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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
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
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.



