LGBT History Month – The Pre-launch!

The Pre-Launch of LGBT History Month 2014 takes place at Bramall Concert Hall at The University of Birmingham on Thursday, November 28.

Next year’s theme is Music, which will be celebrated at the Pre-Launch with music workshops in the morning for secondary schools in the Barber Institute of Fine Art, focussing on LGBT musicians Benjamin Britten, Angela Morley, Ethel Smyth and Bessie Smith, who we have chosen to be the Faces of ’14.

Evening proceedings start at 5.30pm with stalls and networking, then Barbara Nice will host the main event from 6.30pm in the concert hall, with something for every musical taste: from opera to Broadway musical; punk to choral. Participants confirmed for the evening include; The Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra; the cast of Rent and Rainbow Voices Choir. The best of the morning’s schools will perform and Vix from Fuzzbox will perform ‘Say it Loud’, the anthem for LGBT History Month 2014.

Speakers Michael Cashman MEP, Councillor Brigid Jones, LGBT History Month Chairs Tony Fenwick and Sue Sanders, and in the centenary year of Benjamin Britten’s birth, representatives of The Britten-Pears Foundation and Katherine Cockin on Ethel Smyth.

Event: LGBT History Month 2014 Pre-Launch

Where: Bramall Concert Hall, University of Birmingham

When: Thursday, November 28

Tickets: £5

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