QUEERCIRCLE is a LGBTQIA+ led charity working at the intersection of arts, health and social action.

A 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.

This 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.

Bare 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.