Arts BIPOC-led hybrid life drawing class to launch in Soho this month 2B or Not 2B Collective works with BIPOC models, LGBTQ+ models, models with disabilities, and models of all creeds and colours. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Pirate Mums by Jodie Lancet-Grant & Lydia Corry I love seeing us reflected in stories and with young people it’s really important that they can see themselves as key parts of fun, engaging and constructive narratives. The Pirate Mums is all of that, inclusive to the bone, celebratory of LGBTQ+ families and lives and very gently challenging of pre By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts The Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender to host free online event with Dr Tina Sikka Dr Sikka’s recent work, ‘Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework’, reflects research around increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, abolition, and gender relations that have taken centre stage in academic, journalistic and social media circles in recent years. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Theatre Royal’s new season Brian Butler looks forward to ballet, a whodunnit, a real stage Dame and countless musicals at the Brighton Theatre Royal’s new 2022 season By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts FILM REVIEW: Minyan Brian Butler finds this coming-out story of the young David gripping and engrossing. It asks us many questions- do we learn from our past, are we safe in our fabricated community, how do we escape and explore our true nature and survive the challenge of being who we really are? By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts Lost in Music with Kathy Sledge Sister Sledge formed in 1971. They achieved global success with their 1979 album We Are Family. By Alex Klineberg • 4 min read
Arts Rainbow Chorus, Brighton’s LGBTQ+ choir, announces New Members’ Night The Rainbow Chorus, the friendly, fully inclusive LGBTQ+ choir, has announced its New Members’ Night for Monday, January 24 By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts A Night at the Phoenix with Michael Twaits and friends An AIDS Memory UK community fundraising and awareness event for the AIDS Memorial on Sunday, January 23 By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Bird La Bird Arts Royal Museums Greenwich to mark LGBTQ+ History Month RMG will work with members of the LGBTQ+ community and draw from RMG’s own collection to celebrate and reflect on LGBTQ+ lives throughout history By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: tick..tick..Boom! On Netflix Brian Butler is enchanted by Jonathan Larson’s fateful bio-musical By Brian Butler • 3 min read
GasLighting: Girls’ World— Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear, © Lidia Lidia Arts SEAS celebrates five years of hosting events and exhibitions of socially engaged art In an epic year, they curated and hosted ten exhibitions, more than ten events and hosted an artist residency, running events both online during lockdowns and in person since By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Arts FEATURE: The shows of 2021 – the highs and some lows Brian Butler looks back at the shows of 2021 By Brian Butler • 5 min read
