Community Spotlight: QUEERCIRCLE
QUEERCIRCLE is an LGBTQIA+ arts and social action charity on Greenwich Peninsula, with a community library, workshops and a young people's programme.
QUEERCIRCLE is an LGBTQIA+ arts and social action charity with a permanent home in the Design District on Greenwich Peninsula. It was founded in 2016 as a community response to the loss of 58% of London's queer spaces, because when those spaces close, communities lose relationships, memory, networks of care and creativity along with the buildings.
Its building on Soames Walk holds a gallery, a project space and the Queer Community Library, a drop-in space for queer books, zines and publications, with tables to work at and sofas to settle into. The library is open Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 6pm, and the collection grows through community donations.
Alongside exhibitions, QUEERCIRCLE runs workshops, talks, screenings, a young people's programme and support for grassroots groups. The gallery and library are step-free, with accessible toilets for all genders on every floor.
You can support it by visiting, donating books to the library or giving to its community fundraising campaign.
Coming up:
Saturday 7 November, 2pm to 5pm: Library For the Future, a young people's workshop with artist Tasnim Mahdy
Saturday 21 November, 12pm to 4pm: Away From Watchful Eyes, an open day curated by the Young Artists cohort
21 November, 19 December and 23 January, 3pm to 5pm: Transgenerations workshops, bringing trans people of different generations together
Find out more
Our listing: QUEERCIRCLE
QUEERCIRCLE: queercircle.org
What's on: queercircle.org/whats-on
Support: queercircle.org/support
Community Spotlight
Support QUEERCIRCLE
Find out how to volunteer, donate or visit on their own website, and see opening times and contact details on our listing.
Get the fortnightly local newsletter
New local stories, what's on and places worth knowing about in Blackheath & Greenwich, in your inbox every other week. Unsubscribe any time.
