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Festive social for disabled LGBT people

Charles StreetAn LGBT Disabled People’s group will be holding a festive meet-up tomorrow, December 18, 2015.

The meet-up will be from 3-5 pm at Charles Street on Marine Parade. All LGBT people with disabilities are welcome to go along for some festive cheer!

The area at the back of Charles Street, near the DJ decks has been reserved and the venue is accessible for wheelchairs and has an accessible toilet.

Take along photo ID if you are under 25.

There is a food menu if you would like to eat there.

The group, is supported by LGBT HIP, meets in accessible venues on an ad-hoc basis, and offers an opportunity for disabled people to socialise, discuss issues and share mutual support.

For more information, email:

Win a pair of tickets for ‘Holiday on Ice’

Holiday on Ice returns to the UK for one week only in January 2016 with a new, spectacular show, PASSION.

Holiday On Ice

Gscene magazine has three pair of tickets to give away to the lucky winners of our PASSION competition.

PASSION is an exciting entertainment experience focused around the lives of the show’s true stars, the skaters and runs at the Brighton Centre from Tuesday 5 to Sunday 10 January 10.

PASSION takes the audience through the journey that each skater experiences, from the passion of the ice to the ambition, challenges and beauty of this fascinating world, PASSION follows the true-life stories of the cast members, who every night bring the glamour of Holiday on Ice to life for audiences across the globe.

Holiday On Ice

Featuring top class performers, breath-taking costumes, great music, a spectacular wheel and kick line and fireworks, PASSION will bring the true Holiday on Ice magic, which has been loved for over 70 years, back to Brighton once again in 2016.

Tickets are on sale priced from £15 for children and £22 for adults.

For more information or to book tickets, click here:

Or telephone the box office: 0844 847 1538.

Holiday On Ice


Question: In what year was the first Holiday and Ice Show and in which city?

Email your answer with you full name address and telephone number to: info@gscene.com


Tickets are valid to see Holiday on Ice: PASSION at The Brighton Centre on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 8pm only. 1 pair of tickets per winner only. At least 1 adult must be present. No purchase necessary. Tickets are non-exchangeable. Closing date for entries is Monday, December 21, entries received after this date will not be counted. Winners will be required to collect their tickets from the Brighton Centre box office on the night of the show. Any travel and accommodation will not be included in the prize.

 

Preview: I Am Not Myself These Days

The brutal, shocking and yet deeply moving one man show, I Am Not Myself These Days, comes to Brighton next February following its debut at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

I Am Not Myself These Days

The play, adapted from Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s bestselling autobiography, is a fast-paced, at times darkly humorous tale of love, self-destruction and personal discovery, set in the flashy, trashy New York of the 1990s.

It tells the story of Josh, a successful advertising art director by day who at night transforms into Aquadisiac, an alcoholic drag queen desperately trying to make her relationship work with Jack, a high-class rent boy addicted to crack.

The show has been described as heartbreaking, gripping, and profoundly affecting, with a breathtakingly physical, central performance from Tom Stuart, who also adapted Kilmer-Purcell’s memoir for the stage.

Stuart writes: “It’s such an incredibly honest, open and engaging book. I wanted to see if I could extend that honesty to the stage and make an audience feel how I felt reading the book alone in my bed. I like to think of it as a love story, albeit an unconventional one. Although set in a specific time and place, I think most people will be able to relate to and recognise something of themselves in it, whatever their background or circumstances.”


Event:  I Am Not Myself These Days

Where: Brighton Dome Studio Theatre

When: Saturday, February 13

Time: 7.30pm

Tickets: £12/£10 concessions

To book tickets, click here:

REVIEW: Scrooge Inspired: Spire

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Step inside this cold candle lit church and you are transported to Scrooge and Marley’s office, its smoky crepuscular interior inhabited by the miserly frigid proprietor himself scratching away at his desk while poor Bob Cratchet works away and shivers in the cold.

Welcome to A Christmas Carol at The Spire

This fully immersive performance of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol begins as soon as you turn into the candlelit venue, a former church now a pretty cool arts venue run by the Pink Fringe lot. You are greeted with carols singers, smoke, snow and a lovely sense of stepping back into a Victorian street.

Marley’s Ghost, the first great supernatural entrance in the plot was superb, his entrance was spooky, ethereal, funny, with just the right amount of chills and the effective use of smoke machine, excellent imaginative lighting, sound scapes and very good costume conspire to transform the Spire into a slice of Victorian London with Marley rattling his chains at a wonderfully freaked out Scrooge.
The cast chop and change and the pacing of the narrative is a hop, skip and festive jump but the tensions builds, as it must, to the inevitable happy conclusion and even though we know the ending well, the chills, warning and potential grief is handled well, the callousness of Scrooges own death and the abject distress at the grave of Tiny Tim were both touching moments that pulled some seriously good acting out of the crew.

Gary Sefton - Scrooge - A Christmas Carol - Dec2015

The acting was very good, from all the cast, young and old. Convincing, touching with just the amount of mugging and engagement with the audience. The technical crew, particularly the sound and lighting were excellent and managed on some very limited technology to convince of the shivery supernatural edge that’s so essential to the story. The fade in and out of the ghosts was very very well done indeed. I was impressed with the lighting design and the director Gary Sefton (who also takes the title role in this production) has obviously given a lot of thought to using the wonderfully festive space of the Spire itself, you couldn’t really ask for a more Christmasy venue than this mock Gothic church with high stained glass, pews, organ pipes, Gothic arched doorways and looming dark corners.

I’ve seen a lot of Christmas and festive stuff the last two weeks, from Kew Gardens to the opera but last night at the Spire I felt the spirit of Christmas descend most properly, settling on us like glittering silent snow and the cast and technical crew managed to create a beguiling, charming and touching immersive Christmas experience which lived up to Dickens idea of tradition, tipped its Christmassy hat to modern life and leaned hard and fast into the cold commercial frosty face of Christmas and blew it a little warm life affirming kiss.

See more info on the cast here

My companion thought it very lovely, was touched by Tiny Tim and the ambiance generated by the church and spicy hot mulled wine and we both left feeling most festive indeed.

This is my Christmas Show tip! Take the kids, take the boyfriend, take the girlfriend, take the in-laws or out-laws, take the neighbor as it’s Xmas, but dress up warm, munch a home-made mince pie and warm your hands and heart on mulled wine, sit back and immerse yourself in this wonderfully evocative performance in the round of the ultimate story of festive redemption.

Dress up warm though the church is cold, which I thought added another convincing Victorian sense of miserly chill to the drama and please don’t be a scrooge, get up and dance when they want you to, it’s well well worth it, where else can you reel and spin down the aisle this season?

A Christmas Carol at The Spire
16-24 Dec (not 20 Dec), 6pm & 8.15pm
Tickets from £6.

Excellent. With a bus stop right outside the venue

Recommended

For more info or to book tickets see the website here.

 

 

Rainbow families needed for documentary

LGBT parents and their children needed for Brighton Rainbow Families documentary.

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Rainbow Families at Pride

Rainbow Families are holding a family day at Jubilee Library on February 20, 2016 from 10-2pm to celebrate LGBT History month.

As part of the day Georgia Rooney, head of production at MWP Digital Media will be filming a documentary about the history of Rainbow Families and what makes a Rainbow family extraordinary.

She is looking for anyone who was involved in Rainbow Families Brighton in the past or any Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) families who would like to share their experience of being an LGBT family.

This could be a great opportunity to gain visibility, share stories and be part of a unique history project for any LGBT families who would like to get involved

For more details email: kathryn@rainbowfamilies.org.uk

Rainbow Families is an informal social group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) parents and their children in Brighton & Hove, Sussex and surrounding areas. Membership is open to all LGBT parents, prospective parents and their children.

They are a non-profit organisation and membership is free.

They aim to create a friendly, inclusive space for parents and their children. Some of their families are led by single parents or carers, some have two mums, or two dads, or both, but whoever is included in the family everyone is welcome at Rainbow Families.

They run monthly family events such as softplay sessions, farm visits and picnics and have an annual summer camping trip and visits to Brighton Pride.

They hold regular adult social meetings in Brighton & Hove and are extending their events for older kids this year.

Rainbow Families have an active volunteer committee and new members are always welcome.

For more information about Rainbow Families, click here: 

Final Trans Swimming session in 2015

The final Trans Swimming session for 2015 will take place at St. Luke’s Swimming Pool on Wednesday, December 23 from 8.20-9.20pm.

Trans swimming classes

Trans swimming sessions commenced in Brighton in February 2014, as a result of the Trans Equality Scrutiny organised by members of the Trans Alliance, BHCC Sports Development Team, Active for Life and a group of volunteers from the community.

Bi-weekly sessions during 2016 will recommence from Wednesday, January 6.

What was originally arranged as a ten week pilot scheme has been extended indefinitely.

The sessions will keep running as long as there is demand – so if your Trans and want to swim make sure to support them as regularly as possible.

The sessions will only continue if they are supported!


Event: Trans Swimming Sessions

Where: St Lukes Swimming Pool, St Luke’s Terrace, Brighton, BN2 9ZE

When: Wednesday, December 23:

Dates for 2016 are: 06/01, 20/01, 03/02, 17/02, 02/03, 16/03, 30/03, 13/04, 27/04.

Cost: £4.75 or £2.55 concession.

For more information, click here: 

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