Arts Tonight at B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: An Evening with Gabriella Parrish As part of LGBT HISTORY MONTH and The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival, the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum presents An Evening with Gabriella Parrish. Gabriella will be singing musical theatre, power ballads and party anthems with her live band Human Jukebox, all raising money for Acc By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts Pride launch new Cultural Development Fund Brighton & Hove Pride launches new Pride Cultural Development Fund supporting local artists and groups. Brighton Pride is earmarking up to £10,000 for community grants to help local artists participate in local 2018 Pride activities and promote Pride’s inclusive ethos. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Author wants to hear from LGBT soldiers suffering from PTSD Declan Henry, a professional writer, would like to hear from soldiers or ex-soldiers who are LGBT for a new writing project he is working on. He would like to particularly hear from those who are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or any other mental or emotional distress. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: ‘A New Man’ by Charlie Kiss This personal narrative is an enlightening and interesting read, and the throb of political engagement, fairness and the conviction of being able to change and build a better word is a fiery undercurrent to what can be a tender vulnerable tale, honest and soul baring. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Gin art prize exhibition at Brush Gallery The Brighton Gin Art Exhibition in association with BRUSH opens at the Gloucester Road gallery on Friday, March 9 with over 85 pieces all customised from empty Brighton Gin bottles. The month-long exhibition which kicks off the city’s Spring into Summer arts season will showcase winning and wider en By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW Brighton Fringe: Daphna Baram in Sugarcoating Daphna Baram’s sixth solo show finds this middle eastern Mary Poppins breathless, with good reasons. Just as she came to terms with her chubby wonderfulness she is told to lose weight or lose her toes. And just as she finally gets that coveted red passport, her new country folk vote out of Europe. W By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW Brighton Fringe: Passing On by Sean Denyer Brian and Tom, together for ten years, would like to have a child, to be as Tom says, “a proper family with two dads”. When their friend, Jane, agrees to act as a surrogate, it seems they can really have it all. But after Tom is very reluctantly pressed into finding out about his biological parents, By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Natalie and Romaine by Diana Souhami Souhami’s eye for detail and her enormously kind and generous emotional insight gives us not just the facts of their existence, but the feeling, yearning, passions and desires of two perfectly fascinating and indomitable women with the world at their feet. It’s a hugely positive and fun depiction of By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Music Review: Talma are casting you Out to sea with nothing but a paddle Welcome to the stormy voyage through rock band Talma’s debut E.P. Out to sea. You’re in the middle of the sea. Empty horizons surrounding you. Brisk biting winds encapsulate the air-from every direction they’re pulling at your hair, snatching at your skin as the freezing ocean slowly laps up the sid By Ray A-J • 5 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals UK tour 2019 Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals returns to venues across the country from May 2019 for a 35 date UK tour coming to Brighton Centre on May 24, 2019. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Seven Doors of Danny @Phil Starr Pavilion This morality tale in words and music performed as part of B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival first saw the light of day as a concert item and it has grown and developed since its premiere in 2016. Further development and bulking out could make it a first class piece of musical theatre. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Disability Pride Band Night Raising Funds for Disability Pride 2018 at the B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival as part of LGBT History Month. The first Disability Pride Brighton in July 2017 was a fantastic success, with over 2000 disabled people in attendance. By Besi • 3 min read
