Brighton Pride Arts and Film Festival (BPAFF) launches on July 17 at Jubilee Library.
After the success of the ‘ICONS’ exhibition last year, a flagship event for Brighton Pride’s first Arts and Film Festival, artists from the LGBT sector (and their supporters) will be returning to the Jubilee Library this summer for another creative extravaganza.
The event organised by Hizzie Fletcher will bring together a collective of artistic talent to raise funds for Pride and their nominated charity, The Rainbow Fund.
Last year an auction of rare posters donated by The Keith Haring Foundation in New York City raised over £1,300 for The Rainbow Fund, a Brighton and Hove based grant-giving fund for local LGBT and HIV/AIDS organisations. A further £600 was donated to Pride raised via art sales and the private view event and was also used to benefit the LGBT community in Brighton.
Millions of people continue to live in places that outlaw same-sex relationships and prosecute people for being gay. In five countries and in parts of two others, homosexuality is still punishable with the death penalty, while a further 70 countires imprison citizens because of their sexual orientation. Even where homosexuality is legal, many countries treat those in same-sex relationships differently.
In the UK we are lucky to have the freedom to be who we are and it’s imperative that we are a strong voice for those in countries less fortunate than ourselves and to help liberate those tied down and held back by injustice.
In a world fraught with hate and discrimination ART is a way of freely expressing ourselves.
Festival organiser Hizze Fletcher, says: ‘‘We were overwhelmed by the public interest that was generated around last year’s event and it has motivated us to expand the Arts & Film festival this year. It will enable us to showcase the talents of the LGBT creative community (and their supporters) to a wider audience”
Director of Pride, Paul Kemp, added: “2013 was a groundbreaking year for Pride with over 20 umbrella events contributing to the first Pride Arts and Film season. With this years ‘Freedom to Live’ campaign we really would love to see even more LGBT artists getting involved and helping us develop the cultural offering. We’re thrilled that Hizze Fletcher has agreed to come on board again with Pride to produce the Pride Arts exhibition at the Jubilee Library, which was one of the keystone events last year”
The Freedom To Live exhibition runs from July 18 to August 4 and will launch with a private view on Thursday July 17 at Jubilee Library, hosted by Dolly Rocket and featuring live music by local band, Della Lupa.
10% of art sales and all profits from the private view event will be donated to Pride and The Rainbow Fund.
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As well as art directing the main exhibition Hizze Fletcher will be organising two other art events for BPAFF via her company, Thirteen Art Productions, as part of the two week celebrations.
Photographic exhibition Shoot Me, I’m Gay will feature an abundance of photographic talent from the LGBT community (and their supporters). The exhibition will take place at The Sidewinder, Upper St.James Street in Kemp Town, will launch on Monday July 21 at 6pm and run for a month.
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In addition, Thirteen Art Productions presents FINEGAN MURPHY featuring Brighton’s most charismatic brother and sister LGBT fine art acts, Precious Murphy and Kitty Finegan. They will be showing an extensive collection of solo and collaborative work at the new exhibition space within Velvet Tattoo, 48 Norfolk Square. The show will launch on Monday, July 28.
10% of any art sales from both events will be donated to Brighton Pride and their nominated charity The Rainbow Fund.
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