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PREVIEW: A Gay Outing at Charleston

CharlestonLets get physical….Body building magazines such as Physique Pictorial had a big influence on the output of British male homosexual artists working in the post second world war period.

DUNCAN Grant used British and American magazines as influence for a large amount of private homo-erotic work.

Charleston’s curator, Dr Darren Clarke explores Grant’s responses to this source material and also considers those of a younger generation of artists including David Hockney, Keith Vaughan and Francis Bacon.

Strictly for over 16s.

Ticket includes house visit and Charleston cocktail in the Walled Garden

Charleston House


Event: Lets Get Physical…

Where: Charleston

When: Sunday, July 26

Time: from 6pm

Cost: Tickets from £15

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PREVIEW: All Male Twelfth Night

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, perform Twelfth Night as it would have been in Shakespeare’s day with an all male cast.

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Shakespeare’s most perfect comedy comes to Charleston, an exquisite tale of mischief and mistaken identity, the perfect way to spend a summer’s evening.

Sit under the stars, sip a glass of wine and enjoy a picnic while being enthralled in true Elizabethan fashion.

 “Open Air Theatre as it should be, and at it’s very, very best.” BBC

Take a picnic blanket or chair to sit on, and something warm to wear when the sun begins to set!

Cake, fizz and other refreshments will be available on the night at the bar.


Event: All male cast production of Twelfth Night

Where: Charleston, Lewes BN8 6LL

When: Tuesday 21 & Wednesday 22

Time: 7.30pm

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Or telephone: 01323 811626

Twelfth Night

PREVIEW: Pink Fringe: Double Bill: Artfunahack! & Rituals for Change

A double bill of new works in development presented by Pink Fringe in association with Trans*Pride Brighton.

ARtFUnSHACK!

ARtFUnSHACK! is a fast-moving art show hosted by Evan. Expect eye-catching visuals and tips for making fun stuff out of rubbish.

Evan can’t always maintain the role and sometimes slips up. By weaving together video, word play and audience interaction, tales of a queer reality become the glue that binds the papier-mache hammer together.

Seed commissioned by Pink Fringe, Ovalhouse and Theatre in the Mil, Bradford.

Evan Ifekoya is an interdisciplinary artist, exploring the politicisation of culture, society and aesthetics. Appropriated material from historical archives and contemporary society make up the work. By ‘queerying’ popular imagery and utilising the props of everyday life, the aim is to destroy the aura of preciousness surrounding art.

Rituals for Change

Rituals for Change is a new performance from None of Us is Yet a Robot – a company exploring gender identity and the politics of transition through a series of live and online events.

Using projection, conversation and visual art, it is a series of rituals created to explore a gender transition and the fluid notion of change. The company is led by Emma Frankland in collaboration with producer Abby Butcher. This production is in collaboration with Eilidh MacAskill and Myriddin Wannell.

Pouring fuel oil onto the blue peter garden of gender, this project investigates why sometimes it’s necessary to smash things up.

♦ Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days.

♦ All the cells in your body regenerate every 7 years.

♦ The judges on X Factor are different every season.

♦ It could be a test result, a phone call, a bus turning left that you just didn’t see. A poorly timed joke or a chance encounter on a train station… what will change you today?

Emma Frankland is an award-winning theatre maker and performer, based in London. She has created a diverse collection of work. Throughout her work, there is a shared theatrical language that focuses on honesty, action and a playful DIY aesthetic.

Pink Fringe produce theatre, cabaret, comedy, dance, immersive art and entertainment, presenting an ambitious programme of live performance throughout the year. They are committed to the ongoing development of artists making queer work and they run commissioning projects and development schemes to support this.

They have presented successful seasons of work within Brighton Fringe in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Each year Pink Fringe’s programme for Brighton Fringe is curated on an open-access basis. Their aim is to challenge perceptions around diverse work, specifically art created by and about queer and LGBT people, placing it in multiple contexts, some familiar, some new and unusual, with the aim of attracting new audiences.

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Event: A Pink Fringe Double Bill: ARtFUnSHACK! & Rituals for Change

Where: Marlborough Theatre, 4 Princes Street, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 1RD

When: Thursday, June 23

Time: 7.30pm

Tickets: £8.50/6.50 Concessions

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