Arts B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Soul Safari Exploring LGBT spirituality at the B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival during LGBT History Month. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Expenses Only – The Musical @Phil Starr Pavilion In the good old days when I did stage plays and musicals we used to reckon that you needed one hour of rehearsal for every minute of actual playing time on stage when the show played. So it was incredible to learn that the talented singing line-up in this new show by Andrew Stark had just four days By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Lullaby – DJ Sigala with Paloma Faith British DJ Sigala releases new single Lullaby with Paloma Faith. The popular DJ, producer and songwriter releases his latest single Lullaby today. Featuring Brit award winner Paloma Faith, the electronic dance track is an amalgamation of Sigala’s iconic sound and the singer’s unique voice. By Ray A-J • 1 min read
Arts FILM REVIEW: The Ice King by JAMES ERSKINE Uncompromising, a little waspish, funny and charming, utterly vulnerable, stronger than an Ox, fast, lithe and inspiring, camp, sensual and a rejecter of butch ways of sport and skating John Curry is one of the LGBTQ heroes who should be held up and venerated and this film goes a long way to resto By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Tonight at B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Expenses Only The Musical! – World Premier. Dust off your sequins and spend some time with drag queen royalty in Expenses Only The Musical! onstage at The Phil Starr Pavilion, Brighton as a part of LGBT History Month and The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival. This new musical has been written by Andrew Stark, the writer of the Alternative Pa By Besi • 3 min read
Arts Rob ‘The Voice’ Stevens to headline Hibernation community luncheon Bear-Patrol’s annual community fundraising luncheon, Hibernation takes place on Sunday, October 21, 2018. Hibernation has become one of the most sought after tickets in the LGBT+ calendar of events. Tickets are priced at a reasonable rate covering the cost of the event with ALL profits donated to th By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Waterstones presents Jake Shears in conversation At this special event the lead singer of multiplatinum-selling glam rock band Scissor Sisters and one of the World’s most famous LGBT+ icons will discuss his beautifully wide-eyed and determined coming-of-age memoir: Boys Keep Swinging with award winning journalist and author, Matthew Todd. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Council launches e-asy way to read and listen to books The city council’s library service launches new way to download and read eBooks and listen to eAudiobooks. Members of Brighton & Hove library services will be able to download the new BorrowBox app to their digital devices and access thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks free of charge at any time of By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dead and Breathing @The Albany, London A somber kaftan laden upper-class cancer patient, Carolyn (Lizan Mitchell), unashamedly bares all as she is bathed by working class (and transsexual) carer, Veronika (Kim Tatum aka Mzz Kimberley). By Tin Nguyen • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Jubliee @Lyric, Hammersmith Chris Goode’s adaptation of Derek Jarman and James Whaley’s Jubilee is a ravenously sex-fueled and unvarnished representation of the state that the world is in. It assures to have one question if royalty or religion are still relevant in an ever-changing society. By Tin Nguyen • 1 min read
Arts Tonight at B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: The Seven Doors of Danny A new musical based on Shakespeare’s The Seven Ages of Man with music by Ricky Horscraft, words by John McCullough with additional material for musical theatre adaptation by Tom Slater-Hyndman. Performed by members of Actually Gay Men’s Chorus, University of Sussex Symphony Orchestra, guest performe By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Today at B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: LGBT Work & Volunteer Fair As part of LGBT History Month and The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival, the LGBT Community Safety Forum are staging today, Thursday, February 22, an LGBT Work & Volunteer Fair, supported by The Rainbow Fund in the Phil Starr Pavilion. By Besi • 1 min read