Werkshop welcome Julie Cleasby, Helen Santander and Kirsty Taylor to Westwerks. Together they are the founders of Hove Therapy Centre and are now open for business.
Hove Therapy Centre offers a wide range of Complementary Therapies with fully qualified and experienced practitioners. Our therapies include Herbal Medicine, Hypnotherapy, Naturopathy, Life Coaching, Hot Stone, Aromatherapy and Swedish Massage, and Organic Skin Care.
Title: The Big Clear Out
Location: Westwerks, 41-43 Portland Road, Hove, BN3 5DQ
Link out: Click here
Description: On Friday 19th June we’ll be having a day of clearing up, sorting out and getting ready to make use of the garden and courtyards. We’re looking for volunteers to help us clear rubbish, shift furniture. We’ve got desks and chairs to give away. Then we’ll have some drinks and some food to celebrate.
Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2009-06-19
Westwerks residents Art Room Brighton ran a series of Easter and half term workshops.
The summer break programme is now out and you can sign up on the door at Westwerks or contact Sebastian and Alison on their website.
Mon 13th July: Modigliani self-portraits
Tue 14th July: Expressionist portraits
Wed 15th July: Aboriginal dot painting
Thur 16th July: Picasso workshop
Fri 17th July: Modern art canvases
Mon 20th July: Pop Art workshop
Tue 21st July: Miro style canvases
Wed 22nd July: Fauvist landscapes
Thur 23rd July: Japanese art
Fri 24th July: Dali card sculptures
Mon 27th July: Primitive art workshop
Tue 28th July: Surrealism workshop
Wed 29th July: Pop Art workshop
Thur 30th July: Mixed media workshop
Fri 31st July: Cubist workshop
Mon 3rd Aug: Expressionist workshop
Tue 4th Aug: Pop Art workshop
Wed 5th Aug: Picasso workshop
Thur 6th Aug: Modern Art canvases
Fri 7th Aug: Salvador Dali workshop
Art Room Brighton runs art course, classes and workshops from their studio at 41 – 43 Portland Road. Sebastian Dewing and Alison Horton-Dewing.
Find out more by visiting the Art Room Brighton website.
Westwerks is hosting the Hove branch of the Social Media Cafe, Hove Tuttle Club every Friday morning from 10-12 at 41-43 Portland Road, Hove. Come and join us for coffee and meet other local people interested in finding a way of working better together both online and off.
The Tuttle Club, aka London Social Media Cafe was founded by Lloyd Davis and has been meeting regularly since March 2008. Read more on the Tuttle Club blog.
The first Hove Tuttle meetup was held on Friday 17 April and was a great success. You can track whats been going on using the search term #hovetuttle.
Find out more contact Emma Wallace or sign up for the next meeting at the Hove Social Media Cafe Wiki.
We’re so pleased that Coachwerks has become the new home of the Brighton Book Cycle eco-project.
Artists Chris Smith and Graeme Walker at Coachwerks
The Creative Coworking Community in Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton came to the rescue after Graeme Walker and Chris Smith salvaged the abandoned project and relocated it’s unwanted books, over 2000 of them, from the open market on London Road.
The opening of our latest space – Westwerks on Portland Road in Hove – sees Werkshop enter into a new phase for 2009. We have been proud to support local ethical business from the outset and our growing community includes a diverse range of individuals and businesses working together towards social change.
Through Westwerks we will focus on the challenges brought about by today’s busy lifestyles and throw-away consumer culture. We are looking to explore the role of disused or tired urban business spaces as hubs for innovation and the part they can play in sustainable local food production. We believe that local business, enterprise and communities can work together to change the way we use our land. We will be exploring various wellness themes including organic and permaculture gardening, education, nutrition, health and diet.
We are excited about developing an extended community to focus on these issues and look forward to working with you to make this happen. If you are already involved in projects Westwerks is a place for you. And if you aren’t but want to know more about what’s happening in your local area come along to find out more. This is your space.
As always, our spaces are the home to a range of individuals and a range of businesses so if you are working in this area and want to work in a space with others who share your aspirations for sustainable living please get in touch. In addition to our regular coworking, desk and office packages, we also provide workshop and events space and we are always looking for enthusiastic, passionate people to join our projects.
The Office Garden Share Project Westwerks is lucky to have a lovely old garden in need of some tender loving care. We have high hopes for this great space and our wish is for it to be a focal point for the building and our community. It is part of a grass roots local project called GrowBAC and is registered on the national Channel 4’s Landshare. If you would like to help us clear this jungle…
…and turn it into a place to grow veggies and a sensory garden please call Emma on 01273 900904 or email westwerks[at]werkshop.org.uk.
Workshops and Events >>Here is our programme of events for 2009. We offer a mixture of activities from networking events and lunchtime sessions, to whole and half day workshops. If you are looking for a venue to host your event or would like to talk about your project, group or organisation please call Emma on 01273 900904 or email westwerks[at]werkshop.org.uk.
41-43 Portland Road is a double fronted Victorian building in the west end of Brighton and Hove. Businesses started to use the space when the original two family homes were converted into office space for a local engineering firm forty years ago. The building has been through many changes since that time and 2009 sees the space entering into a new phase of growth and regeneration. If you have any stories about the building, Portland Road or the Poets Corner Area we would love to hear from you.