Thanks to support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Newington Green Meeting House has undergone a major renovation. It has been transformed into a fully accessible, free heritage space, ready to share its radical history and encourage visitors to think differently.
The building was a hotbed of revolutionary thinking in the 18th century and holds stories of Richard Price, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Andrew Pritchard and most notably Mary Wollstonecraft – leading to it being described as the birthplace of feminism.
DRAG SUPERSTAR CRYSTAL (RuPaul's Drag Race UK Season 1) hosts a night celebrating the drag stories and legacy of the GAY LIBERATION FRONT with STUART FEATHER (once arrested in full Mary Whitehouse drag in 1971) and Living Legend LAVINIA CO-OP of radical drag theatre troupe BLOOLIPS.
The GLF harnessed the power and politics of drag in their actions and campaigns, most notoriously against Mary Whitehouse's Festival of Light (feat. Cliff Richard) in 1971. After the heyday of the GLF, activist and performer Bette Bourne formed the radical drag theatre troupe BLOOLIPS, featuring, among others Lavinia Co-op and Gretal Feather, who toured Britain, Europe and America.
An evening to explore the potential drag has to bring about social change and make people sit up and notice, based on the incredible stories of the GLF and Bloolips.
An event as part of the GLF AT 50; THE ART OF PROTEST exhibition at Newington Green Meeting House in 2021
20 Nov 2021
Lady Mary Abney by Richard Crawford
Blog reading by Rose Heatley at Newington Green Meeting House. Recorded and Edited by Lydia Boffey and Steven Morrison
https://www.ngmh.org.uk/blog/lady-mary-abney
20 Nov 2021
Sculpture controversy by Jade Isaacs
Blog reading by Rose Heatley at Newington Green Meeting House. Recorded and Edited by Lydia Boffey and Steven Morrison
https://www.ngmh.org.uk/blog/what-does-the-controversy-around-a-sculpture-for-mary-wollstonecraft-tell-us-about-mary-wollstonecrafts-intellectual-legacy
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