Viva Lewes Issue #151 April 2019

THE ‘THINGS WITH WINGS’ ISSUE
CONTENTS
Bits and bobs.
8-25 Alexander Johnson on Deanland; Matt
Birch on Skylark and his Lewes; Photo
of the month from down by the river;
Doortrait; Oh, Otis; Egrets Way makes
progress; The Rooks in numbers; Charity
box on Air Ambulance; The Catalyst Club
surprises; Spread the word to Barbados
and the US; Carlotta Luke revisits Alistair
Fleming; Craig gets lovesick.
Columns.
27-31 Chloë King burns the pizza; John
Henty encounters Hitch in an airport; and
David Jarman’s back pages.
On this month.
33-51 My Fair Lady takes off at Lewes
Opera; Gus Watcham brings Redder to
town; Linda Grant looks to the future
at Lewes Literary Society; Ben Scott-
Robinson of the Small Robot Co speaks
at the Headstrong Club; the Wakehurst
Millennium Seedbank wows Lizzie
Lower; Ian Ruskin embodies Tom Paine;
Glengarry Glen Ross on stressful selling;
Nik Turner has Hawkwind in his sails;
Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne lands in the
Saturday Folk Club; Dexter Lee shares
some gems.
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Art.
52-57 Art focus on In Colour – Sickert
to Riley, at Charleston. Art and about
brings you Tom Benjamin’s Shore Lines,
Janice Thurston at Chalk Gallery, and
the winner of The Royal Opera House
Design Challenge, among others.
Listings and free time.
59-75 Diary dates, from Comedy at the
Con Club with Mike Gunn, to Rock of
Ages at the new Congress in Eastbourne,
to Sussex Nature Reserves with Michael
Blencowe, and much, much more; Gig
of the month is The Undercover Hippy,
plus gig guide; Classical round-up stars
George X. Fu, plus others; Free time
listings, including Flowers and Fleece,
and Digging for Treasure; Bags of Books
book review On the Origin of Species;
Shoes on now, for Shoreham Airport; and
the Mayor sets out to support the women
of tomorrow.
Portrait of a Girl, 1912 by Mark Gertler. © Tate, London 2019
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