Arts PREVIEW: The Haven Anniversary Concert The West End comes to Henfield in November as professional singers supported by members of the Henfield Theatre Company, perform a unique, one-off concert to celebrate the first anniversary of the Henfield Haven. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Cardiff University supports Iris LGBT Film Prize Cardiff University is supporting one of the world’s leading film festivals for LGBT filmmaking which showcases original short films from around the globe. Now in its tenth year, the Iris Prize Festival is the home of LGBT filmmaking and has been identified as one of the top 50 film festivals in the By Gary Hart • 3 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Nabucco With some charming walk on by local young people and children from The Theatre Workshop this was a lovely engaging piece of opera presented in Ms Kent’s trademark way, lot’s of drama, quality singing and an intimate feeling of seeing good opera done in a straight foreword way By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Miss Hope Springs at the Nightingale Room Miss Hope Springs paid a rare visit to Brighton last Friday (September 30) to raise money for the Sussex Cancer Fund and what a splendid treat it was for the sold out audience. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Dr Evadne Hinge returns in The Dowager’s Oyster Ageing spinster Dr Evadne Hinge makes her operatic comeback this Autumn in comic opera The Dowager’s Oyster at the So & So Arts Club. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at 88 London Road This is a spirited version of Stephen Sondheim’s musical of murder, revenge and madness. It has some very good performances, it’s well paced, finely costumed and designed, and, apart from problems with the acoustics – words are often drowned out by the band which is a shame as Sondheim is such a sup By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts 1916 – 2016: Charleston celebrates its Centenary Sunday, October 16, 2016 marks the centenary of the arrival at Charleston of Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and David ‘Bunny’ Garnett. Their arrival as World War I conscientious objectors saw the creation of Charleston as the country home of the Bloomsbury group and a legacy of art, literature and freed By Gary Hart • 1 min read
Arts Autumn issue of The Pink Humanist ready for download Online magazine The Pink Humanist is published by the UK LGBT charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT). It features topics of special interest to those who identify as atheists, freethinkers, humanists, secularists and sceptics in the LGTB communities and those who support them. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Top comedian to perform at University of Sussex’s Migration Awareness Day A rising star of comedy world is set to perform at the University of Sussex’s Migration Awareness Day. Comedian Sajeela Kershi will perform her highly acclaimed Immigrant Diaries show at the event, in which she tells her own story of being an immigrant from Pakistan in an ever-changing Britain. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Beijing Comrades: Bei Tong. The book follows the passionate and hugely engaging gay love story of Handong and Lan Yu and is placed in the upheaval of a China bursting out of the repressions of Mao and into a modern state. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Science of Instruments: Museum Lab Richard Earle, a Lewes-based oboe maker and player had endless fascinating throw away facts which would have taken a whole lecture just to tease apart and explore on their own and his charming modest and amusing tone kept the more arcane and technical sides of the talk interesting for a non player. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Round the Horne: The 50th Anniversary Tour Celebrating the ground-breaking radio comedy series of the 1960s, Apollo Theatre Company lovingly recreate the original recordings from the BBC’s Paris Studios to mark fifty years of enduring laughter. The production toured the country during 2015 and is now in London for an eight week run at the Mu By Contributor • 3 min read
