Viva Brighton Issue #82 December 2019

CONTENTS
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Carol – Dickens’ salutary, seasonal tale
‘of redemption and community’, plus,
Chris Horlock looks back at some Sussex
Christmas traditions at The Keep.
Brighton sound and light wizards Ithaca
create an immersive winter soundscape at
Glow Wild at Wakehurst, and prepare to
make way for the seafront Santa Dash.
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Art & design.
61-71. Street art comes to Toy Town in
Urban Miniatures; Caroline Lucas curates
the Towner Collection in Brink; and
Anthony Burrill talks print at Phoenix
Brighton. Plus, just a bit of what’s on, artwise,
this month.
The way we work.
73-77. Adam Bronkhorst photographs
some folks who are helping to create a
more sustainable Christmas.
Food.
79-83. Lizzie Lower enjoys an evening of
fine wine and boozy cocktails at L’Atelier
du Vin; Gran Stead’s share their recipe for
mulled ginger wine and Joe Fuller chows
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down on a ‘good karma kebab’. Plus, just a
taster of the city’s food news.
Features.
85-95. Shopping local this Christmas? Our
handy gift guide will help get you started.
We meet the people behind some of our
city’s Meetups; the socially-enterprising
Ben Szobody – Projects Development
Manager at One Church, and a stayat-home
Dad who’s building a support
network for fathers. Plus, we find out why
getting together is good for us from Sussex
University’s Centre for Innovation and
Research into Wellbeing.
Photo by Lizzie Lower
William Nicholson, Judd’s Farm, 1912.
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Wildlife
97. The Robin; everyone’s favourite festive
bovver bird.
Inside left.
98. Christmas day at the Goldstone, 1911.
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