Pride at the Ironworks takes off!

Brighton & Hove Pride has announced Pride at the Ironworks supported by Tesco, an extensive season of smaller LGBTQ+ cultural events through August and September 2021 supporting LGBTQ+ artists and the wider community while fundraising for essential local charities and community groups that do such essential work all year round.

Ironworks Studios is a new multimedia studio and event space in the middle of Brighton, just a few minutes’ walk from the railway station and the home to Brighton & Hove Pride. There is an audience reception with licensed cafe serving teas, coffees and refreshments.

Programme:

• Tuesday, August 3 - Hannah Brackenbury‘s VICTORIOUS. Musical comedy performer Hannah Brackenbury returns with her award-winning Victoria Wood tribute show.

• Thursday, August 5 - AND NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL BINGO! A musical bingo game show with Pride anthems, hosted by drag prince Alfie Ordinary.

• Friday, August 6 - Paul Diello‘s EPICENE. A gender-blending tribute to iconic women in music.

• Sunday, August 8 - THE GLORY. Jonny Woo and Rudi Douglas lead a sing-along of top gay pop songs, featuring Mz Kimberley and Mahatma Khandi.

• Thursday, August 12: Madeleine MacMahon‘s ALTO-HOLIC. Comedy, songs and stories showing the highs and lows of her alto vocal range.

• Friday, August 13 - Glamrou aka Amrou Al

Khadi, the established film-maker, performer and author, joins BBC radio host Kathy Caton for a sit-down interview, with special guest, trans activist Fox Fisher.

• Sunday, August 15 - Miss Hope Springs continues her Brighton appearances with another chance to see I’VE BEEN AROUND, its creator Ty Jeffries’ dark and comic look at the jaded cabaret star’s disastrous life in Berlin, Paris and Dungeness.

• Thursday, August 19 - AN EVENING WITH HEATHER PEACE. Heather chats to BBC broadcaster Kathy Caton about her life, music and activism before taking to the stage for a live intimate gig in Act 2.

• Friday, August 20 - Eliza Legzdina. Mother of poetry and sorceress of sounds, Eliza Legzdina is Latvia’s best kept secret with lyrics loud in their sexpositive affirmation.

• Saturday, August 21 - The Bitten Peach. The UK’s only gender-diverse pan-Asian cabaret collective serve cabaret, burlesque, drag, music, aerial and dance.

• Sunday, August 22 - BEN WILL I BE FAMOUS?. Ben Papworth presents his own show packed with show tunes, campery, belting and wine.

• Wednesday, August 25 - Girli, co-presented by Joy. Girli, an English singer-songwriter and rapper, performs music about feminism, sexuality, queer culture, and mental health.

• Thursday, August 26 - Ian Elmslie’s OLD BOYFRIENDS. A one gay man musical revue, featuring an eclectic selection of original songs, reflecting on past loves and the lessons learned.

• Friday, August 27 - Willy Hudson’s BOTTOM. Bums, Beyoncé and burnt fish fingers, a queer coming-of-age remix with a cracking soundtrack.

• Saturday, August 28 - Cibebra’S 50 YEARS OF PLEASANT PICTURES. The award-winning musicalcomedy duo are back with their third addition to the Cinebra anthology. A marvellously anarchic romp.

• Sunday, August 29 - Boogaloo Stu’s BIG QUIFFY BINGO. Join the showbiz sensation for a bingo experience filled with special guests, frivolity, fun, filth and flashmob dances.

With the ongoing challenges that Covid continues to bring, fundraising for essential local charities and community groups has never been more important. Pride at the Ironworks will allow Pride to continue to ensure that every ticket sold will include a charitable donation to the Brighton Rainbow Fund.

Since 2013 Brighton & Hove Pride has raised almost £1 million for local LGBTQ+ and HIV charities, community groups, social impact organisations and cultural activities in Brighton & Hove, the vast majority of it distributed through the Brighton Rainbow Fund to specific LGBTQ+ projects that make a fundamental difference to the lives of hundreds of people in our communities.

To make the cultural programme accessible to all members of the community, Brighton & Hove Pride will be offering a number of discounted tickets for every performance. Sign up to the Stage Door list to keep up to date with events and news from Pride at the Ironworks: www.brighton-pride.org/ironworksstage-door/