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• 'And the Ass saw the Angel' by Nick Cave
  
  'And the Ass saw the Angel' signed 'To the Body Positive with love Nick Cave 1989'
• 'Bubbles' Poster
  
  This shows the poster used for Bubbles, which opened at The Nightingale Theatre in Brighton. Jane Boston, Tash Fairbanks and Hilary Ramsden performed in it.
• 'From the Divine' Poster.
  
  Digital reproduction of the poster for the Siren play 'From the Divine'. This shows a photo of two toy soldiers and a toy tank falling over on the keys of a piano. The play was devised by Siren and scripted by Tasha Fairbanks following the Falklands War in 1982. It was directed by Sylvia Vickers. Siren used as a starting point for devising the play, a photograph from a newspaper of a group of women waving off the troops to the Falkland war, one of whom has lifted her tops showing her bare breasts behind a Union Jack flag. The play explored the role of women in supporting wars throughout the centuries.
• 'Hotel Destiny' Poster
  
  This poster was made for Theater Frascati in Amsterdam for Siren’s performance of ‘Hotel Destiny’.
• 'It's a boy' balloon
  
  deflated blue foil balloon with the words 'it's a boy' printed on it
• 'Life Life' artwork made by Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill at Marlborough Pub & Theatre (2017)
  
  'Life Life' artwork made by Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill at Marlborough Pub & Theatre
• 'O' David Lambourne
  
  David Omar Lambourne, known to his friends as O, came from a Muslim family but he embraced a diversity of faith as an adult, especially Judaism, and he ran a Jewish delicatessen in West Hove for many years. O was an entrepreneur and a dynamic person - a bon viveur who loved to entertain. He was also very interested in food, whether eating, cooking, or running his deli, and one of the best cooks helping out at the Our House Body Positive Sunday lunches. I knew him from the mid 1980’s before either of us became HIV positive, but I lost track of him for a couple of years until we met at an early OHBP meeting. Both he and his partner Stephen had changed their family names, and O changed his first name too. They’d both hated being last on the school register in class – O’s original family name began with Z and Stephen’s with a W. They choose the letters L and C for their new names, so they’d come further up in lists! It was also their way of being reborn, or re launching themselves following their HIV diagnosis. O was a warm and energetic ‘people’ person with great social and communication skills. He was also a Freemason and in the early 1990’s when he was no longer able to work, the Lodge provided him with some financial support. By being openly gay, open about his HIV status and having a Masonic and Muslim background, he certainly tried to break the mould. O had been on many drug trials, but when combination therapy arrived, he didn’t believe it would work and didn’t want to try it - he’d tried enough already. This scepticism was widespread among people living with HIV at that time. Why would this approach work when everything else had failed? The drugs used as monotherapy before combination drugs also had some serious side effects. O died the same summer that combination therapy came into general use.
• 'Swamp' Poster
  
  This shows the poster for Siren’s play ‘Swamp’ for the performance at the Oval House Theatre in London. The play was directed by Clare Brennan. As well as touring the play in the UK, it was also performed at the Brighton Festival in May 1989.
• 'Wrap it up' stickers
  
  'Wrap it up’ stickers created by Alf Le Flohic that he and I stuck on cash machines around Brighton in the early 1990s to get the safer sex message across.
• ‘Feminist Theatre Voices’ book cover & Chapter 3 from ‘Feminist Theatre Voices’ (1997)
  
  1. This shows the cover of the book ‘Feminist Theatre Voices’ which included interviews from 6 feminist theatre groups, edited by Elaine Aston. 2. This shows the start of Chapter 3 which covers Siren’s interviews. The interviews took place in 1989 after Siren had been together for ten years. The interview involved Jane Boston and Jude Winter. "The book comments that Siren’s lesbian identify ‘remained constant throughout the 1980s… even in the face of anti-gay legislation'."
• "Boy in Black Jeans," by Roy Edwards.
  
  Roy Edwards (1932-1982) was a member of the English Surrealist movement in the 1950s and 1960s and lived for a time at Farley House in Sussex, home of artists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. Farley House is well known to have been visited by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Man Ray. Contributing to the movement with poetry, photography and collage, his illustrations and collages display graphic homoerotic content at a time when it was still illegal to be homosexual. Contributing to the movement with poetry, photography and collage, his illustrations and collages display graphic homoerotic content at a time when it was still illegal to be homosexual. Corinna Edwards-Colledge, Edward's neice: "Considering that much of my uncle's work was created when homosexuality was still a criminal offence, I think it is rather wonderful and brave in its celebratory homo-eroticism. The drawings and illustrations are beautiful in the lyricism of their lines and exotic detail, reminiscent, to me, of Aubrey Beardsley, and also have a strong sense of narrative.”
• “Acting Out:” book cover & Chapter 9 (1993)
  
  1. The book is edited by Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan. 2. The chapter was entitled Siren Theatre Company: Politics in Performance. It referred to Siren as having been the longest-running lesbian theatre collective in Britain at the time. 3. This shows a photo of Jane Boston, Tash Fairbanks and Jude Winter in ‘From the Divine’ from the book.
• 10 year long service bronze medal - Brian Kennedy Award
  
  Bronze Medal awarded for ten years membership in an LGBTQ+ choir or chorus awarded at Hand in Hand Festival
• 10 Years of Queer: A Celebration of All Things Marly (2018)
  
  10 Years of Queer was a night at the Marlborough Theatre in September 2018 where we got together with all of our fabulous Marly Mates to celebrate a decade of supporting LGBTQ+ artists and platforming queer performers. Performances from: Liz Aggiss Harry Clayton-Wright Lasana Shabazz Lucy McCormick Sea Sharp David Hoyle Juno Dawson
• A birthday Schmooz with Dynamite Boogaloo - Impact Magazine (1997)
  
  Impact Magazine - 1997 - Club section written by Adrian Brookes - another photo by Amanda (surname missing). This article was promoting the 5th Birthday party of Dynamite Boogaloo which was in the function room of the Queens Hotel - the fire alarm went off at midnight and all us freaks were out on the street with the nannas in their nighties, surrounded by firemen.