Features Desk, Author at

35 film shortlist announced for £30,000 Iris Prize.

Features Desk11th September 202011th September 2020

Thirty five international filmmakers are set to compete for £30,000 prize money as the organisers of Cardiff’s International LGBT+ Short Film Prize.

Home or away? You won’t believe these holiday homes are in Britain!

Features Desk9th July 20209th July 2020

Features / Travel

Just because holidaymakers are bound to home soil, doesn’t mean they can’t recreate the feeling of being somewhere more exotic and far-flung.

Five Films for Freedom campaign begins today.

Features Desk18th March 202018th March 2020

Arts & Culture / Features

Five Films For Freedom, the world’s largest LGBTIQ+ digital campaign, starts today – marking six years of broadcasting five brand new LGBTIQ+ films to countries around the world, including those where homosexuality remains illegal. In this continuing creative partnership, the British Council makes five short films from the BFI Flare: London […]

From the archive. Cheer yourself up with THIS from Lots Holloway.

Features Desk17th March 202017th March 2020

Arts & Culture / Features

God knows we could all do with cheering up right now and, let’s face it, good friends are more important than ever. Back in May 2019, everyone’s favourite itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny popstrel Lots Holloway released this. Enjoy!

Hey Rookes fans! Here’s more #popnotpop!

Features Desk17th March 202017th March 2020

Arts & Culture / Features

Hiyaaaaaa. The plan was to drip feed these BRILLIANT #popnotpop vids but, with so many of us stuck at home, we thought we’d treat you to two – YES TWO – new episodes. You’re welcome. Enjoy! AND ANOTHER!

Polari announces tour and calls for book prize submissions

Features Desk9th March 20209th March 2020

Arts & Culture / Features

Polari has been awarded a grant from Arts Council England, to help fund a major 22 date tour. The Polari Prize Tenth Anniversary Tour will showcase writers long and shortlisted for this year’s Polari Prize awards for emerging and established LGBTQ+ literary talent, as well as previous winners from the Prize’s ten […]

Smash the patriarchy with Rookes in ep. 2 of #popnotpop

Features Desk4th March 20204th March 2020

Arts & Culture / Features

Hey Popstrels! We’ve just watched episode two of Rookes’ fab new series #popnotpop and we loved it so much we watched it again. So, put the kettle on, pull up a pew, and find out why pop doesn’t have to be about love, lost and heartbreak with the inside track on Rookes’ brand spanking new […]

New series! It’s unique, it’s entertaining…it’s #popnotpop with ROOKES!

Features Desk2nd March 20202nd March 2020

Arts & Culture / Features

Emerging artist ROOKES documents her love/hate relationship with pop music in new YouTube series #popnotpop Pop music is one of life’s greatest wonders — so why does it stress us out so much? That’s one of the questions singer songwriter Rookes will be trying to answer in #popnotpop, a new YouTube […]

Immersive Sgt. Pepper experience opens in Liverpool.

Features Desk19th December 201919th December 2019

Arts & Culture / Features

Tate Liverpool and National Museums Liverpool, with a little help from The Beatles and Dolby Laboratories, today launched a unique experiential presentation of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in Dolby Atmos®, as a Christmas gift to the city. This worldwide first, immersive experience will be presented daily at the Dr Martin […]

“Sex is easy, intimacy is hard”. “Undetectable” to return to King’s Head Theatre.

Features Desk18th December 201918th December 2019

Arts & Culture

Tom Wright’s tender, funny and uplifting love story is back by popular demand to open the King’s Head Theatre’s Spring 2020 season following a critically acclaimed, and highly successful run at the venue in early 2019. Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE will be reprising his role as director with Lewis Brown (Tuck – […]