This shows Siren loading up the van after a performance of ‘Mama’s Gone a-Hunting’, still wearing their costumes. Often, after a performance, the get-out had to be very fast, with no time to change. This was an outdoors, daytime performance.
A brochure of queer cultural events taking place from February 2014 - April 2014 in venues across Brighton & Hove supported by Arts Council England and Brighton & Hove City Council.
The programme features:
New Ways of Living by acclaimed choreographer Gary Clarke
The Tammy Show by Lois Weaver from legendary lesbian theatre company Split Britches
Women's House by Sh!t Theatre
If You Want Bigger Yorkshire Puddings You Need A Bigger Tin by Lucy Hutson
We Object by Figs in Wigs
Ruff by Peggy Shaw / Split Britches
Women's Day Spectacular co produced with Traumfrau
Quit Playing With Yourself featuring new work from Ginger Johnson and Jo Bannon
Hurt Me by David Hoyle
Performr a new digital commission from Marlborough Productions
Pop Ahoy! article
Argus supplement I think - this would be from 2006.
Article by David McNamee
The photo in the article is by Toby Amies from 2002, and was taken at Lighthouse Studios on Middle Street in Brighton
Social photos taken during Brighton Pride in Preston Park, 2003. The theme was "All the Fun of the Fair", photos show fortune telling in the library tent with Maria Jastrzebska (poet) and Caroline Halliday (artist and poet).
Social photos taken at Brighton Pride, 2004, in Preston Park. These feature the Unison stall and the Pavilion lit up pink to celebrate the event, and some members of the Polish women’s group (Polki feminiski)
A memory of a visit to Brighton Pride 2006
The image text reads:
"Brighton Pride 2006 memory
An amazing day, walking near Preston Park, celebrating, drinking and embracing everyone.
Such a sense of community, a lot of chaps, someone dressed as Elizabeth and partying long into the night.
After all memory of a sense of Joy"
Pride float 2023. To commemorate the 50 years since the very first Brighton Pride, Alf Le Flohic and I recreated some placards we had seen the Sussex GLF carrying on some of their protest marches. Gomorrah is Hot was a bit of poetic licence to go with the one about Sodomy being cool, which is a slogan seen in one of the old photos. Also on the float was my friend Danny and several fellow community curators from the Queer the Pier Exhibition at Brighton Museum.
Me in backyard after watching Pride march pass bottom of Edward Street. Dressed as a Stonewall go-go dancer, the theme that year was 50 years since Stonewall. It was also the year that Armistead Maupin popped into our party!
Digital Reproduction of the centre pages and back page of the programme for the Siren Play 'From the Divine'.
1. This shows the people involved in the production, as well as a breakdown of scenes in Act 1 and Act 2 of the play.
The programme acknowledges funding (for the first time) for Siren from South East Arts Association and Eastern Arts Association.
2. This shows an advert from the GLC Women’s Committee welcoming Siren to London with its anti-war play, ‘From the Divine’. It has an image of the GLC Peace Statue from the South Bank in London.