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Can magic grew on trees? Can love be cooked? Can miracles be wrapped in shiny packets, that come from a warm, slow-pouring ooze of culinary poetry, which is then cooled and set to form a dense, irresistible rectangle of joy that brings tears of happiness and inner peace and makes the world a better place... that would go a little way to explaining the wonder of chocolate.

I think Jesus would’ve enjoyed a chocolate drink as much as he enjoyed turning water into wine at a wedding feast. Happy Easter!

 

Welcome Full Moon Game Studios!

Full Moon Game Studios have recently moved to Friese Green House. They are a full service game developer and outsource partner, that in specialize in all areas of game production from game design, concepts, storyboards, programming, sprites, animation, modelling, environments, backdrops, audio, localization, testing, marketing, troubleshooting and optimization.

www.fullmoongamestudios.com

To boldly go...

Spacebar Interactive have recently worked with publishers, Kogan Page, to produce an accompanying iPad app version of a book ahead of publication for the printed edition.
The book 'Bold - how to be brave in business and win', is available from 6 April. The iPad app of the same name is available as a free download now. The main objective of the app is to boost pre-sales, create a buzz on social media networks and sell more copies of the printed edition of the book. A key part of the app is a question and answer component that provides valuable insights for the reader on the subject of the book while recommending the purchase of chapters that are perceived to be the most relevant to their needs. Unique to this iPad edition, is the ability to buy the recommended chapters from within the app itself.

Pauline Crook is a textile screen printer, who also likes to paint, take photographs and make 3D art boxes.

"Some of my screen prints are mounted as art pieces,  but I also print cushions, aprons, bags and deckchair slings.    My aim is to create ‘Art on a cushion’ or ‘Art on a deckchair’ and for each item to be unique.

Living near Lewes, the Downs and the sea, there is much to inspire all around, and Brighton seafront seagulls ’looking for lunch’  have been a reoccurring theme in my textile work for some years.

When I  paint it is in oils on canvas.  I take photographs because if I have my camera with me I can’t stop myself!  

The 3D boxes result from things seen, heard or read, words that inspire me to re-create them visually.  They are a personal search for truth."  PaulineNCrook@aol.com

Collaborations! is inspired by the values behind the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games and brings together artists, athletes and young people from the UK and abroad to create innovative new works.

Collaborations! is one of fifteen Accentuate projects taking place between 2009- 2012. The project aims to offer new opportunities for disabled young people to take part in collaborative creative activities with their peers in the UK and abroad. By encouraging new collaborations between disabled artists, emerging and established, and athletes, the work will offer a platform for dialogue as well as develop the practice of artists in the region. Furthermore, this first phase will provide new experiences for nearly 500 young people around the South East through consultations, workshops and performances.

Beware the ides of March. April should be ok though. If you've got a mountain of affection for The Bard, then do not come between the dragon and its wrath but instead visit the Dome this month for four inspiring plays: The Tempest, King Lear, A Midsummer's night dream and The Scottish Play  will be performed by humans through the medium of acting.

When: 03/04/2011 - 06/04/2011
Where: Brighton Dome, Church Street, BN1 1EE

Click here for bookings

With local Council elections due to take place in May, The Chamber of Commerce are inviting you to join them and prospective Councillors from the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Green parties to debate and discuss Brighton’s big business issues.

Representatives from each party will be asked a few questions in advance to kick start the evening, including:

    * How do you plan to enable businesses to move around the City better?
    * How would you create more and better paid jobs in Brighton & Hove?
    * How do you plan to encourage development and creation of business space in the City?
    * How would you help local businesses to protect the environment?
    * How do plan to support Brighton & Hove’s developing sectors – tourism, retail, creative and digital?

Bring your old clothes and walk away in someone elses.

City college is hosting a frock swapping festival and fashion show, so dig out that old gold lamé jacket, aquamarine shellsuit and fur-lined inuit boots because someone else will walk away wearing them.

Special guests attending
Including music and activities

Saturday 12pm - 4pmFREE ADMISSION. Clothes are only free when you bring clothes with you to swop.
Please make sure all clothes are CLEAN AND NOT DAMAGED. Accessories such as bags and belts are accepted as long as they are in good condition.

For more info click here!

The Grounded Events Company is pleased to announce that the second Brighton Marathon will take place on Sunday April 10th 2011.

Steve Cram will fire the starter’s gun at 9am on Sunday 10th April and whether you are competing or cheering from the sidelines we can guarantee that you will have a memorable weekend in Brighton.

Although general entrees for the Brighton Marathon have now sold out, Guide Dogs are delighted to be able to offer guaranteed places at the 2011 event.

To secure your place there is a registration fee of £40, and a minimum fundraising target of £500. In signing up with Guide Dogs you will receive a full support pack filled with fundraising tips, sponsor forms and a technical Saucony running top to wear on race day. As a thank you Guide Dogs are providing a fantastic post race reception for all of their runners at the Royal Albion Hotel, complete with sports massage, food, drink and the chance to meet some guide dogs.

 

Chocolate Festival

The Aztecs made a drink from it and called it "bitter water".

Three thousand years on we pick the pods, extract the beans, crush and ferment those beans for six days, and then dry them ideally for seven, grade them for shape and colour, roast them, ship them 5 thousand miles, with scientific precision it is mixed in huge vats with sugar, milk and pumped through spaghetti like stainless steel apparatus, cooked, chilled and wrapped in sleek colourful tinfoil, drove out by the truckload to every cornershop in the country and every outpost in the outer hebridies.

Hope to see you there!

When: 16/04/2011 - 17/04/2011
Where: New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD
Free Admission

www.festivalchocolate.co.uk

When: 23/04/2011 - 25/04/2011
11am - 3pm
Where: Devil's Dyke, Brighton, BN1 8YJ
Tickets: £2.00 per ticket

Eggciting fun for all the family. Come along anytime between 11am and 3pm to collect your quiz sheet and map. Find the eggs around the Dyke to solve the clues. Prizes for all. All ages. On the 25 April, bring your own hand decorated hard boiled egg and try your luck at this Easter custom - the egg that gets furthest down the Dyke valley wins. There will also be a competition for the best decorated egg.

Summer is on its way and so in readiness some Beach Volleyball tournaments are being arranged for local businesses to take part in.

Six Beach Volleyball Tournaments are taking place this summer at Yellowave on Madeira Drive.

If you would like to take part please respond to Donna Imrie – donnaimri@gmail.com or phone 07545045453

Remember you can register for all 6 matches at once and avoid disappointment as places go very quickly.
 

Social Media. The Importance of having a strategy. 

By James McLeod at Narvi Media.

Communication’s evolved. Technology’s cheap, accessible and small. Mobile phones are now computers and the Internet is accessible everywhere. I’m writing this post from a quaint little cafe in rural Sussex fully hooked up to wireless broadband.

Technology has made our lives a lot more accessible. The days of phones being tied to desks is a thing of the past. Androids and iPhones are where a lot of business is being done. Google is now pivotal to the survival of many businesses and Facebook is worth $US50 Billion.

The progression of technology has resulted in easy ways for people to connect. Social media can be compared to the first transatlantic phone calls of the the mid 1980s. I personally remember the sheer amazement of being able to speak to friends and relatives in Florida. I also remember the faint echo and communication delays. I now use Skype to make my international phone calls and most are free of charge.

Social media can also be compared to the way businesses moved onto email as the primary method of communication. This was my first experience of the Internet in the mid 1990s. My email now comes everywhere with me on my iPhone.

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