Posted on July 16, 2009 by rosiegold
‘Bit of Verbal’ – by producer/performer Rupert Smith of Southbank Centre’s House of Homosexual Culture
(and do have a look at the photos of the performance in our previous blogs).
Don’t forget the Stonewall@40 event at London Literature Festival tonight!
It was with some trepidation that I decided to present a ‘poetry/spoken word’ event as part of the [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2009 by rosiegold
‘The House of Homosexual Culture’ celebrates its first anniversary of collaboration with Southbank Centre and has been a constant presence on stage and backstage at London Literature Festival. You’re probably now familiar with key ‘HOHC’ collaborators, authors Rupert Smith and Paul Burston (Rupert and Paul both produce and perform – Paul: in top hat and [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2009 by devonelizabeth
On Thursday night I went to see The House of Homosexual Culture’s ‘Love and Marriage’. This was my first experience at the London Literature Festival and it was most definitely a memorable one. From the offset, Paul Burston was the star of the show, in his top hat and suit. As the youngest in the [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2009 by rosiegold
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith on behalf of Rupert Smith of HOHC.
Look out for more HOHC events this weekend at SBC Literature Festival!
Paul Burston and I have been programming events at Southbank Centre, as The House of Homosexual Culture, for just over a year now. When we were first invited to put together a series of [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2009 by paulblezard
“The game’s afoot” as the Bard once wrote and certainly the game opened last night with much fanfare.
At the launch party, South Bank’s “empressaria” Jude Kelly gave the opening speech, explaining that the South Bank’s remit is to “push back the membrane” to the point that there is “no-one on the outside.” Now that’s a properly inclusive approach to creativity, artistry and expression, a rousing, modern version of ‘Cry “God for Harry, England and Saint George”’ as the Bard went on to say.
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