Book your Reminiscence Training with Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage: ** Details and booking through our Contact section ** https://archive.strikealight.org/contact-us/
Introducing a new kids holiday club for Saunders Park – Rise & View Krew.
The group is free to attend and open to children ages 5-11 (children aged 5-8 years must be accompanied by an adult or carer).
https://www.facebook.com/RiseandViewKrew/
Free drop in families puppet making session (Ages 5 upwards) – The Unremembered Project
Workshop takes place at Onca at The Barge in Brighton Marina on Monday 29th October 1.45-4.15pm.
Ages 5 plus
Strike a Light will be running a free drop in creative activity at East Brighton Trust’s Community Grants Drop in next month. Come along and find out about sourcing funds for activities and amuse your kids at the same time!
The event will be held on Tuesday 24th April from 2-6pm at The Bevy, Brighton
We’ve got a couple of spaces left on this lovely creative course looking at making a life history book for those with Dementia or if you work in social care and are looking for new ways to engage clients and residents. http://bit.ly/2kCWPAJ
The Orange Lilies – Brighton and Hove in the Somme
Come along and find out more about our WWI themed project and look at ways to learn about film making and get involved with training and activities as well as research skills.
Strike a Light, in partnership with Brighton & Hove Library and Information Service, and Fabrica showcases its WWI themed project The Orange Lilies – Brighton and Hove Soldiers in the Somme.
Frederick Geroge Stoner 1914The project focusses the city’s legacy of the Somme and a significant event on the eve of this (where huge numbers of Brighton soldiers fell), The Battle of Boar’s Head (also known as The Day that Sussex Died), as a key part of WWI, and its’ subsequent impact on Brighton and Hove.
Ale and Hearty Exhibition – Brighton
Friday 9th September 1-7pm & Saturday 1-5pm
Mezzanine Level, 8 Marshalls Row, Open Market, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, BN1 4JU
An exhibition specially for Heritage Open Days which focuses on the history of brewing in Lewes, East Sussex and its related industrial and agricultural links from the 18th Century to the present day, a period of some 200 years. The exhibition looks at Lewes’s working life in relation to Breweries, agricultural workers and rural life and trades. It also links in with abstinence and religious culture locally at the time, as well as a clear relation between trades and society through social clubs.
The exhibition runs along these thematic lines –
Introduction
Breweries in decline
Hops and songs
old breweries
Revival of micro breweries
A project in partnership with Harveys Brewery.
We are looking for 4 or 5 young people aged between 8 and 14 who would be able to come to the Royal Pavilion for a recording session in March. The recordings will then be taken away and edited for May so this is a one off engagement!
Professor Albert Grundlingh (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) will be giving talks at the University of Brighton for Gateways to World War I project (3 February) and the University of Kent (4 February) exploring the ways in which the 1917 sinking of the SS Mendi, carrying a detachment of the South African Native Labour Contingent, has been remembered.