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GOING OUT WITH A BANG The cold, dark nights are starting to draw in, but we’re kicking off the month with some glitz and glamour: Karma Leon’s Kabaret (Fri 4 Nov) returns with Gay Forks at Picture House Social – an LGBTQIA+ bonfire celebration of Guy Fawkes featuring drag, circus, comedy, burlesque and more weird and wacky acts for your fiendish delight. Later in the month, Sheffield’s only drag monster cabaret, King Confuza’s Cryptid Queers (Fri 18 Nov), heads to Bal Fashions for Party Like It’s 2004!, a brand-new club night blending some of your favourite floorfillers from the cyber goth scene of the noughties with some of the most exciting perfomers the UK has to offer. Expect killer drag performances by King Confuza, Glitterhawk, The BollyWitch, Maria Moans and Marvy Mucus with DJs Greyskull, Irregular Joe and your host King Confuza. It’s almost that time of year… so you better watch out, you better not cry, because “The Queens of Christmas” are coming back to Sheffield, bringing with them their wildly successful, internationallyacclaimed Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show! (Fri 18 Nov) at City Hall featuring BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon – now with the full cast of dancers! Also hailing the festive season, we have Tanya Minge’s Pre Xmas Special (Fri 11 Nov) at Malin Bridge Inn, a special drag bingo extravaganza with Christmas present prizes, shot games and dance-offs.
DJ Brooke will also be back at the Malin for her monthly residency Fireball Friday (Fri 4 Nov) with non-stop bops, hilarious comedy and special offers on Fireball Bombs. Emma Maezin takes her Drag Karaoke (Sat 19 Nov) to The Bagshawe Arms at Norton and is hosting Drag Race UK Watch Parties every Thursday at Maggie Mays. There are also Drag Race UK Watch Parties on the same day at Spirit of Sheffield, who have also just launched their new weekly cabaret night, Friday Night Spectacular, with tricks, karaoke and banter from Ben West. For the final weekend of the month, Drag Hostess Anna Kissed returns for KINK (Sat 26 Nov) – an all-gender queer-focused fetish social. If you’re looking for something more low-key, check out Queering the Collection: Creative Writing Workshop (Sat 5 Nov) at Graves Art
Gallery, an innovative writing workshop that explores the Sheffield Museums collections to bring LGBT+ material out of the archive into public spaces. Writers and facilitators, Seni Seneviratne and Nicky Hallett, have specially selected objects spanning art, archaeology and social history that will serve as inspiration for the workshop. You’ll find new ways of looking at the material through LGBT+ eyes and write about it with fresh perspectives. After the event, the selected work will form part of an online exhibition and contribute to the long-term interpretation of the objects at the museums. That’s your lot for this month. As always, keep an eye on the Sheffield LGBT+ events page on Facebook (facebook. com/sheffieldlgbtevents) for updates and announcements on the latest events and news.
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