UK National Bisexual Conference's Journal

Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals around the world

The latest edition of Getting Bi is out now. To mark this, the editor, Robyn Ochs is putting together these book events, on the following dates:

July 25. Getting Bi book event at the Centro Comunitário Gay é Lésbico de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
July 28. Getting Bi book event at the Conference on Human Rights(Copenhagen, Denmark).
August 1. Getting Bi book event at IHLIA (International Gay and Lesbian Information Centre and Archive), Central Library of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
August 2nd. Getting Bi book event (Hamburg, Germany)
September (date to be announced) (Boston, MA, USA)
September (date to be announced (Toronto, ON, Canada)

The latest edition of Getting Bi is available now at http://www.biresource.net, and it will soon be available on Amazon.

London Pride - final details...
Final details here for London Pride this Saturday - in short, meet on Baker Street from 12 noon for the parade, or contact s.foxed@gmail.com if you'd like to help out staffing the stall instead.

Sorry to cross-post. Feel free to enthuse in your personal journals - it's going to be a corker...

Bi picnic
So this Saturday at 3pm there will be a Bi (Parenting) Picnic in St James' Park, off the Mall. Do come! More details here.

Current Mood: parental and proud

Input required from "young" bisexuals...
BiCon has received the following email from the director of a youth theatre group. I said I'd circulate details.

I am the director of Shout! Youth Theatre, based in Corby Northants and we are doing a play about Bisexuality at the moment for the dept of health. I wonder if you could tell me what you consider the main issues are for young bisexuals? We are doing our best but as yet only one young bi woman has come forward to be interviewed and the rest is research based. We need some experiences to go on.
Paula Boulton <positivepaula2@aol.com>
Director Shout!Youth theatre

Sounds like an interesting project. The idea is to get a performance filmed and show this at BiCon, too.

So could people get back to Paula directly if they'd like to help.

Thanks,
Martin

BiCon flyers, anyone?
A quick reminder to everyone who's out & about this summer - we've still plenty of our lovely flyers available if you're going to an event and would like to hand some out, or just want a few to send to your mates:)

Email your postal address to "info at bicon2009 dot org dot uk", saying roughly how many flyers you'd like & they'll be in the post to you right away-ish.

Stonewall Research
Ayone else doing the Stonewall research? The questionnaire arrived today. Looks interesting.
(x-posted)

Oh to be Bisexual, now that July's arrived...
Click here for Pride events round the UK in July, including Derby, London, Nottingham, Norwich, Huddersfield and (just sneaking into August) Leeds.

All of them hopping with bisexuals! Join biatpride.livejournal.com for more info. Sorry I've cross-posted.

Bi Focus group in London for civil servants - FRIDAY afternoon
This is an offshoot from the Stonewall events in a sense, but not in another sense. Civil Service Rainbow Alliance are holding a Focus Group for bisexuals on Friday - the publicity has been sent out via their members who tend to be LGBT network leads in government departments. There are about 200 of these contacts, though not all are up to date. I'm actually organising the event along with

a_musing_amazon - if you haven't seen the publicity for it and you work for a civil service employer (i.e. a government department or agency, NOT local authority) and you are free on Friday afternoon to attend an event in central London, please comment here and I will let you have all the details.

I have to say I'm currently underwhelmed with takers for this event and I *really* don't want to play into the hands of those who say we don't exist as we never appear for meetings.

bi coffee london
Next meet-up is this Saturday 27th June ( Read more... )

Bi parenting - apologies for cross-posting
Pleased to report that the first bi/alt parenting meetup yesterday went well - we had 9 adults and 6 kids in all, I think, it didn't rain, and Coram's Fields was as good as I remembered. It would be a good place to meet again, especially over the summer.

If you were there, thank you! If not, why not come to the Bi Family Picnic after Pride on July 4th - about 3pm in St James' Park off the Mall, look for the purple. All welcome, as long as you're child-tolerant.

Current Mood: pleased

Just a reminder: bi parenting meetup on Saturday, details here! If you can't make it there will be more on July 4th and 19th.

Call for submissions - lesbian, gay, bisexual and BDSM fiction
I know there's lots of wonderfully creative people in the bi community, so wondered if this might be of interest to anyone?

If you've ever fancied having a go at writing a fairy story, you might be interested to know that Circlet Press is looking for submissions of fairy tales for publication.
And "submission" is definitely an appropriate word, because the publisher is looking for erotic tales with a BDSM twist, as well as gay, lesbian and bisexual stories.
…Circlet Press, however, is looking for more than erotic allegory. Its guidelines for the kind of tales it is looking for states: "Fresh and direct language is preferred to overly euphemistic."
You can enter under three categories:
Like a Queen: gay and lesbian fairy tales
Like A Thorn: BDSM fairy tales
Like Twin Stars: bisexual-themed erotic sf/fantasy
Stories must be original and between 3,000 and 7,000 words. The closing date is July 7
You can find out more details about Circlet Press and its call for erotic fairy tales at http://www.circlet.com/?p=243.

Current Mood: cheerful

Queer night in Oxford!
Hi,
If anyone is around Oxford and free on Saturday 4th July, come along to
Dr Barry presents....
A Queer Sort of a Night

I will be performing burlesque with Lashings of Ginger Beer

grrlesque and there will be all kinds of other fabulous entertainment as well.

Hope to see you there!
x
Ann

Start Time: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time: Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 2:00am
Location: East Oxford Community Centre
Street: 44b Princes Street (on the corner with Cowley Road)
City/Town: Oxford, United Kingdom

Dr. Barry invites you all to a sumptuous extravaganza of all sorts of strange and special delights in a queer & trans-friendly all-singing, all-dancing, all-awesome sort of a night.

We've got Poetry, Cabaret, Burlesque, Music, Dance and a select horde of beautiful people.

We think you'd like it. You should come.
www.facebook.com/event.php

And the Bicon Ball theme is...
~~Heroes And Villains...~~

Crime And Punishment...

Which of course does not mean mass demos of BDSM on the dancefloor, to the strains of 'Star Trekkin' Across The Universe.'

Volunteers needed for Bi Coffee London
Bi Coffee London

I need a complete break from Bi Coffee London for a few months. If people want it to keep happening, other people will need to volunteer in my place. If that doesn't happen then Bi Coffee London will go into haitus for a while. That's not too big a deal as it's really easy to start up again: we have no booked venue or money to worry about.( Read more... )

Family meet
Hi all

The first bi/alt family meetup will be on Saturday June 20th at 2pm at Coram's Fields, Guildford Street, London WC1N 1DN. It's a shortish walk from King's Cross, or the nearest tube station is Russell Square.

Coram's Fields is a free playground and park with activities for all ages, plus a vegetarian cafe. It's open till 7pm so we should have plenty of time there (not that we'll necessarily stay there till closing).

The one constraint on Coram's Fields is that you have to have a child with you to get in. So if you're lacking a child but want to join us, give me an email and arrange to meet us outside. (You can also email if you want my mobile number so you can find us inside.)

Hope to see a few people there! If you can't make this one, the next one will be a post-Pride picnic on St James' Park on July 4th - all welcome.

Current Mood: parental

Update: RADICAL ECSTACY - Dossie Easton Workshop July 18/19, Dublin, Ireland

EROS MUTINY proudly presents

Dossie Easton Workshop 18/19 July 2009

RADICAL ECSTACY
“SM Journeys To Transcendence”

Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th July, 2009, Dublin, Ireland

( Read more )

Question - Judging Success
So, if you were asked to measure the success of the following events, what would you put forwards as evidence that's measurable?

1) BiCon 2008
2) London BiFest 2009
3) Brighton BiFest 2009

EDIT:
Just to say that I am really appreciative of all the comments so far. Please do keep adding them (sensibly of course).

London Pride Bi DIY
Help make things for London Pride - and other bi events - in St James' park at 5pm on the 27th June. See the Bi At Pride community for more info.

Films at BiCon
We're planning to screen some films from 8-10pm most evenings at BiCon. These won't be blockbusters, but short / low budget films which would be of interest to BiCon attendees.

There were some short films made by members of our community doing the rounds a few years ago. Perhaps we could get hold of copies of these. So far, we've got a 1hour film + discussion lined up for one evening, but what else is out there?

Note. You'll need to have or obtain the rights to publicly screen the film & it should be supplied in DVD format. BiCon, as a non-profit event, is unable to pay royalties I'm afraid.

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