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An Evening with Lauren Harries at Le Village Brighton on Friday, November 29

Le Village Brighton presents An Audience with Lauren Harries, star of Celebrity Big Brother, on Friday, November 29 from 9.30pm.

Expect the unexpected at what promises to be a camp show, which will see Lauren perform her songs I Am Woman and Upadoo. Entry is free but arrive early to avoid disappointment!

Lee Cockshott, owner of Le Village Brighton, says: “We have been trying to get Lauren for a while and after negotiations we are pleased to be able to bring her to Brighton and again next year for something different. We had Cheeky Girls last month and have some very BIG and exciting names coming up in January and February so keep your eyes peeled on our social media!”

Event: An Audience with Lauren Harries

When: Friday, November 29 from 9.30pm

Where: Le Village Brighton, 2-3 High St, Brighton BN2 1RP

More info, check out Le Village’s Facebook:

Lunch Positive Lunch Club Friday November 29th & Lunch Positive Refreshments Stall at Vigil.

 

Friday November 29th: Lunch Positive Lunch Club

Lunch Positive invite people to join them for a special Friday Lunch Club gathering, where there will be a lighting of the rembrance candle for those we have lost, and a reflection on the community and peer-support that we have all shared.

Main hall (1st floor), Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, Brighton, BN2 1RL Open 11am – 3pm.

For more information please contact Gary Pargeter on 07846 464384 or email info@lunchpositive.org

Lunch Positive will be at New Steine Gardens from 4pm on Dec 1st, offering hot drinks to everyone attending the World AIDS Day Vigil & Reading of Names. Volunteers will be on hand to answer any questions about the evening’s events, and also to take any additional names of those we have lost to be read at the vigil.

New Steine Gardens Memorial Space – Lunch Positive Refreshments Stall

New Steine Gardens, Kemp Town, Brighton: Sunday 1st December, from 4pm.

Again, for more information please contact Gary Pargeter /  info@lunchpositive.org

PREVIEW: Bella Ella – a celebration of the life and work of Ella Fitzgerald with Nicky Mitchell

Bella Ella – a celebration of the life and work of Ella Fitzgerald with Nicky Mitchell

Former front woman Nicky Mitchell of the legendary Brighton Festival award winning show, The Kroon Kat Lounge, is hosting a special one off  intimate evening where she is singing warm sweet arrangements of songs from the career of The First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald.  This is the perfect feel good heartwarming balm for the chill and damp of autumn.

Nicky frames the songs whilst telling an extraordinary life story that takes us from the streets of downtown Harlem to Ella’s international touring success.

The venue of Bom-Banes is a wonderfully intimate setting for this lovely little show. Doors open at 7.30, show starts 8.00pm with an interval of 20 minutes.

For more info or to book tickets check out Nicky’s face book site here

Fri, 6 December 2019   19:30 – 22:30

Bom-Bane’s

24 George Street

Brighton

REVIEW: Celebrating Difference:  A whole-school approach to LGBT+ inclusion by Shaun Dellenty

Celebrating Difference:  A whole-school approach to LGBT+ inclusion

Shaun Dellenty

This is a timely, well researched and pertinent book from author and writer Shaun Dellenty. Covering a wide range of issues aimed at all primary and secondary teachers.  It shows ways of making the classroom (and the whole school) an inclusive and compassionate place for everyone in it with plenty of useful and colourful resources including detailed teaching notes, posters, certificates etc. Dellenty is an independent education trainer and speaker who has been working to positively prevent LGBT+ and identity-based prejudice in the UK education system since 2009.

This book reflects his experience in this field and also his ability to listen, develop and refine ideas that have been tried and tested in various educational spaces. This guide brings it all together in one place, giving anyone teaching young people in the UK a clear, practical and well informed guide to this important area of teaching.

Out now £19.99

 

Demonstrations outside a primary school against LGBT education now permanently banned.

Demonstrations outside a primary school against LGBT education now permanently banned.

A High Court judge has ruled that an exclusion zone around Anderton Park primary school, in Birmingham, targeted by anti LGBT protesters for months is now permanent..

In his ruling Mr Justice Warby stated that the protests had an adverse effect on pupils, residents and teaching staff, leading to 21 of them needing medical support for stress symptoms.

Anti-LGBT education parents and activists had claimed that the No Outsiders programme which did not only include LGBT content, but addressed all aspects of The Equality Act 2010, contradicted their Islamic faith and was not age appropriate.

The court also heard there were additional claims made that the school had a “paedophile agenda” and staff were “teaching children how to masturbate”.

Mr Justice Warby said “None of this is true, none of the defendants have suggested it was true and the council has proved it is not true” as he handed down the ban at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre.

The ruling also stated that the lessons had been “misrepresented by parents” as the school only sought to “weave the language of equality into everyday school life”.

The lead protester Shakeel Afsar, who does not have children at the school, his sister Rosina who does and Amir Ahmed, contested the need for a legal injunction. They were all regularly active in these protests and as a result following the judgement yesterday were cited as liable to 80% of costs which the court said have yet to be calculated.

Mr Afsar said he was “bitterly disappointed with the decision of the court”.He branded the court “one-sided”, pointing out that the judge, the council’s barrister and key witnesses had been “white”, compared with the “diverse” protest supporters.

He defiantly went on to state that “We can continue to protest in the same area that we have been protesting in since June this year. These young children are not being taught the status of law.” The court ruling supported the school in its teaching of The Equality Act which has been law since 2010.

Head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said “We knew it [the No Outsiders programme] was misrepresented and that was the frustration when you are trying to go about your daily business as educators and when people say things about you that are not true, that is very difficult,” she said

“It has been awful, but my staff are unbelievable and parents are unbelievable and the children of Anderton Park are incredible human beings and we are a strong school and every single person is part of that strength.”

 

REVIEW: The Last Queen of Scotland by Ray Barron-Woolford

The Last Queen of Scotland

Ray Barron-Woolford

This superbly researched and engaging books details the life of the most important UK civil-rights activist of the past 100 years you probably knew nothing about. Author Barron-Woolford has traced former Kirkcaldy schoolteacher Kath Duncan’s role in establishing the LGBTQ and civil rights movement in 1930’s Britain and revived her struggles and accomplishments.

Kath Duncan was a teacher and an activist turned into a leader. She was one of the first women to stand as a Parliamentary candidate. She was jailed twice for making political speeches and is responsible for the first House of Commons Civil Rights debate and the establishment of The National Council Civil Liberties, which is known as Liberty today. This book brings Duncan’s passionate struggle as a leading civil rights campaigner who fought for social justice endlessly throughout her life into sharp focus and allows us to revaluate this overlooked working-class woman & pioneering LGBTQ+ activist and add another flagstone into the long road and history of equality campaign in the UK’s radical compassionate communities.

£8.99

For more info or to buy the book see the publisher’s website

 

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