LGBTQ+ News Brighton’s LGBT choirs perform together on World Aids Day For the first time ever all of Brighton’s LGBT Choirs came together yesterday, Sunday, December 1 at St Mary’s Church, Kemptown to perform a concert of the very highest quality on World Aids Day. It has taken many years to have a single event to celebrate World Aids Day, but the wait was well worth By Besi • 2 min read
Arts WORLD AIDS DAY CONCERT: ‘We all live together’: Sunday December 1 Tomorrow for the first time ever, all the local LGBTQ music groups (and a few of their friends) will be performing together in a concert on World Aids Day at St Mary’s Church in Kemptown, in support of Lunch Positive, the HIV charity and lunch club who provide a healthy lunch for positive people onc By Besi • 2 min read
Arts ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ auditions A new production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is being planned during next year’s Fringe Festival at the New Venture Theatre. Told as an extended monologue by Hedwig during one of her concerts, she recounts her metamorphosis from the young East German “slip of a girly-boy” Hansel to the tragic Hedwi By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Brighton Gay Radio, World Aids Day 24 hour broadcast Brighton Gay Radio the 24 hour local community radio station will be running a 24 hours World Aids Day broadcast special on Sunday, December 1. They will be playing music of remembrance and hope for the future, messages from celebrities, recordings of people talking of stigma and life experiences an By Besi • 1 min read
Arts HALBWELT KULTUR: Review Halbwelt Kultur is musical cabaret opening with a wonderfully engaging chorus and using the lives of seven dynamic and sensual women from the Weimer republic to highlight the tensions between freedom of expression and oppressive conformity. By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts Brighton Goes Gospel Brighton Goes Gospel, Brighton’s acclaimed community choir bring their Christmas Concert, Christmas Joy to Hove Town Hall on Saturday, December 7. Now coming to the end of their 13th year bringing music to the city, this gospel choir promises to deliver an uplifting festive performance with special By Besi • 1 min read
Community News A Fairytale of Kemptown on Saturday The Rainbow Chorus, Brighton’s only LGBT choir present A Fairytale of Kemptown at St Georges Church in Kemptown on Saturday, November 30 when they will be singing a magical mix of winter favourites and contemporary songs to warm your heart and soul. Musical Director Aneesa Chaudhry will transport yo By Besi • 3 min read
Arts Satyagraha: ENO: Review Satyagraha: Phillip Glass: English National Opera: Review Following the early life of Gandhi in South Africa and his non violent campaigning against segregation and racism and named after his word for Non-violence (for which there is no word in any language in the whole word, which is worth noting.) By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts Brighton Rainbow Chorus new members drive Following their Winter concert, ‘Fairytale of Kemptown’ on Saturday, November 30 at St Georges Church in Kemptown, the Rainbow Chorus, the only LGBT choir in the south outside London, will be visiting Brighton’s LGBT venues before Christmas to lift your spirits and light up your day. Hear them sing By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Resound Male Voices to launch charity music video on World AIDS Day in aid of MindOut Resound Male Voices a Brighton & Hove based male singing group, have recorded a professionally produced music video that is to be debuted on World AIDS Day in aid of a local LGB&T mental health charity MindOut. The video is a playful take on a classic Billy Joel song called The Longest Time. Aspirin By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News LGBT History Month – The Pre-launch! The Pre-Launch of LGBT History Month 2014 takes place at Bramall Concert Hall at The University of Birmingham on Thursday, November 28. Next year’s theme is Music, which will be celebrated at the Pre-Launch with music workshops in the morning for secondary schools in the Barber Institute of Fine Art By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News Brighton Women’s Centre musical charity event The Brighton Women’s Centre (BWC) will start their 40-year anniversary celebrations in 2014 with a fundraising concert featuring vocalist Claire Martin and The Montpellier Cello Quartet at The Old Market, Hove on Thursday, December 19 at 7.30pm. Next year BWC aim to raise £40,000 to support their vi By Graham Robson • 1 min read
