Free University Brighton

23/07/2025

We have just heard that Dr Charlie Blake, one of our regular teachers and inspiring presence at FUB has passed away in his sleep last week. Thank you Charlie!

08/05/2025

End of an era - Free University Brighton to close its doors – the work of archiving begins. - https://mailchi.mp/71beac4ae42a/end-of-an-era-free-university-brighton-to-close-its-doors-the-work-of-archiving-begins

14/01/2025

Seedy Sunday, 2nd Feb, 10am-4pm, Brighton Open Market, free entry

Join the city’s biggest gardening event - and the UK’s longest-running seed swap. Whether you have seeds to swap or not, Seedy Sunday is the perfect place to kick-off your growing season, getting seeds, materials & inspiration for the months ahead. Talks are booking now, and all are welcome to drop-by on the day.

Seedy Sunday in Brighton and Hove is the UK’s biggest and longest-running community seed swap event.

27/10/2024

Reimagining Education for Sustainable Development: Applying Utopia As Method

An online session with Elke Van dermijnsbrugge

A speculative approach to thinking and taking action called Utopia as Method is used to re-imagine Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). We start with considering how ESD emerged within the context of global institutions such as the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the years and decades following the Second World War, and how it is positioned now. Then, we investigate the values and conceptions of what it means to be human that are embedded in ESD and which voices are absent. We finally turn our attention to how we can imagine the idea of ‘sustainability’ differently, what alternatives to ESD might look like, and how those ideas can inform our work and lives in the present moment.

Key literature and recommended texts will be provided.

Prerequisites: none

Target audience: anyone with a personal or professional interest in (education for) sustainable development

This is a standalone online workshop on Tuesday 5 November 17.00 - 19.00 BST.

To sign up for this course, join our online learning platform on Ryver and search for ‘Utopia As Method’ in the forums menu. https://freeuniversitybrighton.org/fubo/

14/10/2024

Who Owns Brighton? Sharing the results.

Over the past 6 months groups of community researchers have been investigating the contentious Circus Street development on council-owned land and what this tells us about housing and development in the city and its impact on local people.

WHEN
November 02, 2024 at 11:00am - 2pm

WHERE
South Wing Conference Room, Community Base
113 Queens Rd Brighton and Hove Brighton
Brighton BN1 3XG
United Kingdom

Book your place below.

Who Owns Brighton? launched in January 2024, and we ran a series of workshops from January to March that focused on different aspects of the development process: the people who live and work there; the planning and internal BHCC decision making process; and the money. Groups of community researchers...

17/08/2024

We’re about to start a NEW book club for "classic" literature, especially foundational texts. To join sign up to our learning portal, Ryver, and search for book club in the forums menu.

If you would like to attend any of our Freegree classes sign up to our online communication platform, Ryver, a community organising and communication tool. It will enable you to access the learning…

21/04/2024

Free University Brighton welcomes proposals for new courses and workshops in Autumn 2024 and Winter 2025, either face to face or on Zoom.

FUB is a great place to try out a new course or breathe life into established material by bringing it to a different audience. Our members are mature, dedicated, and passionate about learning.

We’re especially keen to offer courses, tasters, workshops on:

Wellbeing for radical activism
Co-housing/alloparenting
Community psychology
Music and art
History
DIY / practical skills

If you’d like to set up a course or want to know more message us here or email [email protected]

08/04/2024

Want to learn more about wildlife in your area? Sussex Wildlife Trust’s free, seven-day email course will introduce you to some of the wildflowers you are likely to see when out and about in Sussex this spring. Sign up here.

Sign up for our free beginner’s guide email course and learn to identify some of the wildflowers you are likely to see this spring and summer in Sussex.

13/01/2024

It’s FUB’s Annual General Meeting today at 12noon - 1.30 pm. Join us to have your say on future courses and find out how you can get involved.

Prior to the AGM, from 10am - 12pm, Anastasia Christou will run a 2-hour online workshop which aims to shed light on some of the difficult ethical dilemmas
of research, but also to highlight the merits of translating research into praxis.

Both the workshop and AGM are on Zoom.
Link here:

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02/01/2024

Happy New Year! We have a new 10-week philosophy course starting on 22nd January - Existentialism: how to live with the wonderful burden of freedom.

Existentialism argues that we are so free that we must choose not only what we do, but who we are.

This 10-week, online course will explain:

how to live with the burden of choosing what to make of our lives,

the harms that come from mainstream worldviews that deny human freedom (worldviews like laissez-faire capitalism, social conservatism, and “scientism”),

and why it’s still important to fight oppression.

To find out more about the course and to sign up click here:

https://ngmartin.com/existentialism2024

12/12/2023

Please support and share the and appeal. It's a vital lifeline to help local people with food and fuel costs this winter.

Each week, nearly 2000 children in this city rely on volunteer-run, emergency food providers for their meals. But demand has risen by 25% this year while food donations have fallen.

Please give what you can, but most importantly, please share. Thank you!

Brighton & Hove Cost of Living Action Appeal - JustGiving

09/12/2023

Our newest course - ‘From Farm to Fork, an introduction to food systems’ starts on 17 January in central Brighton. We’ve a great line up of facilitators, academics, experts, food activists including prof Tim Lang (City University), Tom George (DEFRA), Jo Ralling (FoodFoundation), Geoffrey Mead Ben Szobody (Rock Farm & Florence Road Market) , Michael Kennard (Compost Club), and Fran Taylor (The Brighton Nutritionist)

It's free to attend but places are limited so make sure you book here:

https://www.simpletix.com/e/from-farm-to-fork-an-introduction-to-food-tickets-152276