Arts PREVIEW: New Steine Heroes Exhibition to stage charity preview for Rainbow Fund New Steine Hotel in Kemptown will hold a charity preview evening of their latest exhibition Heroes on Monday, July 31 to celebrate the start of Brighton Pride week. During the evening, 10% of any art sold will be donated to the Rainbow Fund. There will also be a raffle with prizes including a three- By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts Hull art installation will challenge people’s perception of hate crime A provocative and interactive art installation exploring barriers within our society is set to appear at Hull Minster throughout Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s Freedom Season. The Electric Fence, inspired by the everyday experience of people facing hate crime around the world and the dark horrors th By Besi • 3 min read
Arts Rainbow Cities Network celebrates IDAHOBIT with photo exhibition Brighton & Hove is a member of the Rainbow Cities network of international cities developing lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBT+) policies. Cities from all over Europe and the Americas with an active LGBT+ policy can join in the exchange of expertise and experience. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: Five short blasts An interesting boat trip, some food for thought, a moment feeling free of the land and riding the wild white breakers of the churning sea, safe in a boat, with a few moments of delightful silliness which I won’t spoil but contain more than one trombone it all adds up to something delightful, etherea By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts ‘Love is not a crime’: Casting call for Project 74 photography project A surprising number of countries still punish same-sex relationships with life imprisonment or even death. Project 74 will raise awareness of this issue through their new photography project Love is not a crime. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Pride in London announce line-up of events during London Pride Festival Showcasing the full spectrum of London and its LGBT+ communities, this year’s London Pride festival will celebrate the true diversity of London’s art, history, theatre, film and music from June 24 – July 9. The theme of the Pride parade on Saturday, July 8 is Love Happens Here. By Alice Blezard • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: For the Birds: Brighton Festival You hop on a bus, reminiscent of the mystery tours so favoured by aunts of mine in the 1970’s and are deposited in the dark, with some superb and wholly novel views of the city in the distance, it’s a long walk thought this night-time trail, like a crepuscular robotic nature watch we come across the By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts FEATURE: For Whom the Bell Tolls Craig Hanlon-Smith spends an afternoon with local artist Mackenzie Bell. A saunter through Brighton’s magnificent Clifton Conservation Area is in many ways akin to stepping into a painting. The uninterrupted sunlight intensely throwing its reflection back into the air as it bounces off the immaculat By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 6 min read
Arts Turner Prize 2017 shortlist announced Tate Britain has announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2017. This year’s nominees are Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Büttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Queer British Art 1861-1967 @Tate Britain This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised consensual sex (in private) in England and Wales between men aged 21 and over. The show includes works from a period of over 100 years, and is bookended by the 1861 Offences against the Person Ac By Paul Gustafson • 5 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Ipek Duben: THEY / ONLAR THEY/ONLAR focuses on how Turkish society views They or the Other. Through the stories of several individuals the artist goes behind the scene in Turkish society, allowing us to glimpse her country’s diversity of ethnic, religious and gender positions, the perceptions of members of the Sunni majorit By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: TRANSWORKERS an exhibition by Stella Michaels If you are trans, life may not have been easy for you. Your relationships with parents, friends, and neighbours may have been fraught.The media will have lampooned you, and you may have had to live some or all of your life in stealth in order to live at all. Or your secret may have been discovered a By Besi • 2 min read
