Programme for 'My Fair Cinders Ain't So Hot'. A pantomime produced by Brighton's Alternative Pantomime. The programme contains the cast, acts, credits and advertisements for local businesses.
National AIDS Memorial Quilt
On the 14 March 1992, Our House Body Positive & Pink Parasol held their first support group to encourage Brighton contributions to the National AIDS Memorial quilt at the Morley Street Family Centre. At this first session the film ‘Common Threads – Stories from the Quilt’ was shown, and this inspired me to create a quilt panel for my friend Andrea Philippe Regard.
A series of exhibitions of the completed 6’ x 3’ panels celebrating the lives of people who died was arranged as part of the 1992 Brighton Lesbian and Gay Pride. On the 17th May (then known as Lesbian & Gay Remembrance Day - now International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) some of the quilt panels were displayed in the Brighton Museum, and then between the 19th and 21st May the whole National AIDS Memorial Quilt was laid out at the Holy Trinity Church, Ship Street - now the home of the Fabrica Gallery.
The quilt which my ex-partner Alf Le Flohic and his friend John Twoomey helped me to make, was also displayed at the Brighton Gay and Lesbian Pride celebration in Preston Park that year.
Video documentation of the first New Queers on the Block performance a LGBTIQ+ focused touring project supported by Arts Council England.
The performance was compered by Ophelia Bitz and featured Marikiscrycrycry, Hester Chillingworth, Stacy Makishi, Rachael Young and Sea Sharp.
The video features interviews with Ema Boswood (Programme Coordinator), Subira Wahogo (Production Assistant) and Tarik Elmoutawakil (Creative Director)
Brighton Cares newsletter, July 2000. Contains details of productions, news from the Grants Secretary, examples of thank you letters to Brighton Cares for grants awarded, and a thank you to supporters.
Newspaper clipping from January 31st 1991 with headline 'Has Mayor backed down over AIDS?' The article includes how Hove Mayor Francois Dupre who once accused many AIDS victims of being hell-bent is now supporting a major funding campaign. It also includes a section about Brighton Cares which raised money to help people living with HIV/ AIDS
Newspaper article by Pat Moorman in Brighton and Hove Leader on January 17th 1991 expressing concern in the lack of money funding the Sussex AIDS Centre
A newspaper article from Brighton and Hove Leader on 24th January 1991 advertising Brighton Theatre Group chorus, led by Ian Randall rehearsing a number for Brighton Cares II which raised funds for people with HIV/ AIDS
Anthony Luvera is an Australian artist, writer and educator based in London. Anthony collaborated with Queer in Brighton on our first commissioned project ‘Not Going Shopping’ to explore the lives of LGTBQ+ people in Brighton.
Anthony invited eleven participants to meet him and bring photographs that told their story, and they were encouraged to consider what being queer means to them, and to photograph their experiences and the things they are interested in. The group met regularly to discuss their work and share photographs, and created self-portraits in a photo booth on the North Laine, which led to discussions about photography and identity.
Anthony said of the project: “the prospect of creating this work seemed to me to offer a useful way to further my inquiry into participation and self-representation with groups of marginalized individuals, and at the same time provide an opportunity to confront my own views of queerness as a gay man… Images play a powerful role in the stories we tell about ourselves and the histories told about us. Not Going Shopping expresses the points of view of the participants and myself about what it is to be Queer in Brighton.”
1. This image depicts the front cover of the Malmo and Copenhagen edition of the Not Going Shopping Community Newspaper that accompanied the exhibition in 2015.
2. This image depicts two people reading the Not Going Shopping community newspaper, Malmö and Copenhagen edition, 2015 from Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera.
3 & 4. This image depicts an individual in a coffee shop reading the Not Going Shopping community newspaper, Malmö and Copenhagen edition, 2015 from Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera.
5. This image depicts another individual in a coffee shop reading the Not Going Shopping community newspaper, Malmö and Copenhagen edition, 2015 from Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera.
6. This image depicts the cover of the Not Going Shopping community newspaper, Malmö and Copenhagen edition, 2015 from Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera, displayed on some bins in the city centre.