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SUMMARY:Polari at Ironworks Studio\, Brighton
DESCRIPTION:With Neil Bartlett\, Karen McLeod\, Orlando Ortega Medina and Joell
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LOCATION:Ironwork Studio\, 30 Cheapside\, Brighton\, Brighton and Hove\, BN1 4GD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Polari Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Two weeks before this year’s Polari Prize winners are announced at The British Library\, Polari goes live online with shortlisted authors Nicola Dinan\, Viola Di Grado and Paul Stephenson. \n  \nViola Di Grado is a London-based Italian author with works published in fifteen countries. With her first novel “70% Acrylic 30% Wool” she became the youngest winner of Italy’s prestigious Premio Campiello Opera Prima. She is also a contributor for various newspapers\, including The Guardian\, and a literary translator: among others\, she has translated works by Patricia Highsmith and Joyce Carol Oates. Her novel Blue Hunger is shortlisted for The Polari Prize. \nNicola Dinan grew up in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur and now lives in London. Bellies\, her debut\, was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize\, shortlisted for the Mo Siewcharran Prize\, the Polari First Book Prize and the Diverse Book Awards\, and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her second novel\, Disappoint Me\, will be published in 2025. \n  \nPaul Stephenson’s collection ‘Hard Drive’ was published by Carcanet in June 2023. It was shortlisted for the Gay Poetry category of the Lambda Literary award in the US and is currently shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize. He has three previous pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop\, 2015); The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance\, 2016)\, written after the November 2015 terrorist attacks\, and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press\, 2017). \nHosted by prize founder and chair of the judges\, Paul Burston. \n  \nPart of the Polari Prize National Showcase\, funded by Arts Council England.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-live-online/
LOCATION:Greater London
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SUMMARY:Polari at Sweatbox Soho
DESCRIPTION:With Neil Bartlett\, Alexis Gregory\, Piero Toto and Kostya Tsolakis. \n  \nLondon’s multi award-winning LGBTQ literary salon gets steamy at Soho’s multi award-winning\, men only gym and spa. \nHosted by Paul Burston with Neil Bartlett\, Alexis Gregory\, Piero Toto and Kostya Tsolakis\, who is shortlisted for this year’s Polari First Book Prize. \n  \nNeil Bartlett is an author\, theatre maker and performer\, who has been making ground-breaking queer theatre since the 1980s. His recent theatre work includes productions of Orlando\, Jeckyll and Hyde\, As You Like It and Blue Now. His books include Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall\, Skin Lane\, The Disappearance Boy and Address Book\, which was shortlisted for The Polari Prize 2023. \n  \nAlexis Gregory is a playwright and performer. His plays include Riot Act\, Sex/Crime\, FutureQueer\, Neon Divine\, Safe\, and Slap\, and the recent Smoke at Kings Head Theatre. His plays have been performed in the West End\, across London and the UK\, and online\, with Riot Act currently streaming globally on Broadway on Demand. He next performs Riot Act at 21Soho for World AIDS Day 2024. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing. \nPiero Toto (he/lui) is a London-based bilingual poet\, Italian translator and translation lecturer\, with poems in Magma Poetry\, Poetry London\, fourteen poems and Queer Life\, Queer Love II (Muswell Press\, 2023) amongst other publications. In Italy\, he has published poetry pamphlet tempo 4/4 (Transeuropa Edizioni\, 2021) and contributes to lit-blogs Atelier and Laboratori Poesia\, translating contemporary UK poets into Italian. \n  \nKostya Tsolakis was born and raised in Athens\, Greece\, and now lives in London. He is founding editor of harana poetry\, the online magazine for poets writing in English as a second or parallel language. His debut book Greekling is shortlisted for The Polari First Book Prize 2024. \n  \nAttendees have the option of remaining clothed or paying an additional £5 to Sweatbox for a locker and towel on arrival\, which will allow access to all the facilities (usual admission price £23) \n  \nPlease note : this is a male adult only space and you will encounter nudity. \n  \nPart of the Polari Prize National Showcase\, funded by Arts Council England.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-at-sweatbox-soho/
LOCATION:SweatBox Soho\, Ramillies House\, 1-2 Ramillies St\, London\, Westminster\, W1F 7LN\, United Kingdom
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