What’s on in Brighton in March? Looking events in Brighton or ideas for night out in Brighton? This is an alternative night out in Brighton to the usual. If it’s culture your after, then this is for you.
Brighton
SATURDAY JAN 28 4pm – 6pm
We’re having an informal afternoon to share ideas and plans for the future. Come after you’ve done the shopping. Bring the kids and some buns! Email Bridget for venue details — you’ll find her email address on our facebook page
A new Irish language class kicks off on the 5th December. These are mainly aimed at beginners but if you’ve a bit of language please come along too. The classes will be relatively informal, we’d rather get together and start learning conversational Irish. They will be held every Monday.
First Class Date: December 5th 2011
Location: St. John the Baptist Parish Hall, Bristol Road, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1AP
Time: 6.30 – 8pm
Email Contact mcgovernaine@hotmail.com
We’ve been lucky to have a native fluent volunteer offer to take the class, so a small contribution would go a long way.
The local adult Irish dancing school, “Hopping Mad Scóil Rince na hÉireann” has organised a céilí to raise funds for their trip to the World Championships in April.
It’s on the 16th December, it’s £3 on the door and a bring your own bottle event.
Date: December 16th 2011
Location: St. John the Baptist Parish Hall, Bristol Road, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1AP
Time: 8 til late
There will be a bit of live music and the odd to give your feet a wee break. There’ll also be a raffle and yummy cake sale! So why not pop along and see what the fuss is about and have a bit of craic.
If you need more information check out the website
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Brighton Irish Society pre-Christmas Bash will be on Saturday December 3rd at Molly Malone’s in West Street. There will be some great live music and a raffle too! Watch this space for more details.
If you cannot wait that long, this Friday, Nov 11, Molly Malone’s will show the Estonia Ireland match on a big screen. Kick off 7.30.
Award winning play The M Boat returns to Brighton for ONE NIGHT ONLY in November as part of a short UK tour.
The Argus Angel winning play, written by Brighton-Irish celebrity Eddie Alford, ran to packed audiences during the 2011 Brighton Fringe Festival, winning recognition from FringeGuru.com critics and awarded best fringe event in the post festival awards.
The original cast are reunited for two nights at The Eagle pub.
Date: Saturday November 26
Time: 7.30
Venue: upstairs at The Eagle pub, Gloucester Street, Brighton BN1 4AF
Come and see the play again, or tell your friends who missed it first time around!
The local adult Irish dancing school, “Hopping Mad Scóil Rince na hÉireann” has organised a monthly céilí right here in Brighton!
The first of these kicks off on the 26th August, it’s £3 on the door and a bring your own bottle event.
Date: August 26th 2011
Location: St. John the Baptist Parish Hall, Bristol Road, Kemptown, Brighton BN1
Time: 7pm
There will be some live music to give your feet a wee break and plenty of craic!
If you need more information check out the website
Hot off the presses – The M Boat, co-produced by Harbour Theatre and Brighton Irish, has won an Argus Angel for its run in the 2011 Brighton Fringe.
More details to follow, but in the meantime heartiest congratulationss to Eddie Alford and all the cast of this wonderful show and their well-deserved award!
Saturday last saw Brighton’s first ever “Lá Gaelach” take place at the Eagle bar, Gloucester Road, Brighton.
The event was deemed to be a huge success, with two floors of the venue occupied by a beginners and intermediate/advanced class. The day was divided by a superb buffet spread, all part of the entry fee.
Lá Gaelach Brighton drew people new to the Irish language and speakers of all levels of abilities, coming from Brighton and Sussex as well as a significant number of people who attend classes with the same teachers in London.
We look forward to many more such events in the near future and perhaps some less formal gatherings for some comhrá!
If you are interested in Irish speaking and learning events in Brighton, regardless of your experience (including none at all), drop a note to gearoid at brightonirish.co.uk.
Brighton resident and Brighton Irish community member Bernadette Cremin has signed a deal with Irish publishing house Salmon publishing for her next collection of poetry. ’New and Selected’ is due for publication in January 2013.
Bernadette Cremin was the outright winner of the 2005 Biscuit Publishing “Challenge” themed poetry competition. Perfect Mess is her prize award collection.
Bernadette lives in Brighton, and has won a Year Of The Artist award, a performance poetry bursary and been published in the UK and Eire. Alongside solo commissions Bernadette has collaborated with a music producer (State Art), a film-maker (Indifference Productions) a photographer (ProjectPoetry) and a geneticist (Promise of Threat). Her collection Speechless (Waterloo Press) followed in 2007.
Bernadette has previously worked as a social worker, tea lady, sociology lecturer, TEFL teacher, bank clerk and waitress. This chequered and eclectic career path has invaluably enriched her true vocation of poet and performer.
“Speechless” by Bernadette Cremin
Reviews
Cremin has built a magic bridge between performance and the page; she has proven palpably and infectiously, how there needn’t be such a divide in the first place. Speechless is quite aptly titled, for that’s exactly how it leaves one: it proves that Cremin’s poetry is as tangible and affecting on the page as it is when uttered from her lips like subtle spells.
- Alan Morrison
… a poet at once glamorous and sordid. She writes of call girls and ham actors, moody photos and bedsit divas. Bernadette in lines both precise and honest croons of violence and loss. Hers is the smoky voice of an underclass, forever tough feminine and vulnerable. If Tom Waits had a beautiful stepsister she would sound like Bernadette Cremin.
- John O’Donaghue (Waterloo Press)
