The Ledward Centre (TLC), in conjunction with Brighton & Hove Albion, will be showing live Women’s team matches on the big screen in the TLC Cafe.
The first match to be screened live is Brighton & Hove Albion WFC vs Everton on Wednesday, April 19 at 7pm. The comfortable cafe will be serving teas, coffees, soft drinks and snacks.
David Raven is known throughout the nation as Maisie Trollette, and is the subject of the award-winning documentary Maisie: Britain’s Oldest Performing Drag Artiste, and is of course a much loved resident of Brighton.
The show, at the Brighton Dome on Sunday, July 23, features music from all nine decades of David’s life so far, and brings together performers, friends and admirers to pay tribute to a unique, trail blazing talent. It will, of course, also feature David.
The main show starts at the civilised time on a summer Sunday evening of 6pm, allowing plenty of time to continue the celebrations with an after-show party in the Dome foyer and bar, gathered around a piano with cast and fellow audience members.
The performance will be BSL interpreted.
Tickets available from the Dome Box Office from Friday, March 24 at 10am or CLICK HERE TO GET YOURS
The Ledward Centre (TLC), Brighton & Hove’s LGBTQ+ centre, is aiming to start broadcasting its LGBTQ+ community radio station this summer to bring relevant news, features, and entertainment from the centre to those unable to be at there in person.
The aim of TLC is to reduce loneliness and social isolation in the community, and they are aware that there are many in the LGBTQ+ community don’t have (and may not want) access to an internet connection. To make communication possible, TLC is asking for nominations for people to receive a DAB radio on long-term loan to tune into TLC radio, as well as a host of other stations.
If you know somebody who you think would benefit, and even if you want to nominate yourself, please complete this short form.
TLC radio will be broadcasting on a local DAB channel (hence the radio) and also via the website, and will be mostly talk-based, including live transmission of events at TLC, and call in programmes, quizzes and more.
Proposals for an LGBTQ+ Assembly (working title – the name will be amongst items discussed) will be discussed at an open meeting at the Ledward Centre, Brighton today: Sunday, March 5 at 3pm.
The proposals can be seen here and include suggestions for a monthly meeting open to all members of the LGBTQ+ community. and will follow on and expand on the role of the Community Safety Forum, which was disbanded during the pandemic.
The aim is to give a voice for all parts of our diverse community.
Have a look at the proposals, and come along on Sunday, March 5 to listen and / or contribute.
Tuesday, November 1 saw the return of the Brighton Rainbow Fund (BRF) Grant Presentations event for the first time in three years. Venues and fundraising events were also recognised with the Brighton Rainbow Fund Fundraising Champion Awards.
The evening was hosted by Lola Lasagne, back in Brighton from their new home in Manchester, especially to continue their tradition of fronting this event.
(All photographs by generous permission of Nick Ford Photography)
The event took place at Ironworks Studio; Brighton & Hove Pride provided wine for a reception, with food prepared by local HIV charity Lunch Positive.
First order of the night was the presentation of those 2022 Fundraising Champion Awards to Brighton & Hove Pride, which raised £220,000 for BRF to distribute this year; Brighton Bear Weekend, which raised £6,000 for BRF; Legends, which raised £3,000 over Pride Weekend (with thanks due to the performers who gave their time and talent for the Sunday Cabaret too); Revenge, which raised £3,000 over Pride Weekend; Rockwater, which raised £2,800; and The Bulldog, which raises funds for BRF most evenings of every week, with the 2022 total currently in excess of £4,000.
At the beginning of October this year, to mark the third anniversary of the death of James Ledward, who founded BRF back in 2010, the first of an Annual Online Raffle was held. The prize was a high quality framed print of a photograph taken by Nick Ford at a photoshoot with cast members of an Alternative Pantomime, all of whom signed the print.
The lucky winner was Kim Hobson, and two of those cast members presented her with the print, along with photographer Nick Ford.
Proceedings then moved onto the presentation of the grants that were approved at this year’s Annual Main Funding round.
RuPaul’s Drag Race legend Willam will be returning to Death Drop: Back In The Habit for the second week of Theatre Royal Brighton’s run, from December 19 to 24.
Willam joins RuPaul Drag Race UK stars Cheryl Hole, River Medway and Victoria Scone together with Drag King LoUis CYfer and a full drag supporting cast. Death Drop: Back in The Habit plays at Theatre Royal Brighton from Tuesday 13 to Saturday 24 December 2022. Tickets are on sale from ATGTickets.com/Brighton.
The Ledward Centre have announced the launch of a new LGBTQ+ Meet Up group called Matinee Idols, and their first event will be to see the Cher Show at Theatre Royal Brighton.
Chris Gull, Director of The Ledward Centre, the LGBTQ+ Community and Cultural Centre is enthusiastic about this first MeetUp Group based at TLC.
“We´ve partnered up with The Theatre Royal Brighton to enable our members to get together as a group to watch shows. We meet Up in the TLC Cafe at 2pm and then walk the short distance to The Theatre Royal at 2:15 in time to settle into our stall seats for the 2:30 Matinee Show. At the interval we have a private room to avoid the interval crush, and after the show we walk back to TLC to enjoy tea or coffee and a pastry, and most importantly a chat with our fellow theatre lovers. We get the advantage of reduced prices for group bookings and no booking fee, plus the chance to meet new people with shared interests”
Tickets for The Cher Show are £40 including the post show refreshments at TLC, and can be bought here
To join Matinee Idols Meet Up group, and to receive news about future events, you need first of all to join MeetUp.com which is free, and then search for “The Ledward Centre LGBTQ+ Meet Up Groups”
The Ledward Centre, Brighton’s new LGBTQ+ community and cultural centre in Jubilee Street, is holding its first Book Club this Friday evening from 7pm.
Author Adam Macqueen talks with Scene magazine reviewer Eric Page about Beneath the Streets and The Enemy Within, his second Tommy Wildeblood novel on Friday, October 21 at 7pm.
This first meeting is a Meet the Author event with Adam Macqueen reading extracts from his second Tommy Wildeblood novel, The Enemy Within.
Readers of the previous novel Beneath the Streets will be familiar with the book’s hero, Tommy, a former rent boy, turned investigator.
Eric Page recently reviewed The Enemy Within for Scene magazine, and will be talking to Adam at the event about the book, and about Tommy Wildeblood.
Here’s part of Eric’s review…
“Tommy Wildeblood, an ex-rent boy who knows too much gets dragged down into the terror plot of the decade threatening the life of the prime minister and the man he loves but struggles to understand or trust.
“Adam Macqueen has a real skill in keeping the narrative tension slowly rising as the book progresses, and folds in character and plot lines so that the tension is wound tighter and tighter.” Eric Page.
You can read the complete review of The Enemy Within here
The inaugural Book Club event, rescheduled from September 8, is taking place in the comfortable Cafe-Lounge of the Ledward Centre. As well as talking to Eric about his books, Adam will be reading extracts from The Enemy Within, and answering questions from the floor.
The Ledward Centre, the new LGBTQ+ Centre in Jubilee Street has announced that they will mark James Ledward´s Birthday each year with a fundraising event.
Today, 5th September, James would have been 69, and as the inaugural fundraising event TLC have been working with Nick Ford (who took so many of GScene´s cover images) to organise an online fundraising raffle (actually a text raffle).
As the prize Nick has chosen his favourite image of James, surrounded by “drag artistes” (as David Raven would have it) and produced a unique, one off, prize.
The image is produced on quality metallic finish art paper, without the watermark, 30 inches x 20 inches, and signed by the supporting artistes in the picture, and framed.
The raffle is open from now until midday on Tuesday 13th September, when the winner will be drawn, and informed.
Entry is by voluntary donation (so technically you can enter without donating…but come on! This is a good cause in memory of James!). Text JAMES to 70215, (or scan the QR code) and follow the instructions.
You will be asked how many entries you want, and you add ONE for a voluntary donation of £5, TWO for a voluntary donation of £10, or FOUR for a voluntary donation of £20 to the message (For instance for one entry the text message should read JAMES ONE) (or you can text NODONATION if you´re not going to donate but still want to enter). Then press send and you’re in! (Your thank you message will come from The Brighton Rainbow Fund, who are kindly organising the raffle, and donations will be ringfenced in their TLC Fund for The Ledward Centre to draw on)
Those who donate £10 or more, and don´t win the prize, will receive the image as a postcard.
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