Monthly Archives: November 2018

Free drop in families puppet making session at Jubilee Library – Sunday 25th November

Free drop in families puppet making session (Ages 5 +) – The Unremembered Project
This free workshop takes place at Jubilee Library from 11am-1pm on Sunday 25th November.
Venue address: Jubilee Library, Jubilee Square, Brighton
We’ll be exploring the theme of The Unremembered in World War I in a child friendly way. Come join us!
See more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/256086941925313/

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Silver Foxes group to start!

Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage is setting up in a new reminiscence group aimed at older people called Silver Foxes. The group will be based at Brooke Mead Sheltered Housing Scheme in Brighton but open to anyone over 60 years of age.
The group starts on 8th January 2019 and will meet every Tuesday each week from 11-12pm.

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Free drop in families puppet making session at Jubilee Library – Sunday 25th November

Free drop in families puppet making session (Ages 5 +) – The Unremembered Project
This free workshop takes place at Jubilee Library from 11am-1pm on Sunday 25th November.
Venue address: Jubilee Library, Jubilee Square, Brighton
We’ll be exploring the theme of The Unremembered in World War I in a child friendly way. Come join us!
See more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/256086941925313/

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Armistice centenary 2018 – Strike a Light attends memorial at Westminster Abbey

We’re off to Westminster Abbey in London this Sunday 11th November for the special centenary commemorations of World War I along with the Royal Family, for our work with Strike a Light-Arts & Heritage on The Orange Lilies: Brighton & Hove in the Somme project from 2016 onwards.
We’re very honoured to have been invited and feel like we’re representing all the fantastic Great War focussed projects in Brighton and Hove on a national level.

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The Unremembered project

Strike a Light is pleased to have been commissioned to become a hub in Brighton and Hove by the Big Ideas Company to develop activities with local community groups to explore the history of the Labour Corps – service personnel during World War I, and often forgotten in this part of history.

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