a chance for our older LGBT* community to attend an information fair focused on Planning Ahead.

The afternoon will include:  Key Note Talk at 2pm  Information Stalls from 3.30pm  Workshops  Meditation Session  Play Reading  Panel Discussion  Legal Advice These activities will be delivered by a variety community partners that support the LGBT* Community.

Booking is essential. Please book on http://odlfair.eventbrite.co.uk or by calling us on 020 7239 0400 2pm – 6.30pm PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME Women’s Film Night G24 Common Room. UCL Foster Court, Malet Place, (off Torrington Place), London WC1E 7JG PLEASE NOTE: Women’s Film Night is now on 3rd Thursday of each month so that we don’t clash with Haringey Independent Cinema.

This month’s film is: “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”

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Residents of a worn-down Iranian city encounter a skateboarding vampire (Sheila Vand) who preys on men who disrespect women.

The first Iranian Vampire film ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp 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 16th Mixed Friday Coffee and Cake Club See Friday 2nd for more details.

Every Friday 10am – 12pm Sunday 18th 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: My Own Private Idaho

ODL Annual Health Information Fair: ‘Planning Ahead’

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A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters (River Phoenix) is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves) is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother.

Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

Lunch available for £5.This month’s lunch will be Chicken & veg OR Fish & veg OR a Vegetarian option: please advise when booking.

Booking for lunch essential, please call Chryssy on 020 7239 0400, before Friday 16th OCT. Social from 12pm, Lunch from 1.00pm, Film at 2pm Monday 19th Bi Visibility Group Woburn Room, Tavis House, 1-6 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 20th Mixed Outings in Art at: Horniman Museum 100 London Road Forest Hill

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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/

We head South to the Horniman Museum for a special visit which includes a session in “Hands On Base”, so we can get up close and personal with some of the objects from this fascinating Museum. Coffee and cake in the Museum café afterwards. www.horniman.ac.uk Text: Chris on 07958 257 541 to confirm.

Meet: 2.30 pm main entrance Free: Entry Bus: 176,185,197,356,P4 Overground: Forest Hill Station (5-10 mins walk).

Wednesday 21st Barnet Lunch Club at THE WHITE LION In partnership with Age UK Barnet.

We are so impressed with the beautiful Old White Lion pub, its high quality food and lovely garden, that we have decided to settle on this as the permanent venue for our 3rd Wednesday lunches. From £8. www.theoldwhitelionfinchley. co.uk If the weather's pleasant, we'll

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For more information call Fiona Brickwood on 07949 054806. or Age UK Barnet 020 8432 1415.

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.)

Volver (2006) “With its overwhelming richness, its colour and warmth, Pedro Almodóvar's movie is set to capture your heart.” – Guardian. 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 Wednesday 7th for more info).

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Square, London WC1H 9NA. (see Tuesday 6th for info) 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 22nd ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in See Thursday 1st 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 CANCELLED THIS MONTH: Death Café The next one will be Thursday 26th November.

Mixed Outing to Kew Gardens joint event with Brighton Older LGBT* Project We will join our friends from

Brighton’s older LGBT* project on a walk through Kew Gardens in the autumn. We will provide free entry to the gardens. The Kew “explorer land train” that costs £4:50.

There are plenty of cafes in the garden but they can be quite expensive so we recommend bringing a packed lunch and then buying hot drinks in the gardens.

Meet up: 11am at Victoria Gate of Kew Gardens.

Booking essential as places limited. If you would like information about accessible routes and to book your place please contact Kate 020 7239 0400 or kate.hancock@ageukcamden. org.uk Friday 23rd Mixed Friday Coffee and Cake Club See Friday 2nd 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

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non-messy kit. 12.30pm – 3pm Tuesday 27th Men’s Film Night: Henderson Court Resource Centre, 102 Fitzjohn’s Ave, London NW3 6NS. (Entrance on Prince Arthur Road).

What do you want from the future of the Henderson Court Speaker’s and Film Night?

Arrive at 5.30pm this evening to have input into, and share ideas, about the future of the group.

In Bloom Director: Chris Michael Birkmeier.

Two young men experience the pain of separation and broken hearts after an unexpected breakup during a restless Chicago summer.

Discussion: 5.30pm Social: 6pm Film starts: 7pm Thursday 29th ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in See Thursday 1st October for more details.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm Friday 30th Mixed Friday Coffee and Cake Club See Friday 2nd for more details.

Every Friday 10am – 12pm

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CANCELLED EVENT: Mixed Coffee Evening Unfortunately the Coffee Evening will be cancelled until Tufnell Park Tube station reopens later in the year.

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.)

FUTURE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Thursday 26th November 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

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

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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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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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