August

Screened Memories with Jeffrey Hinton
Performance MH
Friday 7, 18.30–20.00

London DJ Jeffrey Hinton screens his unseen footage of 1980s and 90s London queer subculture featuring the likes of Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, John Maybury and club nights Kinky Gerlinky and Taboo to a soundtrack of original music produced for these events, and underground anthems.
Free

Icon-i-coustic: Beverley Knight
Performance
Friday 7, 19.00–20.00

Prior to the release of her new album, British queen of soul – Beverley Knight, brings her iconic voice for an intimate, acoustic performance. Widely hailed as Britain’s greatest soul singer, she is best known for her singles Greatest Day, Get Up and Shoulda Woulda Coulda and is a winner of three MOBO awards. She is also an active campaigner against homophobic lyrics in urban music and for The Terrence Higgins Trust and Stop AIDS campaign. Her live performances are always an iconic experience to savor.
Tickets: £20/£15 concessions

Fade to Black
Film and talk
Sunday 9, 15.00–17.15

Campbell X, writer, curator, critic and filmmaker goes boldly in search of invisible Black, Asian and minority female icons with biographer Andrea Stuart, filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and singer Maria Rosa Young. This song, visual and talk event is followed by a screening of Cheryl Dunye’s Watermelon Woman in which a young LA dyke, played by Dunye, goes off in search of a fictionalised old Hollywood Black film star.
Dir. Cheryl Dunye, USA 1997, 90mins, PG
Tickets: £5/£4 concessions

F to Elvis
Film and performance
Thursday 13, 18.30–20.30

When trans female to males take the plunge to transition and butch lesbians look for role models who are the icons they desire to become? In this celebration of female to male masculinity, performer, comic and curator Jason Barker immerses us in the world of F to Elvis with words, song and performance followed by a screening of Jail House Rock. Come dressed as Elvis or your own male icon.
Dir. Richard Thorpe, USA 1957, 97mins.
In association with DIVA Magazine
Tickets: £5/£4 concessions (incl. £2 off entry to Bird Club)

Icon-i-coustic: Patrick Wolf
Performance
Thursday 27, 19.00–20.30

Innovative, radical, creative and spirited, the young, talented and brilliant Patrick Wolf plays an intimate unique acoustic gig. Patrick has four albums to draw on for this gig and has always worked with iconic musical material, drawing inspiration from Kate Bush, Marianne Faithful and Tilda Swinton. A member of queer experimental art music outfit Minty from the tender age of 14, come and see an icon in the making.
SOLD OUT