Come down and look at ART. Some of it is FOR sale.
This week and next week, Midday til 7pm.
There is also the magnificent SALE SHOP open and the cafe serving toasted sandwiches, teas, coffees and maybe home made cakes.
Paintings by Ben English and Christian Thompson, Time pieces by Banjo Stanley.
Text 07882986350 for more info on times and access, or to book your viewing.
EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE!!!
CDA is having a massive clear out of vintage and modern music equipment, instruments, furniture etc etc,
The shop is open tuesday to saturday 11am til 5pm in the cafe at unit 10 phoenix place bn72qj, or by appointment, text 07882986350.
you can also look on ebay seller id “fantom-xtn”
There is so much stuff! Art, lights, clocks, sculpture books!!!
Come down and get some!!!!
IF YOU WANT TO HAVE YOUR SAY ON THE SANTON LDC PLANNING APPLICATION, NOW IS THE TIME!!!!
In our opinion, the Santon proposal puts the private commercial interests of international investors before any other considerations to the detriment and complete destruction of the industrial, cultural heritage and the burgeoning arts scene of Lewes.
They have offered NOTHING to replace the affordable arts spaces, workshops and grass root community assets which are currently on site.
It is the duty of the SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY to protect and encourage local arts, culture, industry and community well being.
They must therefore categorically reject this application ON THESE GROUNDS ALONE.
Information below is from the LEWES PHOENIX RISING website.
Mind’s Eye by Christian Thompson
Make a comment on the Santon/LDC planning application.
What to do: Get your comments to the South Downs National Park by 30th April via the SDNPA website (see web address at the bottom of this email) or email:tim.bettany-simmons@southdowns.co.uk quoting ‘North Street’ or SDNP/15/01146/FUL.
Key issues for comment: lack of genuinely affordable housing; loss of most of the 450 jobs/50 businesses on site due to totally inadequate provision of suitable alternative workspace; loss of opportunity to nurture unique Lewes-based economy; destruction of cultural heritage; a development not worthy of a UK National Park.
Below: Background, Key Issues and Making a Comment
Background
IMPORTANT: Comments can be submitted until a decision is made by the SDNPA, but we advise you to do it before 30th April when the formal consultation period ends.
The Santon/LDC application is for 400+ houses, business/retail units, 700 car parking spaces (including a 300-space underground car park), ‘creative industry’ space and a big health centre.
LPR supports building 400 houses on North Street. In our Masterplan (see it here), we demonstrate that by building in a close-knit sustainable manner, a further 48 homes at social rents can be provided, without loss of green space. In addition, the heritage buildings of the Phoenix Iron and Steel Works can be saved and renovated to provide substantial affordable workspace to protect and grow a Lewes-based economy that will enable people to live, work, play and thrive in the same place.
The Santon/LDC plan does not do this, nor does it do justice to the National Park we fought to be included in. We believe this application will take us further down the road to being a town of consumers rather than makers and contribute to the loss of our social and economic diversity.
Key issues:
We need to nurture our unique Lewes-based economy of making, manufacturing and creativity, the heart of which is on the Phoenix Estate, in order to ensure long-term jobs and growth.
Making a Comment:
Every comment counts. Whatever you want to write about, it will be taken into account. If relevant, relate your comment to a key planning policy, or a key duty or purpose of the South Downs National Park:
Make a comment here: http://southdowns.gov.uk/planning/planning-applications/north-street-quarter-lewes/ Ref. SDNP/15/01146/FUL. Register as a user via the log-in button.
Or email tim.bettany-simmons@southdowns.gov.uk (quoting ref above) or send by post to
Tim Bettany-Simmons,
South Downs Centre,
North St,
Midhurst,
West Sussex
GU29 9DH.
Lewes Phoenix Rising Team
Oh yes,indeed, you can rehearse with your band at the Arthole/CdA!
And, Studio 1 is now equipped to record straight into your personal laptop, up to 16 tracks of premium quality.
With our new 1640i analogue mixer you can pipe 16 high quality mic inputs direct to your (firewire equipped)laptop DAW via… firewire.
With backline PA and drum mic kit included at £10 per hour.
You can multitrack the whole session. Drum mics included!
Pink Floyd are mulling it over. Its really too good to miss.
Email or text 07882986350 to book a session.
We’ve got a cracking line-up for you this Friday at The Quiet Night Inn. Fireside folk band Twenty One Crows will be appearing with their “brand of sea-sprayed folk” weaving their masterful storytelling with the rich tones of Jon Griffin’s vocals and the surging, sonorous chords of Rebecca Tann’s accordion. A four-piece of guitars, bass and accordion, their sound whilst folksy is of the complex darker variety. Their subjects sitting in a storytelling millieu are of history, of love, war and evocative of those the songs once sung in a dockside tavern.
Jarabi Kundaa’s acoustic sound of joyous rootsy horns, percussion and vocals transmits a strong afro-latin-jazz-funk mix of original and standard tunes of the African Diaspora. It is the brain child of Thomas Christen (aka TC Musumba) with his lifelong passion for many kinds of rhythm and tone. – Expect to be moved in body and soul.
Singer/songwriters Peter Murphy and Tom Lockyear of Morlove and the Moonbeam will be joining with their beautiful soundscapes and lyrical moving melodies.
DJ TC Musumba will round off the night with his uplifting world beats of eclectic music that you can dance the night away to until 2am!
Award winning nutrition expert and chef Sally Galloway will be serving delicious bites for your delectation to add an epicurean twist to the night.
There will be fresh ale from micro-brewery Langhams at the fully stocked bar and all this to support a very good cause Lewes Phoenix Rising, a community-led, not-for-profit, development company which established earlier this year is working towards ensuring that plans by Lewes District Council (LDC) and Santon to redevelop the Phoenix Estate (the ‘North Street Quarter’) provide genuine, sustainable, community benefit for the town and district.
Where: Café des Artistes Lewes. 10 Phoenix Place, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2QJ
When: Friday 12th September
Time: 8pm-2am
Tickets: £10 online advance here. Or £12 on the door.
One of the British folk scenes most talented and enigmatic artist’s, Mary Hampton, performs at Café des Artistes popular monthly music night, A Quiet Night Inn. Heavily influenced by turn-of-the-century European chamber music, and drawing from both the traditional folk cannon, and her own works, Hampton’s sets always exhibit a subtle dynamic tension. Her charismatic presence and the quality of her artistic output has drawn plaudits from many quarters – The Guardian, “Hampton is a rare talent…refreshingly original.” The Telegraph, “Songs, which recline with shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of weirdness…fragility, desolation and humour.”
The evening sees co-support in the brilliantly eccentric form of Crayola Lectern. Led by Chris Anderson, the group’s songs gently articulate the travails of the ‘everyman.’ Simultaneously amusing, and yet quietly profound, it’s an artistic narrative that is perfectly expressed in their well received album ‘The Fall and Rise Of….’ Uncut Magazine, ‘An exquisitely eccentric debut album. 8/10’. The Quietus. “A warm, reflective and deeply human record. From Worthing, with love.”
The night is drawn to a close in the upbeat form of arguably Brighton’s most charismatic live band, Clowns. Fronted by the impeccably dressed Miles Heathfield, who prowls the stage like some neo-dictator, the band’s music expresses a taut muscularity, combining all the swagger of 80’s psychobilly, with punk sensibilities. The unrelenting hypnotic intensity to their performances, snares the audience, never letting go until the last note is dropped. Brighton Music Blog – “The floor was wiped clean with the night’s headliners Clowns, who provided a masterclass on showmanship.”
“The line up is a real coup for A Quiet Night Inn. We wanted to bring a trio of bands together who were all plowing unique musical furrows, and we’ve been luckily enough to secure three wonderful acts who do just that”, said Jacob Richardson, Café des Artistes’s Musical Programmer.
Venue: Café des Artistes
Where: Units 10 & 11 Phoenix Place, Lewes, BN7 2QJ
When: Friday 5th September 2014
Time: 8.00pm – till late
Entrance Fee: £5 (on the door)
About Café des Artistes:
Established in 2007, Café des Artistes is a unique arts space in the heart of the Phoenix Industrial Estate. Behind the door to this once derelict warehouse lies a wonderland for the creatively inclined. The Lewes based arts centre always look to bring a dynamic energy and experimental approach to their artistic output – seeking to bring art to the people, and people to the art. The centre runs a regular performance programme – from music to theatre – a variety of workshops, gallery exhibitions, and café & bar. It also has a number of artist studios, and provides a home for two theatre companies.
Article by Matthew Geraghty
“CLOWNS without a doubt one of Brighton’s finest live bands, turning wherever they play into a sweaty, heaving mass. Oh and they rock like one mean bastard. For the uninitiated among you, expect peculiar and twisted tales set to dirty garage rock riffs, combining the rockabilly swagger of the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster with the pop sensibilities of early Squeeze. Disturbing yet darkly playful, if you haven’t had the live experience before then where the hell have you been? Prepare to be well and truly clowned.” Source Magazine
MARY HAMPTON‘s style has its roots in mauve, turn-of-the-century European chamber music, with frequent nods to the hairiness of older forms, and ripened under the influence of even more primitive sounds from the real world.
Fetching out old songs from the silent archives of the traditional canon, and winching up new songs from her imagination, she then sets them both to work alongside each other. In this way, she can play with certain dynamic tensions that are perpetually at work in the world: the past and the present, the natural and the civilized, the extraordinary and the familiar, the symbolic and the real, the pillar and the post etc.
CRAYOLA LECTERN ‘This album frequently feels like the sonic equivalent of life flashing before the eyes.’
Musicomh
The Fall And Rise Of…
‘An exquisitely eccentric debut album. 8/10’
Uncut Magazine
‘A warm, reflective and deeply human record. From Worthing, with love.’
The Quietus
‘The Fall and Rise Of has considerable tenacity for a debut-album…and there’s enough weird ear-candy to satisfy the most picky kid on the Wonka Chocolate Factory tour before and after he’s necked the burping cola.’
Flipside
Join us at CdA 10 Phoenix Place, Lewes, BN& 2QJ for a very special night and only £5 entry. There will be a fully stocked bar open til late.
“CLOWNS without a doubt one of Brighton’s finest live bands, turning wherever they play into a sweaty, heaving mass. Oh and they rock like one mean bastard. For the uninitiated among you, expect peculiar and twisted tales set to dirty garage rock riffs, combining the rockabilly swagger of the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster with the pop sensibilities of early Squeeze. Disturbing yet darkly playful, if you haven’t had the live experience before then where the hell have you been? Prepare to be well and truly clowned.” Source Magazine
MARY HAMPTON‘s style has its roots in mauve, turn-of-the-century European chamber music, with frequent nods to the hairiness of older forms, and ripened under the influence of even more primitive sounds from the real world.
Fetching out old songs from the silent archives of the traditional canon, and winching up new songs from her imagination, she then sets them both to work alongside each other. In this way, she can play with certain dynamic tensions that are perpetually at work in the world: the past and the present, the natural and the civilized, the extraordinary and the familiar, the symbolic and the real, the pillar and the post etc.The Fall And Rise Of…
‘An exquisitely eccentric debut album. 8/10’
Uncut Magazine
CRAYOLA LECTERN ‘This album frequently feels like the sonic equivalent of life flashing before the eyes.’
Musicomh
‘A warm, reflective and deeply human record. From Worthing, with love.’
The Quietus
‘The Fall and Rise Of has considerable tenacity for a debut-album…and there’s enough weird ear-candy to satisfy the most picky kid on the Wonka Chocolate Factory tour before and after he’s necked the burping cola.’
Flipside
Join us at CdA 10 Phoenix Place, Lewes, BN& 2QJ for a very special night and only £5 entry. There will be a fully stocked bar open til late.
This is the third year of the Phoenix Festival a free event where all the arts studios, venues, community projects, workshops and creative businesses on the estate join together to throw open their doors to the community. There will be three music stages with brilliant live performance, food, art, workshops and more.
The CdA stage will be boasting a full line up of impressive musicians, poets and performers. Kicking off the event at 12pm will be Thomas Christen’s Djembe workshop at 12pm followed by Emma Gatrill an ‘unstoppable and multi-instrumental collaborator. As well as being a full time musician with the multi-tentacled psych-folk behemoth Sons of Noel and Adrian and getting crowds dancing to the rowdy stamp-along anthems of The Mariner’s Children, she has found time to lend her voice, clarinet or accordion skills to everyone from Laura Marling to Broken Social Scene. Her new album Chapter 1 is out now.
From 2:15-4:15 we have an open stage with performer, director and MC Rikki Tarascas, voice artist Adrienne Thomas. No Fixed Abode will be providing a rhythmical back-line of bass and drums for some free exploration for any other poets or performers who want to get involed, so if that’s you, get in touch (cafedesartisteslewes@gmail.com). Singer/songwriter Matthew the Oxx will be performing songs “that sort of come into your consciousness from the left field.’ Son of a new age composer and a choir singer his work will be lyrical, crisp and different. Songbird Kerry Ann Jangle will be sharing her “clear sincere cocoa voice with husky edges” and local singer/songwriters Peter Murphy and Tom Lockyear from Morlove and the Moonbeam will be performing their evocative soundscapes with melodies and phrases which sink into your soul and stay there.
The fully stocked bar will be open throughout the day until late serving delicious ale form local Sussex brewery Langhams and a selection of special summer cocktails.
From 12-6pm vegetarian restauranteur and nutritionist Sally Galloway will be serving her Mexican Mash Up of Sweet potato pancakes filled with black bean mole, herb and feta salad and homemade chipotle sauce. Hibiscus water, horchata and an iced coconut chai.
8pm onwards there will be a simple supper of dhal, chicken and rice to accompany Club A-Go-Go’s mix of original SKA, Reggae and Rocksteady vinyl. More Dj’s will be performing an eclectic mix of tunes for your delectation.
There’ll be art exhibits upstairs and an interactive art wall in the atrium.
With the estate under threat from developers and Café des Artistes’ notice to quit the site by the landlords Santon, it may be the last time to see what wonderful things are occurring here. See the event on our Facebook page for more details or join the CdA group and become part of our growing community.
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