Bringing People Together

Upcoming Events

Great occasions to gather with others to talk, to sing, to dance, to laugh and maybe even cry a little.

The Sunday Roast
Sunday 14th December, 18:00-21:00

A Christmas Comedy Special - A Winter Warmer where you will find delicious food, great humour and a wonderful way to spend one of those dark winter nights. Close your weekend with a smile.
More Information and Tickets

Return of the Light
Sunday 21st December - 15:00-19:00

A celebration of the winter solstice and the return of the light... coupled with a memorial where families make lanterns to commemorate their dearly departed. Starts with a samba soundclash and closes with a bonfire on the beach.
CLICK HERE to see the dedicated page.

Previous Events

Shadow Dancing
Saturday 29th November: 18:00-22:30

A dance event like no other... candlelit chanting in a fabulous bell tower... one hour of amazing percussion... two hours of sensitive DJs... all in an incredible space where you can literally dance with your shadow.
Get further info and buy tickets here.

The Church of Wow
Saturday Celebrations: 10am-Midday

A church like no other... no dogma, no doctrine... rocking music and simple rituals that are inclusive of every philosophy and viewpoint. Find out more about this small but growing community of students in the School of Life: www.thechurchofwow.net

Event Proposals

Looking for collaborators for these events to be held in St Leonards

The Swains - Men's Group
Mondays: 19:00-21:30

A men's group for mutual inspiration - iron sharpening iron. Probably for 7-10 creative entrepreneurs aged between 35 and 55. An electric, energising, edifying experience, a place to make meaning out of the chaos.
Get further info about the national network and upcoming events.

Dad's Dinners
Games night on Wednesdays: 16:00-19:00

If you're a dad looking for a midweek opportunity to connect with other dads and have a laugh while getting our children together... we're looking at a couple of venues on Robertson Street where we can hang out. Let's play music and play games... chess & backgammon especially.
Get in touch for more info.

For many years I have been organising events to bring people together... whether it's for workshops, parties, festivals, education or community events.

Those who have known me for a long time will associate me with most of the initiatives you can see below and yet many of them may still come as a surprise.

Most of the events I've organised have some kind of holistic health or educational signature but I've also organised plenty of concerts and parties, often working in collaboration with other promoters.

One of the things that you can't see mentioned below is the network of Non Violent Communication groups that I launched in Brighton that built quite a community of people who would come together to explore compassion as a practice and to learn new ways of loving ourselves and each other.

Alongside the events described in more depth below, I've also run workshops in music, dance and poetry.... organised men's groups, Life Drawing classes, meditation groups and yoga sessions. As a keen learner who loves to explore new things, I've often organised activities around my latest passions.

Stenfest

Over a five year period I cohosted a family festival that rapidly grew from just 100 people to nearly 500 people. They were delightful events where we catered for everyone on site, three meals a day... as well as hosting a programme of events like a Chinese lantern release, a silly sports day, a giant slip n slide... as well as all the usual things you'd expect to find at a festival like live music. The final Stenfest was fraught with difficulties like losing our site at the last moment. We miraculously found another in very short time but then hit by a deluge of howling winds and rains the whole weekend. The exhaustion placed the final full stop on that particular venture.

Salut Les Petits

When I first had small children I spent a lot of time attending and running different parent and toddler groups in Brighton. At one point, I was known to hundreds of families as the guy that led the singing sessions... sometimes for some very big groups.

At the time, I spoke to my own children in French and many families suggested that I develop this for others. This led to me starting my own bilingual baby group called Salut Les Petits which ran for about three years... overlapping with the launch of a bilingual nursery called "Little England Petite France'.

Globalised English

When I was working as an English teacher, I launched an online network of international language learners so they could continue to improve their English after returning to their home countries. The classes were a lot of fun and we had people joining from over 25 different countries from all around the world. The focus of the classes was on fluency but always attached to ideas of personal development, frequently using video materials from Alain de Botton's "School of Life".

HOME - A Community Centre

After running the bilingual nursery "Little England Petite France", I opened the building for broader educational purposes as part of the "New Paradigm Education" initiative. We ran events including one-off workshops and classes in nutrition, yoga, meditation, law and languages amongst many other things like sound baths and cinema discussions. In the few years we were open we served hundreds of clients before being forced to close when we lost the use of the building.