Newhaven Fort Wartime Family Days

The Newhaven Fort family days, held in conjunction with St Dunstan’s, will give families a chance to experience what life was like during WWI and WWII, through interactive and engaging tours, talks and craft workshops.
Learn about life on the Home Front and hear personal accounts from St Dunstan’s speakers as they reminisce about their wartime experiences. St Dunstan’s will also be hosting a special craft workshop where children can create clay and paper mache models of traditional wartime sweets and rations to take home. *
In addition there will be many drop-in activity sessions throughout the day.  Visit the art workshops and create a traditional wartime toy or have a go at planning a family menu using your weekly rations.
Learn the art of crochet in our ‘crochet and chat’ workshops and visit the WWI and WWII object handling sessions where you will have the unique opportunity to learn about and handle historical artifacts.

Bugle call demonstrations and parade ground drills will also be taking place throughout the day and follow the special ‘Pathfinder Pudding’ quiz trail to discover what ingredients are used to create this wartime dish.

All activities are free and included in the cost of admission. Newhaven Fort is open from 10:30am – 6pm (last admission 5pm). For more information visit www.newhavenfort.org.uk

*Places limited and must be booked in advance by calling Newhaven Fort on 01273 517622.

No Walls Gallery presents Shotgun from Brighton artist, Imbue

No Walls, Brighton’s most exciting new gallery, are thrilled to present their inaugural exhibition in their Brighton space with a new body of work by one of the most enigmatic young Brighton artists, Imbue.

Known by many for smuggling his fake heroin and cocaine vending machines onto Brighton Pier, his run in with WKD’s legal team and most recently his hi-jack of Cheryl Cole’s L’Oreal billboards, Imbue’s relationship with popular culture is most definitely a love/hate affair.

Shotgun includes a body of exclusive new original works, prints, collages, mirrors and even balloons with classic logos, icons and imagery manipulated and re-mastered like you’ve never seen them before.

13a Prince Albert Street Brighton BN1 1HE

Summer Fun at Borde Hill

Kids may never have a dull moment at Borde Hill Garden this summer holidays as the Garden, set in 200-acre park and woodland, puts on an exciting programme of fun and intrigue to keep active minds and bodies busy.

They’ll be enthralled by the exciting tree trail and exercised by the adventure playground, all set in sprawling parkland and lovely landscaped lakes with wildlife ponds to explore.

Kids’ Summer Fun runs from 1st to 26th August and includes activities such as Robbie the Magician, Go Kart Party and Splodge Arts and Crafts (making butterflies, insects and fish).
An amazing experience awaits children and adults alike as Animazing once again visit Borde Hill throughout the summer, offering visitors the chance to get up close and personal with a menagerie of exotic wildlife, including insects, snakes, hedgehogs and tortoises.
Children and parents can trek through the magical woodlands and panoramic parkland that make Borde Hill a must-visit destination for all the family.

Into an area renowned for its iron-making arrives a host of giant animal sculptures, crafted by creative blacksmiths Anvil Ironworks. Watch out for the wolf spider, crocodile and dragonfly and other animals, as well as flowers, all beautifully wrought and textured, that will create wonder and surprise around the garden.

Then, after all the activity, simply chill out and picnic by the water or relax in the Elvira café and enjoy a mouth watering selection of home produced foods.

More details at www.bordehill.co.uk • 01444 450326

Made in Brighton 2

Following on from the incredible success of ‘Made in Brighton’ in 2009, Ink_d bring you ‘Made in Brighton…2’.

We have challenged our Brighton based artists with the following brief;

Up to 15 items per artist (originals or an edition)

All items £75

No larger than 30 x 30cm in size

To interpret the subject of ‘Brighton’ as they wish

‘Made in Brighton 2’ is a celebration of the creativity and talent currently coming out of the city by the best of our Brighton based artists. The aim is to create a snap shot of the city’s art scene in paintings, prints, drawings, collage, sculpture and ceramics.

Each artist will also be submitting a piece to go into a one-off collectable box set. For those of you who missed the first ‘Made in Brighton’ we will have available one of each of the original items from the previous show.

New this year, we will be holding artist led workshops to include collage, spray-painting and stencil making. These places will be affordable but places will be incredibly limited.

Taking part in the show is;

Aimee Parrott, Ben Allen, Dylan Floyd, Hutch, Imbue, Kate McMorrine, Maria Rivans, Matt Smith, Pinky, REQ, Screenprince, Sean Madden and SNUB.

www.ink-d.co.uk

Twisted at The Phoenix

Kay Aplin, Rosalind Davis, Rosie James, Marion Michell, Karin Schosser, Isobel Smith and Alice Walton.

Seven artists employ the traditional materials and techniques of textiles and ceramics, but manipulate and twist them into different forms, altered meanings and new directions.

www.phoenixarts.org •  Wednesday – Sunday 11 am – 5 pm Phoenix Gallery, Brighton