July

Queer Perspectives
Gallery tour MH
Thursday 2, 19.00–20.00

Artist Sadie Lee and a photographic artist and a special guest offer their personal response to portraits in the Collection on this regular, hugely popular Thursday night Gallery tour.
Free - ticket required as spaces limited. Tickets available on day from 17.00.

George Always: Portraits of George Melly
Lecture
Thursday 9, 13.15–14.00

'George often makes a grand appearance in my dreams. I still hear him laugh, tell jokes and sing. From wherever he may be...' Maggi Hambling and George Melly were the closest of friends and this talk by the artist Maggi Hambling explores their friendship and her art.
Free

I Shot Andy Warhol and Bird la Bird
Film and performance
Sunday 12, 15.00–17.00

Both lesbian icon and an iconoclastic feminist voice, Valerie Solanas refused to be silenced and sidelined by Warhol’s factory machine. She also shot the man. Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol is a stylish account of Valerie’s life and the birth of SCUM (Society for the Cutting Up of Men) and provides a unique insight into Warhol’s New York. Prior to the screening, Queer performer Bird la Bird from London’s Bird Club will reinterpret the SCUM manifesto with 'Up Your Art' - a new manifesto for a new century.
Dir. Mary Harron, USA/UK 1996, 106mins Cert 18
Tickets: £5/£4 concessions

Quentin Crisp: The Transformation of Denis Pratt
Lecture
Thursday 16, 13.15–14.00

Writer and broadcaster Paul Bailey knew Quentin Crisp for 30 years. This talk explores Quentin's surprising rise to fame and his dramatic change of character in his final years.
Free

An evening with Sandi and Richard...
Talk and performance
Thursday 23, 19.00–20.00

Spend an evening in the company of Sandi Toksvig in conversation with Professor Richard Dyer as they discuss gay icons in this talk, performance and visual event ranging from the personal to the political.

Sandi Toksvig and Richard Dyer will be signing copies of the Gay Icons exhibition catalogue after the event, from 20.00-20.30
Tickets: £10/£8.50 concessions

Under the Skin
Performance
Sunday 26, 15.00–16.30

Beneath all the ordinariness and that fatal touch of glamour of sainthood and sin lies a visceral need: something under the skin. A performance event bringing together for the first time renowned queer artists whose work delves into the world of iconography through theatre, performance and body art: fragments from their work, iconic moments that together reveal the pulse, breath, blood and the desire to know, escape and belong. Join Neil Bartlett, Dominic Johnson, Bette Bourne and David Hoyle in a series of iconic resurrections alongside film clips, readings and a violin.
Cert 18
Tickets: £8/£6 concessions

Beyond the Gallery

The Killing of Sister George and Club des Femmes
Sunday 5 July
Screening of dykesploitation classic The Killing of Sister George at the Curzon Soho. Club des Femmes and special guests share memories of the iconic Gateways venue featured in the film. www.curzoncinemas.com