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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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Community Knowledge Day
Sat 24 October 13:00-18:00RSVPJoin us for our second open day this season, ‘Queer Knowledge Day’ on Saturday 24 October. We'll start with an afternoon of tea, cake and queer knowledge sharing, facilitated by radical educator and artist Jacob V. Joyce. Bring a favourite book or zine that reflects your lived queer experience to share. Our Transgenerations group returns with Tomara Garrod and Lu Wilson, the first of six monthly workshops bringing trans people together across generations through art, games and conversation (individual booking required). Learning organisation Makan will introduce their ‘Educators for Liberation’ programme with a creative political education workshop, and Bird School close the day with their zine and a collective sound-making finale.
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QUEERCIRCLE x Arts SU Every Possible World
4pm-6pm Every Tuesday evening in October (6th, 13th, 20th and 27th)BookA series of workshops on facilitation and community building for Black Queer Students. As part of Arts SU's Black History Month onn campus at UAL London College of Communication. ONLY FOR UAL STUDENTS.
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Transgenerations connect with Tomara Garrod and Lu Wilson
Workshops are held on 24 Oct · 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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Naming Ourselves: A reflective circle with Chloe Filani
Sunday 25 Oct | 15:00-18:00Book HereThis event is in response to this years Black History Month theme, Honouring Our Communities, which invites us to recognise the communities that shape, Britain and reflects the fact that Black history is not only made through landmark events or by famous names. Join us with London-based Black trans artist, poet and pillar of London's queer creative scene, Chloe Filani for a reflective circle drawing on oríkì and Yorùbá traditions of naming and honouring people across generations. Through discussion, writing and shared creative practice, we’ll reflect on the names given to us, the names we choose and how we want to be known. With attention to queerness and transness, we’ll explore naming as a way of recognising ourselves and one another, connecting with ancestors and deciding what we want to pass on. No previous writing experience is needed. This is a Black-only space, welcoming Black people across heritages, genders and sexualities.
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Carnival as Resistance and Resilience: A Workshop with Indira
Thurs 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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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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