LEAD ME INTO TEMPTATION, PLEASE: LGBT SUMMER FAIR

Celebrate queer history with superstar David Hoyle and Rupaul's Drag Race UK's Black Peppa! Enjoy market stalls, performances, film screenings, a cafe, a bar, a DJ, workshops, and an exhibition.

Humanists UK and Conway Hall are excited to announce the flagship event of Humanist Heritage: Doers, Dreamers, Place Makers, made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Lead Me Into Temptation, Please: LGBT Summer Fair is a hub of creativity, embracing freedom of expression beyond the oppressive tendencies of some religious contexts. The historic spaces of Conway Hall will be transformed with market stalls, performances, film screenings, a cafe, a bar, a DJ, and workshops, as well as an exhibition of archival materials and contemporary art. Highlights include cabaret superstar David Hoyle and Rupaul’s Drag Race UK’s Black Peppa.

Inspired by LGBT Humanists (who were founded in response to government censorship of the ‘blasphemous’ Gay News in the 1970s), this fair invites us all to reflect on religiously-motivated discrimination and to express ourselves despite it. Rather than the prayer, ‘lead us not into temptation’, we say Lead Me Into Temptation, Please!

Lineup: Black Peppa, David Hoyle, Beth Watson, Carrot, Claire Mead, CN Lester, EM Parry, Housmans Bookshop, London Humanist Choir, Mahatma Khandi & the Khandi Shop, Orlando, Prinx Silver, River Manning, Rachael Field, Saintmaking: The Canonisation of Derek Jarman by Queer ‘Nuns’, SL Grange, Theophina Gabriel, Tomara Garrod, and more!

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Line Up

12:00 - Cafe, Exhibition, Stalls and DJ booth open 12:30 - Poetry workshop and t-shirt printing workshop 14:30 - Zine workshop 15:30 - Writing workshop 17:30 - Stalls and Cafe close, and Bar opens 18:30 - Exhibition closes, and Carrot introduces performances 18:40 - Orlando 18:45 - CN Lester 19:00 - Mahatma Khandi & the Khandi Shop 19:35 - INTERVAL 20:00 - Orlando 20:05 - Theophina Gabriel 20:15 - Black Peppa 20:35 - London Humanist Choir 20:55 - Carrot closes the evening of performances.

Target Audience Groups

18+

Due to the age and Grade II listing of the building, there is no lift access to rooms above the ground floor.

All the ground-floor rooms are fully accessible by wheelchair. Main Hall (street access, step-free), Brockway Room (street access, step-free), Bertrand Russell Room (street access, shallow ramp), Hive Cafe (street access, step-free), There is also an accessible toilet on the ground floor opposite the Brockway Room.

All activities apart from one workshop will occur on the accessible ground floor.