Arts PREVIEW: Polari Soho Special As part of its tenth birthday celebrations, London’s award-winning LGBT+ literary salon returns to its Soho roots with this special event for London Book & Screen Week. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts International Women’s Day: Free events at Brighton Museum and Dome on March 4 Brighton Museum, Brighton Dome and Brighton Women’s Centre (BWC) join forces to present their annual celebration of International Women’s Day. A specially curated programme of inspiring speakers, activists and innovators, workshops, arts and crafts, causes and campaigns for all the family has been p By Besi • 5 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Sisters are doing it for themselves! An event celebrating International Women’s Day – Singing workshop led by Aneesa Chaudhry. Time for a workshop where women can sing out their views on today’s unsettling times. This will be a kick ass workshop encouraging women, sisters, mum’s, daughters, friends to come together and make some noise. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: International Women’s Day: ‘Celebrating Women in Film’ The Brighton Film Quartet will be playing live at Brighton’s oldest arthouse cinema, the Duke of York’s, showcasing beautiful imagery from top local filmmaking talent on the big screen and a specially composed soundtrack. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Drawing Circus: After-hours life drawing in the Royal Pavilion’s sumptuous Music Room The Royal Pavilion’s sumptuous Music Room plays host to the Drawing Circus’s unique brand of theatrical life drawing at this unique, after-hours event. Having won Best Museum Drawing Event for its night-time event at the Booth Museum in October 2015, the Drawing Circus is returning to Royal Pavilion By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: 45 Minutes of Organ Music with D’Arcy Trinkwon The series is performed by the University Organist, D’Arcy Trinkwon – the internationally acclaimed concert organist regarded as one of the outstanding virtuoso musicians of his generation. D’Arcy is also organist of Worth Abbey. These fascinating, relaxed and informal concerts include interesting v By Besi • 1 min read
Arts New stage play from local author The Trials of Colonel Barker, a new full-length stage play by Rose Collis, funded by Arts Council England and based on her book Colonel Barker’s Monstrous Regiment, makes its world premiere with a one-off rehearsed reading as part of the second (Brighton and) Hove Grown Festival. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts COMPETITION: Win a pair of tickets to DIVAS on Sunday, February 19 Gscene have a single pairs of tickets left to give away for DIVAS the closing show at the Phil Starr Pavilion on Sunday, February 19. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON LGBT Festival: Rainbow Chorus to sing at family fun day today at 1pm As part of the B RIGHT ON LGBT Festival celebrating LGBT History Month, the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum (B&H LGBT CSF) are holding a Family Fun Day for children on Saturday, February 18. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: My Brothers and Sisters @ Sarah Siddons Theatre, London MAD ‘ED THEATRES production of ‘My Brothers and Sisters’, a play originally commissioned by City of Westminster College last year to demonstrate its commitment to the government’s Prevent duty returns on February 20. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: LGBT History Month: Transworkers photographic exhibition To celebrate LGBT History Month StellaPix is showing her unique photos of Transworkers at the New Steine Hotel in Brighton. If you are trans, life may not have been easy for you. Your relationships with parents, friends, and neighbours may have been fraught. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘Objects’ a solo show by Kate Shields BRUSH gallery’s first exhibition of 2017 is a solo show by artist Kate Shields. OBJECTS is an exhibition of recent and ongoing work exploring a female experience, through a range of object-based art. Kate looks at experiences specific to women that are often relatable, such as sexuality, personal sp By Contributor • 1 min read
