PIE IN THE SKY, a charity comedy night at Skyfall Restaurant in Hove, will be raising money for Rockinghorse Children’s Charity.
This months host,Drag with No Name, will be joined by Keris Lea, hot footing her way back from a sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival.
The pair will combine live vocals with cheeky patter, impressions and visual comedy providing a belly full of laughs, all in aid of a great local children’s charity.
Booking for the show is advisable. If you would like to dine at the restaurant before the show, telephone 01273 041007 or book online.
Event: Pie in the Sky: A belly full of laughs
Where: Skyfall Restaurant, 42 Church Rd, Hove BN3 2FN
A rainbow flag proudly flies above the Civic Hall in the historic market town of Totnes, Devon celebrating their fourth Pride on September 3.
Civic Hall Totnes
The flag raising ceremony, described by one onlooker as “moving and heartwarming” was followed by Totnes’ first LGBT+ History Walk led by local Writer, Historian and Publisher Bob Mann.
Totnes’ first LGBT+ History Walk
The flag raising ceremony comes just two months after Abingdon Council voted against a motion to fly the rainbow flag from the town’s county hall next June in support of Oxford Pride.
Proud2Be co-founder Mat Price said:“We are thrilled that the rainbow flag is flying in Totnes and are grateful to the Town Council for its support. We urge all councils in the UK who have voted against similar proposals, to reconsider their position and show that they are truly committed to nurturing and celebrating diversity in their area.”
Totnes Mayor Eleanor Cohen supports the raising of the Rainbow Flag.
The ceremony marks the start of the Towns’ fourth ever Pride celebration, which will take place this Saturday, September 3
Totnes-based social enterprise, Proud2Be have organised a whole host of events, to bring the LGBT+ community together with their friends, families and supporters, to celebrate diversity in the town.
This year’s special guests include Helen Belcher, who is one of the founders of Trans Media Watch who campaign on equal marriage, trans healthcare and gender recognition reform.
Helen said:“I’m really proud to have been invited to speak at Totnes Pride, and am looking forward to a fine day with fine people in one of Devon’s finest towns.”
Helen will be joined by Holly Greenberry and Dawn Vago, co-founders and co directors of IntersexUK and #5 on Independent on Sunday’s Rainbow List 2015.
Last year’s guest activist Jacq Applebee said about the event: “I encourage anyone who can to go! It’s one of the most inclusive LGBT+ events I’ve ever known”.
The day will start at 11am outside The Dartmouth Inn, where there will be opening speeches from Helen, Proud2Be founders Jon & Mat Price and Totnes Mayor Eleanor Cohen who together with award-winning Samba ROC Band, will then lead a procession up Fore Street and High Street to Totnes Civic Hall at 11.30am.
Road closures will be in place between 10.30am – 1pm at Ticklemore Street and from the bottom of Fore Street up to where the High Street meets Castle Street.
This year, Proud2Be have teamed up with local charity ROC Creative to create a ten-foot tall puppet to lead this year’s Pride Procession.
Community bus service Bob the Bus, will run a park and ride service from 10am at King Edward VI Community College (KEVICC) and will also be transporting those with mobility issues up the procession at 11.15.
From midday, at the Civic Hall, visitors can enjoy, workshops and talks, community stands, Dot’s Cafe, a youth space and a variety of family friendly activities including art and craft, scrap modelling, face painting and much more.
There will be a panel discussion from 1.45pm at Totnes Cinema, where local and national activists will discuss how divisions can be broken down within the LGBT+ community.
The fun continues into the evening at Totnes Pride After Party from 7.00pm at Totnes Civic Hall, which will feature live music from popular Disco Funk band Golddust, P?nk (UK’s No.1 tribute to P!nk) and DJ sets from Madame Souza and Rhi Rhythm.
Following a successful Big Lottery bid, for the first time, entry to the daytime events will be free.
Tickets to the After Party are £10.00 (18 and over only) and are available to purchase online and at the Totnes Pride day event.
Mayor, Eleanor Cohen
Totnes Mayor, Eleanor Cohen, said:“As Mayor, I welcome this event and look forward to seeing an exciting and vibrant celebration of difference and unity, all equal in our social mix.”
Proud2Be are also encouraging local businesses and residents to show their support by displaying rainbow flags during the week of Pride. These are available to buy from Proud2Be.
To find out more about Totnes Pride or to buy an After Party ticket, click here:
Holiday on Ice returns to the Brighton in January 2017 with their new show BELIEVE directed by Olympic and four-times world champion, Christopher Dean.
BELIEVE will run from January 4-8 and is your only chance to see the show in the UK.
The show tells the modern-day story of the traditional Shakespeare classic, Romeo and Juliet about desire, jealously and true love, and features Olympic level choreography combined with the best live music, beautiful décor, glamorous costumes and hi-tech special effects.
BELIEVE will be the first time that Christopher Dean and Holiday On Ice’s producers Stage Entertainment have worked on together; a new milestone in the great tradition of collaborations between Holiday on Ice and Olympic champions.
As director and choreographer Dean will orchestrate a creative team of highly acclaimed professionals including Stephen Emmer (Music Director), Nicolas Vaudelet (Costume Designer) and Bart Doerfler (Artistic Director Holiday on Ice).
Christopher Dean
Commenting on the partnership Christopher Dean, said:“I’ve been on the ice for forty-seven years, performing in shows, training and choreographing others but now I look forward to creating a new Holiday on Ice show with the best skaters in the world.”
Holiday on Ice has been producing shows for over seven decades attracting over 328 hundred million visitors to venues world-side.
Tickets for BELIEVE at The Brighton Centre will go on sale on Friday, September 2 at 10am
Event: Holiday on Ice: BELIEVE
Where: Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton
When: January 4 – January 8.
Cost: Tickets start from £15 for children under 16
Japanese erotic manga is in a world of its own and this first-of-its kind anthology shares and explains a wide cross-section of some of the best artists and story tellers working in the field today. Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to this hyper-masculine world. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan.
Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi and Kazuhide Ichikawa are three of the irresistibly seductive, internationally renowned artists featured in Massive, as well as recognisable to a British audience – Gengoroh Tagame. The book uses frank interviews, photography, and some considered analysis to give us intimate insights into the artists along with many examples of their illustrations and seriously hot, sensual, and sexy manga.
Massive also includes the groundbreaking, titillating, heaving sweaty and in your face erotic work of gay manga luminaries Takeshi Matsu, Fumi Miyabi, Inu Yoshi, Gai Mizuki and comic essayist Kumada Poohsuke. Certainly worth a repeated rummage.
You can buy these super cool Massive manga inspired clothes here, worth a gander just for the photo’s.
This is the first hand account and an instructive, compelling personal experience of American lesbian feminist Chivvis Moore and her travels around the Arabic world. It’s actually two books in one, the first half of the book taking us on her reason for leaving American for a year in the late 1970’s, the sudden arrival in an Arabic culture and the slow and sure adaption to a way of life not as alien, oppressive and savage as we are all taught, but one where liberty, life and community have different meanings with different expectations and demands from the people who live with each other. Moore’s insights can be academic but there are moments in the book which are transcendental; her understanding of the way that creative people, craft and create a healthy culture and how being able to make, meld and elaborate our physical word gives us meaning as people, parents and citizens is a challenge to the manufactured mutterings of consumption that the western world offers us as meaning.
Her arguments are compelling, her being a carpenter is a running theme in the book and she works words as she does wood, anticipating knots and grain and knowing how the beauty of something will be revealed when hands have worn a groove. I liked her prose; it’s very comfortable to read even when the subject matter is anything but. It handles stress well, her voice is quiet but persistent. There are plenty of personal moment that convince about the dignity and acceptance of a western feminist lesbian living in an apparently repressive society, but Moore is no idealist, she keeps her keen eye on real politic.
Read more about Moore and the development of this book on her website here:
The second half of the book takes us into a decade of Moore working in Palestine and confronts us with searing observational honestly. Here Moore bears witness to living in Palestine under an increasingly repressive Israeli occupation and what ever your political views you can’t help but be shocked and moved by these eyewitness accounts of the day-to-day horrors of Palestinian life and simple joys grabbed from adversity.
Not an easy read, but not an easy subject, Moore gives us her own unfazed clarity of view and guides us into the heart of the community and the way it embraces and occasionally judges her. Perhaps this would have been better as two separate books but it’s been a long time since I’ve read a narrative with such force that has made me think so hard about received wisdoms.
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