Kingston LGBTQ+ Forum

This is the inaugural meeting of Kingston LGBT+ Forum’s Queer Crochet Group. All Knitters, Embroiders, Quilters, Sewists and associated crafters are welcome. We aim to be an inclusive bunch.
Bring a current project along to the far end of John Lewis cafe to share tips, tricks and socialise with like minded crafters for a couple of hours on a Thursday afternoon.

Beginners welcome, but please be advised that this is a meet up not a teaching class.

If you are totally new to crochet the host recommends a great video introduction which can be found at TL Yarn Craft

Join us at The Grove in Surbiton for their Sunday night pub quiz. Look out for Lisa and Lewis.

The quiz starts at 19:30 and is £2 per person to enter, payable to the quiz master.

This is a fun general knowledge quiz so anyone can take part.

Teams of up to 6 people are put together on the night depending on how many people attend.

The Grove also serve food during the quiz so you can have dinner there too.

Address: 9 Grove Road, Surbiton KT6 4BX

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QUEER FICTION BOOK CLUB!

Our next read will be ‘The Death of Vivek Oji: Akwaeke Emezi ‘

Synopsis:

Book Description

The astonishing new novel from the author of Freshwater - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize

Vivek Oji: utterly captivating, complex, mercurial and profoundly connected to those who come to understand him. This novel unpicks Vivek's tale. It begins with his end, his body shrouded on his mother's doorstep, and moves backwards through time to tell us the story of Vivek's life and the mystery surrounding his death. Many will see The Death of Vivek Oji as a departure from Freshwater in that this is a deeply accessible novel suffused with family life and a tragedy sits squarely at its heart, but it speaks to Akwaeke's earlier work in its call to gender fluidity and the pain of adolescence lived beyond binary constructions of sexuality. As compulsively readable as it is tender and potent, this is a fresh, engaging novel about the innocence of youth and how it clashes with culture and expectation. THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI tells the story of a Nigerian childhood quite different from the one we might expect - Akwaeke's writing speaks to the truth of realities other than those that have already been seen.

About the Author

Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the memoir Dear Senthuran; New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; and Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, longlisted for both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.

Purchase the book here:

See you on Zoom for our virtual pub quiz. There will be general knowledge questions, picture rounds, music rounds, mystery voices, and spot questions. No prizes, it's just for fun.

You must have a working microphone to take part.

If you would like to join, please be ready by 8pm. Once the quiz is started, the room will be locked and you may not be allowed in.