Events

Upcoming Events

Wed, 9 Sep, 7pm - 9pm BST at Kemptown Books, 91 St George's Rd Brighton, United Kingdom

INFORMATION AND BOOKING LINK HERE

Join us for an evening where we will be weaving queer perspectives and histories with three authors, all exploring the threads between queerness and creativity in different ways and the power of documenting and archiving queer lives through the arts: embroidery, fashion and gardening.

Eleanor Medhurst is a historian of queer fashion and culture and author of the blog Dressing...

Sep

Upcoming Event

QUEER HISTORY CLUB: Q is for Garden in conversation with Jenny Chamarette, The Bookish Type, Leeds, Wednesday 23 September, 7pm

Date: Wednesday 23rd September 2026

Time: 7-9pm

Venue: The Bookish Type, 77a Great George Street, LS1 3BR

INFORMATION AND TICKET BOOKING HERE

As part of Queer History Club we invite you to join Jenny Chamarette in discussing their new title Q is for Garden!

Q is for Garden is a bold, tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine - and what happens when we step beyond the binaries that fence us in.

When Jenny Chamarette faced a devastating health crisis, they found themselves unmoored from...

Oct

Upcoming Event

COAST IS QUEER FESTIVAL: Queer Nature, Radical Gardens in conversation with Jenny Chamarette, Zakiya McKenzie, Natasha Carthew and declan wiffen

Coast is Queer Literary Festival, 17 October 2026, 2pm Gardner Tower, Attenborough Arts Centre

INFORMATION AND TICKET BOOKING HERE

Join us for a deep dive into how queerness and nature entwine; the social, the botanical, and how the inheritance of colonial, patriarchal, hetero and cis-normative categorisations have coloured our understanding of natural and horticultural worlds as well as of human ones. What grows when we use writing to explore gardens, forests, mountains and more with...

Past Events

Aug

Past Event

A conversation and sunset ritual at Queer Bloomsbury, Charleston, near Lewes, East Sussex

**STOP PRESS** QUEER BLOOMSBURY 2026 AT CHARLESTON

INFORMATION AND TICKET BOOKING LINKS HERE

At the Queer Fayre (7pm-8pm), from 8-8:45pm, Jenny Chamarette will lead a gentle, drop in conversation around their book Q is for Garden: Tending the Histories of Queer Cultivation, reading and making space for a shared conversation about queer futures and radical gardening.

Then from 8:45pm, Jenny will create a sunset ritual for all, involving a procession around the site, followed by a silent...

July

Past Event

Daunt Books Notting Hill: An event with Jenny Chamarette in conversation with Diarmuid Hester: Q is for Garden

TICKET LINK HERE

We look forward to welcoming Queer author and radical gardener Jenny Chamarette to Notting Hill to discuss their book, Q is for Garden, a bold yet intimate exploration of queerness and gardening.

Jenny will be joined in conversation with queer cultural historian Dr Diarmuid Hester, author of Nothing Ever Just Disappears, for a conversation about hidden queer histories and queerness in relation to place – both urban and wild.

‘A generous and profoundly creative study of how all...

July

Past Event

Book Launch - Q is for Garden, Category Is Books, Glasgow

Join us for a reading and Q&A with visiting writer Jenny Chamarette to learn about a queer history of gardens! Friday 17 July 2026. 7pm. Tickets are free and available via Outsavvy: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/35298/book-launch-q-is-for-garden

Q is for garden combines queer history, personal narrative and a love of gardening. An eloquent work of nature writing and queer thought, Q is for Garden digs into the rich history of queer gardeners, botanists, artists and agriculturalists.

When...

July

Past Event

Q IS FOR GARDEN: ON NATURE'S RADICAL QUEERNESS, Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh

Join us in the garden of Lighthouse Books for an evening with Jenny Chamarette.

Online recording available here: https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/q-is-for-garden-jenny-chamarette-on-tending-the-histories-of-queer-cultivation

July

Past Event

Q IS FOR GARDEN LAUNCH // QUEER NATURE EXTRAVAGANZA

Kirkdale Books and Grow Mayow Community Garden proudly present:

Q is for Garden Queer Nature Extravaganza!

A celebration of queer nature, community and the launch of Q is for Garden, a new book tending the histories of queer cultivation by Jenny Chamarette.

* WITH SPECIAL GUESTS SO MAYER, MIRA MATTAR, ELLA PHILLIPS & DARRYL GADZEKPO AKA ELECTRIC FUTURE FOODS, AND DECLAN WIFFEN*

Join us for joyful evening of queer nature, storytelling, gardening, creativity, performance and community in the...