In May we learned about the impact and ideologies of feminist magazine Spare Rib from Shoreham Wordfest co-founder Rosalind Turner, author John Higgs revealed Dr Who to be an eternal trickster-like character and singer/artist Mikey Georgson took us on a decidedly non-linear journey through his family history, a home organ, a naval boat, an indigenous Indian burial site and much more (including a song or two!)

For June we welcome nature writer Dan Richards (Holloways, Climbing Days, Outpost), Steven Homewood and Charlotte Ellis.

In May we learned about the impact and ideologies of feminist magazine Spare Rib from Shoreham Wordfest co-founder Rosalind Turner, author John Higgs revealed Dr Who to be an eternal trickster-like character and singer/artist Mikey Georgson took us on a decidedly non-linear journey through his family history, a home organ, a naval boat, an indigenous Indian burial site and much more (including a song or two!)

For June we welcome nature writer Dan Richards (Holloways, Climbing Days, Outpost), Steven Homewood and Charlotte Ellis.

In May we learned about the history of Crawley New Town from Julia Winckler; Adrian Sensicle shared personal stories from the 80s and 90s making music zines, and Pete Fij took us on an hilarious journey into the politics of Eurovision.
We’re returning June 12th with Adam Wide, Susan Sainsbury and Charlotte Ellis (whose memorable talk, The Terrible Knitters of Dent, some might recall)

And we welcome back Jane Bom-Bane with another song or two.

In May Tom Bass took us on a personal journey, sharing his experiences at a French boot camp for clowns, Janet Pressley celebrated the life of local poet Tom Walker and Catalyst favourite Pete Fij explored the messy and at times hilarious world of Eurovision politics.
We return in June with Clive Webb, a new one from your host David Bramwell and Susan Sainsbury (TBC).

David Bramwell’s The Cult of Water & Vera Zakharov’s Riverine Resurrections: A history and celebration of the Irrepressible Waterways of Sussex

The Cult of Water David Bramwell

Combining music, animation and archive film with a captivating monologue, David Bramwell takes audiences on a dreamy candle-lit journey, in search of the supernatural secrets of our rivers, and a drowned village which has long haunted his memories.

Aided by a witch and the magician-author Alan Moore, Bramwell travels back in time to unearth the myths and rituals of our rivers, and their symbolic association with feminine power.

Can he face his demons and unravel the symbolic mysteries of our ancient ancestors? Who is the mysterious Vulcan? And will there be a pie and a pint waiting for him at the end of it all?

Riverine Resurrections: A history and celebration of the irrepressible waterways of Sussex (30mins)

Whatever happened to Sore and Ūsa, those Sussex sisters who untwined themselves from the lower Weald and snaked down to the sea? They’re still here, cut up and shackled but slowly reclaiming and revealing their old selves.

Humans have an ambivalent relationship with waterways, perceived as nourishers of the body and soul, and yet demonised (much like the deities associated with them) and used and abused as the sewers of humankind.

Vera Zakharov takes a personal, cartographic and queer ecological journey along the abstracted and re-emerging waterways of the local area to discover what nature can teach us of our own liberation.