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Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to gay@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Suzanne Black.
Thursday 4 Edinburgh ■ Dance: Movement Course LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 6.30–8.30pm. £15–£55. Feeling out of touch with your body? This course in gaining confidence through movement requires no previous experience. FREE Anxiety Course LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 7–9pm. A practical self-help course for managing anxiety and panic.
Friday 5
Glasgow ■ Suddenly Last Summer Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, 429 0022. 2.30pm & 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Tennessee Williams’ one-act play of impossible love is performed by Reid Kerr College HND Acting & Performance Students. Edinburgh ■ Socially Acceptable GHQ, 4 Picardy Place, 0845 166 6024. 10.30pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£4) after. Mainstream and cheese from Cilla Slack while DJ Michelle mashes up electro house and bootlegs.
Saturday 6
Glasgow ■ Suddenly Last Summer Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, 429 0022. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). See Fri 5. Edinburgh FREE Photography Course LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 10am–1pm. Alicia Bruce gives a course in replicating life through a lens in conjunction with the National Galleries of Scotland. FREE Play in a Day Workshop LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 10am–4pm. Take an idea onto the stage in just one day in this workshop that works towards a performance on Fri 12 Mar.
Sunday 7 Edinburgh FREE Band in a Day LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 10am–4pm. Meet your new bandmates and get working on a song; all you have to bring is instruments and that creative spark. ■ Badminton Drop-in LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 2–4pm. £3. A fun and easy sport to pick up (and plenty of punning opportunities to boot) these sessions are for all abilities.
Monday 8
Glasgow ■ Sheila Rowbotham Mitchell Library, 201 North Street, 0844 847 1693. 6pm. £7 (£6). Sheila Rowbotham explores the life and friendships of gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter. Part of Aye Write!
Tuesday 9 Glasgow FREE Opening Pandora’s Box Glasgow Women’s Library, 2nd Floor, 81 Parnie Street, 552 8345. 5pm. Katherine Tubb and Jochen Hung offer a first look at some of the work of 1920 Berlin artists Erika Mann and Marta Astfalck- Vietz followed by a workshop led by Hannah Little exploring lesbian history and culture. Booking required. Part of International Women’s Day.
Edinburgh ■ Yoga LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 6.30–7.45pm. £15–£55. An eight-week course led by Petra Ponnet.
Wednesday 10 Edinburgh ■ Jogging: Sofa to 5K LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 6.30–7.30pm. £5–£15. Hup 2 3 4. Get a running start to the New Year with this nine-week course.
Thursday 11 Edinburgh ■ Dance: Movement Course LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 6.30–8.30pm. £15–£55. See Thu 4. FREE Anxiety Course LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 7–9pm. See Thu 4.
Friday 12
Edinburgh FREE Exhibition and Performance Evening LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 7pm. See the fruits of the labours of the LGBT centre’s Arts Festival as they perform a play and music created in a day, and art from various workshops. See picture caption. ■ Socially Acceptable GHQ, 4 Picardy Place, 0845 166 6024. 10.30pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£4) after. See Fri 5. ■ Furburger GHQ, 4 Picardy Place, 0845 166 6024. 11pm–3am. £5. DJs Dejaybird, Funki Diva and Boy Toy provide aural stimulation for gay women and their closest friends.
Saturday 13 Edinburgh FREE ARTIST ROOMS: Diane Arbus Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. 10am–5pm. The first public UK exhibition of the fascinating and powerful images captured by New York photographer Diane Arbus. Featuring over 50 striking black and white photos, including the rare and important portfolio of ten vintage prints: A Box of Ten (1971). See preview, page 88. FREE Diane Arbus Opening Lecture: Portrait of the Artist as a Journalist National Gallery of Scotland: Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, The Mound, 624 6200. 2–3pm. Many of the late New York photographer’s striking images were created for magazines during her time as a photojournalist. Peter Crookston worked with Arbus during this time; here he describes how she came up with and approached magazine assignments. FREE Edinburgh Gay Men’s Chorus: Raising the Roof Polwarth Parish Church, Polwarth Terrace, 447 2741. 7.30pm. Fundraising concert for the charity Keymoves, which helps homeless women in Edinburgh. Joining Edinburgh’s gay male vocal group is cabaret group Chi Canta.
Sunday 14
Edinburgh FREE LGBT Retreat LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 10am–4pm. Relax, destress and get your zen on with yoga, t’ai chi, meditation and Indian head massage. ■ Badminton Drop-in LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 2–4pm. £3. See Sun 7. FREE ARTIST ROOMS: Diane Arbus Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. 10am–5pm. See Sat 13.
Monday 15 dinburgh FREE Healthy Relationships LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing,
9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 7pm. Follow-on workshop looking at what makes a healthy partnership run with Relationships Scotland. Booking essential. FREE ARTIST ROOMS: Diane Arbus Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. 10am–5pm. See Sat 13.
Tuesday 16 Edinburgh ■ Yoga LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 6.30–7.45pm. £15–£55. See Tue 9. ■ Cachín Cachán Cachunga! The Street, 2 Picardy Place, 556 4272. 7.30pm. £3 (£2). An interdisciplinary arts night of queer and trans dance, film, poetry and music established by Zorras (poet/multimedia artist Sandra Alland and musician Y Josephine) and Afro-Cuban dancer, Lily. They are joined by Scottish-Canadian writer Hamish MacDonald. Followed by tunes from DJ Lily. FREE The Regent Showcase The Regent Bar, 2 Montrose Terrace, 661 8198. 8pm. For the first ever live music event at the pub, singer-songwriter Cameron Phail has organised a line-up
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of Danny McGeever, Rossco Galloway, Aaron Write, Mark Corbit, Craig ‘HP’ Neilson, Caragh Nugent, Hailey Beavis, Colin Brenin and Sam Barber, as well as comedian Muzz Hamilton and poet Gavin Duvet. FREE ARTIST ROOMS: Diane Arbus Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. 10am–5pm. See Sat 13.
Wednesday 17 dinburgh ■ Jogging: Sofa to 5K LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 6.30–7.30pm. £5–£15. See Wed 10. FREE ARTIST ROOMS: Diane Arbus Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. 10am–5pm. See Sat 13.
Thursday 18 Edinburgh ■ Dance: Movement Course LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. 6.30–8.30pm. £15–£55. See Thu 4. FREE ARTIST ROOMS: Diane Arbus Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. 10am–5pm. See Sat 13.
LGBT Arts Festival Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, the LGBT Arts Festival has
returned to the capital for another four-week programme aimed at budding creative types. This year’s festival, funded by the People’s Postcode Trust, features training in sculpture, drama and painting as well as a series of workshops for the transgender community to respond to the work of photographer Diane Arbus, run by the National Galleries of Scotland. All this activity culminates in an exhibition and performance showcase, on Friday 12 March. ■ LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Edinburgh, until Fri 12 Mar.
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