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B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: SuicideTALK – Suicide awareness-raising sessions

If you work face to face with members of the LGBT community then SuicideTalk is for you.

A one-hour exploration and awareness-raising session suitable for all individuals and groups within all communities.

If you are concerned about suicide in your community this training can help you talk about one of the most taboo subjects in the world today.

Grassroots Suicide Prevention, LGBT Switchboard, MindOut and the LGBT Community Safety Forum are working together to ensure that those working in the LGBT community are trained in having conversations about suicide.

In just an hours training you will see that it is okay to talk about suicide as well as find out more about the local services that are available to those wanting support. This might be enough to save a life.

If you work in a bar, club, cafe or any other LGBT venue, then take an hour out of your day to attend this workshop. It will run in a very relaxed way and it is your opportunity to find out more as well as ask any questions that you might have.

The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival celebrating LGBT History Month, is organised by the volunteers of the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum and takes place at the Phil Starr Pavilion – a multi functional, fully accessible, heated performance, conference and community space with a licensed bar which is located on Victoria Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1WN.


Event: SuicideTALK – Suicide awareness – raising sessions

Where: Phil Starr Pavilion, Victoria Gardens, Brighton

When: Monday, February 19

Time: 11am-12noon and 4pm-5pm

Cost: Free

To reserve a place online, click here:

B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Cream tea with LGBT Switchboard

Pop along to the Phil Starr Pavilion and have a cream tea with the LGBT Switchboard Team.

Learn more about LGBT Switchboard including the Older Persons Project over a cream tea!

To help Switchboard cater  for the right amount of numbers, email: brighton.admin@switchboard.org.uk or call them on 01273 234009 to book your place

The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival celebrating LGBT History Month, is organised by the volunteers of the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum and takes place at the Phil Starr Pavilion – a multi functional, fully accessible, heated performance, conference and community space with a licensed bar which is located on Victoria Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1WN.


Event: Cream tea with LGBT Switchboard

Where: The Phil Starr Pavilion, Victoria Gardens, Brighton

When: Monday, February 19, 2018

Time: 2-4pm

Cost: Free (donations welcome)

 

 

B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Paul Diello – EPICENE

Award winning singer songwriter Paul Diello brings his gender-blending extravaganza ‘Epicene’ to the B Right On LGBT Community Festival after a sold out success at Brighton Fringe.

Paul Diello invites you to his gender-blending celebration of iconic women in music. After a run of three sold out, five star reviewed and award nominated performances for this years Brighton Fringe Festival, Paul and his 7 piece ensemble bring the show back to Brighton for the B Right On Festival.

Join the avant-garde performer and his band on a colourful, camp cabaret extravaganza as they re-imagine classic songs originally performed by legendary female artists such as Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell and PJ Harvey, to name but a few.

Dance, sing, laugh and cry as Paul interweaves his stories of childhood out-castings and social misfittery into well loved compositions. Every sense will be tantalised in this outrageous, rainbow coloured romp.

With songs picked from a wide range of genres and time periods, some tunes will take people on an emotional journey of nostalgia and others will make people want to get up, dance and sing along (which will be strongly encouraged).

EPICENE is a musical event presented in a cabaret style that will appeal to a wide audience, bringing together regular gig goers, fans of the theatre and cabaret queens as well as the LGBT community and its allies. The production is a comedic but raw tale of growing up in a world feeling disconnected.

Paul says: “I wanted to create a fun platform for me to share my story of gender confusion through music that was personal to me but that would reach others and spread the message of the ‘It Gets Better’ project” (an organisation whose mission is to communicate to LGBT youth around the world that life does get better).”

Paul Diello has released two LP’s, 2011’s The Last Green Bottle and 2014’s Looking Glass and has toured extensively, promoting both bodies of work across the UK, Europe and America supporting artists including Texas, Jarvis Cocker and Kyla La Grange. He has made many festival appearances including Edinburgh Fringe, The Big Chill, Blissfields and in 2015 he opened the Brighton Pride Festival on the main stage in Preston Park.

Paul won Best Solo Artist at Brighton Music Awards 2010 and was nominated for Best Video. He also performed at The Brighton Centre to an audience including Jimmy Page, Roger Daltrey and Arthur Brown.

The B Right On LGBT Community Festival celebrates LGBT History Month, is organised by the volunteers of the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum and takes place at the Phil Starr Pavilion – a multi functional, fully accessible, heated performance, conference and community space with a licensed bar which is located on Victoria Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1WN.


Event: Paul Diello – EPICENE

Where: Phil Starr Pavilion, Victoria Gardens, Brighton

When: Sunday, February 18

Time: 7.30pm

Cost: £13

To book tickets online, click here:

B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Outside Out: Rough Sleeping and Homelessness in the LGBT Community

Brighton and Hove has a reputation as a safe space for all and many people come here seeking to live a life unhindered and as part of an all-embracing community.

The city also has a serious housing crisis with no drastic solutions in view for people who have lived here their whole lives or for those newly arrived.

Brighton & Hove has the second highest number of rough sleepers in the country after Westminster and many more people are vulnerably housed in insecure and unstable housing including emergency B&B’s, supported accommodation, backpacker hostels and sofa surfing.

Our young people are exchanging sex for accommodation. Our older people remain invisible and uncounted.

Are you uncomfortable with this and do you want to be part of the change?

How do we as a community support those who are rough sleeping and vulnerably housed and could we do more?

Go along and hear the voices of lived experience, explore what the key issues are and learn about current support frameworks.

Then the group will investigate together what the opportunities are to make things better by considering practical solutions and fantastical visions through small table guided discussion and whole group dialogue.

If you want to be part of creating a different world then your experience, knowledge, voice and commitment are needed to make this happen. Go and be a part of the solution!

If you have lived experience of rough sleeping and homelessness in Brighton and Hove and would like to talk about this or you would like to be part of the team delivering this event email: greg.headley@passage.org.uk

Greg Headley has worked in rough sleeping and homelessness for over 15 years and for the last five this has been in Brighton and Hove as the LGBT lead worker for the street outreach team. He is currently the Project Coordinator of The Brighton and Hove Charity Link Project, a newly commissioned service funded for two years who aim to build city-wide resilience and improved collaboration between the communities, established charities and the commissioned services as we work together towards ending rough sleeping.

The B Right On LGBT Community Festival celebrates LGBT History Month, is organised by the volunteers of the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum and takes place at the Phil Starr Pavilion – a multi functional, fully accessible, heated performance, conference and community space with a licensed bar which is located on Victoria Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1WN.


Event: Outside Out: Rough Sleeping and Homelessness in the LGBT Community

Where: Phil Starr Pavilion, Victoria Gardens, Brighton

When: Sunday, February 18

Time: 10am – 1pm

Cost: Free

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