Blakefest 2017

The Big Blake Project proudly presents Blakefest 2017!

blakefest.co.uk

Join us for 2 epic days of live music and poetry. TICKETS JUST £15 PER DAY or EARLY BIRD FULL WEEKEND TICKET for £25!

SATURDAY...HEADLINER...Michael Horovitz - A TRULY UNIQUE opportunity to see LEGENDARY JAZZ / BEAT POET MICHAEL HOROVITZ at the REGIS SCHOOL OF MUSIC in the stunning recital room performing as The William Blake Klezmatrix Band. He is joined by Vanessa Vie, Peter Lemur and Annie Whitehead.

** BUY TICKETS HERE for Saturday and HERE for SUNDAY. Weekend tickets are available via either of these day links **

SUNDAY...HEADLINER - Gwyneth Herbert - A remarkably gifted talent’ The Guardian ‘Sings with a rare balance of passion and control … one of Britain’s brightest talents’ The Telegraph. Gwyneth Herbert is an award-winning composer and lyricist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Drawing on influences from the worlds of jazz, folk, contemporary classical music and storytelling.

Her latest album is the first Blue Note UK release in 30 years.

We love Bognor - A photographic celebration to Big up Bognor by Tommy McMillan

The Bognorian Species

So far 6 distinct categories of Bognorian have been identified:

1. BigBog - someone who naturally likes to Big up Bognor (quite rare but unmistakably remarkable) 
2. BagBog - a hybrid transformational from a Bog, Beg, Bug or Byg (quite rare, often adorned with a big splash of colour and exuberance, likely to become more common over time in favourable conditions)
3. BogBog - someone who can take Bognor or leave it (most common and may take on many different guises)
4. BegBog - someone who wants something from Bognor (not uncommon and needs the right conditions to develop the full plumage)
5. BugBog - someone who is pre-disposed to trashing Bognor (by no means common, easy to spot, can be quite noisy)
6. BygBog - someone who thinks Bognor has passed its sell-by date (quite common and can appear to lack colour, especially during the moulting season)

See how many of each category you can spot around town.

Free Bognor..........Free digital support..........Get connected now...

Free websites for Bognor

We offer free and integrated website design, creation and maintenance support for Bognor Regis.

Get your enterprise or interest group online within 1 hour without spending a single penny.

• Integrate your social media, e-commerce, business planning and accounts.
• Manage your requirements on any device from anywhere at anytime.

Why and how do we do it?

We do it because we love Bognor Regis and because we can.

We use freely available software and we know how to use it.

We also believe that free start-up support is the best way to generate a thriving community.

Just get in touch to get started or find out more.

FreeBognor is a voluntary unincorporated association.

Our mission is to join up Bognor

John Parsons, Sue Overton, Colin Clark, Chris Heaps

Join the new Bognor Regis Heriatge journey...

We want to hear from YOU Come down and get involved!

Join us on 29th June 2017 at the Regis Centre and find out about our plans for a new Bognor Regis Trail; drop in and let us know what should be included. We are working with Bognor Regis Town Council, the Heritage Partnership and YOU, the residents to deliver this exciting project. Doors open 2pm - 8pm, drop-in and get involved.

And... While you're at it, pick up some of our fabulous free postcards of our Photography Competition winners and runners-up amazing pictures!

#WeLoveBognorRegis ❤️

Just another reminder that the place brand survey is still running and it's been tweaked a bit to be more user friendly. They are very keen to get Community minded people on board and we think that sounds like YOU

Click here to be part of the story

See you on the 29th June! ☀️

An inspirational rant from the Great Shane Matthew Glasspool

Shane Matthew at The Pier Hotel, Bar And Diner.

Sorry to post this rant here.

I am fed up of seeing people ripping this town to pieces and doing little more than blaming the council for all the problems.

If you don't like the way this town is, put your keyboards down and do something to change it. Sitting on your ass moaning about how the council haven't done this and the council haven't done that will achieve nothing.

Some of us thought and felt the same, now, together with a few other groups of people, we are installing a town wide heritage and arts trail. Doesnt seem like much but it will make the town a better place cosmetically.

If just 10% of the keyboard warriors on here bothered to act on their views, can you imagine how amazing this town, where we all CHOSE to live, would really be.

The heritage and arts trail is just the beginning, we have plans to improve every aspect of this town, you want to moan, do so, but don't moan if you don't do anything to justify your morbid lazy attitude towards improving things.

The links below will take you to a group that meets WEEKLY on a Wednesday at my bar, The Pier Hotel. Visit the site, leave your comments then also, leave the safety of your armchairs and keyboards and come down and have your say in public.

To anyone who says, but it isn't down to us, guess what, it is.

Rant over. You want the town to be better, get up and MAKE IT BETTER!!!!!

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From the bottom up......

HubBuB at 6 @ The Pier Bar Hotel

This is how people can truly take back control: from the bottom up

“Turning such initiatives into a wider social revival means creating what practitioners call “thick networks”: projects that proliferate, spawning further ventures and ideas that weren’t envisaged when they started.

They then begin to develop a dense, participatory culture that becomes attractive and relevant to everyone rather than mostly to socially active people with time on their hands.

The process typically begins with projects that are “lean and live”: they start with very little money and evolve rapidly through trial and error. They are developed not by community heroes working alone, but by collaborations between local people. These projects create opportunities for “micro-participation”: people can dip in and out of them without much commitment

When enough of such projects have been launched, they catalyse a deeper involvement, generating community businesses, co-operatives and hybrid ventures, which start employing people and generating income.

A tipping point is reached when between 10% and 15% of local residents are engaging regularly.

Community then begins to gel, triggering an explosion of social enterprise and new activities, that starts to draw in the rest of the population.

The mutual aid these communities develop functions as a second social safety net.

The process, the study reckons, takes about three years.

The result is communities that are vibrant and attractive to live in, which generate employment, are environmentally sustainable and socially cohesive, and in which large numbers of people are involved in decision-making.” 

George Monbiot

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HubBuB 5 1706211800