Resound Male Voices (27 November 2018) Foggy Friday – taking our lives in our hands on a wintry, darkening and dense foggy Friday evening Resound ventured over to Eastbourne Youth Hostel on the edge of the South Downs. Our Annual residential is an opportunity for the group to spend an intensive weekend to fine tune […]
Resound Residential
2017 Springboard Winner’s Family Connection to Howard Shelley
Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society (1st April 2018) As part of their prize from the Brighton Phil, last year’s Springboard Festival winners Berniya Hamie and Natasha O’Flynn chose to attend the Brighton Phil’s rehearsal at Brighton Dome on Sunday 11 February and met guest conductor Howard Shelley. Natasha was accompanied to the rehearsal by her […]
Forum Society’s 60th Year
Forum Society (28th February 2018) The members of The Forum Society are proudly celebrating its 60th year since its first meeting in the Royal Albion Hotel in 1958. Despite all the changes and innovations in life, the members still enjoy regular meetings in the English Language Centre, social events and visits to places of local […]
What is going on?
Brighton Unitarians (21st December 2017) Many people see our building in New Road, with its giant columns and large red doors, and wonder what such a place could stand for and what its services might be like. So what does happen behind the red doors? We have services every Sunday at 11am. We are an […]
A History of Music & Wine at St Luke’s
Music & Wine at St Luke’s (2nd Sept 2017) Since the church purchased the Steinway piano in the 1990s it has hosted occasional concerts. As a local resident who had performed there, Rachel Fryer decided to work with the church and began a regular series in 2007. The first concert was attended by just 1 […]
Rachmaninov’s Piano?
Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society (1st Sept 2017) The Brighton Philharmonic was contacted earlier this year by Lancing College who are researching the history of their Steinway Model D concert grand piano. Graduate Music Assistant Fraser Harrington spent an afternoon in the Brighton Phil office looking through papers as far back as 1936 trying to […]
The History of Brighton Unitarian
Brighton Unitarian (9th June 2017) Unitarian ideas might sound startlingly modern to people who associate us with mainstream church traditions, but the Brighton Unitarian congregation has been around in various incarnations for more than two centuries. It has a long history of dissent and refusal to conform to outdated ideas. The congregation dates from 1793, […]
History of the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra
Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society (17th May 2017) A request from The Park Centre Wives group in Burgess Hill to give a talk about the history of the orchestra set Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society chairman, Nicolas Chisholm, MBE, the challenge of finding out some fascinating details. The Brighton & Hove Philharmonic Society is fortunate […]