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Local author, Rose Collis goes 'On the town'

By James Ledward, Feb 1, 2012 - 11:15:33 AM

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Rose Collis

Following her hugely successful ‘Up Your Street‘ Supper Club events at The Swan in 2011, writer, historian and performer Rose Collis is staging a new season of thematic events in 2012, focusing on Science, Literature , Politics, Art, Royalty, Cinema and Theatre in Kemp Town and its environs.

Tuesday February 28:
To coincide with the Brighton Science Festival, Rose lights up the Bunsen burner and peers down a microscope at some of the Kemp Town area’s great inventors and inventions, including Magnus Volk and his railways; the Chain Pier; Gideon Mantell and William Constable.

Tuesday March 27:
As ‘City Reads’ returns, Rose Collis takes a leaf or two out of the pages of Kemp Town’s rich literary history, including Lewis Carroll, Martin Amis, Charles Dickens, Kay Dick, Kathleen Farrell, George Augustus Sala and Harrison Ainsworth.

Tuesday April 24:
Join Rose Collis on the stump, as she delves into the ballot box and announces the political winners and losers in the Kemp Town constituency, including George Canning, David James, Dennis Hobden and Lord Lewis Cohen.

Tuesday May 22:
As England’s biggest arts festival commences, with its ever-popular ‘Open Houses’, Rose Collis unveils portraits of some of the area’s visual artists, including Angus McBean, Ronald Searle, D’Oyly John, Walter Sickert and Aubrey Beardsley.

Tuesday June 26:
Rose Collis dusts off her bunting and waves a flag at the Kemp Town area’s many royal connections, including Queen Victoria, the Earl of Bristol, Queen Adelaide, King Edward VII, Princess Diana and, of course, Queen Elizabeth II.

Tuesday July 24:
Break out the popcorn, as Rose Collis settles down in the balcony for a close-up (Mr De Mille) of the Kemp Town area’s silver screen history, including Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle, Tom Bell, Frank Finlay, David Watkin, Elsie Cohen, the Carry Ons and the area’s ‘lost’ cinemas.

No event in August

Tuesday September 25:
Places, please! From music-hall to musicals, Rose Collis conducts you on a backstage tour of the lives of some of the area’s best-loved stage personalities: Lord Olivier, John Clements and Kay Hammond, Max Miller, Jack Tripp and Flora Robson.

Booking for these events is essential.
Doors 6:30pm, supper from 7pm, talk begins 8:30ish.
Tickets £20 inc. talk and three-course supper. 10% discount for Kemptown Society members.

Special deal: Book all seven evenings for the price of six. The Swan, 9 Rock St, Brighton BN2 1NF, 01273 606138.

For more information view:
www.rosecollis.com

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