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The Coast Is Queer, Brighton’s well-established festival of LGBTQ+ writing, returns this year from 10-13 October

Brian Butler September 17, 2024

The Coast Is Queer, Brighton’s well-established festival of LGBTQ+ writing, returns this year from 10-13 October with conversations, panels, workshops, performance and films, celebrating queer writing. It was the first festival of its kind in the UK, and it’s once again at the Attenborough Centre for The Creative Arts, creating a space for queer readers, […]

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The Coast is Queer to return to Brighton in October

Graham Robson August 24, 2023

The festival brings together an exciting lineup of nationally and internationally acclaimed queer writers, poets, performers and activists in a three-day festival of accessible, lively in-conversation events, workshops, films and discussions celebrating LGBTQ+ lives and writing.

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LGBTQ+ News

LGBTQ+ event at Death Festival – Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

Graham Robson November 9, 2022

On Saturday, November 12 from 1pm – as part of the Death Festival at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts – catch journalist and broadcaster Kieran Yates speaking to a panel of researchers, campaigners, and grief support workers as they discuss LGBTQ+ experiences of dying, death and bereavement.

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Arts

The Gloopshow Episode 2: GLOOPTOPIA! this weekend

February 6, 2020

The Gloopshow Episode 2: GLOOPTOPIA! Oozing Gloop For the past two years, Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre have successfully produced, commissioned and toured New Queers On The Block, a programme created to develop performances by internationally renowned LGBTQ+ performing artists. NQOTB has travelled from Brighton to cities where such targeted and often experimental work is rarely seen, […]

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Peter Pan Panto raises nearly £4,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital

Gary Hart February 18, 2019

The much-loved pantomime Peter Pan, from JW Productions at Brighton’s Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts in December pulled in record audience attendances with many performances sold-out.

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PREVIEW: What’s coming up at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

Besi Besemar September 12, 2017

As part of the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts autumn programme there are a lots of amazing events to look out for. One not to miss is David Hoyle’s show Diamond, in association with The Marlborough Theatre. Diamond is an unforgiving queer performance of sexuality.

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PREVIEW: Brighton Festival Chorus: Summer Concert at Attenborough Centre for

Besi Besemar July 1, 2017

Brighton Festival Chorus (bfc) celebrates its 50th anniversary season with a summer concert at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts. bfc has been rehearsing at the University of Sussex since 1968 when Laszlo Heltay, the University’s Director of Music, formed the Chorus. Heltay auditioned many of its founding members in the Attenborough Centre building, and so a return to this venue is a timely way to reflect on the birth of the Chorus.

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