Arts PREVIEW: Polari Soho Special As part of its tenth birthday celebrations, London’s award-winning LGBT+ literary salon returns to its Soho roots with this special event for London Book & Screen Week. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts International Women’s Day: Free events at Brighton Museum and Dome on March 4 Brighton Museum, Brighton Dome and Brighton Women’s Centre (BWC) join forces to present their annual celebration of International Women’s Day. A specially curated programme of inspiring speakers, activists and innovators, workshops, arts and crafts, causes and campaigns for all the family has been p By Besi • 5 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Sisters are doing it for themselves! An event celebrating International Women’s Day – Singing workshop led by Aneesa Chaudhry. Time for a workshop where women can sing out their views on today’s unsettling times. This will be a kick ass workshop encouraging women, sisters, mum’s, daughters, friends to come together and make some noise. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: International Women’s Day: ‘Celebrating Women in Film’ The Brighton Film Quartet will be playing live at Brighton’s oldest arthouse cinema, the Duke of York’s, showcasing beautiful imagery from top local filmmaking talent on the big screen and a specially composed soundtrack. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Pride Arts & Film Festival: Summer Of Love Exhibition 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality for men in England and Wales. For more than eighty years this Victorian piece of legislation forced gay men to live their lives closeted and in the shadows. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Drawing Circus: After-hours life drawing in the Royal Pavilion’s sumptuous Music Room The Royal Pavilion’s sumptuous Music Room plays host to the Drawing Circus’s unique brand of theatrical life drawing at this unique, after-hours event. Having won Best Museum Drawing Event for its night-time event at the Booth Museum in October 2015, the Drawing Circus is returning to Royal Pavilion By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Brighton Pride call for ideas to celebrate 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 Young people’s charity The Budding Foundation, have been donated a bag of 580 mint uncirculated old pennies from 1967, the year the sexual offences law changed. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: 45 Minutes of Organ Music with D’Arcy Trinkwon The series is performed by the University Organist, D’Arcy Trinkwon – the internationally acclaimed concert organist regarded as one of the outstanding virtuoso musicians of his generation. D’Arcy is also organist of Worth Abbey. These fascinating, relaxed and informal concerts include interesting v By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PICTURE Diary: B RIGHT ON Festival: DIVAS Photos from the DIVAS show, starring Aneesa Chaudhry, Gabriella Parrish, Hannah Brackenbury and Jennie Castell in the Phil Starr Pavilion on Sunday, March 19 during the B RIGHT ON LGBT Festival celebrating LGBT History Month. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts New stage play from local author The Trials of Colonel Barker, a new full-length stage play by Rose Collis, funded by Arts Council England and based on her book Colonel Barker’s Monstrous Regiment, makes its world premiere with a one-off rehearsed reading as part of the second (Brighton and) Hove Grown Festival. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts COMPETITION: Win a pair of tickets to DIVAS on Sunday, February 19 Gscene have a single pairs of tickets left to give away for DIVAS the closing show at the Phil Starr Pavilion on Sunday, February 19. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PICTURE Diary: B RIGHT ON Festival: Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show Photos from the ‘Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show’, hosted by Davina Sparkle in the Phil Starr Pavilion on Friday, March 17 during the B RIGHT ON LGBT Festival celebrating LGBT History Month. By Contributor • 1 min read
