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Day: January 21, 2017

Tickets for B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL events go on sale in St James Street

Posted on by Besi

Tickets for events during the B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL, part of LGBT+ History Month are now on sale in St James Street venues, in the heart of the gay village.

Both Prowler located at 112-113 St. James Street, Brighton: telephone 01273 683680 and Nice ‘n’ Naughty at 32 St James’s St, Brighton: telephone 01273 626442 are carrying tickets for all the main entertainment events during the Festival.

LGBT+ History Month is a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT+) history, providing role models and building communities.

Currently, LGBT+ History Month is a month-long celebration that is specific to the United States and the United Kingdom. In the United States, it is celebrated in October to coincide with National Coming Out Day on October 11. In the United Kingdom, it is observed during February, to coincide with the abolition of Section 28 in 2003.

The B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL is a three-week project in Brighton promoting unity, equality and diversity for the benefit of the city and is supported by Sussex Police. This will be done by increasing the visibility of LGBT+ people, their history, lives and experiences in the curriculum and culture of educational institutions, and the wider community in a safe environment while promoting the welfare of LGBT+ people, by ensuring that the statutory authorities recognise and enable us to achieve our full potential, so we can contribute fully to society and lead fulfilled lives, thus benefiting society as a whole.

For more information about events during the B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL, click here:

B RIGHT ON: LGBT History Month: HIV charity to serve community meal during HIV History Day

Posted on by Besi

As part of LGBT History Month in February, local HIV community groups and organisations will stage an HIV History Day on February 10 in the Phil Starr Pavilion on New Steine Gardens.

The event is open to the whole community, to remember how HIV has affected us and where we’re at now with the epidemic. The Phil Starr Pavilion will be open from 11am until 4pm, and people can just drop in throughout the day.

There will be information stalls and displays from local HIV community groups and organisations, the opportunity to meet people involved in running HIV groups and services, Radio Reverb HIV Happy Hour recordings, displays of local media on HIV, an HIV History Wall for people to share their stories & recollections, interesting talks, information on HIV activism, and a space to share your suggestions for future events.

Lunch Positive, the charity that provides a weekly HIV Lunch Club will be serving an all-day freshly prepared community meal and refreshments in a café area with plenty of tables and chairs. There is no charge for this meal, donations are welcome for people to ‘pay as you feel’.

The programme for the day continues to develop, and organisations involved in staging the HIV History Day include Community HIV Specialist Service, Lunch Positive, Martin Fisher Foundation, Peer Action, Radio Reverb, Sussex Beacon, THT South.

For more information on the History Day event and to post your own HIV history items, click here:

Event: HIV History Day and Community Meal from Lunch Positive

Where: Phil Starr Pavilion, New Steine Gardens, Brighton, BN2 1PB

When: Friday, February 10

Time: 11am-4pm

The PHIL STARR PAVILION, New Steine Gardens, Brighton, BN2 1PB provides a fully functional stage, light and sound system with heating and Licenced bar.

This ground breaking affiliation seeks to engage the city in the wide range of issues highlighted through the work of the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum, as well as partner/stakeholder work.

LGBT History Month is an international month-long annual observance of LGBT+History and the opportunity to commemorate and remember the bravery of those who campaigned and spoke out over the years to help us achieve the freedoms and equality we enjoy today.

PREVIEW: Broken Biscuits at Komedia

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Broken Biscuits, an evening of spoken word, music, comedy and film, returns to the Komedia in Brighton on Sunday, January 29 from 7.30pm.

Since its inception in April 2016, Broken Biscuits has become a collaborative old-school variety event that combines spoken word, comedy and music.

This month’s show will be compered by St Leonards-based poet Kate Tym and will feature live performances from Lorraine Bowen, Joanna Neary, Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer and Idle Eye; a live DJ/VJ set from Nick Hollywood and Joss Perring; and a showing of Dan Laidler’s animated mini-series Windy’s Farm.

Event: Broken Biscuits

Where: Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN

When: Sunday, January 29

Time: 7.30pm

Tickets: £12/£10 concs

To book tickets online, click here:

 

 

Campaigners protest two year closure of Joiners Arms today

Posted on by Besi

A demonstration will be held outside the Joiners Arms Hackney Road today, January 21.

The demo starting at 1.30pm, is being held to mark the two-year anniversary of the legendary LGBT+ venue’s closure and is organised by the Friends of the Joiners Arms a community group founded in 2014 to save and evolve the Joiners Arms pub.

The group aspires to bring the pub into community ownership so it becomes London’s first cooperatively owned LGBT+ community centre with the pub a central part of its operation.

The venue was forced to close in January 2015 as the owners working with property developers planned to bulldoze the venue to make way for luxury flats. The Joiners has remained empty ever since with no plans submitted by the owners for development.

Friends of the Joiners Arms will be linking with other campaign groups such as We Are The Black Cap and Stop The Blocks and members of the LGBT+ community in East London to show the owners of the site that the fight continues to win back the venue.

The closure of this popular venue hasn’t happened in isolation. In the last decade London has lost 50 per cent of its nightclubs, 40 per cent of its live music venues and 25 per cent of its queer venues. In east London alone three LGBT+ venues have been forced to close due to unaffordable rents and owners planning to develop commercial space into luxury flats. Soho has lost several notable grassroots live music and LGBT+ venues.

Beyond the queer venues that have been forced to close several iconic LGBT+ venues have been threatened with closure mainly due to owners wanting to develop venues into private luxury flats.

The closure of LGBT+ venues come at a time when homophobic and transphobic crime is on the rise and LGBT+ specific services have been disproportionately cut.

A survey of over 300 LGBT+ identifying individuals revealed that the decline of queer venues in London is having a detrimental impact on the health and well-being of the community.

Jon Ward, co-chair of the Friends of the Joiners Arms says: “The Joiners was one the few late night LGBT+ venues in the east end and its closure has left a massive hole in queer night scene and in our hearts. The venue closed because of greed and nothing else, why should such an important queer space be left to rot when it could be such an asset to the community.”

Amy Roberts, co-chair of Friends of the Arms, added: “We invite everyone to join us at 1.30pm on Saturday to show the strength of feeling that remains the Joiners Arms is our space and the community wants it back.”

 

Brighton Kemptown MP visits Sussex University’s ’12 Women in Academia Exhibition’

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Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven visits Sussex University’s 12 Women in Academia Exhibition in the House of Commons.

In celebration of women working in higher education, twelve female academics at the University of Sussex were invited to be part of a series of photography portraits.

Each was asked to choose an object with which to be photographed that either represented an aspect of their work or had some personal significance in their career.

Inspired by the 17th-Century Dutch artist Rembrandt, fine-art photographer Miss Aniela created a series of portraits that capture the lives and work of these women.

Mr Kirby, said: “I was pleased to see this exhibition displayed in the House of Commons. This is a major initiative for the University with the exhibition celebrating the work of a range of female academics at different stages of their career.  It underlines the University’s commitment to issues of equality and provides inspiration to a generation of young women.” 

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