Host of BBC2’s Lightning and Live at the Apollo, Zoe Lyons is going to be pretty much ubiquitous in 2023. Freshly announced as a contestant in C4’s next series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, she’ll be spending the next couple of months touring the UK with her latest stand-up show; The Bald Ambition Tour […]
Zoe Lyons Interview – “A Lot of Funny”
COLURi – OWN IT Campaign
Colourful jewellery brand COLURi, presents their new campaign OWN IT – a celebration of empowerment, attitude and moments that define us. Relatable and captivating, the sequence of feel-good scenes embodies COLURi’s feminist values by playfully questioning the perceptions of women in today’s world. OWN IT highlights universally shared experiences to create powerful emotional connection between […]
Fynest Reads: Gay’s The Word
Gay’s The Word is the UK’s oldest LGBT bookshop and a touchstone for the broader LGBT community. The bookshop was set up in January 1979 by a group of gay socialists as a community space where all profits were funnelled back into the business. This ethos continues today with shelves bursting with books and the […]
Fyne Times Meets: Queen Aerosol
Charlie Carter (he/she/they) – otherwise known as Queen Aerosol on social media – is a 22-year-old gender-fluid queer artist from the UK. First gaining media attention for their ‘bro to beauty’ makeup transformations, Charlie now has more than 180,000 followers and four million Likes on TikTok, and it just keeps growing. We got in touch […]
British photographer wins Global SinoPhoto Awards with ‘time-capsule’ Wuhan image
A photo, taken by a Bristol photographer, which depicts Hankou Bund, a popular park in Wuhan, China, is an inadvertent time-capsule image of a city which will forever be linked to the Covid-19 outbreak, and is the overall winner of the Betser Prize in an international photo competition celebrating Chinese culture. The image, which also […]
Is That Right, FIFA? Campaign
Qatar is currently hosting one of the biggest sports events – FIFA World Cup 2022. The controversial location of the most watched football tournament in the world is the reason for the Bulgarian human rights Foundation GLAS and the creative agency proof. to launch a campaign that shines a light on several of the issues […]
Cinderella at Theatre Royal Stratford East With Gigi Zahir
After five years working primarily as their drag character Crayola the Queen, Gigi Zahir deepens their return to the theatre world as Cleopatra in Cinderella at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Having already played Trinculo in Tempest at The Pleasance earlier in the year, Zahir’s solo black comedy musical Fame Whore ran at The King’s Head […]
Pollena Releases Video For New Single Diamonds Starring Jack Holden
London-based neo-soul artist Pollena (BBC Radio 1, 6 Music, Notion, The Line of Best Fit) has released the video for new single ‘Diamonds’ starring acclaimed writer and actor Jack Holden. Star of the critically acclaimed West End show ‘Cruise’ and BBC’s ‘Marriage’, Holden performs as a theater technician on the cusp of exploring his true […]
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story
“I’m just very restless,” Linus Karp says, “I’m easily bored, I need to work, to create all the time.” When he launched Awkward Productions with Rob Hayes’ Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F****d, resumes the performer, he wasn’t getting enough work as an actor and so decided to start making his own. This continued with […]
Neon MUA
Otherwise known as Neon MUA, Darius Mckiver (he/him/his) is a makeup artists and content creator who works to spread awareness about the ways beauty is represented for black creators, especially within the queer community. We spoke to Darius about his career journey as well as asking for some hidden hacks and his favourite and least […]