Here & Now Issue 34 | July 2019

WHAT’S ON NEAR YOU Your guide for this month

WORTHING LIONS FESTIVAL The full programme

WHERE TO EAT & DRINK The drinks are on us

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JULY 2019 This month’s stuff that matters WORTHING LIONS FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 4-8 THE STATE OF WORTHING 9 The view from you 9 | Let’s go to Tarring 9 YOUR GUIDE TO WHAT’S ON 15-41 Where to eat & drink 17 – 19 | Arts & literature 21 | Film & theatre 22- 25 | Music 26 – 31 | Family 33 – 35 | General listings 36 - 38 | Business 42

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We make a lot of noise about Worthing, but if you’ve got something going on further afield, whether it’s Lancing, Shoreham, Findon or Ferring, we want to hear from you too!

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But wow Worthing, you are loud and proud this month!

From comedy to crochet, from Pride to playing out, there’s something for you in Here & Now this July.

We’ve got heaps of listings in Make a Difference, Eat & Drink, Art & Lit, Film & Theatre, Music, Family and Business.

So, fill your boots, find your happy and we’ll see you back here in August.

And if it’s on, get it in! Deadline for August listings is 9 July.

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Baked, Rowlands Rd Beach House Coast Café Corner House Colleges: Northbrook Met / Worthing College (staff + students) Cellar Arts Club Colonnade House Denyer News, Goring Rd Diya Newsagents, Broadwater Dome Cinema Durrington Community Centre East Worthing Community Centre Heene Road Community Centre Julia’s Kitchen, Findon Lions shop, Goring Morrisons Old Bakehouse Tea Room, Tarring Passion Fruit Café Ren’s Kitchen Sainsbury’s, Lyons Farm South Downs Leisure Centre, Shaftsbury Avenue St Paul’s Centre Bar Next Door Tesco Extra, Durrington The Burlington Hotel Train of Thought Village Shop, High Salvington West End Gallery, Rowlands Rd Worthing & Adur Chamber and networking events Worthing Library Worthing Museum Worthing Pier, Southern Pavilion Worthing Rugby Club, Angmering Worthing Theatres Worthing Town Hall

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WELCOME TO THE WORTHING LIONS ANNUAL FESTIVAL 2019 www.worthinglions.co.uk

Now in its 16th year, this is undoubtedly one of the biggest events in the town, raising large sums for local charities. Worthing Lions receives many pleas for help from individuals and charitable organisations in the town, and we try to help everyone.

This year’s festival runs from 20 July to 10 August, even longer than previously.

We have two charity markets where we invite charities and community groups to run stalls free of charge in order to raise funds and awareness for their own charity. These are on Sunday 21 July and Sunday 28 July on the prom. Stevens Funfair will run for the duration. We have a large seafront commercial market on 26, 27 & 28 July. Our spectacular firework display from the pier on Saturday 27 July at 10pm has again been sponsored by Yeomans Cars of Worthing.

Thank you to all our sponsors for supporting this year’s Festival. And, thank you to Clearwell Mobility and Adur & Worthing Councils for their ongoing support.

Two of the main beneficiaries we have helped this year have been the League of Friends in Worthing Hospital and the Blood Runners who deliver vital emergency blood to hospitals in the South of England.

Contributing Editor: Zoe Rhodes

Our President’s chosen charity for this coming year is Butterflies Breast Care

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Support Group, who are a local charity, providing help to people recently diagnosed with breast cancer, they also support Worthing Hospital Breast Centre with donations.

Film & Theatre Listings: Abi Else Music Listings: Oscar Simpson General Listings: Susie P Smith Regular Contributors: Karl Allison, Joe Bunn, Dan Flanagan, Thomas H Green, Hazel Imbert, Mike Pailthorpe, Jimmy Pearson, Social Media: Abi Else & BiGiAM Print: Friday Media Print Distribution: Worthing Direct PUBLISHED BY Here & Now Media Ltd The Mill Building 31 Chatsworth Rd, BN11 1LY www.hereandnowmag.co.uk

DISCLAIMER: HERE & NOW Media Ltd cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions, or claims made by our contributors or advertisers, and does not endorse companies, products or services that appear in the magazine. Information was correct at time of going to press.

Readers are advised to check event listing information in case of changes.

Local Business Features are advertorials.

On behalf of all the members of Worthing Lions we hope you will enjoy the whole Festival.

Please come and support us and be generous.

Hazel Thorpe, Mayor of Worthing, Vice President of Worthing Lions

Thank you to all our sponsors for supporting this year’s Festival

The Yeomans group of garages is a locallyowned family business predominantly based on the South Coast.

We have 20 dealerships from Plymouth to Bexhill, and we are proud to represent Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Peugeot, Citroen and Hyundai franchises.

Within Worthing, we have Nissan, Toyota, Peugeot and Honda dealerships that have again partnered with the Lions Society to provide the firework display on Saturday 27 July at this year’s Lions festival.

Yeomans supports this every year as we believe it is important to give something back to the local community where so many of our staff and customers live. As our company is family owned and local, we understand and know the community that we serve inside out, enabling us to give outstanding customer service at each of our locations.

Each dealership is equipped with a full range of both new and used vehicles as well as having full servicing, diagnostic and repair facilities, MOT bays and parts and accessories departments. Many of our fantastic offers can be found online at yeomans.co.uk. We hope to see you at our motor display on the seafront as part of the Lions festival or in one of our dealerships soon.

Leon O’Hara, Yeomans Ltd

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Hear Worthing roar when the fabulous Lions Summer Festival rolls into town from Saturday 20 July to Saturday 10 August this year.

LIONS FESTIVAL

20 July - 10 August 20 Jul – 10 Aug

STEVENS FUN FAIR On the Promenade

21 & 28 Jul

CHARITY MARKET 9am – 4.30pm On the Promenade

26 – 28 Jul

COMMERCIAL MARKET Fri 12 – 4pm Sat 10am – 10pm Sun 10am – 4pm On the Promenade

27 Jul

MASSIVE FIREWORK DISPLAY Approx. 10pm End of the pier

27 & 28 Jul

CLASSIC CARS & SCOOTERS 10am – 5pm Steyne Gardens

28 Jul

VINTAGE BUSES 10am – 5pm From Heene Rd to Grand Avenue along Marine Parade

VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED

To help anytime between 26-28 July We particularly need Bucket Collectors from 8.30pm on Sat 27 July at the fantastic Firework Display on the Pier. Support good causes and make new friends by giving us a few hours of your time.

Contact Linda ASAP on 07740 714921 or Linda.hurren@virgin.net

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All the fun of the fair

WIth rock ‘n’ roll dodgems, thrilling rides, vintage classics, inflatables and much more, Stevens Funfair has a friendly, family atmosphere with live performers and entertainment and runs for over two weeks this year as part of the Lions festival. Cut out the Stevens Fun Fair advert to use the coupon!

Modern wheels and classic steals

If you’re a classic car or scooter enthusiast, you’re in luck. Steyne Gardens is gearing up to be covered in vintage vehicles on 27-28 July from 10am-5pm, with owners on hand to chat about their classics. Expect to see your favourites including American models, customised hot rods and old school British marques, all in pristine condition. Seaside Hospital Radio will be nestled between the machines on Saturday providing music and entertainment. If your tastes are more modern, hop down to the prom where Yeomans car dealers will show the latest models of Nissan, Toyota, Honda and Peugeot opposite the Lido.

This year’s scooter highlight is a wonderful display of BSA Bantams from the 50s and 60s, some in their familiar red GPO livery from when they were used to deliver telegrams. Vote for your favourite scooter on the Saturday, when there will also be an official competition held to find the best in show. Don’t miss the Honda Goldwings, whose owners will be lighting up the darkness with their spectacular Ride of Light from Steyne Gardens to Marine Parade and back (with a final lap of honour around the square) at around 9.30pm.

On the buses

Take an unforgettable trip and board one of the restored buses along the prom on Sunday 28 July. Whether you pick a classic Routemaster or the familiar green and yellow livery of the vintage Southdown Buses, there’ll be a fleet of favourites from 90 years ago to present day. Free services will run all day from 10am-5pm, with stops including Sea Lane Café, West Worthing and Worthing train stations, the fantastic Henty Arms beer festival and a shuttle service to the Dome. Enthusiasts and keen amateurs should head to @WorthingBus on FB or admin@worthingbusrally.co.uk for more info.

To market, to market Over the last two Sundays in July, the Lions charity market returns bigger and better than ever. Stalls are offered for free to everyone, from mainstream charities to local good causes. New this year are Cycall, who provide adapted bikes for the disabled, while Men in Sheds return for a second year alongside longstanding participants such as Greek Cat Welfare and St Barnabas Hospice.

Homemade cakes jostle with coconut shies along the prom, with all sorts of entertainment and activities for when

your pocket money’s run dry. There will be the usual raffle, where one lucky charity can win the Lions prize of £100, plus a special visit from our new Worthing Mayoress, who will be meeting all the hard-working volunteers on the second Sunday.

In addition, a field of gazebos will pop up in Steyne Gardens from 26-28 July for the commercial market, clustered with food, craft and other artisan and independent sellers.

There’s still space along the prom, so if you would like a FREE charity or good cause stall at this year’s charity market, download an application form from worthinglions. co.uk or contact Andy on 07919 023618.

Going out with a bang!

The magnificent fireworks display that showers the Pier with light every year is back for 2019 on Saturday 27 July. Taking place at approximately 10pm, the event is run for the public for free by Worthing Lions who bear the cost thanks to the sponsorship of Yeomans Cars of Worthing. Bucket collectors will be out in force so please give generously if you spot one and enjoy the show knowing that you have helped out a good cause!

Enjoy the Summer Festival and remember, the fireworks display is back on 5 November!

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THE STATE OF WORTHING

Don’t dream it, be it Having vision takes guts. Taking your passion and translating it, putting it out there for other people to discover, judge and comment upon can be scary.

THIS MONTH A GROUP OF FIFTEEN AND SIXTEEN year olds exhibit their work at

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Colonnade House, part of Durrington High School’s impressive 100% pass rate year on year for Art & Design. Elsewhere in our town we’ve got new bars springing up like The Whisk(e)y Rooms, new eateries like Pitch, new projects like Neptune’s Larder, exhibitions like Hut which take trash and turn it into recycled treasure. Worthing Pride returns for a second year, bigger and brighter than ever, while later this year Tide of Light returns after a year off. All these events, and many many more, are built on the hopes and imaginations of local people, the dreamers, the risk takers who gambled and hoped it might pay off. We’re proud that they call Worthing home. Let’s celebrate them this month.

Let’s go to Tarring!

IF YOU’VE EVER WHILED AWAY the day waiting for the

lights to change at West Worthing crossing (so famous it even has its own FB page!), then here’s our pick of better things to do with your time in Tarring.

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Go old school with a pint and a (tricky) pub quiz at the George & Dragon, or pop in to The Grizzly Bear and say hi to Jack the bartender Locals swear by the trad tapas and Spanish small talk at Rincon de Pepe Enjoy vintage tea sets, delicious cakes and maybe an impromptu song at The Old Bake House Grab coffee and a freshly baked bun while you wait for the train at South by West Worthing Grow your own and get some fresh air at the community gardening plot at the Triangle in Tarring Park.

The view from you

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Guild Care and our team of caring and compassionate community assistants have been delivering care in Worthing for the last 25 years, helping the elderly remain independent in the comfort of their own homes for as long as possible.

We are now looking to recruit more community assistants to help us expand this much-needed service in the local area.

You don’t need to have worked in care before to be a great carer; just be kind and compassionate by nature, highly reliable and trustworthy.

Perhaps you have had some experience of caring for a partner or elderly relative, and would now consider doing it as a career.

This role is very flexible, offering a wide range of shifts; you can work weekends and evenings, so it can fit around family and lifestyle commitments. In return, Guild Care can offer excellent hourly rates of pay, a very supportive team, travel time and mileage allowance, a pension and much more.

Karen Turner has been a community care assistant with Guild Care since 2010. The former hairdresser says, “At first, I didn’t think I could do it. I must admit it was quite daunting. But after a few weeks, it all slotted into place and now I just love it. The hours are really flexible and can suit anyone. I start early and then finish early and do some weekends. I now have my regular clients that I can see up to three times a day, and they really do become friends.

“What I like most about working in the community as a carer is knowing that I’m helping people to stay independent in their homes for as long as possible. That’s really important and gives me a great deal of job satisfaction and pride.”

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COMMUNITY MATTERS

Glow with the flow Where once was retribution spat, where bonfire boys made fright, where seas of stagnant darkness sat, there flows a tide of light.

THAT’S NOT A HYMN FROM 150 YEARS AGO, but it’s meant

to sound like one because, when it comes to bonfire night, Worthing wasn’t always the best place to be. There was a time when the town was best avoided in early November, as the bonfire boys took their cruel vengeance upon anyone judged to have slighted the working class or offended a Protestant doctrine that its defenders barely understood. Holy smoke, how things have changed.

“This year will see the brightest, most spectacular Tide of Light yet,” explains coordinator Jess Estcourt. “We’ve already completed one round of workshops in schools and now we’ve teamed up with the New Carnival Company, who have been working on the carnival in Rio. They are helping us with workshops in our community, showing us how to light up the night with amazing illuminated sculptures.”

The lantern-making will be popping up all over town throughout the summer. You’ll find them at Pride, Rotary Carnival, Green Dreams and even the Pumpkin Picking Patch in Sompting.

Tide of Light has also partnered up with the energetic people who organise Worthing Parkrun, and they’ve come up with the brilliant idea of the Dark Run. It may sound like a throwback to the murky days of south coast smuggling, but it’s nothing more threatening than an illuminated 5k adventure. According to Jess, “You can walk, jog or run, but you’ve absolutely got to

glow.”

These days we’re more enlightened. These days we have Tide of Light: a volunteer-led project that sees its genesis in workshops and masterclasses, and its revelation in a shivering, shimmering stream of fairy-lit lanterns and sculptures, surfing through the town on a wave of non-sectarian celebration.

Everything you see has been assembled in Worthing by enthusiastic amateurs. Tide of Light is art on legs.

Tide of Light: Saturday 2 November tideoflight.co.uk info@tideoflight. co.uk

If you’re wondering why we’re describing a winter carnival before we’ve enjoyed most of the summer ones, it’s because the work is already underway and you are most welcome to join in.

“We really want people to get involved in the whole process,” says Jess. “We call our volunteers ‘Mighty Makers’ but you don’t need any special skills to make the lanterns. There’ll be adults and kids and instructors, all working together in organised chaos to prepare for the big night. You just need a sense of humour and a little bit of patience.”

Some of those already signed up to parade the sparkling sculptures are precisely the wonderful Worthing groups you’d expect – Superstar Arts, Dad La Soul, Sight Support and Blueprint 22 – but the event might hold one or two big surprises this year, not that Jess is giving too much away just yet. “Strange creatures will be washing ashore,” she says cryptically, “carried into

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Sat 27 – Sun 28 Jul

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Listen without prejudice “Giving someone five minutes to talk can be crucial,” says Mark, a volunteer with Worthing Samaritans for the past two years.

IN TODAY’S FAST-PACED WORLD, time is a scarce resource, a truth the volunteers at this local Samaritans branch know all too well; their annual volume of calls has increased from just 175 in 1969 when they started to a phenomenal 25,000 fifty years later, plus 1,500 emails and 2,000 texts.

Tue 2 – Tue 23 Jul Grow Heal Thrive 2.30-5.30pm. Run

by Breathing Spaces. Four therapeutic gardening sessions for women in recovery from trauma. Call Claire on 07508 178590 for info and to book.

Sessions for mums and children Tue 6 – Tue 27 Aug from 2.30-5.00pm.

Sat 6 Jul Worthing Plogging 2pm. Manor Sports Ground. With Worthing Green Party. Get fitter while picking up litter and run/walk for an hour. All ages and abilities.

The non-religious organisation, which is an independent branch of the national charity, seeks to provide round the clock emotional support to anyone in despair or feeling suicidal, and their 24-hour hotline is operated entirely by unpaid, trained volunteers. Now they’re the ones in need, looking for local people to lend a hand (and an ear).

Tue 9 Jul

To mark 50 years of listening, they’re appealing for 50 local businesses to donate £50 so they can continue for another 50 years. They would also love to hear from anyone considering volunteering – “one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done” says volunteer Blanche – and run regular informal drop-ins for those interested (next session Tuesday 9 July at 7pm at the office on Lennox Road). n

Worthing Community Chest Pop-Up Recycling Broadwater Carnival.

Worthing Samaritans Volunteer Information Sessions 7-8.30pm.

Worthing Samaritans, 2-4 Lennox Road. Learn more about volunteering.

Sat 20 Jul

Worthing Community Chest Pop-Up Recycling Lions Festival.

Sun 28 Jul Making Wax Wraps 2.30-4pm. Little Craftery. Make three reuseable wraps. £24

ONGOING Community Energy Local E/Wed. 10am-3.30pm. St Paul’s. Free drop-in energy advice supported by Transition Town Worthing.

TTW Greenspaces Community Gardening E/Tue. 3.30-5pm. Triangle Community Garden, Tarring. Info FB @ TTWGreenspaces Summer Delights E/Wed. 10am-12.30pm.

Cortis Avenue, BN14. Community garden open to visitors and volunteers. Info cortisavewildlife@gmail.com.

Northbrook Green Gym E/Wed.10am1pm. The Pond, Whitebeam Woods.

Gardening in Durrington. Info graeme. brooker@tcv.org.uk or 07970 860938.

May Close Allotment E/Fri. 2-4pm. May Close, Worthing. Community gardening.

Sat 27 Jul

Malthouse Meadows 1st Sun/month.

11am-1pm. Malthouse Meadows, Sompting. Help clear out and plant. Info 07813 484857 or sustainablesussex@ gmail.com

TTW Repair Cafe 10am-1pm. Friends/ Quaker Meeting House. Fixing things which might otherwise end up in landfill.

TTW Greenspaces Community Gardening Various times. The Haven, Homefield Park. Info ttwhaven@ gmail.com.

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BUTTERFLY HUNTING!

LAUNCHED IN 2010 by Butterfly Conservation, The Big Butterfly Count takes place every year from

19 July-11 August, and has rapidly become the world’s biggest survey of butterflies and day-flying moths.

Why go? Counting butterflies is like taking the pulse of nature, with declines in the population an early warning for other wildlife losses.

Why now?

likely to be seen.

At this time of year most butterflies are at the adult stage of their lifecycle, so more

Where can I do it? Anywhere outdoors as long as it’s bright and sunny! Choose a spot and

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look out for butterflies and moths for 15 minutes, and submit your findings at bigbutterflycount.org.

If you can’t tell your purple emperor from your painted lady, make a beeline for Cortis Avenue Wildlife Garden’s Big Butterfly Open Day on 13 July.

How do I find out more? Put your newfound skills to good use at EPIC Sompting’s Bioblitzs, where you count and identify local wildlife. Up the road, Cissbury Ring is one of the best butterfly sites in Sussex. If you’re really lucky, you might spot the rare Duke of Burgundy butterfly, whose survival is credited to local Worthing man and chair of the Sussex branch of Butterfly Conservation Neil Hulme. Neil received a British Empire Medal (BEM) for his longstanding series to wildlife conservation in 2017, and has recently been involved in a elm tree planting scheme at Lancing College to help the endangered White-Letter Hairstreak establish a new habitat. n HEREANDNOWMAG.CO.UK

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WHERE TO EAT & DRINK

The drinks are on us Fancy a tipple? We spoke to Worthing’s mixologists and bartenders to find out what makes those in the know say hello. t Gran Rooms k(e)y s i h W The

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“Brixton Atlantic APA is my drink. It’s a refreshing, light summer beer with a tropically citrus taste. And it’s 5.4% so doesn’t take too much to get me drunk!”

“I’m a massive fan of fine whiskys and love a decent old fashioned, but like true love it’s hard to find.”

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“The Negroni is a Florentine old school classic of Campari, gin and red vermouth – a real pick me up. Love it!” Simon “I love a Hendricks gin & elderflower tonic “Over all the other beers in the pub, I have chosen the Margaroli with fresh cucumber & mint – it’s the Beavertown Lupuloid. I’m a loyal Beavertown drinker’ perfect refreshing drink for a sunny day!” til the last drop, and this particular brew has opened up the IPA gates to a whole world. Plus, it’s not Tiny Congratulations to Indigo who have just been awarded an AA Rosette for culinary Rebel’s Clwb Tropicana, so whenever someone asked excellence for a 10th year, the only restaurant in Worthing ever to hold the award! for it, they don’t ask whether it’s free.”

Going out?

Try here.

EAT & DRINK Thu 11 Jul

The Algaenarium Various times & venues. Part of the Neptune’s Larder programme with We Are FoodPioneers.

Pop-up event featuring edible and drinkable seaweed-inspired dishes (including ice cream) plus seaweed-infused body treatments, crafts, storytelling, a mini market of seaweed products, guided seaweed beach walks and ocean tunes

Fawlty Towers Dining Experience 7-10pm. Indigo Seafood & Grill. Join Basil, Sybil and Manuel for a 70s-style three-course meal with a dollop of mayhem. Book indigorestaurant.info £48pp.

Fri 12 Jul Vegan Pop-Up 7.30-11pm. Streets Café. Hosted by Two Blokes in a Kitchen. Four course meal. Info FB @ twoblokesinakitchen

Sat 13 Jul

Sat 6 Jul Shoreham Chillifest 10am-5pm.

Coronation Green High Street.

Wed 10 Jul Food & Drink Quiz 7-10.30pm. The Dining Room. Identify ingredients and flavours and blind taste wines. £14 (inc food, wine, buffet and donation to Guild Care)

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Brew By Numbers Tap Take Over!

12-11pm. Brooksteed Alehouse.

Celebrate Pride as Brew By Numbers take over the taps with Kitgum Kitchen cooking up a storm. The theme is 69 (the year of the stonewall riots) so come in costume, come in drag or come as you are. FREE Independents Day 10.30am-4.30pm.

Montague Place. Independent food and drink market along with other small businesses.

Sun 21 Jul Wild Pizza Walk & Workshop 123pm. Location tbc. Forage with the family and create pizzas with what

you have found. Info @foragedbyfern.

Adults £30/children £5-£10/u-3s FREE

Fri 26 – Sun 28 Jul Henty Arms 18th Beer & Cider Festival Various times. Henty Arms.

Weekend of beers, ciders, music, food plus bouncy castle & play area.

PICK OF THE ONGOING Burger Day E/Wed. Beach House.

Meal deal for burger and drink.

The Dining Room

Draw for Drinks Last Wed/month.

Finch Bar & Eatery.

Durrington Country Market E/Thu. 9.30-11am. St Symphorian’s Church Hall.

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Pie Night E/Thu. 7pm. The Dining Room.

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Shoreham Farmers’ Market 2nd Sat/ month. 9am-2pm. East Street (SHM).

Lancing Village Market 3rd Sat/ month. 9am-1pm. North Road (LNG).

Shoreham Artisans’ Market 4th Sat/ month. 9am-2pm. East Street (SHM).

Punjabi Street Food Last Sat/month.

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Antiques, Curios & Tribal items. & many other items.

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ART & LITERATURE

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Park life

ART Tue 2 – Sun 7 Jul

Do you have a tale to tell about spooky goingson at Clapham Woods or the history of Cissbury Ring?

MAYBE YOU USED TO WORK on the South Downs, or you want to talk about what happens to the park in the future?

Playwright and writer-in-residence Sara Clifford would love to hear from you. She’s putting together a community arts project with Applause Rural Touring and the South Downs National Park Authority, inspired by the anecdotes of people who live and work in the park.

Sara explains, “I am so pleased to be working on this exciting project, and I want to hear people’s stories and memories: what do you know about the park or its history? What do you know about the local myths and legends of your town or village?

“What about the present? How often do you visit the park, or do you live within it? What is your favourite place to go and why?

La Callejuela (Backstreets) Colonnade House. Mike La-Traille’s three-year project exploring Barcelona’s back streets.

Tue 2 – Sun 14 Jul Pier Road Coffee & Art On Tour Colonnade House. Resident artists of Littlehampton-based space return.

Thu 4 Jul Seaweed Pressing 11am-1pm.

Colonnade House. Press local seaweeds and identify samples.

Book pierroadcoffeeart@hotmail. com. £30

Sat 6 Jul Collected and Conserved 10.30am.

Worthing Museum. Exclusive talk plus art store viewing. Book 01903 206206 or worthingmuseum.co.uk. £7.50

Sun 7 Jul Artists’ Networking Breakfast 9-11am. Brunswick & Thorn. Informal get-together for local artists.

Tue 9 – Sun 14 Jul Shireen Avis: Boot Polish Painter Colonnade House. Textured landscapes created by mixing powder paint with clear boot polish.

Fri 21 Jul

“And looking ahead, what would be your hopes for it? How can we continue to protect the park for future generations?”

David Henty: The Billion Dollar Exhibition Circa 1593-1982 Cloud Gallery. David’s major show for 2019.

The stories will be woven together to create a one-person show which will tour the pubs of the area in September as part of Applause Rural Touring’s Inn Crowd programme, designed to encourage live performance and reinforce the pub as a central, vibrant part of community life, as well as being published online.

Sat 13 Jul

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Durrington High School: Best of the Best III Colonnade House. Exhibition of work by Year 10 and 11 students.

Art-Ful 11am-3pm. Montague Place.

Lots of crafty fun to try as part of Worthing Pride.

Tue 16 – Sun 21 Jul

Oh It Could Be So Much Worse! The Art of Now: Julie Anthony Colonnade House. Visual artist exploring relationship between glass and light.

Sat 20 Jul – Sat 21 Aug Barking, Booths and Bottlers Worthing Museum.

Celebration of seaside entertainers of the 20s and 30s.

Tue 23 – Sun 28 Jul Adam Hodson: Ride Like the Wind Colonnade House. International photographer examines where photography and art combine.

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East Beach Studios: Hut Colonnade House. Residents of Hut 43 create recycled lighting and furniture with nature as their guide.

Sat 27 Jul Robert Koenig 10.30am.

Worthing Museum. Sculptor Robert Koenig discusses his latest exhibition Memorial Structure.

Book worthingmuseum.co.uk

Tue 30 Jul – Sun 4 Aug Haven Colonnade House. Creative initiative connecting artists with women and children living in women’s refuges.

Tue 30 Jul – Sun 11 Aug Jo Maynard Colonnade House.

Stunning portraits of wildlife and pets.

Tue 6 – Sun 11 Aug Memories: Sonia Srebric Colonnade House. Visual artist inspired by historical costumes and fancy dress.

LITERATURE Wed 26 Jun Stories for Summer 7.30-11.30pm.

Cellar Arts Club. Sunny tales from local storytellers. £5/£3

Thu 27 Jun A Literation 7.30-midnight.Cellar Arts Club. Poetry, prose and performance.

Thu 11 Jul Writers’ Showcase 7.30pm.

Goring Methodists Church Hall.

Members share writing experiences from inspiration to pitfalls.

Info westsussexwriters.co.uk

Sat 13 Jul Beginning to Write Fiction 10am12.30pm. St Paul’s. Workshop with local author Allie Rogers.

Book newwritingsouth.com £35

Thu 18 Jul Speakeasy Conversation Club 7.30pm. Cellar Arts Club. Three guest speakers talk about their passions. Book wegottickets £5/ members £3

Thu 25 Jul Tales of Fortune 7.30-11.30pm.

Cellar Arts Club. Tales on the theme of luck. £5/members £3

ONGOING Quills Creative Writing Circle 7pm.

Worthing Library. For adults only.

2nd Thu/mon.

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FILM & THEATRE Readers are advised to check event listing info in case of change.

FRONT ROW FILM & THEATRE Enjoy great alfresco film and theatre whilst catching some rays this month.

Worthing College is back with Screen on the Green, showing various films for all ages (5-6 Jul) with the addition of food vendors, a music stage and an inflatable arena (Sat 6 Jul only).

You can witness the all-female acrobatics group Mimbre in Lifted outside the Pavilion (20 Jul), Rainbow Theatre’s Shakespeare shows in Highdown gardens (Tue 16 – Sun 28 Jul) or – looking forward to August – Worthing Summer Cinema presented by Discover Worthing (9-11 Aug).

But if you’ve forgotten to pack your sun cream, why not indulge in an action-packed Indiana Jones film or three at the Connaught (13 Jul), or head over to Ropetackle Shoreham to watch the Royal Opera’s Madam Butterfly (11 Jul)?

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THEATRE

Tue 16 – Sun 21 Jul

Sat 6 – Sun 7 Jul

Rainbow Shakespeare: Twelfth Night Various times. Highdown Gardens. Picnic under the stars while Shakespeare comes to life around you.

Chores 11.30am & 2pm. Pavilion Theatre. Action-packed hour-long comedy adventure with acrobatics, juggling and unicycling.

Tue 9 Jul Notorious Strumpet & Dangerous Girl 8pm. Pavilion Theatre. Twisted storytelling and spectacular circus skills in this dark comedy.

Wed 10 – Thu 11 Jul Into The Woods Jr 7.30pm.

Connaught. Oak Grove College returns with a magical production.

Don Juan 8pm. Pavilion Theatre. Join the revelry when Don Juan travels across the sea.

Fri 12 Jul Girl Power – The Spice Girls Experience 7.30pm. Assembly Hall. Spice up your life with 90s extravaganza.

Sat 20 Jul Lifted 11am & 2pm. Outside the Pavilion Theatre. Funny, poetic performance from all-female acrobatic theatre company Mimbre. FREE

Mon 22 Jul Matt’s Comedy Club Presents Harry & Chris 8pm. Pavilion Café Bar. Familyfriendly fun night out!

Tue 23 – Sun 28 Jul Rainbow Shakespeare: Othello Various times. Highdown Gardens. Picnic under the stars while the magical world of Shakespeare comes alive around you.

Fri 26 Jul The Treason Show 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Scatter-gun satire with parody songs and local gags galore!

Fri 26 – Sat 27 Jul

No holds bard with Rainbow Shakespeare’s 2019 season From 16-28 July at Highdown Gardens

Pack a picnic and head up to Highdown Gardens for Rainbow Shakespeare’s magical 2019 season which runs from 16-28 July.

ACCLAIMED FOR THEIR COMMITMENT to making Shakespeare enjoyable, exciting and

understandable for all ages, this year’s the company’s alfresco performances pair one of Shakespeare’s best-known comedies, Twelfth Night, with his heartrending tragedy Othello.

Director Nicolas Young confesses: “Twelfth Night was my first Shakespeare

experience, at the age of six. The laughter and enjoyment caused me to fall in life-long love with the plays.” He is also looking forward to directing Othello for the first time. “It’s like Game of Thrones on speed. Sword fights, smothering, love, hatred – it has the lot, and shows how any of us, however successful and good, can be destroyed by gossip and innuendo eating away at our insecurities.”

Twelfth Night plays from 16-21 July, with Othello following from 23-28 July. Performances start at 7.30pm (gates open from 6.15pm for picnickers).

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Dr Bunhead’s Blast Off! 11am & 2.30pm. Pavilion Theatre. Go on the ultimate science journey with Dr Bunhead!

Sat 3 Aug Dip 11am & 2pm. Outside the Pavilion Theatre. Trampolinist Max Calaf is joined by his musical acrobatic friends for a breath-taking performance. FREE

FILM Mon 1 Jul The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (12) 7pm. Lancing Luxor Revival Cinema. Writer forms a lifechanging bond with eccentric society in postwar times.

Worthing Film Club presents: Black Sun 8pm. St Paul’s. Award-winning documentary about New York-based artist blinded by vicious attack.

FILM & THEATRE Tue 2 Jul

Sat 6 Jul

Sat 13 Jul

Thu 25 Jul

The Mikado (PG) 7.45pm. Connaught.

Set in an ever-so-English 1930s seaside hotel, ENO’s iconic production is a popular hit.

Peter Rabbit (PG) 1.15pm. Worthing College. Follow Peter Rabbit on his adventures.

Indiana Jones Trilogy (12A) 1pm.

Connaught. Re-live the thrilling adventures of Dr Jones as the trilogy returns to the big screen.

King of Thieves (15) 2pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Based on true events, thief Brian Reader and his band of misfit criminals plot the biggest bank heist in British history.

Spider-Man: Far from Home (TBC) 8.15pm. Dome. Peter Parker goes to Europe but can’t leave behind his superhero role.

Thu 4 Jul The Cold Blue (TBC) 12.15pm. Dome.

They flew. They fought. They died.

They won.

Glyndebourne: Cinderella (12A) 7.30pm. Connaught. Recorded live.

Glyndebourne favourite Danielle de Niese plays the title role in this glittering opera.

Nick Cave Night 7.30pm. Cellar Arts Club. Close-Up presents a night of film and music from Nick Cave.

Fri 5 Jul Bohemian Rhapsody (12A) 7.30pm.

Worthing College. Experience the life of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in an outdoor screening of the biopic.

The Greatest Showman (PG) 5.30pm.

Worthing College. Sing-a-long to this much-loved film at this outdoor screening.

Sun 14 Jul

Westlife: The Twenty Tour Live 8pm.

Dome. They’re back! Live broadcast.

Glyndebourne: The Barber of Seville (12A) 7.30pm. Connaught. Mischief and mayhem in Rossini’s popular opera.

Recorded.

Mon 8 Jul

Tue 16 Jul

The Lady in the Van (12) 1.30pm.

Ropetackle (SHM). Dementia Friendly Screening. True story of Alan Bennett’s relationship with a lady who “temporarily” parked her van in his driveway.

Moonrise Kingdom (12A) 7.30pm.

Ropetackle (SHM). Two twelve-yearolds fall in love, make a secret pact and run away into the wilderness.

Thu 11 Jul

The Blues Brothers (15) 2pm.

Ropetackle (SHM). Jake and Elwood Blues set out on a mission from God to save the Catholic orphanage where they were raised.

Madama Butterfly 6.50pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Puccini’s Japanese tragedy is given a ravishing Royal Opera production in this screening.

Fri 12 Jul A Star is Born (15) 7.30pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Famous musician helps young female singer find fame and love.

Thu 18 Jul

Fri 19 Jul Green Book (12A) 7pm. Ferring Village Hall. Italian-American bouncer drives African-American classical pianist in the 60s.

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NT: The Lehman Trilogy (12A) 7pm.

Connaught. Story of a family and company that changed the world.

Fri 26 Jul Little Wolf’s Book of Badness 11am.

Ropetackle (SHM). Little Wolf is sent to BigBad’s Cunning College to learn the Nine Rules of Badness.

Sat 27 Jul Andre Rieu Maastricht 2019: Shall We Dance? (U) 7pm. Connaught. Bringing the waltz to life in an unforgettable evening of music and dance. Recorded.

RSC: Measure for Measure (12A) 7pm. Connaught. Live broadcast of this play directed by Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director Gregory Doran.

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FILM & THEATRE Tue 30 Jul Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (12A) 2pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Will pure blood wizards rule over all non-magical beings?

Fri 2 Aug Tortoise and the Hare 11am. Ropetackle (SHM). Bite-size ballet to introduce little ones to the arts.

Sun 4 Aug Glyndebourne: The Magic Flute (12A) 5.30pm. Connaught Theatre. Mozart’s most magical comedy broadcast live.

COMPETITION

Win tickets to Friendsical!

COMING SOON Next month, DiCaprio and Brad Pitt team up in the hotly anticipated new Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. X-Men are back again with X-Men: The New Mutants, which features breakout star Jonathan Byers from Stranger Things, and the latest addition to the Has Fallen trilogy is released, Angel Has Fallen.

Oh…My…Gawd. Have you heard? A Friends musical parody is coming to Worthing! That’s right, FRIENDSICAL is touring to the Pavilion Theatre from 1-5 October, and you can win a pair of tickets! To enter our competition, just answer the following question:

“That’s My Sandwich!” is a quote shouted very loudly by which Friends character? n Chandler n Joey n Ross To find out more information on the show, visit worthingtheatres. co.uk. This is a loving parody not to be confused with the Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. series Friends.

To enter, go to hereandnowmag.co.uk. Click on WIN! To give your answer (ref: Friendsical) or post to Here & Now, The Mill Building, 31 Chatsworth Rd, BN11 1LY. One entry p/p. Closes and winner picked at random and notified Thu 25 Jul. Good luck!

JOIN THE CLUB

Now in its 11th successful year, Worthing Film Club is a volunteer-led organisation that screens handpicked independent cinema from around the globe in Worthing.

July’s offering is Black Sun (2005) by filmmaker Gary Tarn, a visually stunning and thoughtful meditation on the nature of seeing. It centres on artist Hugues de Montalembert, blinded in a random New York City mugging, and explores his subsequent journey adjusting to the loss of his sight. Taking its cinematic cue from great art documentaries like Chris Marker’s masterly Sans Soleil (1983), Black Sun tells a true tale in a highly individual and poetic way. Catch it on 1 July at St. Paul’s.

Membership of Worthing Film Club is £30 a year, with access to the club’s DVD library. Non-members can attend for the price of a one-off ticket.

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SPOTLIGHT ON MUSIC

It’s Summer!

If you are interested in busking yourself, check out the licensing requirements at adur-worthing.gov.uk (search busking). What Original Music better way to enjoy the sun than to busk and earn yourself some money playing some music? Get involved! n

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Bad Influence 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM).

Blues Rock. £13- £15

Fri 28 Jun

THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES. You’re lucky to be living in a town full of talented buskers. On July 6, venues like The Goose, The New Amsterdam, St Paul’s, Cellar Arts Club, Rose and Crown and Wine and Reason will be involved with this year’s annual Summer Busk, raising money for the charity Turning Tides and bringing together Worthing’s best local musicians, performers and volunteers. This is all kicking off at 10am going until 10pm.

Oscar Simpson

Thu 27 Jun

Live at the Broadwater 9pm.

Broadwater Pub. Live Music Covers.

Sat 29 – Sun 30 Jun

Micky Hart and the Hartbreakers 7pm.

The Egremont. Rock ‘n’ Roll.

MUSH! Festival Various times & venues. A festival of alternative art featuring live music and art in multiple venues around Worthing town.

The Bleeding Obvious 7.30pm. Cellar Arts Club. Disco/Funk. £4

Sun 30 Jun

The Proud Prom 7.30pm. Grand Victorian Hotel. Disco. £5 Lisa Lo 9.30pm. The Libertine Social.

R&B/Hip Hop/Jazz/Soul. FREE

Sat 29 Jun Summer Skankin’ Fest 12pm-2am.

Escape Bar (Tangerine Bar). JFB, The 4’20’ Sound & more. £5 Tales of Autumn w/support Tarot Rats and Witch Tripper 7pm. Bar Forty Two. Metal.

Soul Stew/Soul Train 7.30pm-midnight.

Cellar Arts Club. Top DJs. £5/£3 on the door 80s Summer Wolf-Jam 7.30pm. St Paul’s. Raising money for Wolfram Syndrome UK. £20 The Congo Allstars-Soukous Dance Party 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Soukous. £15- £17 Soul Casserole 9pm. The Libertine Social. Funk/Soul/Hip Hop.

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Northbrook Community Concert Band 2-4pm. East Worthing Baptist Church, Pendine Avenue. Annual summer concert by local wind, brass and percussion band.

Summer at The Lido 2-4pm. Worthing Lido. Vintage songs with a modern twist.

Taylor Maid 4.30pm. The Egremont.

Swing/Gypsy Jazz. FREE Calista 5-11pm. St Paul’s. Hardcore. £4

Tue 2 Jul AudioActive Music Production Workshop for young people 4.30pm.

Ridiculously Cool Music Studios. FREE Aren Drift 7pm. Goose. New music video release and EP play. Rock.

Julian Marc Stringle Quartet 8.30pm.

The Hare & Hounds. Jazz. FREE (& raffle)

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MUSIC Wed 3 Jul The Rude Mechanicals 7.30pm. Duke of Wellington (SHM). Folk. FREE

Thu 4 Jul AudioActive Music Production Workshop for young people 4.30pm.

Ridiculously Cool Music Studios. FREE Nick Cave Night 7.30pm. Cellar Arts Club. Alternative. £2

Fri 5 Jul South Coast Soul Revue Summer Show 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Soul. £15 Woodstock Revisited 8pm. John Selden. Songs and tales from the festival of 1969.

The Middlemen 9pm. The Egremont.

Live Covers. FREE

Wednesday Morris & Music 8pm. Ye John Selden. Morris Dancing. FREE

Thu 11 Jul AudioActive Music Production Workshop for young people 4.30pm.

Ridiculously Cool Music Studios. FREE ABBA night w/Chiquitita 8.30pm. The Egremont. Tribute. FREE

Fri 12 Jul Singers Rechoired Summer Concert 7pm. Findon Valley Free Church. Choir.

FREE Girl Power – The Spice Girls Experience 7.30pm. Assembly Hall.

Pop. £21.50 Wax Virgins 8pm-1am. Coast. Vinyl DJs. FREE

Sat 6 Jul

Tulka Trio 9pm. The Libertine. Jazz.

FREE

Summer Busk 10am-11pm. Various venues, Worthing. FREE (donations)

Fri 12 – Sun 14 Jul

Mulberry Divas 10.30am. Kingsley Coffee Shop (FNG). FREE

Folk By The Water West Street Loft & The Bridge Inn (SHM). Weekend folk festival. Info FB @folkbythewater

Big Yellow Taxi 7pm. The Egremont.

Liver Covers. FREE

Sat 13 Jul

Dub at the Club 7.30pm. Cellar Arts Club. Reggae. £2 Back to the 80s 7.30pm. St. Paul’s. 80s. £3- £5 Sussex School of Song Presents An Evening of Popular Classics 7.30pm.

Ropetackle (SHM). Classical. £14

Sun 7 Jul Mike Hatchard’s Jazz Breakfast w/ Bjorn McAteer Dahlberg 11am.

Ropetackle (SHM). Jazz. £12 Punkish Noisish All Dayer 3pm. Bar Forty Two. Punk/Noise. FREE Images in Sound Interview Concert 4-6.15pm. St Paul’s. Pianists Anna Bulkina & Francesco Comito plus three artists painting to their live music. Info: FB TheInterviewConcerts. Tickets seetickets.com or with cash at St Paul’s / Henry House £1 - £13

Tue 9 Jul AudioActive Music Production Workshop for young people 4.30pm.

Ridiculously Cool Music Studios. FREE Vasilis Xenopoulos Quartet 8.30pm.

The Hare & Hounds. Jazz. FREE (& raffle)

Wed 10 Jul Yumi and the Weather w/support Drive Boy, Drusila 7.30pm. Bar Forty Two. Psych-pop. £5.50 The Rude Mechanicals 7.30pm. Duke of Wellington (SHM). Folk. FREE

West Sussex Youth Orchestra Summer Concert 3pm. Assembly Hall. Classical. £7 The Alter Eagles 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Tribute. £18 Give Me The Night 8pm. Cellar Arts Club. Disco/70s/80s. £2 Debaser #5 9pm. Bar Forty Two. Celebrating their first birthday!

Alternative.

Inappropriate Handclap 9pm. The Beach House. One-off switch to Saturday for Worthing Pride. Funk/Soul.

FREE

Sun 14 Jul Queer Jubilee w/Sad Girls Club 12pm.

Cellar Arts Club.

Worthing Northern Soul 2-6pm. Bar Next Door. Last ever one!

Tue 16 Jul AudioActive Music Production Workshop for young people 4.30pm.

Ridiculously Cool Music Studios. FREE George Trebar’s Nighthawks Quartet 8.30pm. The Hare & Hounds. Jazz.

FREE (& raffle) Open Mic Night 8.45pm. Duke of Wellington (SHM). FREE

£4.50 in advance £5 on the day

Wed 17 Jul The Rude Mechanicals 7.30pm. Duke of Wellington (SHM). Folk. FREE

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Make me famous, baby!

There are many good reasons to pick up a musical instrument or start singing beyond becoming famous, baby.

BUT MAKING MUSIC in the Worthing area

there is coming through in Worthing. It was inspiring for our children too!” Her 60-strong choir of six-year-olds took the

‘Cutest Ever’ prize (invented by the judges for this occasion).

Get it at johngailbraith.bandcamp.com

RUSSELL, CHRIS, DAVE, NATHAN & JOHN FROM HOST RECORDINGS

SKOOLFEST 2019 BILLY COCORAN, WINNER

Collette Wade, who brought the choir from Thomas A Becket Infant School, told us, “It was fantastic to see all the talent

Other prizewinners (of which there were many) will spend summer playing new instruments, thanks to generous donations from We Have Sound guitars in Worthing, Andrew at Salvage Sounds (makers of unusual stringed instruments), and the Guitar, Amp and Keyboard Centre in Brighton. Some will be recording their first EPs at Northbrook MET studios, after which we start the countdown to the 10th S’koolFest next May.

Watch out also all over Worthing for the Turning Tides Big Summer Busk on Saturday 6 July.

Duo Across the Sea is Hannah Katy Lewis on vocals and Pete Ferguson on guitar and pedals, who met and developed their unique sound while studying for a BA in Music at Northbrook MET. “We’re inspired by the location of our hometown, looking out

So let’s talk about fame. Sompting resident Ryan Hurley, aka UK house artist Kideko, has 1.1m monthly listeners on Spotify worldwide and, since graduating from Northbrook MET in 2015, has worked with the likes of Tinie Tempah and Dizzee Rascal.

ACROSS THE SEA, CREDIT: THE MIC MEDIA

to sea and wondering what’s beyond the horizon, hence the name.

Our videos and artwork were shot on Worthing Beach, Durrington Cemetery and Cissbury Ring.”

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go back and give these people what I would’ve liked to happen to me,”

he explains. Their latest release is ‘Richmond’ from John Gailbraith, who was originally referred by local homeless charity Turning Tides. The single came out of weekly recording sessions at St Clare’s Day Centre in Worthing – with centre manager Russell Gallagher on bass.

might actually make you famous too.

Let’s start with a review of S’koolFest at Pavilion Theatre last month. I’m going to confess my complete lack of journalistic impartiality here, because I put on S’koolFest for Northbrook MET, and it’s my favourite gig of the entire year. We invite local schools to send us their up-and-coming bands, songwriters and MCs, and we put them onstage with a great PA and lights. For many, it’s the first time they’ve ever played in public. For some, it’s a life-changing experience.

Host, a record label for homeless or insecurely housed people to write, develop and sell their own music. “It’s me making an effort to

KIDEKO, CREDIT: GEORGE POWER FINCH

MUSIC

We asked Ryan: why Sompting? Is it the music scene? “It’s near

Behind the Looking Glass is released across all streaming platforms on 28 June. acrosstheseauk.com

Northbrook and Brighton. I like Worthing because it’s close enough to go to Brighton for nightlife and inspiration but you can come away from it all when you want to get creative and really zone out in the studio.”

Fame is not the main aim for Host Recordings’ director Dave O’Connell. Now a successful musician, Dave was homeless for a time before founding youth group Shoreham Allstars ten years ago. Now he’s launched

Ryan’s time living in Sompting is soon coming to an end, but he’s not moving far – just to Shoreham, still close enough for us to continue to count him as one of our own. His most recent release ‘What Is It?’ is out everywhere now. n

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Mike Pailthorpe Mike runs Music Degrees and the Artist Development Programme at Northbrook MET

MUSIC Thu 18 Jul

Tue 23 Jul

Wed 31 Jul

ONGOING

AudioActive Music Production Workshop for young people 4.30pm.

Ridiculously Cool Music Studios. FREE

Andy Williams/Simon Savage Quartet 8.30pm. The Hare & Hounds. Jazz. FREE (& raffle)

Out of Reach/Dead Wrong & support 7pm. Bar Forty Two. Pop/Punk. FREE

What the Dickens? Singing Group E/ Mon. 7.30pm. Charles Dickens.

Summer Sounds Concert 7.30pm.

Emmanuel URC. The Rowland Singers joined by flautist Dominic Smith. In aid of Group B Strep Support. Choir/ Classical.

Wed 24 Jul

The Rude Mechanicals 7.30pm. Duke of Wellington (SHM). Folk. FREE

Jazz E/Tue. 8.30pm. The Hare & Hounds.

Steve Rodgers Band w/support Brad Heidi 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Guitar. £12

Jazz Café w/Mark Bassey 8pm. Pavilion Café Bar. Jazz. £9

Fri 19 Jul Tom Walker Band 7pm. The Egremont.

Live acoustic. FREE Richard Durrant Summer Special 8pm.

Ropetackle (SHM). Guitar. £18 Farlowe Anderson Brookes & The Juice 8pm. John Selden. Blues. Book wegottickets £16.50 Banumathi 9.30pm. The Libertine. R&B. FREE

The Physics House Band w/support Porshyne & Ariandelle 8pm. Bar Forty Two. Tech/Prog. £11

Thu 25 Jul Beatsdelight and Friends 8pm. Bar Forty Two. FREE Tom Walker 8pm. Beach House. Live acoustic.

Fri 26 Jul Talk of the Town 7pm. The Egremont.

80s. FREE

Sat 27 Jul

Sat 20 Jul

Cantina 7pm. Coast. Latin/Afrobeat/ Tropical Funk/Soul/Jazz/Electronica.

The Roadrunners 7pm. The Egremont.

Live covers. FREE

Break from the Groove 8pm. Bar Next Door. Funk/Soul/Hip Hop. FREE

Seaside Hospital Radio Charity Gig 7.30pm. St. Paul’s. £10

Bad Influence 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM).

Blues/Rock. £15

Grenades w/support Gloo & Outpost 3 8pm. Coast. Alt/Punk/Indie/Rock.

Michael Messer’s Mitra 8pm.

Ropetackle (SHM). Jazz/Blues. £12

James Taylor Quartet 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Jazz/Rock/Soul/Funk. £22

The Ministry of Anthems Summer Bash 8.50pm. The Egremont. Dance. FREE

Tim’s Birthday Event w/ DJ A.Skillz 8pm.

Duke of Wellington. Pinning some Funk, Soul & Disco. All welcome.

Tue 30 Jul Simon Spillet/ Geoff Mason Quintet 8.30pm. The Hare & Hounds. Jazz. FREE (& raffle)

Odette Michell 7.30pm. Bar Orange.

Folk. £5.50 Wednesday Morris & Music 8pm. The Vine Inn. Morris Dancing. FREE

Dixie Blues 1st & 3rd Tue/month. 8pm.

Charles Dickens.

Secret Shore Shanty Singers Last Tue/ month. 7.30pm. Ye Olde House at Home.

Fri 2 Aug

Open Mic Last Tue/month. 8.30pm.

Thomas A Becket.

Soulsmiths 7pm. The Egremont. Soul.

FREE

South Downs Folk Singers 1st Wed/ month. 7.30pm. Ye Old House at Home.

Dervish 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Irish Trad. £20

Open Stage E/ Wed. 8pm. Bar Next Door.

It’s Britney B*tch 7.30pm. Cellar Arts Club. Live head shave for St Barnabas with live music from Spritney Bears.

Open Mic w/Karl E/Wed. 8.30pm.

Piston Broke (SHM).

Sat 3 Aug

Music Club w/guests 1st Thu/month.

8pm. Beach House.

Mulberry Divas 10.30am. Kingsley Coffee Shop (FNG). FREE George Michael Tribute w/Pete Valentine 7pm. The Egremont. Tribute.

FREE Jimmy Jemain & The Undercover Shadows 7.30pm. Ferring Village Hall.

Tribute. Book ferringvillagehall.org.uk Le Vent du Nord 8pm. Ropetackle (SHM). Folk. £18-16.50

Celebration Samba E/Thu. 7.30pm. Ivy Arch Studios. Learn to spread the samba spirit at these weekly rehearsals!

Karaoke E/Thu. 9pm. The Warwick.

Karaoke E/Thu. 8pm. Charles Dickens.

Open Mic w/Bustin’ A Groove E/Thu. 8pm. Crown & Anchor (SHM).

DJs Thu-Sun. Coast.

Sun 4 Aug Mike Hatchard’s Jazz Breakfast 11am.

Ropetackle (SHM). Jazz. £12 The Glenn Miller Orchestra 3pm.

Pavilion Theatre. Big band. £23.50

Jazz E/other Wed. 8pm. Charles Dickens.

Inappropriate Handclap 2nd Fri/month.

8pm. The Beach House.

South Coast Blues Jam 3rd & 4th Sun/ month. 2pm. Charles Dickens.

Madi Laine w/Chris Simmons Last Sun/ month. 8pm. Beach House.

Listening Party: Bad Billy Band – Legends in a Lifetime A tide of seaside-southern rock sweeps you out with the waves on the newest album by Bad Billy Band.

THE VOCALS, HOWEVER, COME FROM ANOTHER WORLD ENTIRELY, almost like

they’ve been cribbed from the world of 90s indie. This creates a sound that is both new and somehow old at the same time. The tracks of Legends in a Lifetime thrum like the throbbing of a motorcycle between your thighs. You’re driving along the coast, on your way to some backwoods party, and as soon as you arrive, this is being played on the homemade soundsystem.

This is a barnstorming shakedown of an album that’ll get you dancing and singing along in equal measure. Be sure to pick up a copy and head down to Bad Billy Band’s next show. In a recent interview, they made sure to point out that their live versions are very different from the recorded album, a different beast entirely. And what a beast they are. n

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THOMAS H GREEN - MUSICAL TIME MACHINE Not every rock’n’roll tale ends with stadium gigs, gold discs and blathering to Graham Norton on late night TV. 99% do not.

THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY END IN FAILURE.

They’re the hard-earned memories, the wild times, the ambition and vivaciousness, the musical creativity of young lives burning with promise; the precious stuff forever in the slipstream of those lucky enough. This month, the Time Machine is privileged to travel back with Rob Watson to recall long-gone Worthing band Big Corporation and all that came after.

BIG CORPORATION CIRCA 1994, LEFT-RIGHT, CORAL EVANS, ROB WATSON, DAVE LATREILLE, MATT BURN, BEN CASTLE

Rob Watson: Big Corporation (and beyond) 1989 - present

LABEL FOR ROB’S 2007 MAGIC FLY DEBUT CASSETTE COVER OF BIG CORP’S SELF-RELEASED 1993 ALBUM

Rob was born in Worthing Hospital in 1971, his dad an estate agent and his mum a book-keeper.

He enjoyed school but, after his parents divorced, he retreated into music, developing an obsession with New Order in his early teens. “My step-sister

taped ‘Blue Monday’ at 33 RPM instead of 45, not realising it was the wrong speed, so that’s how I first heard them,” he recalls. “I bought a Casio keyboard and a drum machine and would come home at lunchtimes to play them.”

At 17 he moved in with his mate Dave Latreille, and the pair started working on music, with Dave singing and Rob doing the electronics. They were soon joined by guitarist Ben Castle, a friend’s younger brother, who was influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan. His virtuosic fret-wrangling was incongruous but it worked (“We sounded like New Order with guitar solos”) and the trio’s first gig was Rock Against the Poll Tax at the function room of Littlehampton’s Windmill Theatre in early 1990.

They called themselves Big Corporation and started gigging regularly, playing in Littlehampton, Arundel and Worthing (Maggie’s Bar, Rhapsody Wine Bar, The Southdown, The Fountain, Bensons Nightclub, Thieves Kitchen and more). Local promoter Mandy Austen saw them and began managing them. She put them on at rave mecca Sterns for a night called Direct Kaos, with DJ Fabio headlining the main room.

The band was expanding. By 1993 they’d added second guitarist Matt Burn and vocalist Coral Evans. Their sound had developed “a bit of a skank to it, like Stereo MCs but more reggae”. Ian Grant, successful manager of The Stranglers and Big

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Coral parted ways with them after developing ongoing throat problems, while the arrival of Britpop meant times were changing. Matt and Dave moved towards a Beatles-y sound that Rob couldn’t embrace. In 1995 he left and moved back to Worthing.

ROB WATSON, JUNE 2019

However, the game was far from over. By the early 2000s, after studying Commercial Music at the University of Westminster, he was making a decent living under the moniker Dynamite Sounds, creating advert music for Adidas, BMW, Reebok, Braun and more. Then in 2007 his music was used 20 hours a week on the ITV late-night phone-in show ‘Quizmania’.

“All of a sudden I had a chunk of money in the bank,” he says. “I could relax for the first time in my life and focus. I spent three months locked away, writing my own music. As Magic Fly I mixed reggae with bleeps and, via MySpace, I was signed to New York label Bastard Jazz.”

PLAYING MAGGIE’S BAR (NOW ESCAPE BAR & GRILL), 1993, CORAL ON VOCALS, ROB ON BASS

Country, saw them playing the Inn On The Prom (now Brio, on the seafront) and took them on.

He released two Magic Fly EPs, but had greater successes with his reggaeflavoured mash-ups as Wicked Devil. A thousand-strong 7” single run of P!nk’s ‘Get The Party Started’ over a rocksteady rhythm sold out, but the one that created the most buzz was his 2008 collation of US band Cage The Elephant’s ‘Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked’ with Max Romeo’s ‘Chase the Devil’, a monster cut that became Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record in the World on BBC Radio One.

“I liked their song ‘Life Inside My Bong’,” Grant recalls. “It had an Ace of Base feel to it, which was big at the time, and I thought they could be too. Dave and Coral had presence, attractive at the front, and the whole thing had potential.”

Of the rest of Big Corporation, Coral developed an acting career before settling to full-time motherhood, Matt went into house support band at The EARLY INCARNATION OF THE BAND IN THE LITTLEHAMPTON GAZETTE business research, and Ben and Dave Mean Fiddler, playing before achieved some profile for their band Ambershades but then went the likes of Desmond Dekker and Kirsty MacColl”. In 1994, through their separate ways. Dave moved to New York and Ben is now longGrant, they toured the UK with Big Country, playing 3000-capacity term guitarist for James Blunt. venues. Grant also pressed up 1000 copies of CD single ‘Days’ on his own Phun City label, with Big Country’s Mark Brzezicki playing drums.

As for Rob, his 2010 album ‘Botanic Dreams’ (as half of duo Different Frequencies) could not stop a gradual career crash. The market “That was the pinnacle,” Rob recalls. “Sony paid for us to go to Easy around TV ad music had changed drastically. There were tough Street reggae studio in London, the record contract was all but in the times, then bad times, but as of 2019 he’s back. He produces library bag but then the A&R person left.” music, is a member of the DJ trio Reggae Doctors (who can be heard entertaining Worthing most Bank The band laid off Ian Grant and went through a series of managers Holiday weekends), and his new who promised much but delivered little, culminating in one who was disco unit, Levan Levan, have a tasty an actual villain. “The way we found him was that a friend’s dad was set of tunes ready and are seeking a warder at Ford Prison,” Rob laughs. “There was this guy in for fraud vocalists. Big Corporation may be a and somehow, when he came out, he ended up being our manager. memory, but the music just goes on He promised us desperately-needed new equipment, but it never and on. n happened.”

The band moved to London and became “almost the

Big Corporation continued to work hard – even supporting the monstrous Mr Blobby on one occasion – but success evaded them.

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FINANCE CORNER

B U S I N E S S F E AT U R E

What is the best mortgage?

A lot of people are asking the advisers at Emerald Finance whether they should take a fixed rate at the moment and it’s a good question.

The future presents potential uncertainty. With Brexit looming, some clients are concerned about the impact this may have. Naturally we don’t know how severe the effect of Brexit will be but if the cost of living does rise as certain indicators suggest, then it would be prudent to fix in as many costs as possible before this happens. Stability in a time of instability is key for financial management.

HISTORICALLY, TRACKER RATES have been cheapest but now there is very little to choose between a fixed rate or a tracker, at least in terms of what your payment will be today. Furthermore, many have drifted onto their lender’s variable rate and as the payment has remained affordable, may have done nothing, when most could have paid less or secured a more affordable payment into the future.

In this sense a fixed rate is certainly attractive. Long term fixed rates of 5 years are incredibly competitive and, not only does it mean you can secure stable mortgage payments for the next 5 years, it also means you won’t have to remortgage again for that period. If rates rise, your payments will stay the same and if Brexit does have an impact it won’t affect your mortgage for 5 years.

So what’s the difference? A fixed rate sets your payments at a defined level for a set period of time, whereas a tracker rate is an interest rate that moves in line with the Bank of England Base Rate. A tracker rate can change although in recent years movements have been minimal. A variable rate is set by your lender which means that they decide when and how much it should change.

Why change your deal? At the moment interest rates on offer are at some of the lowest levels we have seen. This offers an opportunity to take advantage of the best deals available. With over 120 lenders available at Emerald Finance, alongside specialist broker only lenders and exclusive deals, there are some fantastic schemes to be had.

Everyone’s situation is different, so for a personalised review to see if it’s time for you to FIX YOUR MORTGAGE RATE, pop into one of our shops at 10 Chapel Road or 77 Rowlands Road in Worthing, or call 01903 222940 to arrange an appointment at your home or our office. One of our advisers will be pleased to help. n

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Readers are advised to check event listing info in case of change.

Fri 21 – Sun 23 Jun

SUMMER HOLIDAY SCIENCE

Beach Dreams Festival Beach Green (SHM). Community festival with live music and attractions for the whole family. FREE.

Summer holiday science?

Yes please!

and put on the most amazing lessons?

Sat 29 Jun Train Party 10.30am, 11.45am, 1pm & 2.15pm. East Worthing Community Centre. Four one-hour sessions. Book FB @trainpartyfun. £5 per child

Sun 30 Jun

DID YOU EVER HAVE that one teacher in school who was down to earth, funny

Big Summer Bug Hunt Worthing Rocks will be painting pebbles with mini beasts and hiding them all over Worthing. Paint your own or find one! FB @worthingrocksuk

Sat 6 – Sun 7 Jul

Meet Dr. Bunhead – TV’s most extreme stunt scientist! Known for his appearances on Brainiac, Blue Peter and The Slammer, Dr. Bunhead invites you and your little ones on an explosive journey into space.

With help from volunteer ‘stunt scientists’ from the audience, he will deploy non-stop awesome experiments in his madcap mission to send the first humans to Mars! Stunt hamsters will be bazookablasted, fingers will be frozen (solid) and heads will be explosively decompressed as you explore the perils of space travel!

Chores 11.30am & 2pm. Pavilion Theatre. Action-packed hour-long show about tidying your room full of acrobatics, juggling and unicycling.

From £12.50

Sat 6 Jul Children Bringing More History Alive 10.45am. Broadwater Cemetery. Four boys and four girls in costume tell colourful local stories on this tour.

Kids Scavenger Hunt 11am. Goring Conservative Club. Collect items and solve clues! Entry £1 per child

Sun 7 Jul Fit4 Junior Aquathon 7.15am-12pm.

Splashpoint. The first GO TRI FIT4 Junior Aquathlon: swim in the pool at Splashpoint and run on the adjacent green. Ages 8-14y. Register gotri.org Playing Out Sunday Funday 3-5pm.

Southcourt & Eastcourt Roads.

Closed to traffic for children to play in the streets and meet the neighbours. All welcome.

Sat 13 Jul Big Butterfly Open Day 11am-4pm.

Cortis Avenue Wildlife Garden (north end off Carnegie Road). Take part in butterfly, dragonfly and bug hunts, pond dipping and lots of family activities. Picnics welcome. No dogs please except assistance dogs. Info cortisavewildlife@gmail.com or 01903 530780. FREE Junior Adventurers’ League 124pm. A&B Gaming, Chapel Road.

Dungeons and Dragons league for under-16s.

I saw this show in Worthing a few years ago with my family, and it was so much fun; we ‘adults’ ended up learning a lot more than we expected!

Dr Bunhead’s Blast Off! tours to the Pavilion Theatre, Worthing on 26-27 July. For more information, head over to worthingtheatres.co.uk. n

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DADIFESTO

Big Danny style School is out and it’s a sort of a buzz, But back then I didn’t really know what it was...

LITTLE DID I KNOW HOW RIGHT Will Smith was when

he rapped these classic lines back in 1991 as the Fresh Prince together with Jazzy Jeff.

The summer holidays are of course blissful when you’re a kid. A time to break the shackles of the routine and make some memories. But fast forward 28 years and if, like most of us, you’re a working parent, then the only buzz comes from that cataclysmic parental meltdown when the realisation that you have eight weeks of childcare, potential playdates and summer clubs to sort out hits you.

Anyway, there I was talking to a friend the other day about holidays when we were kids and how our parents were a little bit more relaxed in their approach to organising structured summer activities.

It would look a bit like this:

Out the door by 8am after bolting down some Weetabix, you’d grab your bike and 50p for lunch (if you were lucky), only returning at dusk when your belly Dan Flanagan rumbled so much that Father | Journalist | the adventures had to Part-Time Revolutionary stop for tea.

When your mum or dad questioned you about your day, you’d reply along the lines of:

“Oh, not much. Me and the gang took a trip down to the deserted quarry to swim in the tepid foul-smelling water in our pants.

“We built a rope swing out of abandoned tramps’ clothes and took turns pressuring smaller kids to jump off rotten branches into the deep parts of the water whilst doing impressions of Donald Pleasence.

“After that we discovered a van full of stolen goods and tracked the crooks to their secret hideout. We battled them, A-team style, using makeshift weapons fashioned from magazines we found under the hedges down the park. (Actually, the magazines looked a lot like the ones I found in Dad’s shed hidden under the camping equipment we never use…)

“We then gulped down 50p-worth of penny chews containing more sugar than the national annual production of Brazil.

“We organised an impromptu game of 50-a-side football on the main road. All the rules were either made up on the spot, or decided by whoever was the toughest or owned the ball. We saw a couple of adults, but they told us to hop it.

“Then the new kid, Daniel LaRusso, popped by and taught us some karate. Apparently since he moved here and got bullied, his frazzled single mum has been completely ok with him spending time with the old man that lives in the basement, exploiting his labour without even a risk assessment or insurance.”

To which your mum would reply, “Oh really, dear, that sounds

nice. Do you want two or three portions of Angel Delight with your tea?”

Until next episode, TotRockers and Dad La Soulies, keep it big like Ben. n

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Summer reading challenge is out of the world

Blast off this summer at your local library with the 2019 Summer Reading Challenge.

THIS YEAR’S THEME IS SPACE CHASE, in honour of the 50th

anniversary of the first Moon landing, and children can join super cool futuristic family the Rockets in trying to discover why books are going missing from the Moon Library. Taking part in the Challenge is simple – sign up for free at your local library from Sat 13 Jul, read six library books (or more) over the holidays and collect special (sometimes smelly!) stickers with the promise of a shiny space medal if you complete your mission! n

Tue 30 Jul

Wed 7 Aug

Planes & Gliders 10.30am. Worthing Museum. Using recycled materials, build planes and gliders then take off!

Book worthingmuseum.co.uk £5

Broadwater Play Day 2019 10am3pm. Broadwater Green. Worthing’s 10th annual playday event with heaps of fun for all the family! FREE

Wed 31 Jul SBL Play Day 11am-3pm. Sompting Rec. Sompting Big Local hosts a play day for all the family.

Wed 31 Jul – Fri 2 Aug Hip Hop Till You Drop! 9am-4pm.

Thomas a Becket Infants. Three days of streetdance masterclasses with industry professionals for children from 5-16y of all abilities. Book eventbrite

Wed 31 Jul – Sat 3 Aug Storm Summer Holiday Club 8.45am-3.45pm St Andrew’s High School. Creative and active activities with performance workshops for primary age children. Book by 10 July info@stormministries.org. £5 per day

Sun 14 Jul

Fri 26 – Sat 27 Jul

Thu 1 Aug

Annual Fete 2-5pm. High Salvington Windmill. Traditional fete with sideshows, stalls, craft displays, children’s activities, refreshments and morris dancing.

Dr Bunhead’s Blast Off! 11am & 2.30pm (Fri & Sat). Pavilion Theatre.

Join TV’s most extreme scientist Dr Bunhead for an explosive journey into space.

Fabrics & Textiles 10.30am.

Worthing Musseum. Create a colourful textile collage. Book worthingmuseum.co.uk £5

Sat 20 Jul

Fri 26 – Sun 28 Jul

Worthing Fire Station Open Day & Broadwater Carnival 10am-4pm.

Worthing Fire Station. Broadwater’s big day out for the whole family.

FREE

Worthing Creature Trail 11am-2pm.

Montague Place (outside Vision Express). Hosted by The Magic Alley Prop Shop. Collect a trail card and find whimsical beasts hidden in shop windows.

Disability Family Fun Day 4-8pm.

Splashpoint. Disability friendly sessions including inflatables, mats and toys in main pool, bouncy castle and puzzle room plus circuits gym sessions for teenagers. Suitable for 0-18y. Children £5/parents & carers FREE

Fri 26 Jul Family Art Friday: Summer Crafts 10.30am & 1pm. Worthing Museum.

Build a boat, make a summer crown, seaside mobile, wire bubble wands and more! Book worthingmuseum. co.uk

Sat 27 Jul Urban Beach South Street Square.

The popular sandpit returns to town for summer 2019.

Sun 28 Jul

Family Art Friday: Weaving & Woolcrafts 10.30am & 1pm.

Worthing Museum. Have a go at weaving including dream catchers, stick looms and pom poms. Book worthingmuseum.co.uk Punch & Judy 12-3pm. Urban Beach.

Enjoy the show! FREE Nick Cook Circus Skills 12-3pm.

Urban Beach. Learn some circus skills. FREE

Library Games E/Mon. 3-4.30pm (term time only). Broadwater, Durrington & Goring Libraries. After school games for children Rhyme Time E/Tue. 9.45am & 11.15am. Worthing Library. Stories for under-fives.

Paperkite Kids E/Tue. 10am.

Herridge Room, St Paul’s. Creative art workshops for kids. Book paperkiteadventures@gmail.com.

Toddler Mornings E/Wed & Fri. 10.30am (term time only). Art-Ful. Clay and sensory play for little ones! £7/£5 additional siblings Rhyme Time E/Thu. 10.15am & 11.15am. Goring Library. Stories for under-fives Free Friday Movies E/Fri. 4-6pm.

Activus. Enjoy a free film after school. Normal admission applies for soft play & sensory room.

Fri 2 Aug

Sat 3 Aug

ONGOING

Toddler Time E/Fri. 11-11.30am.

Findon Valley Library. Stories for under-fives Story Time E/Fri. 11-11.30am.

Lancing Library. Stories for underfives Tiger’s Eye Writers E/other Sat. Shoreham. Creative writing workshops for 7-11y. More info FB @tigerseyewriters Multi-sensory Story Magic 1st Sat/ mon. 2.30-3.30pm. Worthing Library.

For children to teens.

Kids’ Disco 2-5pm. Broadwater WMCC. Fun for all the family with music and games.

Mon 29 Jul Aerial Taster Session 10am & 11.45am. Pavilion Theatre. Try out aerial silks in workshops for ages 7-11y (10am) and 13-16y (11.45am).

Book worthingtheatres.co.uk £12.50

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GENERAL LISTINGS Readers are advised to check event listing info in case of change.

FIND MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE To make it easier to find what you love, we’ve split the listings – take a look through the sections to find community gatherings, eat & drink happenings, music, theatre, everything arts and literature, family fun, plus our local business events.

We’d love to hear from you if you know about more great stuff and you don’t see it here. If you have something to promote, list it at hereandnowmag.co.uk. Deadline for the August issue is 9 July. n SUSIE P SMITH JUNE Fri 28 Jun Proud Prom: Worthing Pride 7.30pm-midnight. Grand Victoria Hotel. For Hope Charity Project.

Over-18s. £5

Sat 29 Jun Car Boot Sale 8am. Broadwater Green. Worthing Lions.

Fri 28 – Sat 29 Jun James Bond Murder Mystery Evening 7.30pm. Ferring Village Hall. Ferring Am Dram Soc with fish & chip supper. Book 01903 245973. £10

Sat 29 – Sun 30 Jun West Sussex Armed Forces Weekend 10am-3pm. Steyne Gardens.

JULY Tue 2 Jul Playing Out 3.15-5.45pm.

Highdown Avenue, Worthing.

Street closure for children to play.

Worthing Apprenticeship & Traineeship Fair 4-7pm.

Worthing College. Advice and signposting. FREE

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Architectural Photography Talk and Tips 6-8pm. ECE Architecture, Goring Road. By Jim Stephenson RIBA Sussex. Book eventbrite FREE Worthing Camera Club 7.309.30pm. Quaker Meeting House.

Entry £1

Wed 3 Jul Amuse d’Goose Comedy Previews: Simone Esme & Alice India 8-11pm. The Goose.

Thu 4 Jul Nick Cave Night 7.30pmmidnight. Cellar Arts Club.

Close-Up presents film and music with classic documentary 20,000 Days on Earth. Guests £2/std £1/ members FREE

Sat 6 Jul Car Boot Sale 8am. Adur Rec. For Explorer Scouts.

Worthing Horticultural Society Annual Show 12.30-4.30pm. Offington Park Methodist Church Hall. Flowers, fruit, vegetables, baking competition. Entry £1 Fun Dog Show 1-4.30pm. Findon Village Hall. Bar, Pimms tent, café and more.

Amuse d’Goose Comedy Previews: Ross Smith & Josh Pugh 8-11pm. The Goose.

Thu 11 Jul

Summer Busk 1-6pm. Cellar Arts Club.

In aid of Turning Tides. Donations/ guests £2

Archaeology Walk: Cissbury Ring 6.30pm. Two-hour walk. Book worthingmuseum.co.uk £5

Centenary Summer Fayre 1.30-4pm.

Care for Veterans. Annual summer fayre fun for all the family. Entry by donation.

Ru Paul’s Drag Race Charity Quiz 7.30pm. Cow & Oak. Do you know the tea from the shade? Themed fun in aid of Worthing Pride!

Ladies Afternoon Tea 2.30-4.30pm.

Durrington Community Centre. With Coastlands Church. Book eventbrite £6

Sat 13 Jul

Sun 7 Jul

Car Boot Sale for Findon Valley PreSchool 8am. Broadwater Green.

Playing Out 9am-12pm. Gordon Road (SHM). Street closure for children to play.

Shoreham Farmers’ Market 9am. East Street (SHM).

Tryouts Day 10am-4pm. Montague Street. Over 30 stalls promoting sports and activity clubs for all ages.

Worthing Pride 10am-10pm. Prom & Beach House Grounds. Worthing’s second Pride festival. Vibrant Parade along the promenade from 12-1pm with main event from 1-10pm at Beach House Grounds. Tickets £4.50 worthingpride.co.uk (£5 on day)

Playing Out 12-3pm. Adur Drive (SHM).

Street closure for children to play. All welcome.

Great Get Together Community Picnic 12-4pm. Homefield Park. Bring a picnic, meet neighbours and build community!

Open Garden 12-5pm. 73 Shandon Road, BN14. In aid of Care for Veterans. Tea, coffee and cakes. Info 01903 218444 or antonia.shepherd@ careforveterans.org.uk. Donation.

Windmill Open Day 2.30-6pm. High Salvington Windmill. Entry £1/children FREE Playing Out Sunday Funday 3-5pm.

Southcourt Road & Eastcourt Road.

Street closure for children to play. All welcome.

Tue 9 Jul

Great Little Farmers’ Market 9am. Goring.

Action for Happiness 7-9pm.

Brunswick & Thorn.

Kids Run Free 9-10am. Victoria Park. Free running event for children of all ages.

Wed 10 Jul

Circus Pazaz 12pm, 2pm & 4pm. English Martyrs Primary School. Three shows with BBQ, refreshments and raffle. £5

Comedy Night 8-10pm. Bar Orange.

FREE

Umbrellas: Reaching Families Drop in 9.30-11am. Durrington Community Centre. For parents/carers of children with additional needs or disability. Info 01903 366360

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Art-Ful Event 11-3pm. Montague Place.

Crafty fun for all the family.

Big Butterfly Open Day 11am-4pm.

Cortis Avenue Wildlife Garden.

Butterfly, dragonfly and bug hunts and pond dipping with hedgehog corner.

Picnics welcome. Assistance dogs only.

Info cortisavewildlife@gmail.com or 01903 530780. FREE Poetry Workshop with Janet Cameron 2-4pm. Cellar Arts Club. Book janet. camerongac.@gmail.com. Guests £2/std £1/members FREE The Hastings Taster 2-6pm. Bar Forty Two. Games and music then down the beach for a paddle and Harry Ramsdens for a fish & chip supper. FREE Spring Into Soul Summer Concert 7-9pm. St Botolph’s, Heene. Tickets seetickets £10

Sun 14 Jul Minis on the Rec 10am-4pm. Adur Rec. For Chestnut Tree House Hospice. Fun with Brighton and Hove Minis Club.

Donation £5

GENERAL LISTINGS Shoreham Fort Find Out More Day 11am-4pm. Guided tours 2pm.

Annual Fete 2-5pm. High Salvington Windmill. Traditional fete with sideshows, stalls, craft, children’s activities & morris dancing. Info 07710 144232.

market on the Prom (21 & 28 Jul), commercial market in Steyne Gardens (26-28 Jul), classic car and scooter show in Steyne Gardens (27-28 Jul) with modern favourites on the Prom and vintage bus rally (28 Jul). Stevens Funfair will be thrilling the crowds for the whole festival on the Prom and you can watch the colours burst with the massive fireworks finale off the pier (27 Jul). Don’t miss it!

Wed 17 Jul

Sat 20 Jul

Ferring Village Market 8-11am. Ferring Village Hall.

Car Boot Sale 8am. Adur Rec. Lancing and Sompting Lions. Info 07889 408033.

Pride Weekend: Queer Jubilee Street Partee 12-7pm (street party) & 7-9pm (inside). Cellar Arts Club. All welcome.

FREE

Louisa Omielan: Comedienne 8-10.30pm. Ropetackle. BAFTA breakthrough comedienne. £11

Thu 18 Jul Heretics VW & Porsche Enthusiast Meet 6-9pm. Heritage Parts Centre (SHM). FREE

Fri 19 Jul Michael Fjell: The Authentic Montana Cowboy 1-6pm. Spearfield Stud, BN13. Expert in all areas of natural horsemanship. Open to all.

Sat 20 Jul – Sat 20 Aug Worthing Lions Festival Start your summer with a bang! There’s a charity

Lancing Village Market 9am. North Road (LNG).

Ferring Village Fair 9.30am-4pm.

Ferring Village Hall.

Trek the South Downs for St Barnabas House Sat 28 Sep St Barnabas House South Downs Trek is back with a brand new marathon distance route.

Registration is open for the South Downs Trek, an exhilarating 26.2 mile hike raising money for local hospice St Barnabas House. Taking place on Saturday 28 September, the new circular marathon route will see participants tackle steep climbs with breath-taking views across the South Downs, before crossing the finish line at the hospice in Worthing.

Early bird registration is available until 14 July at £35pp. Trekkers are asked to raise a minimum of £250 which will go towards the hospice’s specialist palliative care services. For more information and to register visit stbh.org.uk/south-downs-trek or call 01903 706354.

Lovejoy Centre Care Show 10am-3pm.

Drumconner Crae Home (LNG). Info and support for all in the care sector. FREE

Crocheting for Beginners 10.30am.

Worthing Museum. With artist Mary Allan. Book worthingmuseum.co.uk £15

Radio Charity Gig 7.30pm-midnight.

St Paul’s. In aid of Southlands Seaside Hospital Radio. £10/£7

Worthing Fire Station Open Day & Broadwater Carnival 10am-4pm.

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Art Exhibition 10am-4pm. Brushes Art Club, Broadwater Green, Broadwater Street West.

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GENERAL LISTINGS Summer Craft Fair 11am-3pm. Field Place.

Art Exhibition: Chris Reynolds New Amsterdam Pub. Opening day of this exhibition.

Windmill Open Day 2.30-6pm.

High Salvington Windmill. Entry £1/ children FREE

Wed 24 Jul Talking To Young People About Mental Health 6pm. Coastal Mind WS. Info 01903 277010.

Registration £5/course FREE Sompting Morris 8pm. The Richard Cobden.

Amuse d’Goose Comedy Previews: George Rigden and Aaron Simmonds 8-11pm. The Goose.

Thu 25 Jul Comedy from the Noise Next Door: Edinburgh Festival Special 8-10.30pm. Ropetackle. £15

Fri 26 Jul Comedy: The Treason Show 8-10.30pm. Ropetackle. £16 GuildCare Charity Bowls Competition and Curry Evening 5pm. Tarring Priory Bowls Club.

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TTW Repair Café 10am. Friends Meeting House. With Transition Town Worthing.

Summer Filipino Barrio Fiesta Various times. Lancing Beach Green. Two day festival.

South Coast Italian Association Summer Party Dinner and Dance 7.30-11pm. East Worhting Community Centre. Three course meal & BYO. All welcome. Book Irena 07752 188492 £15/children £7.50

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Sun 28 Jul Shoreham Fort Find Out More Day 11am-4pm. Guided tours 2pm.

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Wed 31 Jul SBL Play Day 11am-3pm. Sompting Rec. Fun for adults and kids alike!

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Knit & Natter E/Wed. 2-4pm. Findon Valley Library.

Gaming Retro-bution E/Wed. 7pm. The Libertine Social. Retro consoles & games to play. FREE Pub Quiz E/Wed. 7.30pm. Cow & Oak. Cash prizes!

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Worthing Speakers Club 1st & 3rd Thu/ mon. 7.15pm. Burlington Hotel. Master public speaking.

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Durrington Community Centre. Music & readings from various faiths. Organised by the Bahá’ists of Worthing.

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Worthing Rethink Mental Health Carers’ Group 3rd Mon/month. 7-9pm.

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Bunting for the fête Summer. The peak time for fêtes in Britain. School fêtes, village fêtes, you know what I mean.

A COCONUT SHY ON THE GREEN, a drum kit someone’s brought

along that costs 10 quid to have a go on, a tombola where all the prizes but one are terrible, all soundtracked by the voice of a local radio presenter who is muffledly announcing that “The knobbly dog show starts in 10 minutes”. Or maybe you don’t know what I mean, because I fear that fêtes are going out of vogue. A genuine fear, because a vital part of my childhood was spent trying to bat that rat as soon as it came out of the pipe.

Why don’t we modernise the fête, shrink it down from village size, and start holding ‘Street Fêtes’? The same concept as a fête, only on one street. There’s a plethora of talent in this town, and this would be a chance for everyone to show off what they’ve got.

Set up a stall outside your house and flog away. And if you don’t feel like you’ve got a talent (you do, everybody does) then I’m sure you’ve got some worthless rubbish you could sell people. One day for you to lay out your stall, run some fun games, bake some food to share. If enough streets do it, it could actually become a little festival. Link them all up, and voila, people are coming to Worthing, tourism is up, and the Worthingites are making their own money along the way.

In the Netherlands, 27 April every year is known as Koningsdag, or the King’s Day. Everyone dresses in orange, and there is a sort of nationwide flea market, where everyone sells their unwanted items. I’m proposing we do similar, only we dress in whatever colour we want, we sell things we’ve made as well, and we do it all for ourselves.

I implore you Worthing, contact your neighbours, and arrange some Street Fêtes; you may be surprised at what people in your street have to offer. It’s our destiny, our meaning... ...our fête. n

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THE WORTHING BYPASS

This column will not change your viewing habits When it comes to querying ethics, lifestyle choice and moral judgement, the question from Andrew Marr and his ilk to the multitude of jostling Conservative Party candidates should not have been, have you ever taken drugs?

A far better line of enquiry to ascertain a person’s moral probity and intellectual rigour would have been to pose the far more pointed question, did you go for VHS or betamax?

It is of course, a trick question. In spite of the subsequent propaganda that would suggest that anyone who opted for betamax was an unsuspecting idiot, the reality is that VHS was in fact the inferior technological offering at the time.

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The myth in my family was that the old man was a technophobe and therefore chose the wrong package. Truth be told, I advised him on the superiority of the lesser known and soon-to-be-extinct alternative. It would not be the last time I screwed up, as he would happily remind me.

The reason for seeking to redress the balance is that we are caught in a maelstrom of competing choices that seem to extract a polarity response from those in disagreement.

It would appear that the collateral damage of Brexit has rendered us unfit to compromise on anything: it’s Netflix or 4DX, Amazon Prime versus the multiplex and Game of Thrones versus Shakespeare in the Park. Like a party full of pot smoking Tories, it’s all terribly irrelevant.

I’m pro-choice. On everything. When Interstellar came out I had to watch it on IMAX. Same with A Quiet Place. You just have to watch that on the big screen in a packed cinema with the usual popcorn and pop-guzzling masses terrified to make a sound. The latest episode of Veep, on the other hand, will lighten a packed train journey to the big smoke whilst watching on your iPhone. Then there are the local delights.

A trip to the Connaught or the Dome is worth its weight in gold to watch Aladdin with the kids (even if it wasn’t as good as the original). Takes me back to when the old man took me to watch my first ever film at the local picture house, with Christopher Reeve’s Superman blowing my tiny mind in a way that cocaine could never quite match. Or so I imagine.

News of the return of outdoor cinema to Worthing saw my rose-tinted vista radiate a rainbow symphony and filled my heart with celestial joy by harking back to an age that never actually existed in this country. It’s what we at the Bypass call an alternative. Something different to the norm. An opportunity to bypass the mundane.

The days of the bi-polar two-party system are happily coming to a close. It no longer has to be either/or. You can have everything. It would be beyond silly to open a multiplex in Worthing as it would destroy the ornate picture houses, but that doesn’t stop you from travelling to neighbouring shires for big screen IMAX blockbusters whilst savouring the historic shrines on your doorstep.

Let’s not fall off the cliff-edge with betamax thinking, but engage with every device at our disposal, toking on all the while, if that’s to your fancy. I can only imagine. n

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