Arts Raze Collective – Online celebration of queer performance Raze Collective hosts an eclectic online celebration of queer performance on Friday, June 26 from 7.30pm. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Trans Vegas goes Digital Trans Vegas arts festival in Manchester will go digital from June 19-21. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts MOBIfest – a Virtual Pride Festival for Queer Communities of Colour Mobilising Our Brothers Initiative announces MOBIfest, its annual free wellness festival for queer communities of colour, on Thursday, June 4 at 6pm ET / 11pm BST By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Lemn Sissay MBE to return as Guest Director of Brighton Festival 2021 Lemn Sissay MBE confirms he will return as guest director of Brighton Festival in 2021. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Scene from the Sofa – Five minutes with… Meriel Whale Scene from the Sofa – Five minutes with… Meriel Whale By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Arts Scene from the Sofa – Five minutes with… Zora Scene from the Sofa – Five minutes with… Zora By Graham Robson • 5 min read
Arts Scene from the Sofa – Five minutes with… Crysi de Milo Scene from the Sofa – Five minutes with… Crysi de Milo By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Seven Doors of Danny @Phil Starr Pavilion This morality tale in words and music performed as part of B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival first saw the light of day as a concert item and it has grown and developed since its premiere in 2016. Further development and bulking out could make it a first class piece of musical theatre. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Wanting In Arabic by Trish Salah Salah is furious and gentle, shocking and so,so tender it moved me, and I felt I didn’t understand some of her work. Always a powerful tool of the poet, to draw you back to their lathe of meaning and whittle some more of your mind away with their sharp edged observations. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts POETRY REVIEW: Hello Glastonbury – I mean, Brighton Ray A-J reviews the Poetry Competition and Festival 2017 featuring The Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at the Old Market in Hove on Saturday, November 18. Electric – The atmosphere alive with the buzz and hum of a festival. Undeniably, contagious. If all the literary gigs of the world were a pool, thi By Ray A-J • 10 min read
Books BOOK REVIEW: Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Lorde was a Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts FEATURE: Poetry, the new rock and roll? Well as of November 18, it might be With rising instagram poets and inspirational styles like Spoken word emerging, the world of literary music that is poetry is reemerging as the next wave of art in the twenty first century. And who is at the front of this? We are. By Ray A-J • 6 min read
