October 2017 opening doors london events listings

LISTINGS OCTOBER 2017

FUTURE EVENTS FOR YOUR DIARY: October 2017 Listings Register for Sunday Lunch and Film Club on the 4th of November: https://november2017odlsundaylunch.eventbrite.co.uk

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: •

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A befriending service Policy, campaigning and training

For information about groups and activities please contact us on: • 020 7239 0400 • Info@openingdoorslondon.org.uk • www.openingdoorslondon.org.uk • twitter.com/OpeningDoorsLdn • facebook.com/openingdoorslondon

Opening Doors London is a charity (1167919) and a company limited by guarantee (10123607) Opening Doors London is supported by:

The Arc of Triumph Opening Doors will be starting its first group in Brixton!

The Arc of Triumph is a storytelling Group where you can, Embrace your story. Tell your story. Hear the stories from your communities. Dates, times and venue to be confirmed. If you wish to participate in the group or volunteer please email: shaun.wallace@openingdoorslondon.org.uk MORE INFORMATION COMING: London Gay Symphony Orchestra Concert raising money for Opening Doors 29th October, 7pm - 9pm All Hallows by the Tower (church).

Nearest tube Tower Hill.

Full price tickets: £10 Members: price £5 7pm to 9pm

Lumen Café Christmas meal for members ** BOOKING NOW** Friday 15th December 2017 at 13:00 Lumen Cafe 88 Tavistock Place. London, WC1H 9RS 020 7278 1887. Diane and Jan at Black Olive Cooks are taking bookings.

Three course Christmas meal including starter, main course and dessert. Select your options on booking at the Lumen - veggie and gluten free options are available in addition to the classic Turkey with all the Trimmings and Christmas Pudding.

Price: £27.50 per person Deposit: £10.00 (cash preferred).

Pay to Lumen before Friday 1st December 2017 and pre-select your dishes/courses.

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Wow! It is already the autumn!

And what a fantastic line-up of activities and events have we got lined up for you! Not only do we have our full programme of social activities…but we are launching two new initiatives which we hope will meet new and emerging needs of our communities.

Royal Parks Half Marathon The Royal Parks Half Marathon will be taking place on Sunday 8th October. We have four fabulous runners who have signed up to raise funds for ODL. Please check them out on our Get Involved web page and sponsor their endeavours!

Rainbow Memory Café On Monday October 9th we are launching our Rainbow Memory Café. This is aimed at LGBT* people living with memory loss – or LGBT* people supporting others with memory loss. I totally understand that it can sometimes be difficult to ask for support around these issues – so this is an important group which will provide an informal safe space of people to support each other as well as gain information, eat cake and have fun!

See the Listings entry for 9th October for more information about how to get involved.

Prostate Cancer Support Group for Gay & Bi Men In mid-October we will be launching a national support initiative for gay and bisexual men affected by prostate cancer. As our Chair, Jeffrey Weeks says: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with Prostate Cancer UK in the development of an important new service.

This online support group will be facilitated by our very own Ben Thomas and will provide new opportunities to challenge taboos and anxieties and to develop mutual support, confidence and knowledge.”

If you would like more information and /or to register your interest in the group, please email: ann.innes@prostatecanceruk.org Code of Conduct Workshop Over recent months we have been reviewing the Codes of Conduct for both staff and volunteers.

We have now turned our attention to a Members Code of Conduct. A final draft is due to be signed off by Trustees at the next Board meeting – but we are keen to involve members in what it means and so would like to invite you to a workshop on 6th October from 10am to 12noon. Please book here: https://codeofconductworkshop.eventbrite. co.uk with password “memberodl” if you would be interested. It will also be an opportunity to meet one of our new Trustees, Tony Jackson.

Will Writing Workshop Where there’s a will… Writing a will is one of those things no one wants to do but is relieved once it’s done. Our next Will Writing Workshop is on October 20th, 2pm-4pm and will feature solicitors and even undertakers to de-mystify the process and help get the ball rolling. As well as talks and presentations, there will be a chance for you to chat to legal experts about what’s involved and how much it costs, which is usually no more than a couple of hundred pounds. Refreshments will be available for a small donation. No need to book, just turn up.

Alice Wallace Director of ODL

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Government national LGBT survey In July the Government Equalities Office (GEO) began a process of collecting data about LGBT people in the UK in their online survey, the National LGBT survey.

Juliet Chard Member services Coordinator juliet.chard@openingdoorslondon.org.uk Tel: 020 7239 0400 Juliet is our new member services coordinator, working alongside Adrian to support activities and signpost services. She has worked in LGBT campaigning for the last 3 years. She is also a passionate cyclist and volunteers at London Bike Kitchen’s women and gender variant night, supporting people to learn how to fix their own bike.

Adrian Beaumont Member Services Coordinator adrian.beaumont@openingdoorslondon.org.uk Tel: 020 7239 0400 Adrian is our new Member Services Coordinator working alongside Juliet to help ensure delivery of a range of programmes and managing and delivering ODL’s LGBT* Connect service. He has a background in LGBT campaigning, facilitating, training, sexual health and wellbeing services for older people and has worked extensively in the public and charity sectors as well as freelance. He loves gardening, cooking and travelling.

Naturally a survey of this sort involves asking people to provide information about themselves and it can often be challenging to find the right questions in order to elicit the most accurate, wide ranging information about any given knowledge field. The survey fails to do justice to our communities when asking about gender identity, and also through assumptions that some of the questions make. For example, if one selects the Woman/Girl or Man/Boy option followed by the Transwoman/ Transgirl or Transman/Transboy option the first selection is erased. This means that trans people have to select whether they choose to identify themselves as either women/girls/ men/boys or trans people, rather than specific kinds of women or men, such as women or men of colour, differently abled women or men, gay, lesbian or gay women or men.

Nevertheless, it is important that our voices are heard in surveys like this, and we urge you to complete it, while making it clear where appropriate that the questions could have been posed in a more inclusive and clear way.

If you have comments about the construction of the questionnaire please contact the GEO directly. https://smartsurvey.co.uk/s/govuk-lgbt-survey/

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SUNDAY 1ST OCTOBER

MONDAY 2ND OCTOBER

Sunday Lunch & Film Club Henderson Court Resource Centre (entrance on Prince Arthur Road)

Peer led coffee and tea social at The Breakfast Club in Battersea Rise 5-9 Battersea Rise, SW11 1HG

Join us for a lovely home cooked lunch before we watch the film: Billy Elliot (2000)

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.

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.

4 – 6pm

The life of a miner’s son in Northern England is forever changed one day when he stumbles upon a ballet class on his way to boxing lessons. Joining the class and keeping it a secret from his widowed father and overbearing brother, 11-year-old Billy finds himself in dance, demonstrating the kind of raw talent seldom seen by the class’s exacting instructor, Mrs. Wilkinson. She encourages him to try out for the Royal Ballet. But when his father and brother find out and forbid him to continue, Billy is torn between his responsibility to his family and to the gift with which he has been blessed.

His overwhelming desire to dance has become much more to him that simply a means of selfexpression. It is his passion and it is his destiny.

Runtime: 110 minutes Cost £5. Booking for lunch essential. RSVP before Wednesday the 27th of September via: https://october2017odlsundaylunch.eventbrite.co.uk or by calling 020 7239 0400.

Social: 12pm. Lunch: 1pm. Film starts: 2pm

Singing for fun!

Room 13, Mary Ward Centre Come along to a free and friendly singing course at the Mary Ward Centre run in partnership with Opening Doors London. Develop your singing voice and learn songs covering a range of material including traditional folk, songs from yesteryear (30s-60s) and Pop with the main focus being fun!

Learning to sing in harmony, listen and blend our voices together. Complete beginner to confident singer - everyone is welcome.

Contact Erica at the Mary Ward Centre 020 7269 6035 or Adrian at ODL 020 7239 0400 to find out more.

3:45 – 5.15pm

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Bridge and Scrabble Club Lumen Café Every Monday 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.

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.

2pm – 4pm TUESDAY 3RD OCTOBER Peer led Creative Writing Group Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA 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.

3pm – 5pm

Another Great Clive Wet Walk Return to Breakfast Club East It is time to face reality. It always rains on Clive’s walks. This being October the betting odds on rain are even better. So let’s just sit back, get protectively dressed, and enjoy the outing!

We will take a different route to the one chosen earlier in the year. The route will offer a better idea of the Olympic Stadium, The Aquadrome and other features as well as the chance of again seeing a short pleasant stroll of a natural section of the River Lea itself.

Lunch plans: This is not an event to bring sandwiches. Attendees who are hungry may choose to enjoy the regular “ Steak Night” later at the Stratford JD Weatherspoon’s or other nearby venues by making their own arrangements before or after visiting the venue.

You have options ….

Walkers : Meet at 2.15 outside Starbucks on the lowest level of Westfield Shopping Centre . This is just within the shopping centre entrance from Stratford Station so you will be dry.

Non Walkers: if you feel unable to walk please make your own arrangements, so as to arrive at The Breakfast Club East at 3.15.

We were thoroughly spoiled by Breakfast Club staff at the expeditionary outing earlier this year by being supplied with excellent tea or coffee and cakes. We will leave promptly at 5pm as regular customers arrive. The Breakfast Club East overlooks the Canalised section of the River Lea. You are responsible for your own arrngements.

Hackney Wick station is on an overground line which runs across north London.

Please see the Transport for London Website and consult maps. It is your responsibility to locate the venue, which is alongside the canalised section or the River Lea near the Here East building.

2.15pm walkers 3.15pm non walkers.

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Havering LGBT over-50s Social Group Tapestry Stanton Gate, Mawney Road, Romford RM7 7HL

Men’s Pimlico Social Pimlico Room, back of St. Saviour’s Church, St George’s Square, SW1V 3QW

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 get in touch and come along.

Friendly drop-in coffee evening.

6pm – 9pm

Free nibbles and drinks on offer, plus a great team of dedicated volunteers who will warmly greet you and introduce you to like-minded people who also identify as LGBT.

Social group drop-in for older LGBT* people to meet in a lovely LGBT* friendly café bar in the heart of Lewisham. Regular cup of Tea 80p or Coffee £1.50. Fully accessible.

10.30am – 12.30

To register an interest or for more information, please contact Alan Giles on 07757 122 749 or info@openingdoorslondon.org.uk.

3pm – 5pm

WEDNESDAY 4TH OCTOBER Anchor Housing/ ODL Art Group Chigwell Court, 99 Balance Road, E9 5SQ Why not try this friendly and informal drop-in?

It meets at 2pm every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. All materials for a variety of activities and range of abilities are provided free, as are the refreshments. Advice and guidance are on offer from Philippa, the volunteer/artist. The venue is pleasant and fully accessible. It is close to Homerton overground station and on several bus routes. Call Philippa for more information on 07951540640 2pm – 4pm

THURSDAY 5TH OCTOBER South London Coffee Morning Little Nan’s Salon Catford

50+ LGBT Coffee Morning in Wandsworth The Furzedown Project 50+ Coffee Morning in Wandsworth, at the Furzedown project for older people. The Wandsworth LGBT forum hosts this coffee morning with Vito from ODL. Every Thursday 10 – 12. A fee of £2 after your initial visit which pays for room hire and drinks.

We hope you may become members and join in some of the activities on offer. We sometimes have intresting speakers, visits from local councillors/ MPs/community workers etc. But if you just want to chat and have coffee that’s fine too.

Every Thursday 10am – 12pm

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‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in Computer Suite, Tavis House Our Age UK Camden LGBT* friendly dropin 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.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm

FRIDAY 6TH OCTOBER Friday Coffee and Cake Club Café Tavis House Café

SATURDAY 7TH OCTOBER On October 7th, London Gay Symphonic Winds are putting on a concert that is ‘Fit For A Queen’.

LGSW will be rolling out the red carpet and donning their regalia for an evening of music that celebrates kings, queens and royalty of all kinds.

During the evening, you will be taken to the heights of royal tradition with Crown Imperial and Gloriana, invited to play the Game of Thrones and whisked away to the far east with selections from The King and I.

Come in for a chat 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

Plus, the evening will be hosted by the Dowager Duchess of Comedy herself: Cally Beaton. So dust off your crowns, get the robes down from the loft and get ready for all the tradition, beauty, camp fun and stunning music that characterises an evening with the London Gay Symphonic Winds.

Code of Conduct Workshop Tavis House, Room: AgeUK A

Fit For A Queen takes place at 7.30pm on October 7th at St. Sepulchre Without Newgate, High Holborn, EC1A 2DQ.

Over recent months we have been reviewing the Codes of Conduct for both staff and volunteers.

We have now turned our attention to a Members Code of Conduct. A final draft is due to be signed off by Trustees at the November Board meeting – but we are keen to involve members in what it means and so would like to invite you to a workshop on 6th October. It will also be an opportunity to meet one of our new Trustees, Tony Jackson.

10am - 12pm

Tickets are £7.50 in advance via www.lgsw.org.uk, or £10 on the door.

SUNDAY 8TH OCTOBER Second Sunday Social Chelsea Theatre Join us for lunch. We’ll be ordering food from a local cafe, Mona Lisa, which serves a variety of delicious hot meals. No RSVP required.

12.30pm - 15.30pm

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MONDAY 9TH OCTOBER Singing for fun!

Room 13, Mary Ward Centre For more info, see 1st of the month.

3:45pm – 5.15pm

Bridge and Scrabble Club Lumen Café More information first Monday of the month.

No need to book.

2pm – 4pm

Rainbow Memory Café launches!

Tavis House If you are LGBT* and have concerns about your memory , are living with a dementia or caring for someone with memory or other cognitive problems, we hope this group offers a safe place to gain support from others in a similar situation and have an enjoyable afternoon as well!

We have plans for talks and information about dementia, some social activities (music, arts, discussions etc.) as well as for members to have time to talk and share any concerns.

One of the biggest difficulties of an initiative like this is finding people who might benefit. Obviously some people in the earlier stages of dementia may be struggling with facing that reality and be reluctant to ‘come out’ about their diagnosis.

There are others in the later stages of dementia who might find coming independently to a group quite challenging. We may be able to develop ways of befrienders supporting some people to attend the group.

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We therefore need the help of all ODL members to help us find people who might benefit from this support. Please contact me if you think you might know someone and I am also happy to visit people in the first instance rather than expecting people to just come along to the Café. There are also likely to be LGBT people caring for parents or friends with a dementia who might find the Café a support. We may develop an evening meeting in future for those who are working during the day.

It is going to take time for the group to get going but we already have our first two members Mike and Tom, so please help us make sure that we don’t have too much cake left over on October 9th! We also need to know numbers of people coming as there is limited space in the room so please let us know if you are planning to attend!

For more information and for publicity leaflets about the service, please contact Sally – sally.knocker@openingdoorslondon.org.uk or call the ODL office and ask me to ring you back.

To be held on the second Monday of each month (November 13th and December 11th) 2-4pm

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Mixed Tea Dance in Tavis House Café 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA Join us for the second of our tea dances whether you are an experienced dancer, a beginner or have never danced before – there is room for all!

Drinks and snacks will be provided but please feel free to bring your own to share. We are hoping to have tea dances throughout so please bring your ideas along with your dancing shoes.

5:30pm-7:30pm

TUESDAY 10TH OCTOBER

Or better still, book a free ticket upon Eventbrite (using password “theatreland”), which will instantly guarantee you a place: https://october-theatre-walk. eventbrite.co.uk 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 on the waiting list.

14.15pm for 14.30pm start

Men’s Speakers Night: Samuel Cole Henderson Court Resource Centre

Mens’ Group Walk No visit to London would ever be complete without taking in the sights, atmosphere and history of London’s West End theatre district.

For our October outing we have Peter’s City of London and Westminster Guide colleague, Karen Golanski, kindly sharing with us her acclaimed theatreland walk, ‘David Garrick and Friends - a Tour of 18th Century Theatre’.

Samuel is a young creative artist and actor who trained as a dancer, but went on to get involved with the LGBT community. It started with Attitude magazine and being part of the real bodies It starts outside Covent Garden tube station campaign which lead him to realise how he can (James Street exit) and finishes at the stage door help the community through his creativity. Samuel of the Theatre Royal Haymarket. The walk takes 1 uses the male form as a canvas and creates bold hour 40 mins and charts David Garrick’s meteoric and expressive images by using materials such as rise to fame as well as telling stories of some of paint, glitter and anything he can get onto the body. his colourful contemporaries. It also explores the His work focuses on sending a positive message phenomenon of celebrity culture. about men and anyone part of the LGBT family, he If you would like to join the walk you can either: feels so lucky to have been allowed to be himself Text or leave a message on the walking group and not face much discrimination and because of mobile number which is 07804 329 416 but you this he want to help others and support anyone will need to wait for a reply before you can be sure who is going through a bad time or just needs that a place has been booked for you. inspiration to be their true self.

Social: 6pm Talk: from 7pm (After the talk some members also head to a local pub for a drink.)

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WEDNESDAY 11TH OCTOBER

THURSDAY 12TH OCTOBER

Visit to the Carpenter Hall Archives at LSE Library LSE Library, 10 Portugal Street, WC2A 2HD

‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in Computer Suite, Tavis House,

Explore the LGBT Collections with lead curator, Dr Gillian Murphy.

For more info, see first Thursday of the month.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm

On display will be material from Tony Dyson’s archive about setting up the Homosexual Law Reform Society, campaigning material from Antony Grey’s archive, from Gay Liberation Front, material on Stop the Clause campaign, a selection of journals, ephemera, badges and much more.

More information about the collection can be found online here http://www.lse.ac.uk/Library/ Collections/Collection-highlights/LGBT-collections This visit is for up to 20 members. To register an interest or for more information, please contact ODL on 020 7239 0400 or email juliet.chard@ openingdoorslondon.org.uk Transport: 0.2 miles walk from Holborn underground station, head down Kingsway towards Aldwych to access Portugal Street 2-4pm

London Friend tea & 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

50+ LGBT Coffee Morning in Wandsworth The Furzedown Project For more info, see first Thursday of the month.

Every Thursday 10am – 12pm

Cinema, Chats & Coffee Club East Dulwich Picture House Join us for a new group in South London at the lovely East Dulwich Picture House. We meet in the lobby at 11 for a morning chat (bring your own lunch if you’d like.) in the conservatory (which we have all to ourselves!) and then go see a new film (if you feel like it!) PictureHouse is offering us free hot drinks for the social and discounted tickets at £6.50, for all ODL members!

For more info, email Lin: linnea.frank@ openingdoorslondon.org.uk or call 020 7239 0400.

The venue is fully accessible and induction loop systems are fitted in each of the four auditoria.

Open to all, no sign up needed.

Social: 11:00 AM with film following (film time depending on Picturehouse programme)

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FRIDAY 13TH OCTOBER

MONDAY 16THOCTOBER

Friday Coffee and Cake Club Café Tavis House Café

Women’s Breakfast at the Albany The Albany, Deptford

For more info, see first Friday of the month.

Every Friday 10am – 12pm

Start your day at the Albany community café meeting other women for a chat/discussion. Have a cuppa or breakfast. As the venue is near the Thames, we also have the option to go for a walk along the Thames occasionally.

10am – 12pm

Out and About at the Barbican Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS Join us for a new group at the Barbican Centre for afternoon tea and activities This month, we will.

Meet at the Block Space on the ground floor of Barbican Centre (opposite the Terrace) No need to book.

Underground: Barbican, Moorgate 2pm – 4pm

Mixed ODL East Dinner Club: Positive East, 159 Mile End Road, London E1 4AQ. East London Dinner Club is back! £6 for delicious meal. Bring a bottle to share if you want to have a drink with friends beforehand.

Pre-booking is essential, please email info@ openingdoorslondon.org.uk or call 020 7239 0400

by Monday 4th.

6.30pm – 9:30pm

Bridge and Scrabble Club Lumen Café, 88 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9RS More information, see first Monday of the month.

No need to book.

2pm – 4pm

Singing for fun!

Room 13, Mary Ward Centre For more info, see first Monday of the month.

3:45pm – 5.15pm

Do you have access requirements? If there’s an event you’d like to attend but you’re not sure if you’ll be able to make it due to your access requirements, please contact us so we can help make sure you get the most out of being part of Opening Doors London.

Contact us on 020 7239 0400 or Info@ openingdoorslondon.org.uk

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TUESDAY 17TH OCTOBER

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER

Peer led Creative Writing Group Tavis House

Women’s Film Night Committee Room 2, Camden Town Hall

See the 3rd for more information.

3pm – 5pm

We will be showing: Girls On Film 2 A collection of the latest award-winning lesbian and feminist short films exploring fantasies, dreams, desires, love & transgression. With short films is there’s always some to like and a good laugh or two in the mix (109 minutes) Social: 6pm; Film: 7pm

WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER Anchor Housing/ ODL Art Group Chigwell Court, 99 Balance Road, E9 5SQ Why not try this friendly and informal drop-in?

It meets at 2pm every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. All materials for a variety of activities and range of abilities are provided free, as are the refreshments. Advice and guidance are on offer from Philippa, the volunteer/artist. The venue is pleasant and fully accessible. It is close to Homerton overground station and on several bus routes.

Call Philippa for more information on 07951540640 2pm – 4pm

Feel free to share events, exhibitions and happenings with one another by including them in the Alternative Doors listings.

Email: alternativedoors@ openingdoorslondon.org.uk

‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in Computer Suite, Tavis House, For more info see first Thursday of the month.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm

50+ LGBT Coffee Morning in Wandsworth The Furzedown Project For more info, see first Thursday if the month.

Every Thursday 10am – 12pm

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Opening Doors London Pub Club Ye Old Rose & Crown Social group drop-in for older LGBT* people to meet in a lovely LGBT* pub in the heart of Greenwich Village.

Please note that the toilets for men are down one flight of stairs and the toilets for women are up one flight of stairs. For people using wheelchairs there are toilets just across the road at the Ibis Hotel.

7pm to late

Places are limited to 20 maximum and the event . Please call 020 7239 0400 or info@ openingdoorslondon.org.uk .

We will meet there at 2:00 – come armed with some good questions to get the conversation started with our soon-to-be new friends!

2:00pm

MONDAY 23RD OCTOBER Bridge and Scrabble Club Lumen Café, 88 Tavistock Place

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER Friday Coffee and Cake Club Café, Tavis House Café See first Friday of the month for details.

Every Friday 10am – 12pm

See first Monday of the month for details.

2pm – 4pm

Singin for fun!

Room 13 at the Mary Ward Centre For more info, see 1st Monday of the month.

3:45 – 5.15pm

Hi Tech High Tea – a Transatlantic Chat!

Macquarie’s offices 28, Ropemaker Street, EC2Y 9HD Ungerground: Moorgate We have been given an exciting opportunity to chat to members of the older LGBT community in New York over tea and cakes! Macquarie (a global financial services organisation) are offering their facilities and technology to link up with their New York office where a group of folk from Sage are looking forward to a chat with us. Sage is a similar organisation to Opening Doors, but is huge in comparison to us, with a national reach and a strong role in advocacy.

Mixed Tea Dance in Tavis House Café 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA See the 9th for more information.

5:30pm-7:30pm

Bi The Way Group Tavis House Friendly get-together for bisexual people and allies.

All welcome. Light refreshments available.

6pm - 8pm

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TUESDAY 24TH OCTOBER Men’s gentle exercise class Henderson Court Resource Centre, 102 Fitzjohn’s Ave, NW3 6NS (Entrance on Prince Arthur Road) 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

Moonlight became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT film to win the Oscar for Best Picture. At the 74th Golden Globe Awards it won Best Motion Picture – Drama and was nominated in five other categories. In 2017, The New York Times considered it the twentieth “Best Film of the 21st Century So Far”.

Social: 6pm Film starts: 7pm (After the film some members also head to a local pub for a drink.)

Men’s Film Night Henderson Court Resource Centre Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. (111 min) A coming-of-age story about a young man from a hardscrabble Miami neighbourhood, this kaleidoscopic gem focuses on three periods of its subject’s life, chaptered by the different names and identities he assumes, or is given – “Little”, “Chiron” and “Black”.

Moonlight explores the difficulties he faces with his sexuality and identity, including the physical and emotional abuse he endures growing up.

Lending heartfelt voice to characters who have previously been silenced or sidelined, Moonlight is an astonishingly accomplished work – rich, sensuous and tactile, by turns heartbreaking and uplifting.

WEDNESDAY 27TH OCTOBER London Friend tea & biscuits older LGBT* drop-in London Friend For more information, see the 11th.

12.30pm – 2.30pm

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THURSDAY 26TH OCTOBER ‘Rainbow Surfers’ older LGBT* computer drop-in See the first Thursday of the month for more info.

Every Thursday 10am – 1pm

50+ LGBT Coffee Morning in Wandsworth The Furzedown Project See 1st Thursday of the month for more info.

Every Thursday 10am – 12pm

FRIDAY 27TH OCTOBER Friday Coffee and Cake Club See first Friday of the month for more details.

10am – 12pm

Informal Art Group Tavis House Join Allan 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. Contact Juliet, juliet.chard@ openingdoorslondon.org.uk for more information.

12:30 for a 1pm start

MONDAY 3OTH OCTOBER Bridge and Scrabble Club Lumen Café, 88 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9RS See first Monday of the month for details.

2pm – 4pm

Singing for fun!

Room 13 at the Mary Ward Centre For more info, see 1st Monday of the month.

3:45 – 5.15pm

Mixed Tea Dance in Tavis House Café 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA See the 9th for more information 5:30pm-7:30pm

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VENUES & HOW TO GET THERE

The Albany Douglas Way, Deptford, SE8 4AG Trains: New Cross and Deptford; DLR: Deptford Bridge; Bus: 47, 53, 177, 188, 199, 225, 453 Barbican Centre Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS Underground: Barbican, Moorgate The Breakfast Club, 5-9 Battersea Rise, London SW11 1HG; 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.

Camden Town Hall, Committee Room 2, 1st floor Judd Street, WC1H 9JE Ungerground: Kings Cross, Euston Square Chelsea Theatre 7 Worlds End Place, Kings Road, SW10 0DR Underground: Fulham Broadway. Bus:14/141 Chigwell Court, 99 Balance Road, E9 5S Overground: Homerton Station Bus: 26, 30, 388, 488

Henderson Court Resource Centre 102 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, London NW3 6NS. (Entrance on Prince Arthur Road) Underground: Hampstead Mary Ward Centre Room 13, 1st Floor 42 Queen Square, WC1N 3AQ Underground: Russel Sq. London Friend 86 Caledonian Road, N1 9DN Underground: King’s Cross Little Nans Broadway Theatre Saloon Broadway Theatre, Catford Rd, SE6 4RU Fully accessible. Opposite the Town Hall, Trains: Catford, Catford Bridge Tavis House Tavistock Sq. 1-6, WC1H 9NA Underground: Euston Sq., Euston, Kings Cross 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.

East Dulwich Picture House 116A Lordship Lane, SE22 8HD Train: East Dulwich Station Bus: 37, 40, 176, 185, 484 and P13

Pimlico Room Back of St. Saviour’s Church, St George’s Square, London SW1V 3QW. Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA.

The Furzedown Project 91/93 Moyser Road, SW16 6SL Bus: 57, 333, 249, 319

Rose & Crown 1 Crooms Hill, London SE10 8ER Underground/Train: Cutty Sark, Greenwich

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.

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INSTRUCTION TO PAY BY BANK STANDING ORDER To: ______________________________________________ (please insert name of your bank) Name of account: _________________________________________________________________ Account number: ________________________________ Sort code: _______________________ Bank postal address: ______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Post code: ___________________ Please make payments as indicated below to: CAF Bank Ltd Account Name: Opening Doors London Sort Code: 40-52-40 Account No. 00029589 Monthly donation (please tick) £5 £10 £15 £25 £50 Other £ _______________________ on the _______ day of each month starting on _________________ (month) ___________ (year) Personal details Full name: _______________________________________________________________________ Postal address: ___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Post code: ___________________ Telephone: _______________________ Email address: __________________________________ Signed: _____________________________________________ Date: ______________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CHARITY GIFT AID DECLARATION Boost your donation by 25p of Gift Aid for every £1 you donate Gift Aid is reclaimed by the charity from the tax you pay for the current tax year. Your address is needed to identify you as a current UK taxpayer.

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