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# PREVIEW: Calabash returns to Pride with the Queer Takeover
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/preview-calabash-returns-to-pride-with-the-queer-takeover/
- Published: 2017-07-24T08:08:01.000Z
- Updated: 2017-07-24T08:08:01.000Z
- Description: After a two year hiatus Calabash return to Pride with The Queer Takeover at the Fortune if War on Brighton seafront, a venue renowned for its alfresco parties. On Pride Saturday (August 5), Calabash will take over proceedings with a whole roster of urban, underground dance and disco DJs with an aim
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- Tags: Arts, Dance, In The South, Music, News, Previews, Pride, Brighton Pride, Queen Josephine, Rainbow Fund

## After a two year hiatus Calabash return to Pride with *The Queer Takeover* at the Fortune if War on Brighton seafront, a venue renowned for its alfresco parties.

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**On Pride Saturday (August 5),** Calabash will take over proceedings at the Fortune of War with a whole roster of urban, underground dance and disco DJs with an aim to create an **‘unapologetically inclusive Queer space’**.

DJs will include **Affy GoBang**, **DJPushyC**, **Wildblood** and **Queen Josephine** and special guest **Grace Sands** to name a few. The event will be open air (weather permitting) and will run to the early hours of Sunday morning (August 6).

Money will be raised with a donation entry on the door and throughout the evening for the [Rainbow Fund](http://rainbow-fund.org/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) who make grants to LGBT+/HIV organisations who deliver effective front line services to LGBT+ people in the city.

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**Event:** Calabash present *The Queer Takeover*

**Where:** The Fortune of War, 156 King’s Rd, Brighton BN1 1NB

**When:** Saturday, August 5

**Time:** 6pm – 3am

**Cost:** Free donation on the door for Rainbow Fund