Live & Let Live is a National Heritage Lottery funded project project charting Brighton & Hove’s liberal history, in the last fifty years. In this, the most liberal of British cities, we are creating a permanent digital exhibition that charts the city’s social history across the last fifty years, much of it based East of the Pier and focusing on the city’s successful LGBTQ+ story.
Over the course of the coming year the project will be created and screened in Manchester Street both internally and externally. The digital projections will be an all-encompassing colourful display of the large archive of fascinating material that we have on video and film and on posters, flyers, newspaper and magazines. The project will use this unique resource of visual history.
We have been promoting events in Brighton since 1978 and publishing magazines since 1982 and filming professionally throughout this century and before!
Brighton and Hove was not always the liberal city it is today and we will credit those who built this beacon of hope and diversity that is the modern city of today. We will put up signs that recognise Kemp Town!
It’s surely no accident that the current director of the resurgent Brighton Pride is named Paul KEMP!
Local MP Lloyd Russell, who is a patron of Latest Group CIC and supported the funding bid said:
“I am thrilled that the CIC has received this award from the Heritage Lottery Fund and I am confident that this exhibition will attract audiences in huge numbers and hundreds of participants who will join in celebrating the diversity of our city and take advantage of the learning opportunities that it will offer. An exhibition of this kind will create a focus of attention for both visitors and locals and help in what I believe in most passionately – the regeneration of St James Street and Kemp Town Village and East Brighton – East Of The Pier – as one of the city’s most vibrant communities.
We don’t talk Diversity, we are Diversity. We live and let live.
We’ve seen the support from the public over here and indeed across Brighton and Hove for the Madeira Terraces. East Of The Pier, the rebirth continues with this project.”
Michelle Roffe, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund in South East England said: “We are delighted to support Latest Group CIC in exploring Brighton and Hove’s LGBTQ+ heritage through local people’s stories, archives and film. Thanks to National Lottery players, participants will learn new skills and explore their heritage, whilst providing a lasting record of this important heritage for wider communities, both locally and beyond.”
The exhibition will also be available to be viewed online and accessed by other organisations globally. At the end of the project, archive materials will be donated to The Keep to ensure they remain accessible to all.