Tag Archives: Talks

Conversation Cafes for July

7th July 2016 Kev

The next free Conversation Cafe session for The Boys on the Plaque project takes place this month on Wednesday July 13th 2.30-4.30pm. The session will be in the Tony Miller Reading Room AKA Rare Books Archive on the Second Floor of Jubilee Library, Brighton.
This month, academic and expert on suffragism Dr Anne Logan discusses the role of women in the First World War.. She’ll be showing images and discussing her work in an informal way, linking with the activities in The Boys on the Plaque project, an HLF funded project.
If you’d like to join in with the book reading for the summer (we get our next book in September), then there are copies enough for everyone who attends the Conversation Cafe group.
This is The Suicide Club by author and ex BBC documentary maker Andrew Williams. This is a dark, disturbing and untold story of the shadow espionage battle during the First World War.For all readers of Robert Harris, William Boyd and John le Carre, The Suicide Club is a First World War spy thriller set in Occupied Belgium in 1917, and tells the dark, disturbing and untold story of the shadow espionage battle fought behind the lines. Andrew Williams’ novels possess ‘a richness of characterisation and intelligence that few thrillers can match’ (Sunday Times).
We won’t be having a Conversation Cafe session in August due to summer holidays, with the next sessions taking place at Fabrica gallery on the following dates in the autumn:

September 14th – Meet at Fabrica gallery, 40 Duke Street, Brighton – A discussion of our themes and events. This session will host visitors from the WWI themed Brighton’s Graphic War book project from QueenSpark Books, and a look at an earlier book Brighton the Graphic Novel on e-readers.

October 12th – Meet at Fabrica gallery, 40 Duke Street, Brighton – The Boys on the Plaque research group to give a presentation on soldiers from the city of Brighton and Hove to the group.

https://archive.strikealight.org/projects/the-boys-on-the-plaque/conversation-cafes/

Arts, Books and Postcards, Events, Heritage

Rare Books events at Jubilee Library

18th February 2016 Kev

Rare Books & Special Collections Events – Upcoming events at Jubilee Library:

Talk One:

The Decameron is a collection of short stories famous for their humour, sexual explicitness, and anti-clericism, and one of the most influential works in the history of European literature.

This talk by Dr Rhiannon Daniels, who is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol, will explore the ways in which publishing this text was marketed and read in sixteenth-century Italy within the newly established culture of print. Jubilee Library holds a number
of Renaissance editions of the Decameron which will be available
to view.

Dr Rhiannon Daniels is the author of Boccaccio and the Book:
Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520 (2009) and co-editor
of The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio (2015)
Saturday, 5th March 2016
11.30-12.30
£3

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Talk Two:

An Illustrated History of a Renaissance Bestseller Introduction to the Rare Books
& Special Collections:

Talk, Tour & Display of some of the ‘Treasures’ held in the Library Collections – 45,000 rare and unique works given to the Library by past residents of Brighton
Saturday, 27th February 2016
11.30-12.30
£3

Taking place at:

TONY MILLER RARE BOOKS READING ROOM
UPPER FLOOR
JUBILEE LIBRARY
JUBILEE STREET
BRIGHTON, BN1 1GE

THE ROOM IS ACCESSIBLE BY LIFT AND SUITABLE FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS

FACEBOOK.COM/BHLIBRARIES
TWITTER: @BHLIBRARIES WWW.BRIGHTON-HOVE.GOV.UK/CONTENT/LEISURE-AND-LIBRARIES/LIBRARIES

TO RESERVE A PLACE AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY:

PLEASE PAY AT THE DESK AND LEAVE YOUR DETAILS WITH THE MEMBER OF STAFF. PLEASE KEEP YOUR RECEIPT AS PROOF FOR ADMISSION OR
TEL: 01273 294005 AND LEAVE YOUR NAME & CONTACT DETAILS OR
EMAIL: RAREBOOKS@BRIGHTON-HOVE.GOV.UK

Arts, Books and Postcards, Events, Heritage

Conversation Cafes – Free reminsicence sessions!

30th September 2015 Kev

CONVERSATION CAFES

The Boys on the Plaque: Unearthing Hidden Histories of WWI Soldiers from Brighton & Hove. For those interested in finding out more about this project and these themes from WWI in the city of Brighton – join our Conversation Cafes for reminiscence activities, outings and events.
Free CONVERSATION CAFÉS taking place on the second Wednesday of every month, beginning on Wednesday 21st October at Fabrica gallery, Jubilee Library and other Brighton venues from 2.30-4.30pm. All welcome!

*** See full programme of free events here: Project Dates – Conversation cafes ***

We will be hosting a series of Twelve Conversation Café’s at Fabrica from October 2015, facilitated by Nicola Benge (Strike A Light), will use Holy Trinity, the plaque and the local area to look into participant histories.

Book your free place by contacting:

Clare Hankinson, Project Manager – The Boys on the Plaque

01273 778646

clare.hankinson@fabrica.org.uk

https://boysontheplaque.wordpress.com/

Sessions organised in partnership with:

Strike A Light: A local voluntary arts and heritage organisation using people’s life stories and memories to transform public and private spaces, specialising in intergenerational projects and working with people in the third age.
Brighton and Hove Library Services: Jubilee and Hove Libraries: Lucy Castle and Kate Regester – Community Engagement Managers www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/libraries.org
University of the Third Age(U3A) Local History Group: A learning co-operative of people no longer in full time employment. With over 450 members and educational, creative and social. Alan Cooke – Chairman of Brighton and Hove U3A and Coordinator of U3A Local History Group. www.brightonandhoveu3a.org.uk

There will be talks from Dr Chris Kempshall, project Coordinator of the WWI in East Sussex project, outings to the Rare Books Archiveand more including discussions will be led around themes inspired by The Boys on the Plaque, including life in Brighton & Hove during WWI, historical experiences of ordinary men and women, and life after the war. We will also consider wider themes about the church in the community, and Holy Trinity’s history with its bi-centennial in 2017. Participants will gain an in-depth knowledge of Holy Trinity as church and gallery over the project.
Information and copies of selected heritage materials found by our research group will be shared with older and younger people through our Conversation Cafe’s and Graffiti workshops, and intergenerational groups at our free Walking Tours, Heritage Open Days events on Thursday 10th September 2015 and Thursday 8th September 2016 and Bi-Centennial celebration in 2017, increasing the reach and impact of our research.
Through this we aim to connect people with local places associated with WWI, through investigation of our locality, sharing our findings through Walking Tours of the area and events based at Fabrica (a Grade II* listed building).
Nicola Benge (Strike a Light) will work with members of University of the Third Age and other individuals to share stories, memories, family history and local history (using information generated by the Volunteer Researchers), and take part in object handling to establish a meaningful history of ordinary people’s lives in Brighton & Hove.
These will be recorded for posterity, inform the project as a whole and will help to build a long-lasting relationship between the participants and Fabrica.
Academics, historians and researchers will be incorporated into our activities, their research and skills enabling a high quality learning experience for volunteers and participants, and significantly enriching our public programme.

Events, Heritage

REMEMBERING THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN EAST SUSSEX AND BRIGHTON

16th March 2015 Kev

REMEMBERING THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN EAST SUSSEX AND BRIGHTON – Gateways to the First World War

The Gateways team are supporting a number of centenary events taking place in East Sussex and Brighton over the next few weeks.
Bexhill Museum’s First World War Question Time
(organised with Gateways to the First World War)
Thursday 19 March, 12.30pm-3pm

A First World War Q&A session with a panel of experts including Dr Lucy Noakes (University of Brighton), Claire Eden (Bexhill Museum), Dr Chris Kempshall (First World War Project Officer, ESCC) and Geoff Bridger (Military Historian).
Tickets £2.50 from Bexhill Museum. More information here.

Home Fires: A Haunting story of love and loss during the Great War
Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 March

A large scale theatrical experience at Newhaven Fort with music, dance, sound installations, projections, professional performance and mass community participation.
Find out more on the Home Fires Facebook page.

‘Relations between French, British & American Soldiers in WW1’, a talk by Dr Chris Kempshall
Wednesday 8 April, 7.30pm

An illustrated talk by Dr Chris Kempshall at Seaford Martello Tower.
Tickets £2. More information here.

Oh What a Lovely War Family Open Day
(organised with Gateways to the First World War)
Friday 10 April, 11.30am-3pm FREE

Drop in, take a look around Theatre Royal Brighton and find out what was going on there and elsewhere in the City during the First World War. Exhibitions, displays, making and doing activities and more. Suitable for all ages.
More details available on our website soon.

For more information about these and many other events around the country visit www.gatewaysfww.org.uk/events.

Soldiers at Cooden Camp – ‘Lowther’s Lambs’. Image reproduced with permission of Bexhill Museum.

Strike A Light – Arts & Heritage CIC