1 Brighton & Hove Open Door 2010 9 – 12 September PROGRAMME 180+ FREE EVENTS to celebrate the City’s heritage Contents General Category Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 03-06 My House My Street Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 06-07 Industrial & Craft Heritage Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 07-08 Fashionable Houses Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 08-11 Eco Open Houses Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 11-13 Religious Spaces Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 13-16 Royal Pavilion, Museums & Libraries Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 16-17 Other historic buildings Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 17-18 Learning, Ed. & Training Open Door P. 18-19 Trails/Walks – History & Archaeology Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 19-21 Trails/Walks – Art; Literature and Architecture Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 21-22 Film and Photographic Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 22-24 Archaeology Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 24-26 Especially for young people Open Door and Pre-Booked Events P. 26 REQUESTS Feedback and Appeal P. 26 Brighton & Hove Open Door 2010 Programme 2 About the Organisers Brighton & Hove Open Door is organised annually by staff and volunteers at The Regency Town House in Brunswick Square, Hove. The Town House is a grade 1 Listed terraced home of the mid-1820s, developed as a heritage centre with a focus on the city’s rich architectural legacy. The Town House is supported by The Brunswick Town Charitable Trust, registered UK charity number 1012216. About the Event Brighton & Hove Open Door is always staged during the second week of September, as a part of the national Heritage Open Days (HODs) – a once-a-year chance to discover architectural treasures and enjoy tours and activities about local history and culture. The Town House team have participated in HODs since its inception in 1994. This year, Open Door is bigger and better than ever, with 180+ venues and activities on offer. When using this guide, please note that we have set out the listings in 14 thematic categories and that within each category we have provided first the Open Door events on offer (which require no pre booking) and then the venues and activities that require pre-booking, either via The Regency Town House website (www.rth.org.uk) or our telephone booking line 01273 206306. We hope you find the thematic categories useful but do please bear in mind that they are somewhat arbitrary and you may find an event in an unexpected listing. This year we are again promoting the MyHouseMyStreet initiative; which will introduce you to the history and residents of local thoroughfares over the last 180-years. We hope that this year’s mini exhibitions might encourage you to consider joining the MyHouseMyStreet project, we would welcome your input to the large-scale exhibitions we are staging in 2011. Further details available at: www.MyHouseMyStreet.org.uk If you would like to assist us with the organisation of future Open Door events, if you would like to participate as a venue or activity organiser, or if you have suggestions for improvements, always very welcome, do please contact us via: The Regency Town House, 13 Brunswick Square, Hove, BN3 1EH, Tel. 01273 206306 / email: [email protected] Thanks During 2010 we have continued our efforts to transform Open Door into one of Brighton & Hove’s great annual celebrations – a permanent event in our ‘city of festivals' yearly schedule. Achieving an increase from 155 events in 2009 to 181 this year is testimony to the hard work of the many people involved in organising Open Door and we are grateful to them all, especially our Town House volunteers and the venue and activity organizers; who are giving so generously of their time - Nick Tyson, Curator, The Regency Town House Please Note: Events that must be pre-booked, prior to attendance, can be reserved via: 01273 206306 or online at http://www.rth.org.uk/opendoor10 Brighton & Hove Open Door – great days out for free Brighton & Hove Open Door 2010 Programme 3 General Category - Open Door Description ...it started with a handful of faded memories, the shadow of the (pre-booking not required) unspoken, and a box of old photographs - moments captured in composition, frozen in time like suspended conversations. Bardsley's of Baker Street - Open Door This site specific display and artist’s talk (offered by Sarah 22 - 23a Baker Street, Brighton & Hove BN1 4JN Haybittle) explores the theme of telling stories with the parallel perspectives of biography and social history. Intimate tales are Description translated into a 'visible' language, using story telling as a utility for a Bardley's of Baker Street is a Brighton & Hove icon. A back-street fish visual interpretation of history - a mediation between distant and and chip shop that regulalry scoops top national rankings for the contemporary worlds. Fugitive tales are fragments captured in quality of its service and its servings. Pop along to the shop and see composition by the symbolic and evocative. Delicate narratives with one local icon's acknowledgment to another and discover the newly embedded trace, absence, and condensations are threaded through opened Max Miller Room. Developed in collaboration with the Max artworks, which document, and give voice to, otherwise hidden aspects Miller Appreciation Society. This exhibition is open to members of the of social, political or moral themes. public not holding seating reservations between 1130-1230 and 1600- 1800 during the first three days of BHODs. Opening Times Sunday: 1000-1700 Opening Times Thursday 9th September: 1130-1230 & 1600-1800 Friday 10th September: 1130-1230 & 1600-1800 From Bathing Machines to Beach Huts - Open Door Saturday 11th September: 1130-1230 & 1600-1800 Beach Hut 32, south of 2nd Avenue King's Esplanade, Brighton & Hove BN3 2WA Brighton Early Music - Open Door Description 13 Brunswick Square, Brighton & Hove BN3 1EH Architectural historian and Britain's beach hut expert Dr Kathryn Ferry will be holding an exhibition on the history of beach huts . in a Description beach hut! Kathryn, author of 'Beach Huts and Bathing Machines' and Brighton Early Music are taking part in Brighton & Hove Open Door. 'Sheds on the Seashore: A Tour Through Beach Hut History' can be Come and hear performances in the elegant setting of the Regency found in hut number 32 on Hove Promenade. A unique opportunity to Town House in Brunswick Square given by young performers from talk with Kathryn and - take a look inside a beach hut. Kathryn has this year's BREMF Live! artists. Duration of each session 45-60 appeared on BBC2 'Coast' and Radio 4 'Woman's Hour' as a leading minutes. authority on this fascinating subject. Special Activities for Children or Families: Music by young people. Opening Times Opening Times Sunday 12th September: 1100-1600 Sunday 12th September: 1100 & 1500 HOUSE @ 41 Kensington Place - Open Door Ashcombe Toll House - Open Door 41 Kensington Place, Brighton & Hove BN1 4EJ Ashcombe Toll House , Ashcombe Roundabout on A27 (South Side) Lewes Description HOUSE festival, the Open Houses new visual-arts partner, will soon Description be three years old. HOUSE showcases the work of local, national and Ashcombe Toll House is a domed circular building, 10ft high and 15ft international artists, selected by respected local curators, and shows in in diameter with a vaulted brick roof. Part of a pair, it is now the only domestic locations throughout the city each May. Many HOUSE surviving structure of the Lewes-Brighton Turnpike and was used for artists create specially commissioned work for the HOUSE festival by road maintenance as well as toll collection. It was built around 1820 responding to the domestic history of the properties in which their and was in use to about 1870 when the Turnpike Trust was wound up. work is being shown. During Brighton and Hove Open Door 2010, the The interior presently is used for storage but contains a fireplace and artist Jayne Eagle will re-install her intervention shown during the oven. HOUSE festival in May 2010 at 41 Kensington Place. Jayne has responded to specific aspects of the location creating an intervention in Opening Times the lower ground floor which relates to some of its former inhabitants: Saturday 11th September: 1000-1700 the Croxsons, a Victorian family who lived there for 60 years. Come Sunday 12th September: 1000-1700 along and explore Jayne's work and be sure to attend our other HOUSE event in BHOD, at The Regency Town House on Sunday the 12th, (Title: HOUSE and Open Houses 30th aniversary campaign), Brighton Fishing Museum - Open Door when we will be explaining how, in 2011, you can have an artist create Brighton Fishing Museum work responding directly to the history of your home or street. For 201 King's Road Arches, Brighton & Hove BN1 1NB further information about the history of No.41 and Kensington Place see Peter Crowhurst's, BHOD event, 'Industrial Revolution in the Description North Laine' Open every day with Dorothea Schilling - Royal Academy Exhibitor Contempory Paintings Exhibition during HODs/B&H; Open Door. Opening Times Friday 10th September: 1300-1700 Opening Times Saturday 11th September: 1300-1700 Thursday 9th September: 1100-1700 Friday 10th September: 1100-1700 Saturday 11th September: 1100-1700 Hangleton Manor Dovecote - Open Door Sunday 12th September: 1100-1700 Hangleton Manor Inn, Hangleton Valley Drive Brighton & Hove BN3 8AN Fugitive Tales from the Edge of Memory - Open Door Description The Regency Town House, 13 Brunswick Square, Hove BN3 1EH Hangleton Manor is the oldest domestic secular building in Brighton and Hove.