Community News Bear Patrol raise £21,929.46 for Sussex Beacon in 2016 The Mayor of Brighton & Hove attended the Bear-Patrol Bacon and Sarnie social at the Sussex Beacon last month. Between bacon butties Simon Dowe announced that Bear Patrol events in 2016 had raised £21,929.46 for the Sussex Beacon and £6,763.16 for other organisations making the grand total raised fo By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Performers rally to Celebrate and support the Sussex Beacon Tickets are now on sale at Prowler and Nice ‘n’ Naughty in St James Street for the opening gala night to benefit the Sussex Beacon who are in danger of closing in June due to NHS cutbacks. By Besi • 2 min read
Features & Longread Run for your favourite charity at the ‘Go Dad Run’ on June 25 On Sunday June 25, 2017 an exciting, fun and eye-catching new charity 10K and 5K event for men will take place in Hove Park. Three-time world champion athlete Colin Jackson will be bringing his men’s health project, the Sanlam Go Dad Run, to Brighton & Hove for the first time. By Besi • 3 min read
Community News B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL: LGBT History Month: ‘The Big Community Lunch’ Lunch Positive, the charity that provides a weekly HIV Lunch Club will be staging a ‘Big Community Lunch’ during LGBT+ History month on Friday February 17 in the Phil Starr Pavilion on New Steine Gardens. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Tickets for B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL events go on sale in St James Street Tickets for events during the B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL, part of LGBT+ History Month are now on sale in St James Street venues, in the heart of the gay village. By Besi • 1 min read
Community News B RIGHT ON: LGBT History Month: HIV charity to serve community meal during HIV History Day As part of LGBT History Month in February, local HIV community groups and organisations will stage an HIV History Day on February 10 in the Phil Starr Pavilion on New Steine Gardens. By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Campaigners protest two year closure of Joiners Arms today A demonstration will be held outside the Joiners Arms Hackney Road today, January 21. The demo starts at 1.30pm and is being held to mark the two-year anniversary of the legendary LGBT+ venue’s closure. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Oska Bright adds LGBT+ strand for 2017 festival Oska Bright Film Festival, the leading international festival of films made by or featuring people with a learning disability adds an LGBTQ+ strand to its programme for the 2017 festival. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Latest TV launch new LGBT+ TV channel Latest TV, the UK-based TV channel continues their equalities and diversity mission with the creation of the UK’s first ever LGBT+ TV terrestrial channel! Broadcasting from February 2017, Latest LGBT+ TV will bring the best in LGBT news and entertainment to viewers’ TV screens on Freeview Channel 7 By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: A LADD IN – The Alternative Panto The Alternative Panto A LADD IN, returns for a second year to the comfortable surroundings of the Sallis Benney Theatre with a production perfectly judged for an adult audience. By Besi • 3 min read
Community News Norman Cook to start the Vitality Brighton Half Marathon 2017 International superstar DJ and Brightonian Norman Cook will start the Vitality Brighton Half Marathon 2017. Norman Cook – aka Fat Boy Slim, one of the city’s most famous residents, will sound the starting claxon at 9am on February 26 2016 to get the 13.1 mile race around the city underway. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Local author to give two talks on ‘The Trials of Colonel Barker’ Writer and performer Rose Collis will give two talks about her book Colonel Barker’s Monstrous Regiment and the new stage play she is writing, based on the book. By Besi • 1 min read
