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Win tickets to ‘HOLI ONE’ Colour festival tomorrow

Gscene have five pairs of tickets to give away in a competition for the event.

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Answer the following question What colours are HOLI ONE Powder available in. By email to info@gscene.com

Brighton Racecourse is the venue for one of the world’s most unique, fun and exciting festival series this weekend.

The HOLI ONE Colour festival takes place tomorrow, Saturday, July 5 from noon until 10pm at Brighton Race Course and aims to unite people through music and colour.

Thousands of people are expected to share music, dance, performance art and visual stimulation.

Against a backdrop of dance and DJ music, revellers get to throw powders into the air to create an explosion of colour and excitement aimed at celebrating togetherness and the colour of everyday life.

Stephan Dau, CEO and founder of HOLI ONE Colour Festivals, said: “We’re excited to bring the HOLI ONE experience to Brighton this summer. Brighton Racecourse is a fantastic location and we’re sure everybody who attends will have a great time. We’re currently in the planning phase, working with local businesses and DJs to ensure the event is as enjoyable and memorable as possible and we’d encourage local talent to get in touch if they’d be interested in performing on the day.”

Sam Bailey, commercial director at Brighton Racecourse, added: “This is the first time we have hosted a HOLI ONE festival and we couldn’t be more excited. We respect and admire the ethos behind HOLI ONE and hope Brighton’s music lovers get behind the event.”

Stephan concluded: “The festival is all about making friends, coming together and having an unforgettable experience. Everyone is equal at HOLI ONE and everyone leaves looking the same, covered in safe and quality cosmetic powder, with a smile on their face and some great pictures to remember it all by.”

Last year, HOLI ONE Colour festivals were attended by 100,000 people worldwide and took place across cities and countries that included London, South Africa and Berlin.

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Kemptown MP brings Westminster to Brighton

Simon Kirby MP for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven brought a number of Conservative MPs to the Brighton area yesterday.

Tory MPs visit Brighton

They came to see the city for themselves and hear from local residents in Brighton Kemptown the reasons why they like Brighton so much and about some of the issues that are affecting their lives.

Simon said: “As a vocal champion of the local area I invited my colleagues to visit Brighton to see for themselves everything the city has to offer and to speak to local residents about the issues affecting them.”

A large group of over 25 MPs from all over the country came down to the city with Simon. The MPs visited neighbourhoods across his Brighton Kemptown constituency, meeting residents and seeing and hearing the sights and sounds of Brighton.

Simon said: “All MPs are proud of the constituency they represent but I wanted to show my colleagues first hand what a terrific place Brighton is to live and visit and how vibrant, cosmopolitan and go ahead the place really is. The MPs were impressed with the constituency and the visit will give them a greater insight of the area when I speak about the issues affecting Brighton Kemptown in the House of Commons.”

 

 

PREVIEW: GFEST 2014 ‘Myths & Mythology’: a dynamic experience for all arts lovers

GFEST Organisers are keen this year to work with LGBTQI networks to attract corporate investment.

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An eclectic cross-arts event for London’s autumn cultural calendar, GFEST – Gaywise FESTival 2014 will showcase new visual and performance art works and films, in November 2014.

GFEST 2014 theme is Myths and Mythology and the programme will incorporate contemporary as well as classical interpretations by the artists.

The festival will take place in venues across London during November 10 – 22 and there will an exciting array of events, London/ UK premiere of films and showcasing the work from established as well as up and coming talent – offering something for everyone to engage in.

Niranjan Kamatkar, artistic director of GFEST, will be travelling to Toronto in July to develop International performance work that will be shown in London.

Niranjan said: “I am hugely optimistic about this year’s showcase where, as each year, we will be presenting excellent work from a number of artists and filmmakers. For the first time we will be working with few artists to present new work specially commissioned for GFEST 2014.”

Niranjan hopes that the Toronto trip will further build upon the festival’s international reputation as a major queer arts event in London, a city that is now seen by many as cultural capital of the world.

Since 2007 GFEST has been widely recognised as a key London platform for LGBTQI arts. It has been presenting arts works that highlight the rich, cultural and artistic heritage that exists within the community. GFEST events have been proven to be a key mechanism for encouraging a dialogue between straight people and LGBTQI communities. The festival aims to challenge homophobic, bi-phobic and transphobic attitudes and prejudices through the use of arts.

North London based arts charity Wise Thoughts, organiser of the festival, is keen to work with various community, media partners and sponsors to present the festival that is known as London’s LGBTQI cross-art event for all.

The festival organisers are in discussions with a few corporate sponsors and some key London venues and arts organisations. Niranjan said the developments are encouraging, and he is confident to present “a much larger scale event” this year provided all potential sponsors and corporate LGBT networks help support emerging artists and the excellence in the arts.

 

Collabro join Brighton Pride main stage line-up

Classical boy band, Collabro, winners of Britain’s Got Talent will appear on the main stage at Brighton Pride on August 2.

Collabro
Collabro

The five sexy boys will appear at Pride after their show stopping performances of numbers from the musical Les Miserable during this years Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) TV series.

Formed just one month before their BGT’s audition in February 2014, Collabro’s glorious voices and hot styling made them early favourites to win the nations favourite talent show and they didn’t disappoint as the nation sang-along to their wonderful renditions of Stars and Bring Him Home from Les Miserables.

Simon Cowell declared after their first audition that “Britain really did have talent” and judging by the reaction the boys have enjoyed since winning BGT, they look set for a long and glorious career.

With their debut album due in July and a line-up so stylish they are hard to resist, Michael Auger, Richard Hadfield, Jamie Lambert, Matt Pagan and Thomas J Redgrave will bring that extra touch of class to the best Main Stage line-up of talent ever at Brighton Pride as Collabro helps finally Bring Pride Home.

What: Pride Brighton & Hove 2014: Freedom To Live

Where: Pride Festival, Preston Park, Brighton

When: Saturday, August 2

Time: noon – 10pm

Tickets: Early bird /discounted advance tickets are SOLD OUT: Tickets now £20 / More on the day.

Brighton & Hove named top council for tackling homophobia and biphobia in schools

Just three months after dropping out of the Stonewall Top 100 Gay Friendly Employers Index, Brighton and Hove Council bounced back today and has been named as the top local authority in the country for tackling homophobic and biphobic bullying in schools.

Brighton & Hove CouncilStonewall, the LGB Equality charity has placed the council in first place in their 2014 Education Equality Index which rates the performance of different councils using a wide range of measures describing the council as “leading the way” in celebrating difference and supporting lesbian, gay and bisexual students.

They also praised the work the council does jointly with local charity the Allsorts Youth Project where young people from Allsorts deliver training to council and school staff and provided anti-homophobic bullying sessions in secondary PSHE lessons and primary school assemblies.

Blatchington Mill School came in for special mention for a Student Equality Conference it held earlier this year that was attended by 60 students from five secondary schools and St Nicolas’ Primary School for the innovative work it has done on challenging the use of homophobic and biphobic language in the playground.

Jess Wood MBE: Director of Allsorts LGBT Youth Project
Jess Wood MBE: Director of Allsorts LGBT Youth Project

Jess Wood, MBE, director of Allsorts the award winning LGBT youth project, said: “The council and our schools have done amazing work this year and deserve this great recognition. We cannot praise the schools highly enough. They have taken on the issues and worked tirelessly to change things for the better.

“We all work closely together and this mutual support and enthusiasm has made our schools and our city a safer place for lgbt children and young people.”

Hertfordshire Country Council and Wiltshire Council round out the top three performing local authorities in 2014.

 

 

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