Arts REVIEW: Lady Chatterley’s Lover@Theatre Royal The book, famously banned for being obscene is opened and parred own here here like a delicate flower, pressed into it’s perfume and essence, but it’s still a challenging analysis of what happens when patriarchy, entitlement and brutality are challenged by honesty, trust and tenderness. Tenderness w By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Third meeting of LGBTQ+ History Club and workshops The third Queer in Brighton History Club meeting is on Sunday, October 20 at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Christmas Singing Workshop for LGBT+ young people Aneesa Chaudhry, musical director of the Rainbow Chorus is holding a Christmas Singing Workshop for LGBTQ+ young people and their allies on Saturday, December 3. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Rent The new 20th Anniversary production of Jonathan Larson’s ground-breaking Pulitzer Prize – and multi Tony Award-winning musical RENT comes to the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne this spring. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: BREMF: GAIA – Three Intermedi for a Living Planet The music was superb, opening with tremendous aplomb with Josquin des Prez’s Qui habitat. Astonishing opening, lifting, soring purity of voice rising into the high ethereal vaults of this highest of Parish churches, the programme of music was ambitious in scope and well thought out and balanced and By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dr Dee’s Daughter and The Philosopher’s Stone: Palisander Palisander attired in courtly Elizabethan angelic gossamer and with hardly a pause to check the music, worked those wondrous recorders of all shapes and sizes in a deft performance, showing us the range of recorder music at its best, while the kids watched the antics of the puppety crows and shadows By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Brighton Festival announce theme for Children’s Parade 2017 The theme for the 2017 Children’s Parade, which takes place during the Brighton Festival on Saturday, May 6, is Poetry in Motion. Jointly produced with award-winning community arts organisation Same Sky, the annual Children’s Parade officially launches Brighton Festival. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts GFEST 2016: films and performances begin this weekend. London’s annual LGBTQI cross-art and cultural event GFEST – Gaywise FESTival opened on November 7 followed on November 8 with a visual arts exhibition ‘arty-party’ at Menier Gallery near London Bridge. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Miss Hope Springs is Live at Zédel, Soho Miss Hope Springs bring her Christmas offering, ‘Now It’s Christmas Time’ to the wonderful surrounding of the Brasserie Zédel in December. Playing at the piano and singing her award-winning repertoire of uniquely catchy all-original songs, lounge-tastic ex-Vegas nightclub chanteuse Miss Hope Springs By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Radical Eye Tate Modern presents a major new exhibition drawn from one of the world’s greatest private collections of photography, showing an unrivalled selection of classic modernist images from the 1920s to the 1950s. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Lulu: ENO Considered to be one of the seminal operas of the twentieth century, Berg’s score creates a unique sound world that combines his lyrical gifts with powerful orchestral writing. A gritty exploration of sexual desire, it follows the downfall of the enigmatic Lulu, who shatters the lives of her many lo By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts REVIEW: THE LILY AND THE ROSE: The Telling This concert and The Telling provided us with an illuminating and illuminated evening of evocative and emotionally vibrant music which highlighted not only the colour and sustained purity of their voicesboth solo and wrapped up together in tonal harmonic bliss but also the way in which this music, b By Eric Page • 3 min read
