Rosie Lugosi is cracking her delectably flexible whip at The Alternative & Burlesque Fair at Sound Control in Manchester this Saturday!
With the astonishing Marnie Scarlett
at Sound Control,
1 New Wakefield Street,
Manchester
M1 5NP
11am - 5pm
£5 0n door
Fri 25 Oct - 8.30pm till late
The White Lion Hotel,Bridge GateHebden BridgeWest YorkshireHX7 8EXFREE
Highly esteemed poet and novelist Rosie Garland aka Rosie Lugosi is hosting the spookiest poetry slam ever in Hebden!
The Creatures of the Night Poetry Slam
Upstairs at The White Lion
Lock up your daughters, sharpen your stakes
(and pencils) and join Manchester's very own
Undead Mistress of Ceremonies, Rosie Garland
(aka Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen) as she
welcomes all poets, rappers and wondrous
wordsmiths to the spookiest Poetry Slam ever!
SHRIEK!
As she ensures the audience are
sitting uncomfortably
SHUDDER!
At the cornucopia of wondrous
words
GASP!
At the lashings of poetic talent
SWOON!
At the special surprise guests
SHIVER!
As you judge the best act of the night
Tickets are available from www.wegottickets.com
Hebden Bridge Visitor & Canal Centre,
Butler's Wharf, New Road, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8AF.
Tel: 01422 843831
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17:30 - 23:00 // Saturday 24 August
Sackville Gardens,Sackville StreetManchesterA stage celebrating female performers, including live bands, acoustic and comedy performances.
Featuring Rosie Lugosi, Claire Mooney, Becca Williams, Lucy Mae, Heather Peace, Dixie Day & others
http://www.manchesterpride.com/womens
Show starts: 19:00
Doors open 30mins before the show
Venue: Royal Vauxhall Tavern,372 Kennington Lane LondonSE11 5HY.020 7820 1222Wotever World returns to the Hot August Fringe each Tuesday to present the ever-popular Wotever Sex series. This year we explore the topics of Lust, Love and Death.
Chirpy topics that fluff about... but what is IT ALL about?
For the Forth year running we take part in Hot August Fringe with fresh, thought provoking and amazingly sexy stuff. We invite some of our favourite Performers and give them free hands to work within our theme, and this year it is:
LIFE - what is a good life, what sort of Queer Life do we strive for? Are we happy? Life Skills for QueerBrains.....
LUST - my lust, your lust everyBODY lust? Lust that scare and lust that hurts, in lust we love and trust...
DEATH - one thing that is so human. We are all gonna die. What is death, how do we celebrate the ones who died. Straight Death vs Queer Death. Bed Death and Beds Alive...
Three Tuesdays that are connected and clever, Different and Diverse. Erotic and Potent. Queer and Normal.
www.rvt.org.uk
Rosie Lugosi and Claire Mooney host Oldham's 9th Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Pride – One World, One Heart, One Pride.
Oldham is committed to stamping out homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
After the fabulous parade there's a great Oldham Pride day lined up at Gallery Oldham – including headline acts X Factor's Kitty Brucknell and Britain's Got Talent's Showbears, some great live music, some dance, sporting and circus activities too - so come along and join in the fun.
Saturday 1st June, 21.30 – 1am
Nuovo Cinema PalazzoPiazza dei Sanniti 9/A00185 – Roma (zona san Lorenzo)'For the very first time in Italy, we invite you to a new femme-inist queer perspective, to a space open to femmes and their allies.
On stage, for the very first time in Italy, four fabulous Queens: Faux Queen, Femme, feminist Burlesque artist and Vampires will make possible the very first great Femme Show. Louis(e) de Ville and Wendy Delorme (France), Fauxnique (USA), Rosie Lugosi (UK). We are honoured to share the stage with them.
Short movies and documentaries about desire and her-stories of Faux Queens, Femmes and Queer Femininity by Campbell X (UK), Dulce Garcìa (USA), Suzanne Hillinger (USA), Emilie Jouvet (France), Chriss Lag (France). Painting Exhibit (Alessandra Ciabuschi - Italy) and Photo Exhibit (Francesca Codogno - Italy, Emilie Jouvet - France)
Workshops on sexuality, fem identity and urban sexual culture. You can subscribe here until May 26th.
All events will be translated into English / Italian
http://www.nuovocinemapalazzo.it/
http://www.eyeswilddrag.it/
Date: Friday 15th-Sat 16th February
Tickets: £6.00 (Door) / £5.50 (advance)
Where: Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton
Weblink: http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/projects/lgbt/events/events/lesbian-lives-conference-2012
Really excited to be invited to the 20th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference, 'The Modern Lesbian'
I'm delivering a paper, 'Performing queer femininity and performing it all wrong.'
I'm also performing as Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen!
Held on 15-16 February 2013 and hosted by University of Brighton LGBT and Queer Life Research Hub in conjunction with Women's Studies Centre, University College Dublin.
The Lesbian Lives Conference is the world's only annual academic conference in Lesbian Studies - it is a large international event that draws speakers and participants from all continents and hosts the best-known as well as emerging scholars in the field. The theme for the 20th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference is The Modern Lesbian.
Thrilled that 'Now that you are not-you' is Guardian Poem of the Week!
"A very modern, secular kind of elegy reflects on death with a surprising lightness" - Carol Rumens
"This week’s poem is from What Girls Do in the Dark, the latest collection by the multi-talented Rosie Garland. It stands alone, while extending the narrative of the short poem that immediately precedes it, Stargazer. The setting of Stargazer is a hospital bedside, where the dying patient’s visitor must navigate “the vertigo tilt / of old words like spread, outlook, time.” That poem ends with the metaphors that will be reconfigured in Now that you are not-you. “Doctors / murmur the names of new constellations / - astrocyte, hippocampus, glioblastoma – and calculate / the growth of nebulae; this rising tide of cells that climbs / the Milky Way of the spine to flood your head with light.”
Read the whole article here...
7.30pm GMT
Join us to celebrate the launch of What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland, with guests Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys
About this Event
Join Rosie Garland, plus guest writers Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys to celebrate the publication of Rosie's new poetry collection What Girls Do in the Dark.
Thursday 12th November 7.30pm (GMT)
This event will be streamed live & can be viewed now, through the Nine Arches Press YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Z7yq1Ey_U&feature=youtu.be
I thought it wasn't possible to feel any more thrilled about joining Nine Arches Press
- then I see the stunning cover of my new poetry collection, 'What Girls Do In The Dark'.
Out October 2020
https://www.ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/what-girls-do-in-the-dark.html
Dystopian classics to modern crime - Nine must-read Manchester novels
“Fantasy, romance, sci-fi, comedy…we’ve got a genre for everyone
There’s a very good reason Manchester is a UNESCO City of Literature, as we highlighted before its bid to join the prestigious network in 2017. Innovative publishers, diverse bookshops and a lively events scene make it an unrivalled literary melting pot.
Rosie Garland’s The Night Brother is our historical highlight
Ever the entertainer, Rosie Garland sung in post-punk band The March Violets and now performs ‘twisted cabaret’ as Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen. But she’s also a literary maverick with an array of essays, short stories and poetry to her name (much of which she also reads at spoken words events citywide) and three acclaimed novels. Her latest, The Night Brother, navigates themes of gender and identity through two siblings in Victorian Manchester. Rich and Gothic, it’s a must for fans of Angela Carter.”
https://confidentials.com/manchester/dystopian-classics-to-modern-crime-nine-must-read-manchester-novels
An unexpected & encouraging piece of news!
Northern Soul has selected 'The Night Brother' as a Best Northern Read
Desmond Bullen, Northern Soul writer
“In days that can seem desolate and uncertain, there’s a lot to be said for windows into a better world and, ultimately, joyfully, that is exactly the view that The Night Brother by Rosie Garland affords. Not that its window seat is cheaply achieved. Far from it.
Rooted with disbelief-suspending specificity in Manchester at the end of the 19th century, Garland’s novel blossoms compellingly from the exquisite simplicity of its central conceit, one which owes the tiniest debt to the 1971 horror film Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde. Edie and her brother Gnome are joined in a very particular symbiosis, so that their singular sibling rivalry threatens to be the undoing of both. Themes that could be leaden in other hands emerge from the premise with a beautiful lightness of touch, developing into a persuasive fable of inclusivity and self-acceptance. This is a book that sings a rainbow at its end.”
https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/books-best-northern-reads-part-one/