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.
Come down to Jubilee Library in Brighton anytime between 1pm – 5.30pm on Friday 20th September to have your thoughts recorded to form part of a new archive collecting all of this history.
This is also an opportunity to view the BSUH exhibition and join in with this exciting project.
Email: strikealight@rocketmail.com to find out more
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.
Come down to Jubilee Library in Brighton anytime between 1pm – 5.30pm on Friday 20th September to have your thoughts recorded to form part of a new archive collecting all of this history.
This is also an opportunity to view the BSUH exhibition and join in with this exciting project.
Email: strikealight@rocketmail.com to find out more
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.
Come down to Jubilee Library in Brighton anytime between 1pm – 5.30pm on Friday 20th September to have your thoughts recorded to form part of a new archive collecting all of this history.
This is also an opportunity to view the BSUH exhibition and join in with this exciting project.
Email: strikealight@rocketmail.com to find out more
We’ll be making faux stained glass as a reference to the beautiful stained glass inside Fabrica gallery from its earlier incarnation as the Holy Trinity Church. We’ll then be linking this with the national curriculum and key stage 2 maths.
The first set of our activities at Fabrica will include:
* Discussion about stained glass and examples
* Workshop on making faux stained glass with children
* Differentiation activity with scratch relief stained glass effect
We’ll be delivering activities every year at the gallery between 2019 and 2021.
PAST: PRESENT: FUTURE is a project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, which is being undertaken by Fabrica Gallery and some of its volunteers. This project will bring to light previously unexplored history about the exhibition space, a restoration of some of the churches key original features and an amazing learning resource in the form of a book detailing the story of the Holy Trinity Church.
Fabrica have partnered with Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage to deliver a series of three years of Heritage Open Days activities. These open days will be taking place in September 2019, 2020 and 2021.
These take the form of creative schools workshops based on restoration of stained glass at Fabrica gallery – part of the Holy Trinity Church 200th building anniversary.
Fabrica said: ‘This project will bring to light previously unexplored history about the exhibition space, a restoration of some of the churches key original features and an amazing learning resource in the form of a book detailing the story of the Holy Trinity Church.’
The first of our first Heritage Open Days, co-produced with Strike A Light, we will be providing local primary schools with workshops exploring the beautiful stained glass in the building – click here for more info or to book
Our Creative Director Nicola Benge will be saying a few words at this event, it’s free and celebrates BSUH history. Come along and join us!
Symposium about the history of Royal Sussex County Hospital, ethics in healthcare, and the opportunities for participatory arts practice in health settings.
Speakers include:
There will be three speakers at the event, held at Jubilee Library, including:
Dr Carina Westling, who is co-director of The Nimbus Group, will speak about the history of the hospital, from its inception, through to its current state, including how the hospital’s work with the community has changed, and how healthcare has developed over the 200-year history of the hospital.
Daniel Locke is an artist and illustrator who has been commissioned to work with the public to create a new artwork for the new Royal Sussex County Hospital. Daniel will talk about working with health workers, patients and the community, and how they have contributed to and inspired new artwork.
Dr Bobbie Farsides, Chair of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics at the University of Sussex, specialises in research on ante-natal screening and testing, reproductive technologies, palliative care and issues around death and dying, and will talk about how personal and organisational perspectives come together in healthcare ethics.
Date and time: 1:30pm registration, finish at 4:30pm. Free refreshments provided.
There are limited spaces for this event, book your ticket on Eventbrite to avoid disappointment.
The symposium is part of a commemorative programme of events supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Brighton & Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust.
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.
Come down to Jubilee Library in Brighton anytime between 1pm – 5.30pm on Friday 20th September to have your thoughts recorded to form part of a new archive collecting all of this history.
This is also an opportunity to view the BSUH exhibition and join in with this exciting project.
Email: strikealight@rocketmail.com to find out more
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.
Come down to Jubilee Library in Brighton anytime between 10am – 3pm on Saturday 7th September to have your thoughts recorded to form part of a new archive collecting all of this history.
This is also an opportunity to view the BSUH exhibition and join in with this exciting project.
Email: strikealight@rocketmail.com to find out more
Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage is coordinating the collection of oral histories with people who’ve worked at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust to explore the history of the buildings and the people in them.
We are seeking new oral histories for this project and would like to interview new people about roles in the history of the hospital. We would come to either your home or a secluded spot at work and interview you with each interview taking around an hour.
Our purpose is to record memories of the Royal Sussex County Hospital, the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, the Sussex Eye Hospital, Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre and the Princess Royal Hospital, Hayward Heath.
This project is being directed by Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage through NIMBUS, in partnership with the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.
We will create an archive that can be used for publications, websites, exhibitions, teaching and community events. Our plan is to recruit fifty respondents for interview and we are keen to record as wide a historical perspective of hospital life as possible.
These interviews will take place between August 2019 and March 2020 and will be conducted by trained volunteer oral historians from Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage.
If that’s something you would like to participate in, we’d be so pleased! Your interviews will form part of an exhibition at Jubilee Library in September as well as forming part of an archive into the future.
If you are interested, we can send one of our oral history interviewers to do this.
Participants will receive a copy of the oral history recording and the accompanying summary.
Speakers include – Dr Gideon Reuveni – Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, and Professor Mark Connelly a specialist in Jewish memorialisation post-WWI and Jewish veterans in the 1920s.
2.30pm: Dr Gideon Reuveni – Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies discusses his new co-edited book and the wider topic of The Jewish Experience of the First World War
3.30pm: Professor Mark Connelly – Director of Gateways to the First World War and specialist in Jewish memorialisation post-WWI and Jewish veterans in the 1920s
4.30pm: Shalom Sussex project findings with Dr Diana Wilkins and researchers
5.30-7pm: Drinks and light festive buffet.
The symposium takes place at Room 105, University of Brighton, 154-155 Edward St, Brighton BN2 0JG
PROJECT INFORMATION
Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage CIC, in partnership with the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, Jewish Care and the Jewish Historical Society of England is facilitating this project Shalom Sussex – The Jewish Community in WWI.
The project focuses on the contribution Jewish people in Sussex made during the First World War – both on the home-front and abroad on the battlefield.
To mark the end of the Centenary of the First World War, between March 2019-March 2020, this project is enabling people in Sussex to come together to preserve the memories and heritage of the Jewish people who lived locally during and post the First World War to collect these hidden histories.
Jewish people have been in Sussex since the 1700s, and the contribution in WWI made by Jews to the area has been significant.
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).
We aim to encourage families living in and around the Saunders Park area of Brighton to come along to some or all of our free ten sessions over Spring and Summer 2019 but everyone from across the city is welcome.
Activities are at the United Reform Church, Lewes Road, entrance opposite Saunders Park Rise.
Activities are provided by Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage by enhanced DBS checked artists and facilitators, and include arts and crafts events. Sessions include a healthy snack.
