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West Hill Kino Club

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This spring sees the arrival of West Hill Kino Club. The Kino Club will fill the current void of independent/community-led cinema in Brighton, and create a DIY-orientated program which will incorporate hidden gems of contemporary and classic cinema and TV, alongside peripheral activities including live music, guest speakers and activities.

Saturday 26 March

Celluloid Boogie presents a celebration of the early 90’s Riot Grrl movement

Ultra-rare screening of landmark underground film ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains’ (1982) plus the first ever screening of found footage film ‘February 14th’ (1993), about Huggy Bear’s (pre-eminent UK Riot Grrl outfit) famous Valentines Day gig in Brighton ‘93.

Plus live music from Trash Kit and Woolf, London’s finest all-girl punk/folk groups.

Doors: 7.00pm £6 (£5 concs)

Sunday 27 March

Kino Club Sundays presents Land

The theme of communities (migrants and children, idealists and filmmakers) interacting with the common land through work, leisure, and discovery, celebrates our first foray into community cinema.

We’ll be screening recently re-released British Free Cinema classic ‘Winstanley’ (1975), along with wonderful childhood short ‘Tom & Esther Learn Lessons’ (2010), and dreamlike documentary ‘The Pickers’ (2009) fresh from Screen South’s Archivia Exhibition. Also the mesmerizing archive time-lapse film ‘Birth of a Flower’ (1910) will be accompanied live by multiinstrumentalist Robert Stillman, who will also be performing music from his recent ‘Machine Songs’ CD.

Doors: 6.00pm £6 (£5 concs)

We will be selling appropriate refreshments at each event, all sourced from local residents/businesses, plus themed stalls and regular zine tables, promoting DIY movements in and around Brighton.

Tickets available: Resident Records, Bright News Convenience Store on Buckingham Road, and through westhillkinoclub@gmail.com.

Friday 22 April
Get your teams together and your cinema (and telly) hats on for this great little question and clip based quiz that will be a regular feature of Kino Club. £1 per person to take part. Prizes plus Innocent Sinners (1958) 95mins. Dir. Phillip Leacock (The Kidnappers). Based on An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) this ultra-rare screening of lost gem of British cinema takes in rebel youth, issues of common land, the changing face of market forces and class-divide, and the oft heavy-handedness of charity. You may need a hanky or three. As a local Brighton connection, amongst an exemplary cast, the film also features a fine performance by legend of stage and screen and Wykeham Terrace resident Dame Flora Robson as Olivia.

Doors 7pm Ÿ Quiz 7.30pm Ÿ Film 8.30pm Ÿ End 10.15pm Tickets £5 (from Resident and Rounders Record Shops, and wegottickets.com). westhillkinoclub.blogspot.com

Events, The Arts

Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours

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Aung San Suu Kyi - credit Burma Campaign UK
Aung San Suu Kyi

This is a quotation and a plea from Aung San Suu Kyi, guest director of this year’s Brighton Festival. Brighton, as the UK’s most liberal city, is the ideal place to host a festival celebrating themes of freedom of expression, liberty, and the power of the individual voice in society, and will come alive in May as we celebrate and champion Aung San Suu Kyi’s cause and world-vision. She says, “It is especially pleasing for me to see, albeit remotely, Brighton Festival taking shape this year, and to think that so many people will come together in May to celebrate great art and to experience the inner peace it brings. It is wonderful, too, to know that there is such support for the effort to bring democracy and freedom to Burma, for which the Burmese people have been diligently working for so long. I wish everyone involved in Brighton Festival this year – the artists and the audience – the happiest of times. And thank you – please continue to use your liberty to promote ours.”
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The Karavan Ensemble

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Anima
Anima

In May, as part of Brighton Festival Fringe the West Hill Hall will host The Karavan Ensemble, a group of international performers combining dance, music, and theatre. Anima is a unique site-specific journey of dance, physical theatre, live music and visual imagery inspired by light and created in the exceptional spirit of The Karavan Ensemble. With lights and stories gathered from Brighton homes, they create a gripping venture into the realms of human nature, like light bearing living threads. Directed by Yael Karavan. For more info and reservations: brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk
May 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29 at 8pm.
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Environment, Events

Planting Wild Flowers

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St Nicholas Churchyard
Sun 13th March 11am – 2pm

HarebellWith Dominic, the Park Ranger.

We will have tools and gloves and over 500 plants … ox eye daisy, calamint, evening primrose, foxglove, field scabious, greater celandine, cowslip, mullein, moth mullein, bladder campion, red campion, fox and cubs, marjoram, small scabious, lesser knapweed, goatsbeard, birds foot trefoil, harebell, wild carrot, red valerian…

Let’s turn the churchyard into a wildflower haven!

Environment, Events

Brighton Science Festival 13 Feb – 6 Mar 2011

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THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Spiral ClockWe all dance to the Circadian Rhythm. It makes us sleep. It wakes us up. It gives us jet lag and makes us have accidents when we try to disobey it. What makes us tick? Professor Russell Foster has spent sleepless nights finding the answer. The source, he finds, is our body clock, a chemical reaction which occurs deep in the heart of the brain, where molecules dance to their own rhythm: they combine, then they fall apart again, and when they have all fallen apart they begin to combine again, and so on. One cycle of the molecular dance takes exactly 24 hours.
Thursday 17 February, 8pm, Latest Music Bar, Manchester Street, Brighton

LESSONS FOR LIFE – STONE AGE STYLE

Paleolithic manCan’t stop eating chocolate? Too many hours on Facebook? Maybe evolution is to blame.
Dr Matt Pope reveals that Paleolithic Humans had many of the lifestyle quirks we associate with the modern life. Researching the lives of our earliest ancestors can help us understand the most remarkable, misunderstood and awkward life-form that has ever lived…you!
Food issues will be debated during the day. What do you think of the government’s idea that the best people to act as guardians of the nation’s health are the fast food giants? Come and let us know at Play with your Food
Saturday 26 February, 10am-5pm, Hove Park Upper School

WATER WAY TO LISTEN TO MUSIC

Wet SoundsWet Sounds – an underwater deep listening experience you can feel in your bones. Sound travels 4.5 times faster in water than air and is sensed by our bones, providing a unique immersive listening experience. As part of Wet Sounds’ third UK tour, Joel Cahen will play a live sound collage of various environments, music and sound textures. Also presented is a curated listening gallery of 2011 work for underwater listening by featured sound artist. www.wetsounds.co.uk
Wednesday 2 March, 8-10pm, King Alfred Pool, Hove

BACH-ING MAD

MusicWhat are we saying when our music is playing? How is it that human evolution brought music along with it? What does it do to us? Dr Harry Witchel uses science and anecdotes from the history of pop culture to discover why music makes us feel so good, or so bad, and how we use it to mark our patch. Like birds, gibbons, and other musical animals, we use music to establish and reinforce social territory.  In this way music can influence what you think, what you buy, and even how smart you are.
Big Science Saturday 5 March, 10am-6pm, Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade