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Christmas is fast approaching and December will be an eventful month with a General Election to add to all the festivities. In this month’s edition of The Kemptown Rag we have details of plenty of Christmas events in Kemptown and beyond, including Ghost Stories for Christmas at the Lantern Theatre in Rock Place and A Christmas Carol at The Spire. Our featured local person is Dan Borgonon, who tells us how the new Kemptown Kinema film club is going. See our centre pages for a special Christmas message board from local businesses. Please use our wonderful local shops for your Christmas shopping if you can. We wish you all a peaceful and happy festive period!
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Local Person - Dan Borgonon
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Christmas Events
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Here are a few Christmas events to get you in a festive mood...
Christmas in Kemptown... St Mary’s Carol Service The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols is a beautiful, reflective service. This year the choir of St Mary's will be joined again by our friends from the Ovingdean Choral Society, conducted by Gregory Moore, with Andrew Beaizley on the organ. Traditional readings from the King James Bible and candles galore. Wine and Christmas nibbles afterwards.
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Sun 15 December, 5pm, St Mary's Church Ghost Stories for Christmas Featuring stories by Ramsey Campbell, John Paul Fitch and Neil Gaiman, this year’s Ghost Stories for Christmas is in aid of The Clocktower Sanctuary. Tickets are £10 and include a glass of mulled wine or apple juice. For tickets visit ghoststoriesforchristmas.com. 18 to 21 December, The Lantern Theatre, Rock Place A Christmas Carol Tight-fisted, mean-spirited, money-grabbing Scrooge is in for the night of his life as Dickens’ classic returns to the Spire. Join Scrooge as he journeys through this classic family tale, with carols, candles, mince pies, mulled wine, and some ghostly goings-on! Tickets from truestory-theatre. com. 12-30 December, The Spire, St Mark’s Chapel, Eastern Rd Christmas Lunch at St Mary’s Church Free, drop-in lunch. Following our Christmas Day Eucharist at 10am, we will have a simple, shared lunch; anyone who finds themselves at a loose end on Christmas Day is invited to join in. If you would like to help with providing food, serving, washing dishes, etc, please call Fr Andrew Woodward on 01273 698601.
Family Magical Winter Wonderland Not quite Kemptown, but this sounds like a fantastic event. The Village at Brighton Marina will be transformed into a world of fantasy this Christmas. Visitors will be able to walk through a tree-lined route, through the wardrobe and into a Frozen world. Children can interact with princesses, snowmen, lions, fauns and ice queens and dress up as their favourite character. There will be snow machines, stalls, plus rides for the children (small fee required), as well as onstage performances. Free, no booking required. 20-24 December, 12-6pm, The Village, Brighton Marina
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Election Candidates These are the candidates in the Brighton Kemptown constituency for the General Election on Thursday 12th December: Graham Cushway (Brexit Party) Joe Miller (Conservative) Alexandra Phillips (Green Party) Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour) Ben Thomas (Liberal Democrats)
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An appeal to help people in fuel poverty...
Brighton Lions Club - Project Wenceslas Brighton Lions Club are once again launching Project Wenceslas, a campaign to help combat fuel poverty. People who receive the annual Winter Fuel Payment and feel they do not need it are invited to donate the amount to Brighton Lions. Excess winter deaths in Brighton & Hove are slightly higher than both England and the South-East. People in difficulty will be contacting agencies such as Age UK who will refer them to Brighton Lions. Direct applications will not be accepted to ensure all the donated money goes to the people who really need it. Brighton Lions will make payments direct to the energy supply companies, not the individual beneficiaries, whose details will not be known to the Lions. “Last winter we spent more than £9,000,” said Pete Dilloway, President of Brighton Lions Club. “That was an increase of £1,000 on the previous year so there really is a need even in this, the so-called affluent South-East. One of those we helped last winter had been admitted to hospital with hypothermia having been too scared of running up bills to use enough heating.” Donations can be made by credit/debit cards through Brighton Lions Club’s website at www.brightonlions. org.uk or cheques payable to Brighton Lions Wenceslas should be sent to Brighton Lions Club, c/o 9 Westfield Crescent, Brighton, BN1 8JB. People sending cheques are asked to confirm that their donations may be treated as Gift Aid so that the value of the donation can be increased by 25%.
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Paul Thomas has some suggestions for December entertainment...
Delve into December Raise a glass of mulled wine to salute Lady Nancy Astor on being the first female MP on 1st December 1919. Nibble on a mince pie in an impressionistic way to mark the death of Renoir 100 years ago on the 3rd. Maybe book a beach holiday on the 4th as a nod to the birth of Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson in 1944. After all that commemorating you need some diversion: Dido plays the Brighton Centre on the 4th. Adam Ant performs there, 6th, the same day as Bruce Willis is back on the big screen in Motherless Brooklyn from the 6th as a `tec with Tourette’s. Christmas past, present and future converge with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Old Courthouse, 5th, 6th, 7th. Brighton Museum has a Mindful Museum day with workshops and more to relax with, 7th. The Seaside Santa Express starts a run at the Volk’s Railway from the 7th. Jack Whitehall is Stood Up at the Brighton Centre, 9-11th, no doubt joshing about his father. James Patterson releases Ali Cross on the 12th. Looking for a darker take on the season? Black Christmas, a contemporary remake of the 1974 film, stalks screens from 13th. The Wizard of Oz - Brighton Panto embarks on the yellow brick road at the Attenborough Centre,
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New electric vehicle charging points More than 200 new electric vehicle charging points are set to be installed across the city over the next few months. Following a tender process, the council has appointed Electric Blue to install and maintain the electric vehicle charge points. The project is being funded with £300,000 from the Office of Low Emissions, and £100,000 from Electric Blue. The 207 new points will include 30 in areas with high parking demand where the council are proposing mandatory Electric Charging spaces, many of them in response to requests from residents who own or are thinking of buying electric vehicles but have no offstreet parking available. Lamp post chargers Most of the charging points will be installed on lamp posts and will provide a full charge for vehicles parked overnight. These will be installed by January next year. A mobile phone app showing the locations of all points in the city and whether they are in use will be available to download. Drivers will pay 28p per kilowatt hour to charge their vehicles at the public points. The fees will go towards the operating and maintenance of the points. The council will receive 1p per kw/h in year one increasing to 4p per kw/h in year four. Fast chargers Fast chargers, taking around hours, which Lovingly made every five stitch of the way are 3 St George's Brighton already installed in Rd, theKemptown, city centre, willBN2 be 1EB integrated 01273 697 679 or 07415 364173 into the new app. The council will consider installing further fast chargers outside the city centre if there is a clear demand from residents. Electric Blue will also be providing four rapid taxi charger hubs.
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