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Brighton, Hove and District previous events

12 September, 18.00 – 20.00 

We will meet at the Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, to plan a possible event in October with a Palestinian speaker from Hebron, we hope to get other groups involved. We will also discuss the Remembrance Day event we are holding.

 

24 October, 18.00 – 20.00

We will meet at the Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton to make white poppy wreaths and finalise details of our Remembrance Day event.

 

Remembrance Day, 12 November, 14.00

We will lay the White Peace Poppy Wreath at the War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton. Everyone welcome. 

 

Sunday 13 November 2016, War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton. 

Remembrance Day White Peace Poppy Wreath-Laying. We would like to invite you to join us at this above event to commemorate those women and men who have died in wars world wide, past and present and those who said ‘Never Again’. We will have a short commemoration with a few words spoken by those who wish to say something relevant to the message ‘No More Wars’. All welcome to this event.

 

Friday 25 November at the Old Steine Brighton, from 11am-1pm.        

International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women. The Brighton, Hove and District Branch will have a stall to mark this important day. We will have banners and leaflets and hope to talk to people passing by about forms of violence that women suffer, including during warfare, in their homes, homeless women living on the streets, women in the sex trade, and more.

 

Monday 21 September 2016 

Event with the UNA – details to follow

 

Sunday 12 July 2016

Fundraising Lunch from 12.30pm.
Mark Dearn from ‘War on Want’ will speak about TTIP, an extremely important topic that is one of WILPF’s campaigns and is currently being debated in the European Parliament.
Bring-and-buy stall with books, plants and other donated items, raffle and time to chat to friends.  All welcome, bring your family and friends, just let us know how many so we can have enough food!  Call Jenny 01273 239301 or email jenny@11qp.co.uk
Entry: £5.00 includes food and a glass of wine


Thursday 4 June

For the first time we decided to mark the International Day for the Child Victims of War.  We displayed our Brighton and Hove banner and one that had been painted for the occasion.  People walking  from the rail station to the seafront could see our banners, leaflets and the kaffir scarf we’d put on the ground with the clothes of small children on top to represent the child victims of armed conflict.  People spoke with us and some took leaflets.  Although we spent just one hour marking this day, we felt it had been worth doing to raise the issue of the child victims of armed conflict.


Tuesday 14 April 2015

‘Welcome to Newcomers’ meeting at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, Dorset Gardens, Brighton, 6-8pm.  We will be showing the film These Dangerous Women, recently made by the Clapham Film Unit in conjunction with WILPF and funded by the Heritage Lottery.  Sheila Triggs, UK WILPF membership secretary, will give a talk on WILPF’s work – past and future.  Refreshments will be provided.

 

Monday 13 April 2015

Show your support for the Faslane Naval Base blockade by joining us at the Clocktower from noon until 2.00pm.


2 March – 9 March 2015

Centenary Exhibition
Brighton and Hove District Branch hold an exhibition to mark WILPF’s centenary at the Jubilee Library.  For information and photos on this event see our Events page.

 

12 July 2014 – 1 March 2015

‘War Stories: Voices from the First World War’
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery has the exhibition ‘War Stories: Voices from the First World War’.  The exhibition includes a piece on WILPF member Eileen Daffern, now deceased.  This contribution to the exhibition led to the current Branch Secretary being traced by the exhibition creators for an filmed interview about WILPF.

 

8 November 2014 – 15 February 2015

‘Remaking Picasso’s Guernica’
‘Remaking Picasso’s Guernica’ at the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.  Members of WILPF Brighton and Hove District Branch worked on the banner other activists and academics.  The banner forms part of the ‘Conscience and Conflict, British Artists and the Spanish Civil War’ exhibition, which is excellent with many moving and wonderful paintings and drawings by people such as Picasso, Henry Moore, John Armstrong and others.