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Brighton & Hove City Council Black History Month event celebrates and recognises “Black experience, Black excellence and Black futures”

Graham Robson October 16, 2024

Brighton & Hove City Council hosted a Black History Month event at Ironworks Studios on Monday, October 14, “celebrating and recognising Black experience, Black excellence and Black futures”. The event, which aligned with the Black History Month 2024 theme of reclaiming narratives, featured speeches by city leaders, including Mayor Mohammed Asaduzzaman, the first Muslim mayor […]

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Community News

Revealing St James’s Street to launch at Ironworks Studios on Sunday, November 3 with award-winning drag prince Alfie Ordinary

Graham Robson October 11, 2024

Marlborough Productions is to launch Revealing St James’s Street at Ironworks Studios in Brighton on Sunday, November 3 with award-winning drag prince Alfie Ordinary on hosting duties. Revealing St James Street is a project that embarks on a mission to collect and preserve the memories of the thriving queer community that has historically congregated in […]

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LGBTQ+ News

Re-booting Our Archive: Our Tales of Lesbian Brighton & Hove

August 19, 2024

Words by Kate Wildblood, Community Champion for Queer Heritage South‘s Live Archive project Re-booting Our Archive: Our Tales of Lesbian Brighton & Hove. What we did mattered. It always has. Lives lived, changes created, connections made. And if you were like me back in the late ’80s / early ’90s – it mattered that it […]

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Community News

Rhize Up Fest: Radical Rhizomes to open its doors to general public for the very first time at Brighton’s Ironworks on Sunday, March 24

Graham Robson March 19, 2024

To celebrate 5+ years of creative QTIBPoC communities in Brighton & Hove, Radical Rhizomes is to open its doors for the first time to the general public at Brighton’s Ironworks on Sunday, March 24, showcasing and sharing some favourite activities from its regular programme. Rhize Up Fest is a QTIBPoC-led space open to all allies […]

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Previews

PRAISE KINK: Billie Gold to bring “immersive and viciously entertaining show” to Ironworks Brighton in May

Graham Robson February 20, 2024

Queer performer Billie Gold will be bringing PRAISE KINK to Ironworks Brighton in May. If you haven’t seen Praise Kink before, expect an immersive and viciously entertaining show about identity and self-validation from a lesbian ex sex-worker and now full time drag performer. Praise Kink is a fast, wild and inspiring look at the world […]

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Community News

The Brighton Rainbow Fund presents grants to community groups and celebrates fundraisers

Chris Gull October 19, 2023

All photos by Michael Stone from Nick Ford Photography On Monday, October 16, Ironworks Studios was the venue for the 2023 event to announce the grants that have been approved by the Brighton Rainbow Fund (BRF) independent grants panel. BRF distributes funds raised within the community as grants to local LGBTQ+ and HIV projects. This […]

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Cabaret

Brighton Alternative Panto to return with CINDERELLA: REMIXED in January to raise funds for the Sussex Beacon

Graham Robson August 14, 2023

Under completely new artistic direction and production, the much anticipated Brighton tradition is back and Remixed with a live band, professional dancers and of course a cast of Brighton’s favourite cabaret stars.

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Arts

Pride at the Ironworks this September

Graham Robson September 1, 2022

As the dust settles on another Pride season, Brighton & Hove Pride is quick to remind us that Pride at the Ironworks provides all year round LGBTQ+ cabaret, music and entertainment at the gorgeous Ironworks Studios right here in Brighton.

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Arts

My Genderation to celebrate 10 years of film-making at Ironworks Studios

Graham Robson June 25, 2022

Join My Genderation, a non-profit film project that celebrates intersectional trans lives and experiences, in celebrating 10 years of trans documentation and celebration of trans lives with a special screening of hand-picked clips and short films created over the past decade at Ironworks Studios in Brighton on Thursday, July 14. 

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