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Queer Community Library
OPEN TUES - FRI | 11AM - 6PMVisitThe Queer Community Library — a space dedicated to preserving, sharing and creating queer knowledge in all its forms. Throughout autumn and winter, the library will be open as a warm, welcoming space to gather, read, listen, share and connect with others.
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Away From Watchful Eyes: Young Artist Cohort Open Day
Saturday 21 November | 12:00-16:00RSVP FreeJoin us for Away from Watchful Eyes, the third Queer Community Library open day. Curated and led by our Young Artists cohort after a six-month programme with us, the day brings together art installations, creative workshops, a shared lunch and much more. Made by young people, for young people, and open to everyone. Drop in for a bit or stay all day. Full details are coming soon, but you can register your attendance today.
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Carnival as Resistance and Resilience: A Workshop with Indira
Thursday 29 Oct | 18:00-21:00Book HereBare Radicals, in collaboration with Queercircle, presents a participatory workshop on what Carnival is, where it comes from, and how you show up to it. Led by Indira, a Saint Lucian poet and cultural producer with a background in anthropology. Her work is rooted in Caribbean language, identity and community. She is also founder of Twossaints, a Caribbean arts, culture and education platform. We'll trace Carnival from African migration and masquerade traditions, through the European influences that shaped it, to its life in the UK today, and look at how those threads connect. Along the way, we'll ask what Carnival means to you, how you show up to it, and how resistance and resilience live inside the costumes, the music and the movement.
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Library For the Future: Young People's Workshop with Tasnim Mahdy
Saturday 7 November | 14:00-17:00Book HereWhat else can a library hold besides books? Join artist Tasnim Mahdy to help imagine and build a shared library using recycled cardboard! We’ll take ideas from short readings, including some banned and challenged books, and think about the knowledge we carry in our bodies, from our ancestors, and within our communities. We’ll also consider what happens when stories are silenced. By building, collaging, and playing with colour and texture, we’ll find new ways to experience what we read and feel.
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Transgenerations connect with Tomara Garrod and Lu Wilson
Workshops are held on 21 Nov · 19 Dec · 23 Jan · 20 Feb · 20 Mar | 15:00-1700Book HereOur Transgenerations group returns for another series of six monthly workshops! Trans people need community now more than ever. Across these sessions, you’ll meet trans people across generations, build connections and learn from the differences in our experiences. Expect creative exercises, art, games and group discussions exploring trans time, community, culture, joy and rage, with plenty of space for playful connection. This is the first workshop of six. New and returning participants aged 18+ are warmly welcome.
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PAST
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Where we meet
An invitation to collectively imagine QUEERCIRCLE's future January - MarchViewGroups gathered to imagine QUEERCIRCLE's future, contributions woven by artist in residence Rachel Sale into a visual collection.
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Desire Lines
Counter mapping queer creative health 11 April - 14 JuneViewExplored queer creative health through experiments in radical mapping praxis, building on counter-mapping traditions.
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Fragments of a Queer Radical Mapping Praxis
Co-developed with River Újhadbor AprilViewA framework for radical mapping praxis, gathering examples and methods from different movements and struggles.
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The Queer Death Cafe is a community centred approach to death and dying for all LGBTQ+ people. Each month we hold space for people to come together to share and learn from each others experience in a way that aims to provide belonging and comfort to everyone there.
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Queer Youth Art Collective (QYAC) is the UK’s only national LGBT youth service working specifically in the arts. We provide a place for young LGBT people to breathe a little easier, share experiences, advice, resources and creativity. QYAC hosts free weekly workshops, run by queer artists. We co-curate exhibitions offer mentoring, social space and resources.
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United Queerdom is a vibrant and diverse community of LGBTQIA+ migrants from Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Northern and Central Asia, united in the UK by a shared vision of equal rights and strength in solidarity and mutual support.
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Bechdel Theatre supports, connects and amplifies people of marginalised genders in and through theatre and performance. We create and facilitate physical and digital spaces to increase visibility, build solidarity and re-imagine the possibilities of UK theatre.
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NAFS نَفْس is dedicated to celebrating and uplifting Queer SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) creatives. Founded in 2019, NAFS was born out of the need for authentic representation in creative industries. Through exhibitions, workshops, and cultural events, we create spaces for our community to connect, express, and advocate for change.
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Queerscapes is a community platform for queer and trans spatial practitioners and built environment professionals exploring the intersection of space, design, and lived experience through mutual aid, experimentation, and care.
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Trans Video Buffet is an anti-curational film night, built on the spirit of DIY and celebrating trans and video filmmakers of all genres and formats.
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WORD-BENDERS is a monthly poetry workshop centering the work of trans and queer poets of colour.
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Black Queers Connect (BQC) is a community-driven organisation creating safer, empowering spaces for Black LGBTQ+ people through events, Black Queer Connect Groups, and shared resources that centre us.
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NEUROMANCERS is a peer-led organisation providing autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care for and by the neurodivergent+ community.
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The Amniotic Archives is a trans-led initiative dedicated to documenting and preserving queer, trans and intersex experiences of pregnancy through art.
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Machina Kollektiv is a South London based interdisciplinary DIY dyke art collective focused on organising politically engaged projects within the arts.
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Queer Diary creates performances, events & creative workshops for LGBTQIA+ people to explore & share their coming-of-age experiences.
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Touch Grass curates gentle, joyful, nature-based gatherings that centre community, creativity and care.
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LGSMigrants is a queer activist group that, through fundraising and direct action, stand in solidarity with all migrants and refugees.
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Black Trans + Queer Homes London is a space for us by us to find housing together + share rooms going.
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African Queer & Creative is dedicated to empowering and uplifting queer Africans in the diaspora through the transformative power of creativity.
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