Special Events
One-off events, festivals and heritage days.
LGBT+ History Month 2026
Explore the FREE events and exhibitions at Bruce Castle Museum & Archive this February to mark LGBT+ History Month.
Events
Meet the Artist: Upcycling with House of Frisson
- Saturday 14 February, 10.30am
Free, all welcome. Booking essential.
Participants must bring their own ceramic plate/bowl/dish to upcycle. All other materials provided.
Join artist Luciano Rocha for a hands‑on upcycling session inspired by his exhibition House of Frisson: Elevating the Misfit. Participants are invited to bring their own ceramic plate to transform using collage, colour, and imagery drawn from Bruce Castle Museum’s LGBTQ+ archive and Luciano’s distinctive visual language.
In this relaxed, creative session, participants will experiment with Luciano’s collage techniques to create something personal and meaningful, using historic LGBTQ+ images as inspiration. All attendees will take home their finished creations at the end of the session.
Celebrating reinvention, queer history, and the beauty of the overlooked, this session invites everyone to see ordinary objects as vessels for storytelling and transformation.
Please book your free ticket for this workshop via Eventbrite.
For any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk
Hidden Pride: Guided Tour Through Tottenham's 400 years of LGBTQ+ Heritage
- Sunday 22 February, 11am to 1pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Let our guide Deborah Hedgecock, Curator of Bruce Castle Museum, lead you on a guided walking tour from Tottenham Green to Bruce Castle Museum & Archive. Walking along and near Tottenham High Road, explore buildings and places that uncover hidden histories and reveal fascinating new research and inspiring stories of Haringey's LGBTQ+ heritage from the past four centuries.
Booking is essential. Please book your place via Eventbrite.
Meet: 10.45am for 11am start, outside Tottenham Town Hall, Town Hall Approach N15 4RY.
Please wear sensible footwear and dress for the weather.
Organised by Bruce Castle Museum & Archive, with Haringey Culture Team. For any enquiries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk
Badge-Making Workshop!
- Saturday 28 February, 10.30am
Free, all welcome. Booking essential. All materials provided.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of Haringey Lesbian and Gay Unit (LAGU).
Head over to Bruce Castle Museum & Archive to make your own badge and learn about our radical queer heritage using material from Haringey’s LGBTQ+ archives.
2026 marks 40 years since the founding of the groundbreaking Haringey Lesbian and Gay Unit in 1986, and this workshop will provide the opportunity to explore archival material related to this important part of our local history.
All attendees will take home their finished creations at the end of the session.
Please book your free ticket for this workshop via Eventbrite.
Any queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk
Exhibitions
House of Frisson: Elevating the Misfit (Temporary Exhibition)
- Wednesday 4 February to Sunday 15 February
Luciano Rocha is the artist behind House of Frisson; a creative practice rooted in reinvention and the transformative power of the overlooked. Working primarily with discarded ceramics, he turns forgotten domestic objects into striking works of sustainable art, using bold colour, layered imagery, and playful subversion to challenge traditional ideas of artistic value.
At its core, House of Frisson is built on a radical yet simple belief: it is okay not to fit in. Through upcycling, social commentary, and experimental collage, Luciano celebrates imperfection, reinvention, and the creative freedom that comes from refusing conformity. His work critiques excess, explores identity, and opens conversations around sustainability and social responsibility.
By repurposing materials deemed worthless—rescued from the streets, donated by the community, or sourced from local charity shops—Luciano confronts cultural ideas around disposability, transforming everyday relics into symbols of resilience, humour, and queer defiance.
Alongside his studio practice, Luciano leads community workshops that invite participants to see discarded materials as raw potential. For him, House of Frisson is more than an art project: it is an ongoing movement that elevates the misfit, reclaims the unwanted, and turns the ordinary into something captivating.
Taking Pride in Haringey (Permanent Display)
- Wednesdays to Sundays, 1pm to 5pm
Discover the long, proud and radical LGBTQIA+ history of Haringey.
Located in the Hart Gallery: named after Marmaduke Hart, butler at Bruce Castle in the early 18th century. In 1730 Hart was tried and convicted for homosexuality at Hicks Hall in Clerkenwell.