For our final outing in 2024 we welcome the return of linguist Lynne ‘Wordle’ Murphy with a personal story of growing up in a very unusual household in the US, I’ll be giving a talk with a decidedly wintery theme and Lewes’ Matt Homewood returns with a wonderful new talk.

In November we learned about Sussex and Kent’s unique geology and its layers of greensand, clay, chalk and sandstone, known as the Wealden Anticline, from Jacob Funell. Haskel Adamson shared his fascination with unidentified lights and objects in the sky – from mystical visions to UFOS – and Linsay McCulloch gave a hilarious talk exploring the highs and many lows of the life and work of Steven ‘real man’ Seagal.

For our final Catalyst Club of the year we’re breaking from tradition with an astonishing, personal and highly entertaining 45 minute talk from Anthony Grant plus one other guest TBC.

In November we learned about the ridiculous Hollywood stuntman-turned-actor Steven Seagal from cinephile Linsay McCulloch; magician Paul Zenon shared his collection of magic wands and the discovery of what may be a ‘witch pricker’, once used in the witch trials. We finished with Danny Nemu’s, Drugs in the Bible, which included the handing out of frankincense, myrrh and other drugs for us all to sample. Those who came along – do let us know if you had any prophetic dreams that night!
Our final Brighton Catalyst Club of the year is, unusually, on the third Tuesday of the month: Dec 17th. We’re delighted to welcome back author Dr. Diarmuid Hester, Mark ‘chime children’ Dishman (with a suitably Christmas themed talk) and, from Hastings, artist Clarissa Shanahan.