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Welcome to Queen’s Park Living!! Now that the local elections are done and dusted, we have contact details for all your new ward councillors. Congratulations to all those who were re-elected or newly elected.

The May festivals might be over but there are still plenty of events to keep you busy in June, including St Luke’s Church Summer Fair on 15th June, and on the weekend of 29th to 30th June South East Dance have a free celebration of all things dance called Our City Dances. We have an update on the latest plans for The Spire and news of a new project to plant more trees around the city. Enjoy the beginning of summer! The Queen’s Park Living Team info@queensparkliving.co.uk www.queensparkliving.co.uk

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Contents Page 4-5 Old Photo Page 7 Plant Your Postcode Page 9 St Luke’s Church Summer Fair Page 11 Councillors for Queen’s Park ward Page 13 Hanover Queens WI

Page 13 Music and Wine at St Luke’s Page 15 Our City Dances Page 16 Bark is Back Page 17 The Spire - a vibrant creative space for East Brighton

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Look around. We’re lucky, there are trees everywhere – but now your help is needed to keep our city leafy. You may have noticed that many of our city’s beautiful trees are getting old and succumbing to disease. Add to this the challenge that our council faces in the battle to add or even replace trees in this time of austerity, and it becomes clear that residents’ help is needed. Our trees: Brighton & Hove’s trees are particularly special because we hold the National Elm Collection. Now the city is home to some of the rarest varieties of elms in the world. It’s important that the number of elms we have is at least maintained. A vast number of trees were planted in Victorian times when the city rapidly expanded. Now those trees are reaching the end of their lives, so action is needed to replace them.

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Create a group in your area: It could be that a few trees in your street have been lost over time and you’d like to see them re-planted. Or you’d like trees where there were none before. You can help to make that happen. A local group of, say, one or more streets can decide to have new trees. Brighton & Hove City Council will arrange for the site to be checked. If it’s

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Become a Tree Champion: You can help identify trees in your area which look sickly or you could take on a research project. Get your local school involved: It’s important that the coming generation are aware of our city’s tree legacy. Help fund trees across the city: Make a difference with a single donation or a regular donation by standing order. Where it’s already worked: A Hove resident who has benefitted from new tree planting, funded by self residents, says: ‘A new tree outside our house, to replace one long dead! Soon home to birds and insects. A pleasure to look at. We love it!'

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St Luke’s Church Martlets launches Summer Fair... ‘Cuddle Up’ campaign St Luke’s Church in Queen’s Park Road will be holding their Summer Fair on Saturday 15th June from 10am to 2pm.

Martlets is launching a ‘Cuddle Up’ campaign to raise £25,000 supported by designer Sarah Moore, from the BBC’s ‘Money for Nothing’ upcycling show. The appeal is aiming to raise funds to help make patient rooms at the hospice feel more like home.

These changes could include having a sofa or a chair big enough for loved ones to cuddle up on, a homely colour-scheme or even fun-themed children’s bedding for when youngsters are staying with their mum or dad.

There will be a bouncy castle and refreshments, as well as stalls selling bric-a-brac, cakes, books, greetings cards and stationery, DVDs and CDs, jewellery and jumble, plus a raffle and tombola.

Designer Sarah Moore lives in Sussex and has a very personal connection with Martlets. Her close friend Emma, a popular designer who worked with her on ‘Money for Nothing’, was a patient at the hospice. Sarah said, “Martlets delivered amazing care for Emma when she was really poorly. I’m so happy to support the Cuddle Up Appeal.” For further details or to donate please visit www.themartlets.org.uk/appeal/cuddleup

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Local News... Your local representatives...

Councillors for Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park ward An election of city councillors was held on 2nd May. The results for Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park ward were:

AGACE Lucy

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Hanover Queens WI... Greetings from the Hanover Queens. We meet again on Thursday 13th June upstairs at the Haus on the Hill, 58 Southover Street, 7.30 to 9.30pm. We will have a talk on Punch and Judy by Ray Sparks.

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A new series of concerts at St Luke’s Church…

Music and Wine at St Luke’s You should have received our new brochures but please contact us if you haven’t and would like one. We have lots coming up including St Luke’s first ever organ recital, a jazz-folk group, Eastern European choral singing, a mandolin orchestra and our usual mix of piano solos and chamber recitals. The first concert in our new series is on Friday June 7th. Klezmer Duo Polina and Merlin Shepherd (piano and clarinet) will perform original and traditional compositions based on several folkloric styles: Eastern European Jewish sacred and secular culture, Mediterranean instrumental music, Russian folk and Art songs. Polina and Merlin prefer to play their pieces through without talking but offer a preconcert talk at 7pm. On Friday June 21st the Dryads Duo (violin and piano) return to St Luke’s with music by local composers Barry Mills and John Hawkins, alongside Prokofiev, Bridge and Pedro Faria Gomes.

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Local Event… A great celebration of dance…

Our City Dances

Get your groove on for Our City Dances – a weekend of free family-friendly dance shows, workshops and events.

Whether you’re up for getting stuck in or watching from the sidelines, Brighton-based charity South East Dance’s second annual free celebration of all things dance is a great opportunity to get out and see and do something different in your neighbourhood this month. Hitting streets and community spaces in central Brighton during the weekend of 29-30 June, Our City Dances is a free family-friendly celebration of dance designed to boost Brighton & Hove’s appetite for dance in the run-up to the launch of new community dance venue The Dance Space in 2020. Day One on Saturday 29 June, presented in partnership with the Tarner Festival, is packed with opportunities to ‘have a go’ at dance, with more than 15 workshops and events for the whole family to

take part in, from Hula Hooping and Capoeira to a Charleston-inspired Ceilidh.

On Sunday 30 June, you’re invited to watch and take part in dance around the city centre. Without Touch by BitterSuite is a guided sensory journey at Brighton Youth Centre - close your eyes and experience music and movement through touch, taste and smell. Head to Jubilee Square at 1.15pm or 5pm to enter a world created by parkour company Urban Playground in which humans must choose between security and movement.

All performances and events are free, accessible and many are BSL interpreted – check out the full line-up at southeastdance.org.uk.

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A welcome return for Bark in the Park...

Bark in the Park is Back...

The ever-popular Bark in the Park dog show is back after a short break, while the volunteer Friends of Queen’s Park committee focused its efforts on working with the Council to develop a masterplan for the park. It will take place on Sunday, 23rd June in the dog area of the park. “Now that the Master Plan work has largely been completed, we were eager to start reinstating our events programme as soon as possible,” said Friends of Queen’s Park treasurer and dog show organiser Geoffrey Bowden.

With the support of Coastway Vets, the show will feature ten fun classes, including Cutest Puppy, Best Sausage Catcher, Best Fancy Dress and Temptation Alley. Of course, there will be prizes too for the Best Trick, the Best Rescue, Handsomest Dog and Prettiest Girl, as well as the Best Oldie. The event will kick off with entry registrations from 11 o’clock onwards and end when the Best in Show is announced at 3.15. “Registration for the classes will cost £2 per class,” said Geoffrey Bowden, “but, importantly, all profits generated from the event will be used by the Friends of Queen’s Park to help with the upkeep of the park.”

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News from The Spire on the ongoing transformation of St Mark’s Chapel...

The Spire - a vibrant creative space for East Brighton The transformation of St Mark’s Chapel into a vibrant creative space for East Brighton continues. The Spire represents a new offer for East Brighton: for artists, a flexible space in which to develop, rehearse and present new art and performance, and for audiences, a uniquely atmospheric venue in which to experience it. Originally intended as the private chapel of St Mary's Hall, a school for the daughters of poor clergy, St Mark’s was partly built in 1838 at the request of Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol. Arguments over whether or not it should be open to the public would delay its completion for more than ten years. It was finally consecrated in 1849, before becoming the parish church of Kemptown in 1873. By the 1980s attendances had fallen, and in 1986 the Diocese of Chichester declared the church redundant. It was taken over by St Mary’s Hall to become its chapel and concert hall - nearly 150 years after the

idea was first proposed. When St Mary’s Hall merged with Roedean School in 2009, St Mark’s was returned to the parish of St George’s. In 2016, the newly formed arts charity The Spire Arts Ltd was granted a licence to run the building as a community arts space. Today, The Spire is forging a reputation for one-ofa-kind arts experiences specially created for this magnificent Grade II listed venue, such as Truestory Theatre’s hugely popular production of A Christmas Carol, which returns this Christmas. As a regular venue for Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe, The Spire has hosted impressive sound and light installations (notably Lou Reed Drones in 2016 and XFRMA in 2018), as well as dance and theatre companies from around the world.

The Spire actively supports the creation of new art and performance: recent commissions have included Abigail Conway’s An Evening with Primrose; Thomas Buckley’s video installation for Brighton Digital Festival, Come Inside It’s Raining; and Harry ClaytonWright’s two-week durational performance, The Fortnight. The Spire also remains a popular venue for weddings, film shoots and private events. Although in use, the interior of St Mark’s is in need of extensive modernisation to make it fully accessible. Plans for its refurbishment include the installation of a new heating system; new toilet facilities; technical equipment; and the restoration of its many beautiful heritage features. This ambitious plan requires wide support from the funders and the local community.

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