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2015 Opening Doors London February groups and activities
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Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. Monday 2nd Mixed Tower Hamlets ODL East Drop in: Positive East, 159 Mile End, Rd, E1 4AQ. Come and join our friendly east London afternoon social. Call Nic Humberstone on 07538 392 104 or email Nicola.Humberstone@ageukca mden.org.uk 4:00 – 6:00pm Mixed Group Barnet Diners’ Club and Games meeting in partnership with Age UK Barnet: The Queens Arms Public House, Great North Rd. EN5 1AB. (Close to High Barnet Tube station beside Odeon cinema). Meet for a drink with friends or have a meal from the very delicious value 2-4-1 menu (about £5 per person). Darts and pool available. For more information please ring 020 7239 0400 or Amanda Radonich at Age UK Barnet on 020 8432 1415. 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tuesday 3rd ODL Quarterly Group Meeting: Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Sq, WC1H 9NA. Open to all interested in contributing to the ODL Quarterly Newsletter. Contact: 020 7239 0400 or e-mail odl.quarterly@ageukcamden.o rg.uk 6:00pm – 8:00pm Wednesday 4th Anchor Housing/ODL Mixed Art Group: Chigwell Court, 99 Balance Road E9 5SQ The art group will be held in
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the communal room. Basic materials will be provided for the informal drop-in session. Volunteer artists on hand. Contact Kate for more details kate.hancock@ageukcamden. org.uk or 020 7239 0447 2:00 -4:00pm
Support and social group for gay and bi men aged 50 and over who are living with HIV. For more details contact 020 7239 0400 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Men’s Pimlico Social: [PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF ADDRESS] Pimlico Room (back of Church), St Saviour’s Church, St George’s Square, SW1V 3QW. Friendly drop-in coffee evening. For more info phone 020 7239 0400. 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Mixed Friday coffee & cake club: Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Sq, WC1H 9NA. Please note this is a peer led social group. Hot drinks can be purchased in the café. Please feel free to bring your own cakes. Every Friday 10am – 12 noon
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“Rainbow Surfers” older LGBT computer drop in: Computer Suite, Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA. Our LGBT friendly drop in session provides you with an opportunity to receive IT assistance and guidance from knowledgeable volunteers and staff. For more information please contact Tony or Kamye on 0207 239 0400. Every Thursday 10am – 1pm
Sunday 8th February Mixed “Second Sundays” social group: Chelsea Theatre, 7 Worlds End Place, Kings Road, SW10 ODR. Come and join our friendly bunch for a delicious light lunch, £4 per person. We can no longer use the kitchen facilities in the venue so we will be discussing alternatives to the current catering arrangements. If can not attend but would like to offer your feedback/suggestions please contact Fiona. Members will need to RSVP to Fiona by Thursday, 5th February fiona.addison@ageukcamden. org.uk or call 07435 356 951 12:30 – 3:30pm
Mixed Newham Dinner Club: [PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF ADDRESS] Stratford Circus, Theatre Square, Stratford, London E15 1BX. All welcome you don’t need to book but if it is your first time at this group please call Kate for details. 020 7239 0447. 6:00pm – 9:00pm. Men’s “Older, Gay & Positive” Group: Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA. Tavis A&B meeting rooms.
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Monday 9th Line Dancing Mixed Tea Dance: Tavis House Café, Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, Page 1
Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. 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 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. For further details contact Kate kate.hancock@ageukcamden.o rg.uk or 020 7239 0447 5:30pm-7:30pm
Tuesday 10th Men’s Group Walk The roof garden of the City of London's second tallest building, the Walkie Talkie, is now open to the public. You have to book online but it's free. Sadly these visits are already booked up for months, but that won't stop us walking around and exploring this fascinating neighbourhood. Some of you will already have met its companions like The Monument, London Bridge and Leadenhall Market but there are many other surprises in store. Prepare to be wowed by Wren Churches, a scale model of London Bridge which has become a TV celebrity, the astonishing carved mice and breathtaking views of the river. If you would like to join the walk you can either: - Text or leave a message on
the walking group mobile number which is 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 [Geoff’s partner] will them confirm meeting point details. There is room for up to 24 people; if you would like to participate please book. These walks are proving popular so if you find yourself unable to come along, having booked, kindly let us know so that your place can be offered to someone else. (2:15pm for 2:30pm start) 2:30pm – 4:00pm Men’s Group Speaker Night: Henderson Court Resource Centre, 102 Fitzjohn’s Ave, NW3 6NS (entrance on Prince Arthur Rd). Tonight’s talk will be from Megan Jones from the Alzheimer’s Society. Megan will be talking about dementia and also about new service Side by Side. This innovative new service is still in the development stage and Megan is keen to hear from ODL members about their experiences of using care services related to dementia to make sure Side by Side is fully accessible to the older LGBT community. 6pm – 7pm Social; 7pm – 9pm Talk.
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Thursday 12th “Rainbow Surfers” older LGBT computer drop in: See Thursday 5th for more details. Every Thursday 10am – 1pm Friday 13th Mixed Friday coffee & cake club: Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Sq, WC1H 9NA. Please note this is a peer led social group. Hot drinks can be purchased in the café. Please feel free to bring your own cakes. Every Friday 10am – 12 noon Mixed ODL East Dinner Club: Positive East, 159 Mile End, Road, London, E1 4AQ. £6 for delicious meal. 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. 6.30pm – 9:30pm Monday 16th ODL Redbridge Mixed Social: meeting at Age UK Redbridge Allan Burgess Centre, 2 Grove Park, London, Ell 2DL. Delicious home-made lunch is available at the centre at 12:30 and costs £5 for two courses. Book with Chrissy by Friday 13th. Contact Chrissy on 07563 904214 for details Lunch 12:30 Group 2:00 – 3:30pm. Mixed Outings In Art: Royal Academy, **Burlington Gardens site**, 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET. Page 2
Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. “Premiums: Interim project Second Year RA Schools students” Premiums: Interim Projects will feature the work of the postgraduates in their second year at the Royal Academy Schools. This annual exhibition provides an opportunity to view new work by emerging artists at a point when their work is still developing, during their three year postgraduate course at the RA Schools, Britain’s first art school. The exhibition includes painting, performance, photography, sculpture, site-specific installation and video. Free Entry ** This exhibition takes place in RA’s new space and NOT the Main building on Piccadilly.** Easiest access is by walking through Burlington Arcade from Piccadilly side in a suitably stylish Regency Fashion and turning right into Burlington Gardens Meet inside main entrance at 2.30 pm Call/ text Chris to confirm on 07958 257 541. 2.30pm – 5.30pm Bi Visibility Group: at Tavis House. 1-6 Tavistock Square WC1H 9NA. Open social & discussion group for anyone who would like to think about the question "What does bisexuality mean to you?" Contact Kate for more details kate.hancock@ageukcamden. org.uk or 020 7239 0447. 6pm – 8pm
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Invitation for ‘Walking & Herstory’ Contributors We invite contributors to lead the monthly women’s group ‘Walking & Herstory’. In winter we try to find indoor events or galleries of interest. In summer we try to find places where people who want to walk, amble or stroll may do so. We go to places that have free admission. We try to include a sociable strand to each walk so try to find a nice café at some point on the walk. We would welcome much more members’ participation in finding things of interest, and organising that particular outing. Please contact Kate by email Kate.Hancock@ageukcamden. org.uk Women’s Walking & Herstory LGBT history month: Sutton House, 2-4 Homerton High StreetHackney, London E9 6JQ This marks the first time for Hackney’s Sutton House to celebrate LGBT History Month, a grass roots initiative which has celebrated the role of LGBT communities in history for the past fourteen years.The installation, called MasterMistress: Passion, Desire and Ambiguities in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, takes place in the house’s Tudor rooms and features four speakers cunningly masked by artist
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Judith Brocklehurst. People, who identify as LGBT, read the contemporary readings of Shakespeare’s 17th century Fair Youth Sonnets.The installation aims to question desire and ambiguities of gender and identities. If you require further details check with Kate (Kate.Hancock@ageukcamden. org.uk) Meet at the foot of the ramp at Hackney Central Station at 11am (from there it is approx. 9 minutes’ walk to Sutton House) Intergenerational Feminist Reading Group: Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA. An informal space for discussion of feminist ideas & texts. Chaired by Elsa Richardson, an historian based in Queen Mary’s Centre for the History of Emotions, with the aim of encouraging a dialogue between different generations of feminist thinkers, activists and supporters. Tonight’s focus will be a discussion of the texts we’ll look at over the coming months. 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Contact Kate for more information 020 7239 0447 or kate.hancock@ageukcamden. org.uk Wednesday 18th Anchor Housing/ ODL Mixed Art Group: Chigwell Court, 99 Balance Road E9 5SQ The art group will be held in the communal room. Basic Page 3
Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. materials will be provided for the informal drop-in session. Volunteer artists on hand. Contact Kate for more details kate.hancock@ageukcamden. org.uk or 020 7239 0447 2:00 - 4:00pm Mixed ODL Ealing/West London Social and Support Group: VENUE: Ground Floor, Lido Centre. 63 Mattock Lane, West Ealing, W13 9LA. www.lidocentre.org.uk Stations: Ealing Broadway, Northfields, West Ealing: 5 to 15 mins walk. Buses E2, E3, 207, 83, 427, E7, E8. All welcome. ‘The String – A Scorching Romance’ Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate. Meetings take place every third Wednesday of the month at 2:30PM at the Lido Centre. All welcome. Refreshments served. For more information call 020 7239 0400. Opening Doors London in partnership with Age UK Ealing & Ealing CVS. [PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME] 12.30pm to 2.30pm ODL Quarterly Group Meeting: Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Sq, WC1H 9NA. Open to all interested in contributing to the ODL Quarterly Newsletter. Contact: 020 7239 0400 or e-mail odl.quarterly@ageukcamden.o
rg.uk 6:00pm – 8:00pm Men’s Group Pub Social: Upstairs at The Black Cap, Camden High St. Snacks courtesy of George and staff at the Black Cap. Volunteer led. 7pm – late Thursday 19th “Rainbow Surfers” older LGBT computer drop in: See Thursday 5th for more details. Every Thursday 10am – 1pm LGBT Death Café: Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9NA. Nigel Dodds from Saint Joseph’s Hospice will facilitate the group. Gather over tea and cake to talk about death and dying in an informal and relaxed environment. For further information contact n.dodds@stjh.org.uk or phone Kate 020 7239 0447 4.30pm – 6pm Friday 20th Mixed Friday coffee & cake club: Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Sq, WC1H 9NA. Please note this is a peer led social group. Hot drinks can be purchased in the café. Please feel free to bring your own cakes. Every Friday 10am – 12 noon Sunday 22nd Sunday Lunch & Film Club: Henderson Court Resource Centre, 102 Fitzjohn’s Ave, NW3 6NS (entrance on Prince Arthur Road).
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This month’s film is Now Voyager: Boston heiress Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is a neurotic mess, largely because of her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper). But after a stint in a sanatorium where she receives the attention of Dr. Jasquith (Claude Rains), Charlotte comes out of her shell and elects to go on a cruise. Aboard ship she meets Jerry (Paul Henreid) and falls in love, despite his being married. They enjoy a brief tryst in Rio before returning to the States, where Charlotte struggles to forget him and find happiness. Lunch available for £4, this month’s lunch will be lamb chops and veg, or a vegetarian or fish option: please advise when booking. Booking for lunch essential, please call Chrissy on 020 7239 0400, 07585 741856 before Friday the 20th. From 12: noon (lunch at 12:30 – 1.00). Film at 2:00pm Women’s Social Group - Music Quiz - Chelsea Theatre, 7 World's End Place, Kings Road, SW10 0DR. Meet for brunch at 12pm at the Mona Lisa Cafe, 417 King’s Road, SW10 0LR, and/or come to Chelsea Theatre at 1pm for a Music Quiz. Test your musical knowledge, sing along and have a giggle at our ODL Women's music quiz. No need to book, just turn up. For more information contact Fiona: fiona.addison@ageukcamden. org.uk or call 07435 356 951
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Opening Doors London: full listings and activities. 12/1pm-3:30pm Tuesday 24
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Men’s Film Night: Henderson Court Resource Centre, 102 Fitzjohn’s Ave, NW3 6NS. (entrance on Prince Arthur Road). Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) “Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.” Director: Richard Brooks. Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman. For information please call 020 7239 0400 6:00pm to 9:00pm (film at 7pm) Thursday 26th “Rainbow Surfers” older LGBT computer drop in: See Thursday 5th for more details. Every Thursday 10am – 1pm Women’s Film Night: G24 Common Room, Foster Court, Malet Place. Come into UCL from the entrance opposite Waterstone's 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. The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (2009) Fun, disarming and musically
provocative, the Topp Twins are New Zealand's finest lesbian country and western singers and the country's greatest export since rack of lamb and the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. Director: Leanne Pooley. Stars: Jools Topp, Paul Horan, Jean Topp. 5:30pm – 9:00 pm. (Film 7pm). Contact Kate: kate.hancock@ageukcamden. org.uk or 020 7239 0447
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Friday 27th Mixed Friday coffee & cake club: Tavis House, 1-6 Tavistock Sq, WC1H 9NA. Please note this is a peer led social group. Hot drinks can be purchased in the café. Please feel free to bring your own cakes. Every Friday 10am – 12 noon Saturday 28th Mixed Coffee Evening. Mike will be hosting coffee evening. Meeting at Tufnell Park Tube station at 7.45 p.m. Please remember to bring cakes with you. Phone 07581 647 344 for more details. 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Mixed Islington Older LGBT Drop In: London Friend, 86 Caledonian Rd, N1 9DN. Happy Birthday to Opening Doors and London Friend’s drop in group! On the 1st birthday of the group we’ll be providing cake and nibbles to celebrate the partnership. We’ll also have some board games out for those who want to give them a go. So come along and meet friends for a coffee, chat and optional board games! 2:00pm – 4:00pm
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