Reminiscence

Vox Pops – Share your memories of Brighton hospital

Vox Pops day – Brighton and Sussex hospitals memories collection day

As part of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH) heritage project, Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage will be at Jubilee Library (alongside the Nimbus exhibition about BSUH history) to collect oral histories of experiences of the hospital.

We are seeking people who’ve worked there, patients, visitors, and volunteers focussing on all aspects of the NHS and before in the city.

If you have memories, we’d love to speak to you!

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Shalom Sussex project news

A round up of our Shalom Sussex project events this year. There’s a lot of them!

The Shalom Sussex- The Jewish Community in World War I project will take place between March 2019 and March 2020, and will be hosting or visiting the following events during that time.

http://shalomsussex.co.uk/

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Silver Foxes group

Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage will be running free drop-in sessions with Silver Foxes group until the end of July before we break for the summer.

The group is based at Brooke Mead Sheltered Housing Scheme in Brighton but open to anyone city wide over 60 years of age.

The group meets every Tuesday each week from 11-12pm.

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Shalom Sussex- The Jewish Community in WWI

Shalom Sussex- The Jewish Community in WWI

We’ve researching hard with our newest project, Shalom Sussex – The Jewish Community in WWI.

In the coming weeks, we will be visiting The Keep archive, West Sussex Record Office and the National Archives to try to build a picture of life for Jewish people in Sussex during the First World War.

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