Springboard Festival (6th November 2020) . An opportunity to perform in your own home . On a Sunday afternoon in October, a group of young singers and their families gathered round screens in their homes to take part via Zoom in a Springboard virtual mini-festival. For the next hour or so, they watched each other’s […]
Shoreham Wordfest (19 February 2020) CELEBRATING SHAKESPEARE – SHOREHAM WORDFEST’S FIFTH ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 22 – 26 April 2020 Welcome to a diverse array of Shakespearean delights in our 5th annual Festival… An enchanting performance of The Tempest, from acclaimed company This is My Theatre, in the wondrous ancient St. Mary de Haura Church; […]
St Mary’s Kemptown (12th May 2019) Art & Inspiration Discussion Group Monday afternoons, 2.15pm Returns 13 May – FREE Our Art & Inspiration Group is back on Mondays at 2.15pm. It’s a small, friendly discussion group, open to all, which is led by a different speaker each week exploring a work or theme […]
Forum Society (23rd January 2019) The Forum Society, which has been running now for 61 years, urgently needs a new Chair and Talks Secretary . A social society formed in 1958 to arrange talks, social functions and other activities, our members are mostly 60+. We meet on the first Wednesday of the month (usually at […]
Springboard Festival 2019 The festival is held annually during weekends in March at Brighton & Hove High School GDST, Montpelier Road, Brighton, BN1 3AT. This year’s dates are: Speech & Drama 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 23 March 2019 Singing 2, 3 March 2019 Strings 9, 10 March 2019 Guitar 16 March 2019 […]
Brighton & Hove City Council (15th November 2018) THE ART OF GOOD HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2018 Foreword by Alistair Hill Should we look closer at the role of arts in health? I argue that that we should, especially in our highly creative city. The Director of Public Health’s annual […]
Brighton & Hove Quill of Poetry (1st July 2018) The National Health Service is 70 years old on 5 July 2018. Terry Godwin of Brighton & Hove Quill of Poetry has written two poems to celebrate this event and will be giving public readings of them both within the NHS (at the Royal Sussex […]
Springboard – Brighton & Hove Performing Arts Festival (9th May 2017) Congratulations to everyone who took part in the annual Springboard Festival and thank you to everyone who took part in the Highlights Evening and Musicians of All Saints Tea Concert. Highest mark in the Festival Hazel Nguyen – winner of the Roedean Cup Classical […]
(4th May 2017) Reputed to be the biggest children’s parade in Europe – but certainly the best – the annual Children’s Parade through the streets of Brighton will start off the 2017 Brighton Festival this coming Saturday, 6th May 2017. Starting off at 10.30am in Kensington Street in the North Laine, it will move on […]
Kate Tempest (24th April 2017) “The arts should be social, not elitist. They should be part of our everyday life. They should be in our communities, not only on elevated platforms or behind red velvet ropes. Music, literature, theatre, film – these things are so important, they bring us together into the same space, they […]