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Education Business Partnership April 2011 Newsletter

Welcome to the April 2011 Newsletter. This highlights the events in 2010 together with plans for Spring 2011.

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Adult Learning Festival - What's On?

The brochure is now available for the January to March events at the Adult Learning Festival

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Art Action - Fashion Show

Recycled Fashion workshops, leading to Fashion Show production in Jubilee Square.

 

This event will give budding fashion designers, photographers and musicians a well publicised show case for their work.

Students will learn how to create Recycled Collections of clothing, headdresses and accessories over a three week period.

 

Professional advice and help will be on hand throughout the sessions, in order to assist in realising your designs.

Fabrics and clothes will be available for use, but personal items of clothing may also be used.

 

Rehearsals will take place on the day of the fashion show.

Designers may want to model their own garments, or get friends to model for them. This is a fun event for everyone, all sizes and ages. We are looking for models and dancers who would like to take part in this celebration for the learning revolution.

 

  • Workshops are held at: The Phoenix Community Centre,

     2 Phoenix Place, Brighton.BN2 9ND

  • Students need to book in advance for Fashion Show production, as spaces are limited. (free of charge)
  • Students may bring their own sewing machines to the workshops, for personal use.
  • Dates of workshops: Sat 27th Feb, Sat 6th March, Sat 13th March. (Fashion Show production and rehearsals on Sat 20th March)
  • Time of Workshops: 1pm until 4pm
  • Time of Fashion Show Production: 2pm, (to be confirmed)
  • Contact for information: “Art Action: Creative Industry Workshops” Juliana Sissons 07958587036 (Juliana.sissons@ntlworld.com)  

Friends Centre: New Venue and Courses

Friends Centre has moved to Brighton Junction, a new community space within the One Brighton eco development in the New England Quarter. One Brighton was built according to the ten One Planet Living principles developed by BioRegional and the WWF. To celebrate the move, Friends Centre is launching One Planet Learning – courses and workshops designed to raise environmental awareness and encourage sustainable living.

 

New One Planet courses starting Jan - March 2010 (See end of email for further info and how to enrol. Concessionary fees in brackets, where applicable):

 

One Planet, One Life (examines the current environmental picture and supports you to live sustainably)

Mondays 7.00pm – 9.00pm      Starts 25 January for 8 weeks £ 60.00 (N/A)

Grow Your Own Year-round Veg

Wednesdays 7.30 - 9.00pm   Starts 24 Feb for five weeks £28.50 (N/A)

 

Introduction to the Healing Power of Herbs

 Fridays 10.00am – 1.00pm       Starts 29 January for 6 weeks £ 70.00 (£ 42.00)

 

Understanding Climate Change, Facilitated by the University of Brighton

 Mondays 7.30pm - 8.30pm    22 February; 8, 22 March; 19 April; 10, 24 May   £ 7.50 each / £ 40.00 for all six (N/A)

 

Nature Writing

Wednesdays 1.00pm - 3.00pm Starts 27 Jan for 8 weeks  £60.00 (£36.00)

 

Dressmaking for Improvers

 Fridays 10.00am - 12.00pm    - Starts 29 January for 8 weeks £ 60.00 (£ 36.00)

 

Knitting for Beginners

 Thursdays 1.00pm - 3.00pm    - Starts 25 February for 5 weeks £ 37.50 (£ 22.50)       

 

Pattern Cutting

Mondays 1.00pm - 3.00pm      - Starts 25 January for 8 weeks £ 60.00 (£ 36.00)

 

Recycled Crafts

Thursdays 7.00pm – 9.00pm   - Starts 28 January for 8 weeks £ 65.00 (£ 39.00)

 

Recycled Textiles

 Mondays 10.00am - 12.00pm   -  Starts 25 January for 8 weeks £ 60.00 (£ 36.00)  

 And One day Saturday workshop 6 March £ 30.00 (N/A)

 

Recycled Knitting   

One day Saturday workshop 10.00am – 4.00pm 6 March £ 30.00 (N/A)

 

The Power of Word (the power of writing to confront and persuade)

Tuesdays 3.00pm - 5.00pm        -  Starts 26 January for 8 weeks £ 60.00 (£ 36.00)

 

Green Films In conjunction with Brighton Peace & Environment Centre        

Mondays 7.30pm – 9.30pm         -  1, 15 March (Spring term,) 26 April; 17 May; 7, 21 June  (Summer term) £ 7.50 each or £ 40.00 for all 6 (N/A)

                                                                                                                            

Just think.....   In conjunction with Life2     (examine how you are living and think about what really matters)

Tuesdays 7.30pm - 9.30pm         -   Starts 26 January for 8 weeks £ 80.00 (N/A)

 

Introduction to the Healing Power of Herbs

 Fridays 10.00am – 1.00pm        - Starts 29 January for 6 weeks £ 70.00 (£ 42.00)

 

Natural Cleaning – Get ready for your Spring Clean - One day workshop 10.00am – 4.00pm  Saturday 27 February £ 30.00 (N/A)

Natural Cosmetics Pamper Day - One day workshop 10.00am – 4.00pm  Saturday 30 January £ 30.00 (N/A)

For information about each course, download the Spring brochure from Friends Centre's homepage: www.friendscentre.org   or call 01273 810210.

To book your place call 01273 810210 with your credit/debit card details, send a cheque made payable to 'Friends Centre' to the address below, or visit the Friends Centre office (Termtime opening hours: 9.30am - 7.30pm Mon - Thurs, and 9.30 - 3.00pm on Fri).

Friends Centre, Brighton Junction, Isetta Square, Stroudley Road, Brighton BN1 4GQ Email: info@friendscentre.org

How to find that Red Rubber Ball

Your Red Rubber Ball is your passion in life. It gets you out of bed everyday. Some of us get it early in life others later. It took me a long time! Find or refine yours in this workshop on 3 Wednesday evenings; 3rd, 10th and 17th February between 6:30 – 8:30pm at Leweswerks. See www.leweswerks.org for a map.

What you might gain from this workshop

Have you ever wondered what it is all about-where you should be directing your energy? Do you wish you had more motivation? Are you really living your life as you want? Using all your resources? Following your dreams? Do you want more life satisfaction? This workshop shows you how to link all you energy and creative potential into worthwhile daily actions that you are passionate about. 

The workshop costs £75 for all three sessions; £30 per session. There is some preparation work before session one and after one and two.

Sign up

http://www.helixhr.co.uk see the blog and follow the links or please e-mail Mike [at] helixhr.co.uk or phone 07930 130970. If you want to book and pay online then click http://www.eventbrite.com/event/508109770

 

More information

Have you found your Red Rubber Ball yet? Mike Shreeve of Helixhr is putting on a workshop starting 3rd February at Leweswerks

What you gain

This workshop shows you how to link all you energy and creative potential into worthwhile daily actions that you are passionate about. Use it to find your ideal career or motivation in life.

Why?

Olympic champions often know what they want to do from early in life. Some of us are late developers. Your red rubber ball is your passion. It gets you up in the morning and the next.

The Red Rubber Ball comes from Kevin Carroll.  He is a former Athletic Trainer for the Philadelphia 76ers; he also worked for Nike and is a consultant and public speaker through his company, Katalyst. He did not have the best start in life yet through encouragement and determination he found want made him feel alive and what he wanted to pursue. This he called his red rubber ball. He has been pursuing it ever since. This workshop will help you find or fine tune your red rubber ball.

Who, where, when and how much?

Working with Neil Kirby and Steve Williams of the Red Rubber Ball company I am putting on a workshop in Lewes starting on 3rd February 18.30-20.30. It continues on 10th and 17th and costs £75.

About me; I am an experienced trainer and taught in schools, business and organisations of all sorts.  I had always pursued a number of different goals and roles. The beauty of the Red Rubber Ball process is that it links these all together into one meaningful and exciting journey. And, for me, the dreams are coming true. This workshop aims help you start to achieve yours.

More Information

Look at www.leweswerks.org.uk or on my website see the blog on  http://www.helixhr.co.uk/services/training-event-february

For fuller details see http://www.helixhr.co.uk/services/training-event-february

Pecha Kucha Night

A CALL FOR PRESENTERS: Be part of the Pecha Kucha Global network: www.pecha-kucha.org. Brighton's next Pecha Kucha Night will be held at the Komedia Studio bar on 17th February 2010.

PKN is not for profit and only for content. We are open for applications from presenters from all creative disciplines. To date we have had presentations from visual artists, filmmakers, architects, product designers, storytellers, media and digital artists, historians, photographers, performance artists, composers, computer game designers, dancers. Have a look at the website for more info. Closing date for applications 15th January 2010. Please email us for an application form. Pknbrighton@gmail.com

Hobnob 3: Apertures

Interested in videos using woven patterns of the human body? How about absurdly existential music? Photographic art of the emotional impact of abandoned Military bases? Yes? - then this is the event for you!!

From the Inqbate website:

The final instalment of HOBNOB, this event is going to leave the Autumn Term with a bang. Taking place in the most exciting space on campus, this event has many many brilliant things in it to look forward to.

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HOBNOB 3: APERTURES

Featuring:

FIONA GEILINGER
Fiona Geilinger makes woven pattern-based and print-inspired short videos using the moving body. She uses effects to separate the performers from their backgrounds, then animates the human movement trajectories. These are scaled up for moving fabric-like repeat patterns and scaled down to reveal individual human endeavours.

MUTE SWIMMER
Mute Swimmer is a moniker of the artist and musician Guy Dale. He writes songs that are perversely self reflexive, absurdly existential and/or sad. His performances increasingly use photography and projections to overstate his point. Occasionally he re-discovers his sense of humour and it finds it's way into a song. He lives and works in Brighton and writes poor promotional texts in the third person.
www.myspace.com/guydale

GINA GLOVER
Award winning photographic/artist Gina Glover will discuss her photographic practice in relation to two of her latest projects Playgrounds of War, which deal with the monumental and emotional detritus of abandoned military bases in the East Midlands and Eastern Europe. focusing on the physical and spiritual 'holings' left behind by war.

NATURE MANDALAS by GRACE DUNFORD
Digitally manipulated photographs exploring, revealing and celebrating the patterns inherent in natural forms.

THE BLIND JERRYS
Folk/bluegrass/R&B, a concoction of instruments, and a Brighton favourite.

PLUS music from DJ Incident, an immersive video game environment of 'Portal' complete with cake, holes in the walls, playing with LEDs and balloons, art work by Rose Morgan, and some tipple. AND a giant black hole. And maybe more, you never know.

Completely FREE and ALL WELCOME!

Prehistoric Brighton & Hove

A walking tour exploring archaeology and shamanic consciousness

Led by archaeologist Lisa Jayne Fisher and Anthropology of Magic author Susan Greenwood, the tour will include the graveyard  of St Nicolas church and the Old Steine where stones that form the base of the fountain are thought to have originally come from a stone circle.  Lisa will discuss the importance of Brighton in the Prehistoric period, looking at ritual and domestic sites from the Neolithic period up to the Roman invasion and Susan will lead the group through an introduction to the techniques of shamanic consciousness, and a meditative exploration of these ancient sites.

Free introductory taster session

Saturday 5th December, 11am – 3pm

Meet at St. Nicolas Church, Dyke Rd, Brighton

Booking essential with The Bridge

T  01273 294929/30

Centre for Community Engagement  Bridge Community Education Centre                        

FREE TASTER sessions with Brighton & Hove Festival of Learning

Adult Learning Festival - What's On in November/December

Below is a list of the many exciting activities that are happening as part of the Adult Learning Festival.

The Bridge Community Centre & University of Sussex Centre for Community Engagement

Thursday 19 November

The Bridge Community Choir…

  • Free your own natural voice
  • Learn vibrant and inspiring songs
  • Sing in harmony for the sheer joy of it!

Susie is a spirited and enthusiastic natural-voice singing workshop leader, bringing voices together in harmony with simple yet powerful songs of freedom, joy and peace, everything from African to Gospel and Spirituals.

Free introductory taster session

Thursday 19 November, 6.30-8.30pm

at The Bridge Community Centre, Lucraft Road, Moulsecoomb

Booking essential with The Bridge

T  01273 294929/30

 

Tibet Meditation

Friday 20 November 7:30-10pm

St Nicholas Church

Dyke Rd. Brighton

£10 full price, £8 concessions

Special Screening of a unique film and live singing bowl performance

that transports you into meditation. With music by Nawang Khechog

& Live performance by Alain Presencer.

No previous experience of meditation necessary to join this special

event. To see a trailer and more info: www.sacredearthmedia.com

 

The Bridge Community Centre & University of Sussex Centre for Community Engagement

Saturday 21 November

Campfire and woodcrafts day

For men and boys aged 16+

  • · Fire lighting with natural tinders
  • · Storm kettles
  • · Campfire cooking
  • · Green woodworking

Saturday 21 November, 11am–3pm

Meet at The Bridge Community Centre, Lucraft Road, Moulsecoomb

Booking essential with The Bridge

T  01273 294929/30

£5 charge for lunch and materials

 

University of Sussex Centre for Community Engagement

&The Bridge Community Centre

Tuesday 24th November

Interested in becoming a Young Community Reporter?

 Introductory meeting in Mac’s Place

 (at The Bridge Community Centre, Lucraft Road, Moulsecoomb)

3pm-5pm on Tuesday 24th November

Find out more about upcoming opportunities for 16-25 year olds to report on local events, publish your work online and locally, and meet reporters from The Badger (the University of Sussex Student Union paper).

For more info contact:

River Jones at CCE             T 01273 872987

 

The Bridge Community Centre &

University of Sussex Centre for Community Engagement

Wednesday 25th November

True Stories & Family Tales:

an introduction to the art of story telling.

Stories have been told in every culture across the world from the earliest times. It is a great way of sharing experiences and values with others in your family and community. All of us are naturally storytellers. We tell each other stories all the time. But storytelling is also an art that can be learnt. Find out more at this free introductory workshop, which will support people to share their stories with others in their community.

We also hope to develop a group to take part in TRUE STORIES, a project for National Storytelling Week (30 January to 6 February 2010) in which local people are invited to tell a ten minute story from their own life to others in their community.

Free introductory taster session

Wednesday 25th November, 9.30am -12 noon

at The Bridge Community Centre, Lucraft Road, Moulsecoomb

Booking essential with The Bridge

T  01273 294929/30

 

The Bridge Community Centre &

University of Sussex Centre for Community Engagement

Wild food, ancient plant use and woodland crafts

Saturday 28 November

Day out for women and girls aged 16+

  • · Foraging for local wild foods
  • · Fire lighting with natural tinders
  • · Campfire cooking
  • · Hands on crafts with natural materials

Saturday 28 November, 11am–3pm

Meet at The Bridge Community Centre, Lucraft Road, Moulsecoomb

Booking essential with The Bridge

T  01273 294929/30

£5 charge for lunch and materials

 

The Connaught Centre Hove

Thursday 3rd and Friday  and 4th  December

Our courses are open to adults of all ages, tastes, states of health or

previous experience. We offer over 650 courses run on mornings,

afternoons and evenings, Monday to Friday

Beauty and the Beast

A performance by the ‘Connaught Theatre Group’ of City College

Brighton and Hove

Thursday 3 December, 7.30 pm Friday 4 December, 7.30 pm

At the Pelham Tower Theatre, £6 adults, £4 children

Or £15 for a family ticket (up to 4 people)

For further details and a full list of courses and workshops

call 01273 667744 or visit www.ccb.ac.uk

 

The Friends Centre

Sat 5 December

www.friendscentre.org

The Friends Centre offer short

courses, workshops and career

development courses.

Contact Tel no. 01273 689265

Workshops:

French Film Club  Sat 5 Dec

10am-4pm £30 each

Eco Christmas Crafts Sat 5 Dec

10am-4pm £30 each

 

Christmas Fair & Learning Workshops

12 December 2009

St Nicholas Church, Dyke

Road Brighton 2pm-4pm

Imagine a Victorian style market inside the

church designed to evoke what all of us think

Christmas should be like – mince pies, mulled

wine, real ale and about twenty festive stalls and a chance to learn at

the Christmas paper textiles workshop, making wrapping paper,

boxes, cards and decorations. Join us for Christmas sweets, cookies,

pickles, jams and cakes, a Bran Tub, St. Nick’s Grotto, stocking fillers,

Christmas bags, pots, stockings and decorations, toys and balloons.

There’ll be carollers, hand bells and lots of children’s activities.

Outside a brazier and the smell of chestnuts as the afternoon darkens

and a Christmas chill descends – Christmas as it is in our memories

and as it will be again.

Further info: http://stnicholasbrighton.org.uk/

Tel 07746 198026

 

And don’t forget to download any informal learning activities you experience to:

The Allotment

Share your learning experience using mobile phones or video cameras.

Draw, photograph, or record the event in anyway you like!  Upload the media to The Allotment at

www.thegardenfilms.comand be part of a special screening as

part of our Spring Forward 20/21 March 2010.

The Allotment will grow throughout the Brighton & Hove Adult Learning Festival

as a place for you to record your experiences and new skills

into a unique media archive available on our website.