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Farewell Ornette Coleman (and memories of Roger)

Jul

3

Hello, Great piece of writing from Geoff Dyer: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jun/20/torrential-ornette-coleman/ Peter

The National Gallery

Jun

29

Hello, The cultured among you (I think that covers everyone doesn’t it?) might like to sign the petition against the privatisation of staff at the National Gallery.  Donate, if you can, to their strike fund: https://ngnotforsale.wordpress.com/ Thanks, Peter  

Wish you were there…

Jun

24

Hello, A few of the speeches from the People’s Assembly organized protest against Austerity in London last weekend.  At one point the police estimated the number on the march as a quarter of a million.  Later, too, an announcement was made from the stage in Parliament Square that the end of the march had arrived […]

Lennox Children’s Cancer Fund

Jun

16

Lennox Children’s Cancer Fund are raising funds for the family of baby Callum (see the poster in the staff room). They have sent a couple of cuddly Meerkats for a guess the name competition and have asked me to raise at least £25 by this Friday!! So I would really appreciate anyone’s help with this. The […]

Free cycle training and bike maintenance courses

Jun

10

Brighton & Hove City Council is offering all University of Sussex staff the opportunity to take part in free cycle training or bike maintenance training. More information available here.

Gaza Music School

May

26

Hello, Fantastic evening of classical Arabic music last week by Ahmad Al Khatib (oud) and Yousef Hbeisch (percussion) raising money for the Gaza Music School.  Work has already begun on raising £6,000 to bring four children over from the school to appear at next year’s Brighton Festival.  More details and how to contribute can be […]

Will René

May

26

Will René (he of the Last Chance Dance Band) will be supporting James Blackshaw at The Joker on June 12th.  Tickets £8.80 from Resident record shop. He’s also appearing as support to The Burning Hell at The Hope and Ruin on June 25th.  Tickets £9.15 also from Resident. https://soundcloud.com/lastchancedanceband Peter

Sussexsport staff activities newsletter

May

22

Staff activities newsletter Bank holiday opening times The Sport Centre will be closed on Monday 25 May but the Falmer Sports Complex will be open on this day from 10am to 4pm. Boundary fun run The boundary fun run (approximately 2.5 miles) will be on Wednesday 27 May commencing at 12.05pm outside the Sport Centre. […]

Foodbank collection in the staff room

May

13

Hi All, Claire Colburn in CEC is collecting food donations to take to the Whitehawk Foodbank http://thewhitehawk.foodbank.org.uk/  The collection point is in the staff room (underneath the health and safety poster) Over a million people relied on foodbanks in 2014-15 (compared to 40,000 in 2008-9) and this number is, sadly, expected to increase: www.trusselltrust.org/stats Please […]

Last Chance Dance Band

May

6

Hello, The first release from the above (“Yes Yes Yes There Is A Light”) is now available from Will at John Smith’s bookshop for the princely sum of £4.  Go to it hipsters! Peter