Radio Free Brighton

Brighton loves many things. Art, cul­ture, diversity, protest­ing, drink­ing. But also, sci­ence!  This Feb­ru­ary Brighton and Hove shows off its brains to any­one want­ing a look, with a month long Sci­ence Festival.

Across the city ven­ues are open­ing their doors to the pub­lic and show­cas­ing a range of sci­ence themed events, includ­ing talks, demon­stra­tions, inter­act­ive and child friendly events and even a spe­cial sci­entific cake competition.

Check out the offi­cial site here for  news, inform­a­tion and a full list events.

Here are some of the upcom­ing events for the next month and a bit tak­ing place in and around Brighton and Hove and London.

Thursday 8^th March, 6.30pm (for 7pm start) to 9pm @ BMECP Resource
Centre (Lagoon Room)

If your group works in, with or for one of Brighton & Hove’s many,
var­ied and won­der­ful patches of pub­lic green space, then you may be
inter­ested to come along to this meet­ing to link up, learn from and
share with other green space groups from across the city.

Thursday 8^th March: Sus­sex Equality Group — The Friends Meet­ing House, Brighton, 7pm

Dis­cover how you can play your part in pro­mot­ing a health­ier, hap­pier, more sus­tain­able society.

Sat­urday 17^th to Sunday 18^th March: Veg­fest UK — The Hove Centre at Hove Town Hall, 11 am – 6 pm

Admis­sion free. More inform­a­tion: www.vegfest.co.uk

Until Feb 29^th

Brighton Sci­ence festival

Aimed at 7+ to 70 +, the Fest­ival has many inter­est­ing ses­sions, for example: Sat 18^th Feb 10–4 What can pos­sibly go wrong? Eco dis­asters and how to avoid them – at Latest Music Bar, 14–17 Manchester Street, Brighton, BN2 1TF.

Details: www.brightonscience.com/2011

Sunday 4^th March

Palestine: Res­ist­ing oppression

Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton, 11.30am – 3.00pm

An inform­a­tion, dis­cus­sion and action event.

Itaf Njoum Karma from Jordan Val­ley Solidarity
will speak on Res­ist­ance in the Jordan Valley

Free entry,
vegetarian Palestinian lunch provided (£3)

Thursday, 29^th March

Future of the Com­mons: Bey­ond Mar­ket Fail­ure and Gov­ern­ment Regulation

Speaker: Prof. Elinor Ostrom of Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity, win­ner of the 2009 Sveriges Riks­bank Prize in Eco­nomic Sci­ences (some­times incor­rectly called a Nobel Prize).

Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lec­ture, (6:30pm for) 6:45–8:15, Recep­tion 8:15–9:00

Church House Con­fer­ence Centre, West­min­ster, Lon­don SW1P 3NZ

Details: www.iea.org.uk/events/annual-iea-hayek-memorial-lecture-1

To book, e-mail hayek@iea.org.uk or call 020 7799 8900.

Wed­nes­day 7^th to Sat­urday 10^th March

Reclaim the Fields Spring Gathering

Work­shops, guer­rilla garden­ing, pub­lic open day

Wil­der­ness Centre, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire

Reclaim the Fields is a con­stel­la­tion of people and col­lect­ive pro­jects will­ing to go back to the land and reas­sume con­trol over food production.

Details: www.reclaimthefields.org.uk

Enjoy! And feel free to email us if you know of any import­ant events going on around the city that people should be aware of — jaki.chase@gmail.com

On Monday at 5.30pm Dr. Juliet Mil­lican will be join­ing us at Radio Free Brighton to dis­cuss the bril­liant gradu­ate intern­ship scheme which she run. Dr. Mil­lican, author of books includ­ing Stu­dent Com­munity Engage­ment — A Model for the 21^st Cen­tury? (2007) and Find­ing Com­mon­al­ity Among Dif­fer­ence — Devel­op­ing Emo­tional Lit­er­acy Through Exper­i­en­tial Work (2009) will be talk­ing to our very own Jodie about the oppor­tun­it­ies avail­able for post grad and gradu­ate stu­dents in the community.

Such as at Radio Free Brighton!
Tune in again at three o’clock on Tues­day to learn more about this excit­ing possibility.

Raj Bur­man, Ambas­sador for the UN Global Poverty Pro­ject, will be speak­ing to Bill Gates about launch­ing the 2012 Global Poverty Ambas­sador Pro­gram live from Lon­don. You can listen live at one pm by fol­low­ing this link or tune in to our spe­cial news show at 6pm for full cov­er­age of the event on Radio Free Brighton.

And please visit the Global Poverty Pro­ject web­site for more inform­a­tion or to get involved.

Radio Free Brighton would like to say wel­come back to all the stu­dents return­ing to Brighton in the com­ing weeks. We’ve missed you, and hope that you’ve had a bril­liant Christ­mas and New Year’s!

We, as always, value your con­tri­bu­tions to our local com­munity and wish you every suc­cess in your studies.