Want to make your own unique Christmas cards and decorations? Laura will show you how, using simple but stunning techniques.

The workshops are at the Hanover Centre on Saturday 4th December at 1.30pm and 3.30pm, adults £7 and accompanied children £3.50.

See the poster above for more information!

Come along to browse and buy some of the best bargains in Brighton this weekend. We have books (including lots of children’s readers), vintage clothes and bags, bric a brac, vinyl, toys and children’s clothing.

Take a break with a fairtrade tea or coffee from our cafe.

Everything in aid of your local charity, Hanover Community Association.

Hanover Centre, 33 Southover Street, BN2 9UD. Doors open 10am.

Call for submissions from Hanover artists – deadline 15th December 2010

An opportunity to exhibit work in the Hanover Centre during the May 2011 Art Trail!!

Selected artists will not pay a fee, but will be asked to commit to the loan of one artwork for exhibition at the Centre throughout the following 12 months, and 10% commission on any sales.

Please deliver images of your work, hard copy photos or digital images, with sizes and your contact details clearly marked, to the Hanover Centre by December 15th.  Selection will take place in early January.

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Are you interested in running workshops during January to March, which could then result in completed works being exhibited alongside the visual artists in May 2011? Please contact The Hanover Centre to enquire further.

Sign of the Times will also include : Sundials, a new Graffiti Wall, Woodcarving a bench for the garden, Dali clocks, The Hanoveux Tapestry, and the famous Fair Trade Cafe……

If you are interested in either opportunity, please get in touch with us as soon as possible. 2011 should be our best Art Trail yet!

A quick check with our ticket sellers this morning revealed that there are NO tickets left for Friday.

The good news is that tickets for Saturday are still available from 4 of the pubs on Southover Street – Sir Charles Napier, Dover Castle, The Geese and The Greys – the Evening Star in Surrey Street and the Hanover Centre office. Bring your friends along for a great night out. Afro-Caribbean food will be supplied by Bisi Alaba, renowned festival caterer, and we’ll have a full range of real ales, ciders and perries as well as the famous Butler’s Wine Bar.

This year’s poster is now available (main graphic courtesy of Ric Blow). Please feel free to download and display it for us!

(Click on the thumbnail to see the full poster, then right-click and save the image.)

Supporting our beer festival is probably the most enjoyable way of letting people know about your commitment to the local community. For just £50 you have sole sponsorship of a barrel of beer, cider or perry. 800 people will see your name on the barrel and in the tasting notes, and we’ll display your poster on our sponsors wall. Local freelancers and small businesses will be pleased to hear that this year we’re also offering some entry-level sponsorship opportunities, starting at just £25.

All sponsors are invited to join us for an exclusive tasting on Friday 1st October from 6 pm. At 7pm the doors open to the public and you and your guests can join the best and liveliest party in Hanover.

Hanover Community Association is independent of council and government grants and relies on voluntary fundraising to keep our “village hall” running. We are extremely grateful for the support we’ve received from so many businesses and enterprises over the years, but there’s always room for more!

If you have any questions, please speak to Pam Chapman (HCA Treasurer) on 01273 606324 or 07974 691091.

And please contact Pam if, like Barrie Alderton and HR group, you’d like your business to be associated with a specific aspect of Hanover Beer Festivals – anything from volunteers’ food and T-shirts to lighting, stewarding, stillage and marquees – or any of the charity’s other activities.

Click here to download a sponsorship form.

Our real ale festival is the Hanover Centre’s biggest fundraising event of the year and we need extra hands and muscles….

Please note – no experience is necessary for any of the jobs listed here, just enthusiasm and a smile!

This year’s festival runs from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd October. Please contact Iain at the Hanover Centre (01273 694873) to let him know what time you can offer between September 27^th after the marquee goes up until Sunday 3^rd when we clear up.

Top Ten Tasks for volunteers are:

1. Site set up (Tuesday onwards, and especially Friday morning)
2. Check condition of souvenir glasses
3. Collect equipment and printing from Resource Centre (Thursday or Friday)
4. Cover a slot on the Beerwatch rota (Wednesday afternoon to Friday morning, marquee)
5. Serve on the main bar (Friday and Saturday, marquee)
6. Serve on the wine bar  (Friday and Saturday, hall)
7. Hand free glasses to customers (Friday and Saturday, gazebo)
8. Stewarding (Friday and Saturday, all areas)
9. Pack down  (starts 10.30 Sunday morning)
10. Supervising take-outs (Sunday from 11.30 am – if there’s any beer and cider left)

And if anyone is available on Tuesday 5^th October to return hired equipment to the Resource Centre, that would be great!

A new beginners’ Body Control Pilates comes to the Hanover Centre this Autumn on Monday evenings. Katie Bringloe is holding a taster workshop on Monday 20th September between 6 and 7pm and classes will follow on weekly after this. Further information from Katie on: 07702 884 866 or email: katiebringloe.pilates@gmail.com

If you are interested in Pilates classes at The Hanover Centre and can’t make a Monday evening, Jan Davies has classes on Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday mornings. Further information from Jan on: 07904 187 257 or email jandavies891@btinternet.com.

In case you haven’t seen any publicity or read the Hanover Directory lately, our AGM is on Tuesday 7th September – see the poster for details. We were hoping that Caroline Lucas MP would make it to the meeting, but she has confirmed that she has to stay in London for an important vote on employment rights for public servants.

We’ll have the usual AGM business and then  a panel of councillors to answer your questions. Hope to see you there!

We are pleased to be hosting another basket making workshop with Louise Paul in the upper hall on Thursday 2^nd September, 11am – 3pm.

For more information and to book a place, contact the Hanover Centre office.