The members of our wonderful reading group at First Base: Street Readers, had an exclusive tour backstage at Brighton Dome recently. One group member, who is a musician, was very excited to be standing on the same stage that his hero (Jimi Hendrix) once played. David Bowie also played Brighton Dome five times between 1969 and […]
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Nominate CITY READS for Community Event of the year
The Argus Community Stars Awards recognise the outstanding achievements of people and organisations across Sussex - celebrating individuals, charities and organisations who have worked hard to bring communities across Brighton & Hove together in positive ways. Here at City Reads, we believe that in the last eleven (yes, eleven) years, we have: championed some great books […]
Shared Reading Group at First Base
Since September 2015, with support from The People’s Health Trust, Collected Works CIC has been running a shared reading group at the First Base Centre: a space (run by BHT) that offers a range of services to support people who are sleeping rough or insecurely housed in the city. All material is read aloud, so even participants with […]
Writers ‘get on board’ for Young City Reads
Brighton based writers Paul McVeigh (this year’s adult ‘City Reads’ author) and Jo Bloom (author of the acclaimed ‘Ridley Road’) pitched in and helped raise over £800 for Brighton & Hove’s ‘big read’ for children - Young City Reads (YCR) to help children on the outskirts of the City attend the big finale Brighton Festival […]
Shared Reading Taster Sessions 2016
We were delighted to be awarded some funding by West Sussex County Council recently to deliver some Shared Reading Taster sessions at libraries across West Sussex. The idea is for West Sussex Library Service to then follow up on these sessions to launch several shared reading groups at Libraries in the region. It’s been such […]
Let There Be Pictures…
CITY READS 2016 Let there be pictures exhibition 21-28 MAY - Jubilee Library, Brighton A week-long exhibition (until 28 May) of drawn characters based on Paul McVeigh’s The Good Son. Fallen in love with one of the drawings? Then why not BID for it on eBay? Auction finishes on SUNDAY 29th MAY. SCROLL DOWN and click […]
