A unique 2-day winter retreat running from 11.30am-5pm on Thursday 16th & Friday 17th January 2025

Featuring:

Poetry

Comedy

Movement

Sound

Delicious food

The theme of this retreat is RHYTHM. Our gentle programme begins with a really great brunch, where you’ll meet the other delegates, before moving into a creative space together. You'll be invited to re-connect with your most creative selves, enjoying inspiring activities. There'll be mastermind style coaching groups, movement with Anny, comedy with Linz, and a poetry workshop, plus plenty of time to reflect and plan. There’ll also be the opportunity to relax with a sound bath (included in your schedule), plus time for self-guided winter beach walks and a quiet coffee by the coast.

Enjoy guided journaling, nourishing coaching, herbal tea and fresh fruit and community.

While transport, accommodation and evening meals are not included, we can offer you some lovely recommendations if you intend to stay over, so that you can tailor your retreat to your own specifications.

What you can expect:

Meet and connect with other creative people and with yourself. Re-set, re-focus and discover how to re-connect with your creative energy and use it to great effect. Learn new and familiar ways to align with what's truly important to you, in work and life.

Leave feeling nourished, supported and well-resourced.

For full booking details, check out https://www.coachingbyhelen.com/workshops-group-coaching-retreats

Sat 23rd Nov 2024, 2:30pm – 6pm

EMBODIED CONSENT: for Intimacy & Play, with Bear Phillips

“Exploring emotional attunement (and ninja-level consent!) for deeper pleasure and play”

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I believe deeper and more pleasurable play is possible, but only if we can build safety and trust with our play-partners and lovers.

This experiential and trauma-informed workshop is for you if you are interested to learn how “embodied consent” can lead to deeper and more pleasurable experiences with your partners and lovers.

We’ll look at three levels of consent: verbal (language), and non-verbal (body language), before dropping in to explore energetic levels of communication (also known as emotional attunement).

We’ll explore how we communicate our boundaries, how we sometimes lose sight of each other’s boundaries – and what we can do to look after ourselves.

Starting at 2:30 pm (doors open from 2:15), the workshop will be in two parts, with a more structured but still experiential workshop for 90 minutes, a break, and a second more open and explorative space ending at 6:00 pm.

Bear has worked with hundreds of people in the world of sexuality, intimacy and kink. He is a trauma-informed bodyworker and a Sex & Love coach.

Open to all, irrespective of gender or orientation. Bring yourselves and an open, curious mind!

No Nudity.

No Under 18's.

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Accessibility:

Unfortunately – as many in Brighton tend to be – the venue is not accessible to wheelchair users, being located on the first floor of The Actors building with no lift.

Having said that, please let me know if you have any access needs that I can support you with. For those with invisible disabilities, I’ll make every effort to provide a range of seating, and to be mindful of neurodivergent needs.

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About me:

BEAR PHILLIPS

❤️🌈🥰  Practitioner of Love   |   Explorer of Conscious Kink  😉😈🖤

Bear Phillips (he/ him) is a poly-sexual, polyamorous and kinky-slut by night – and a trauma-informed bodyworker and intimacy, dating & relationship coach by day.

Bear has been part of the kink community for over a decade and involved in various forms of therapy and personal development for more than half his life. His first book; Feminism Will Make a Man Out of You! Is due for release in 2025.

💥 More connection, more pleasure, more joy - it’s all possible! ✨

www.bearphillips.co.uk

IG: @bear_phillips

FB: Bear Phillips

Fet: Bear_Phillips

TICKETS: https://dandelion.events/e/embodiedconsent

Monthly - Tues 12 November, 7-10pm

TCIKETS: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/transformbrightonandhove/1429792?

Transform Brighton and Hove brings you the latest in radical political education, as we invite three speakers to talk each month. Expect hot takes on politics, culture, current affairs, history, and everything in between.

🪣 Joe Skeaping: Sandcastle Politics
Joe is an A-level politics teacher, who will be exploring the question: why are parliamentary majorities so fragile? Using the concept "sandcastle politics," he will explore how the bonds that shape our core political attachments have weakened under neoliberalism, meaning that voters approach politics in an increasingly transactional way. Does this cast doubt on the durability of the new Labour government, despite its enormous majority? If we are now in an era of "sandcastle politics", how should the left respond? Can these attachments be re-formed?

🤔 Dr David Bramwell: Challenging the Myths of Western Culture
David is an author, podcast host, and host of the Catalyst Club- a night of talks "exploring the singular passions of everyday folk..." His talks and shows explore subjects ranging from utopias and trickery to ghost villages and moomins. David's talk will look at how we came to think and feel in such a selfish, isolated way, and goes on to share new ways of thinking that are emerging in relation to community, entanglement, ecology and more.

🏫 Amy McGourty, A historical narrative of the hedge school

Amy is a doctoral candidate in human geography at the University of Sussex, caseworker at Friends, Families and Travellers, trade unionist and anti-colonial Irish language activist. Her research uses oral history, archival and participatory methods to explore the themes of solidarity and resistance, and ask how the narratives and practices of Irish Travellers can be understood as forms of anticolonial worldmaking. With an overarching interest in and commitment to grassroots modes of knowledge production, as well as anticolonial and feminist pedagogies, her organising efforts are a natural extension to her research.

Got a theory you think everyone should know about? Political analysis of your favourite sit com? Been involved in a project that's inspired you? If you have a topic you love, and could talk about for 10-20 minutes, then let us know!
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Thursday’s from 7pm - Late

A weekly night DIY night for Dykes of all Genders

Sunday’s from 8pm - 10:30pm

Hosted by local Musicians providing a backline for all to Jam. Sign up form 7:30 to perform or come and hear some new talent from the city.

Tuesday’s from 8pm - 10pm

Our Poetry open mic is held every Tuesday hosted by and showcasing local poets. We create a welcoming intimate comfortable safe space to enjoy and share poetry.

3rd Wednesday OTM from 6pm - 9pm

Our Craft community hold a welcoming crafting space once a month in our side bar area where you can learn and socialise in our cozy side bar.

2nd + 4th Wednesday’s OTM from 7pm - 9pm

Welcoming Zine making workshop hosted twice a month

5th September, 3rd October, 31st October

Guy Lloyd

Remember The Tube? TFI Friday? This is the radio equivalent. Live performances from bands, solo artists, comedians, poets, you name it, anything could happen on this show. Alongside the live performances, they’ll  be interviews with big names from across the city and beyond, all in front of a live audience. That live audience being you. And your friends. And family. And possibly, domestic animals (although we’d take non-domestic).

This month we welcome live performances and interviews with RY-GUY, Bellza and Maddie Broad.

Get tickets here

1st Sunday OTM | 12pm - 6pm

We are excited to introduce to you our very own Makers Market! A family event, spotlighting local artists and business to show off the best our community has to offer!

From jewellery, to candles and prints and plants, our market is a great afternoon activity :)

So come grab a coffee and see what our wonderful vendors have to offer!

FREE EVENT

Start: 8pm | 3rd September | 1st October | 5th November | 3rd December

Join us each month for scoops and scoops of silliness! Every show sees a brand new collection of brilliant improvisers, ready to spin your suggestions into comedy gold and make themselves look utterly ridiculous for your entertainment.

With performers flying by the seat of their pants, it's certain to be surprising, hilarious, and totally unforgettable!

Follow us:

facebook.com/Scoopsimprov

twitter.com/scoopsimprov

instagram.com/scoopsimprov

Get tickets here

Starts: 8:30pm | 19th September & 14th December

Join us for an evening of Jazz, Burlesque and just a hint of inebriation @bebettescabaret

Tickets coming soon!

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED :(

16th November | 7pm

Have we got an exciting show for you!! A knight of a million dollar drag queens! (All in loose change) Come join myself paula Gravy and my fabulous boujee bitches in this fabulous cabaret drag show. On Saturday the 16th of November at The Actors 7pm Except a night of glam, grime and glitter as the queens of the council estate dress in their finest rip-off designer Couture for funfield fancy night of luxury.
⭐Staring⭐
⭐@carmel.fleur
⭐@bendymoore
⭐@alexfincherworld
⭐@brambley_apple
⭐@asherfynn
⭐@shallowveradrag
Tickets will be released very soon!! Or you can get tickets on the door night of at @theactorsbrighton