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Posted By: Valmai Goodyear
10-Sep-09 - 05:36 AM
Thread Name: Sussex Magic Lantern & Music Sun 20 Sept
Subject: Sussex Magic Lantern & Music Sun 20 Sept
On Sunday 20th. September the South Downs Society (registered charity number 230329) presents a fund-raising event:

'From the Fields to the Foundry'
A Journey with Magic Lantern, Voices & Concertinas
The Steyning Centre
Fletchers Croft, Steyning, West Sussex UK BN44 3XZ
Doors open at 7.30 p.m. The show starts at 7.45 p.m. and finishes at 9.45 p.m.

Images, traditional songs & readings about life on the land in Sussex at the time the Lewes Phoenix Foundry opened in 1832 & the changes it brought to working people's lives.
Images from Allan & Rene Marriott's magic lantern, the Victorian ancestor of the slide projector.
Music from the Spare Parts Concertina Band .

Tickets are £10 including a welcome glass of wine and tea or coffee and biscuits during the interval. If you plan to come, please let me know so that your name can be put on the list at the door (numbers are limited).
Payment in cash or by cheque payable to the South Downs Society.

South Downs Society Registered office: 2 Swan Court, Station Road, Pulborough, RH20 1RL. Registered charity number 230329. www.southdownssociety.org.uk
The South Downs Society is an independent charity which relies on member subscriptions and gifts in wills.

All the best,

Valmai Goodyear
20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, BN7 2DL

SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND
Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins, Valmai Goodyear