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Live Ghost Hunt Brighton – Spooky!

Join mediums Ami Angel Morris, Sascha Cooper and metaphysical examiner Adrian J Andrews for an experience you are unlikely to ever forget at a time of the year when the veil between the spirit world and our own is at its thinnest.

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You are invited  to be a part of a Live Ghost Hunt in one of the most haunted locations in Brighton, the second most haunted city in the country.

The audience participation event, hosted by Taigo Santana and filmed as a ‘Special’ for the web series DEAD but NOT FORGOTTEN will take place at The Synergy Centre, “one of the spookiest place in Brighton” and formerly know as Tru Nightclub and Creation, home to the legendary Wild Fruit club nights for twenty years.

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Event: Live Ghost Hunt Brighton

Where: The Synergy Centre, 78 West Street, Brighton

When: Thursday, September 29, 2016

Time: 8pm to midnight

Price: £25

For more information, click here: 

Could the Paralympics inspire you to adopt?

With the Paralympics beginning on September 7, Reading based adoption charity Parents And Children Together (PACT) raise awareness of the children with a disability waiting to be adopted.

WEB.600.2PACT provides adoption services to local families in Brighton and Hove along with award-winning therapeutic support and also runs community projects for vulnerable women in Reading and children affected by domestic abuse in Oxfordshire and West Berkshire.

PACT specialises in finding families for ‘harder to place’ children who wait longer to be adopted, these children can be aged five and over, part of a sibling group, of BME heritage or have additional needs or disabilities. At the last count, more than 70% of the children waiting to be adopted in England were classed as ‘harder to place’. 

Jan Fishwick
Jan Fishwick

PACT CEO Jan Fishwick, says: “PACT has helped a number of families adopt children with physical, genetic or learning impairments including Downs Syndrome and Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and would like to find more loving homes for disabled children – who often wait the longest.”

PACT adopter Joanne (not real name) has adopted three children who all have additional needs. She says: “It is a misconception that these kids are challenging. It’s different, they need you so much more than an ordinary child and the opportunity to bond is readily available.”

Ahmed Kelly to swim for Australia
Ahmed Kelly to swim for Australia

Iraqi-born Ahmed Kelly was adopted aged seven by an Australian woman after being born with severely deformed limbs and abandoned on the doorstep of a Baghdad orphanage as a baby. After a top four finish at London 2012, Kelly will compete for Australia in the Rio 2016 Paralympic swimming events and is currently ranked first in Australia in the 100m breaststroke.

To find out more about adopting with PACT or to attend an information event to find out more, click here:

Or telephone: 0300 456 4800.

 

BOOK PREVIEW: ‘Purple Prose’ debuts at Leicester Pride today

WEB.300New book on bisexuality features at Leicester Pride today, September 3.

A new book on bisexuality co-curated by a University of Leicester staff member will feature on the University’s stand at Leicester Pride tomorrow, Saturday, September 3, 2016.

Grant Denkinson, Research Archive Manager at the University of Leicester, has co-curated the non-monogamies chapter of Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain – an anthology looking at all the aspects of the day-to-day and night-to-night life of a bisexual person in the UK.

The book’s editor Kate Harrad will join Grant and other University staff members at Leicester Pride in Victoria Park, where copies of the book will be available to purchase.

Hailed as the “first of its kind”, the book has been written for and by bisexual people in the UK and includes a wide range of experience through interview, essays, poems and stories and has also been described as “wonderfully intimate, relevant and honest”.

Grant Denkinson has worked at the University of Leicester for 13 years: first in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and more recently in the David Wilson Library where he supports researchers with all aspects of Open Scholarship and Research Data Management.

He has been actively involved as a volunteer community organiser with the bisexual movement and wider LGBT+ equality issues and is co-chair of the staff LGBT+ forum.

Grant Denkinson
Grant Denkinson

He said: “I’m very pleased that the first event after the launch of the new UK bisexuality book ‘Purple Prose’ is Leicester + Pride. Our University stall features Purple Prose and hosts editor Kate Harrad which underlines the ongoing commitment from University of Leicester to all equalities and to full engagement with the wider community.”

Leicester Pride is Leicester’s annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) festival, held at the beginning of September each year. The event starts at 12 noon with a parade through the city centre leading to the festival site on Victoria Park which features a range of entertainment including live singers, dance acts and cabaret.

For more information about Leicester Pride, click here:

Wotever DIY Film Festival 2016

Wotever DIY Film Festival 2016 opens today at 2pm with a screening of Queering Families.

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The film explores the bond in families, from coming out to loved ones, to learning to relate and understand yourself as part of an LGBT+ family.

This year’s festival will be held at DIY Space for London, 96-108 Ormside St, London SE15 1TF.

The venue is on a single floor level, with access ramps, widened doors, an accessible toilet and plenty of space for manoeuvering. Toilets are gender neutral and accessible, and parking outside the venue is limited. If you need any assistance with access, email: woteverfilm@gmail.com explaining your needs.

All films will be subtitled in English and all intros and Q&As will have BSL Interpretation. The Opening Night Gala Screening and Queers vs the Patriarchy have audio description, just ask for an AD headset at the desk when you enter the venue.

The tickets for all screenings are now sold out, but organisers will be operating a standby queue. All tickets that aren’t claimed 5 minutes before the screening will be reallocated so if you arrive 20 minutes early there is a good chance you will get in.

If you have booked tickets and for some reason can’t go please contact organisers here: ASAP so your tickets can be reallocated to someone else.

There will be a vegan cafe operating on site and a bar selling alcohol, soft drinks and snacks from 6pm.

At 9:15pm on Saturday September 3, the opening night gala party gets underway with performances from Travis AlabanzaMzz Kimberley and music by Sarcastathon. There are just two tickets left for this: be quick and grab them before they’re gone!

For more information about the screenings, click here: 

 

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