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United Kingdom·18 February 2023

Brown Suga - LGBTQ+ History Month Party

Celebrate LGBTQ+ History month with a night packed with Voguing , Queer Black & POC History, Queer Rave Sound System & Lip-Sync TakeOver

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Overview

BROWN SUGA // LGBTQ+ History Month Party 🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Powered by Moonlight Experiences X Queer Rave X Glass House London Date: Saturday 18th February Time: 7:30 pm-2 am Evening schedule Doors open at 7 pm 💙 7 pm- 9 pm | Voguing Workshop w/ Bronze West - (Downstairs) **SOLD-OUT** 💙 7 pm -8 pm | MIXER -Come by solo to meet other people (Bar) 💙 8 pm -8:45 pm | Queer Black & POC History Panel Discussion (The Common Press bookshop) 💙 9 pm - 2 am | Upstairs DJs (Bar) 💙 10:00 pm-midnight pm | Open decks DJ with Queer Sound System (Downstairs ) 💙 11:00 pm-midnight | Lip-Sync Take Over & performances (Bar) 💙 Midnight - 2 am | Queer Rave Sound System (Downstairs) 🔥DJs: Xilhu, DJ Mimi, Princess Trium + Open decks ⭐️Special guest performance: Jamie Fuxx 🎤Speakers: Yvonne Taylor (Activist), Thelma Ndaula (Say It Loud Club), Cyndi Handson, and Veronica McKenzie. Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month through different forms of art, music, and activism that shaped queer culture!! From the Ballroom Vogue scene to pioneers, creatives, and DJs who created spaces for queer nightlife during the 1980s to the present. Get insights on Black & Queer History from some of London's activists, asylum Seekers, and Refugees. Party over two dance floors with Queer Rave Sound System and talented DJs. Come and indulge in a good vibes-only environment where we can celebrate ourselves authentically. A space dedicated to our QTIPOC, queer women, non-binary, trans folx + friends. Grab some friends to join for the night or join our mixer to meet some new people if you are coming solo. However you want to enjoy the night, there will be great music, cocktails, non-alcoholic drinks, and queer books in a quieter hangout zone. 🔥Non-stop R&B, Hip-Hop, Afrobeats, Afro-Latin, Dancehall & Soca X Sound System🔥 💡*The Common Press and Common Counter are fully accessible. Downstairs- The Commons is sadly not wheelchair accessible*

Highlights

Moonlight Experiences Team

Moonlight Experiences Team

The night will be hosted by Moonlight Experiences founder Aisha Shaibu-Lenoir and the wonderful team who will be looking after you for the evening. LipSync with our host: PLUTO

XīLHU

XīLHU

Queer Rave Sound System from midnight - 2am (Downstairs). XīLHU Queer Rave Soundsystem founder, builder, sound engineer, DJ and Activist. Queer Rave has made history as being the first BLACK/POC-LED Jungle/DNB Sound-system in the UK, diversifying the sound-system and rave scene. XĪLHU alchemizes pan-cultural ancestral powers, redefining revolution, destroying boundaries between genres with influence from decolonial protests to create unified space blending wisdom from the NÜ and ỌLD.

Yvonne Taylor

Yvonne Taylor

Black & Queer History discussion speaker at 8pm - 8:45pm, bookshop. Yvonne Taylor was a co-founder of Sistermatic - a queer women’s community and club night in Brixton, London from 1986-1995.

Jamie Fuxx

Jamie Fuxx

10:30pm - 11:30pm (Bar) Performance by heart throb Drag King Jamie Fuxx.

Cyndi Handson

Cyndi Handson

Black & Queer History discussion Ally speaker at 8pm - 8:45pm, bookshop. Cyndi Handson is a multipotentialite experienced across a variety of creative arenas that all fall into the pursuance of amplifying and celebrating Black arts and culture in the capital.

Princess Trium

Princess Trium

International DJ and creative in the London scene and founder of Hunnisuckle Events.

Veronica Mckenzie

Veronica Mckenzie

Veronica started her career as a writer. She has been shortlisted for the Disney ABC Writing Fellowship Program, and Veronica co-produced 'THE LAST SUPPER' (2011). She is also the founder of Reel Brit Productions. FINDING HOME (2014) and feature documentary ‘UNDER YOUR NOSE’ (2017) were produced including ‘NINE NIGHTS‘ starring T’Nia Miller and Jo Martin. It won the Pan African Film Festival Narrative Feature Director Award 2019, and is on Amazon and Apple TV.

DJ Mimi

DJ Mimi

International multi-genre DJ . Mimi's Mauritian, African and South Asian background influences her work to create incredible mixes.

Say It Loud Club- Thelma Ndaula

Say It Loud Club- Thelma Ndaula

Thelma is the Ambassador Manager for Say It Loud Club and Former Asylum Seeker who shares her experiences of queer Britain. Say it Loud Club provides social, emotional, educational and advocacy support for LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.

Voguing Workshop with Bronze West

Voguing Workshop with Bronze West

Join Bronze West from 7pm-9pm to learn some old skool voguing. Tickets sold separately.

Bookshop / hangout zone

Bookshop / hangout zone

Head into the intersectional bookshop 'The Common Press' for some space to hangout. It's a non-alcoholic space filled with queer books. *All books purchased can be held until the end of the night*

Lip-Sync TakeOver

Lip-Sync TakeOver

10:30pm - 11:30pm (Bar). Hop on stage and lip-sync your heart out to old skool R&B and Hip Hop songs.

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FAQs

We are making space for  QTIPOC, queer women, non-binary and trans folks. Allies and friends are welcome. 

Tickets on the door will be limited. 


The event will be at Common Counter at Glass House. Located at the corner of Bricklane on Bethnal Green Road side. Check-in through the bar entrance. 

Address: 118 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 6DG

Yes, the cloakroom is available at the venue for £2.

Yes, the bookshop will be selling books all night! You can also leave your books with us until the party ends.

Yes, we will be having a mixer from 8pm, join our friendly hosts and meet some people. 

No one will be turned away due to a lack of funds. 

Email: info@moonlightexperiences.com

The bar and bookshop are fully wheelchair accessible. Unfortunately, the downstairs space isn't wheelchair accessible.

12:30 am is the last entry! You risk not getting in if you arrive later. Come early.

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Keep our staff and guests safe.e 



Brown Suga - LGBTQ+ History Month Party

United Kingdom· 18 February 2023· 7 hours

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