Brighton Unitarians

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This week's service (21st April, 11am) will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel if you are unable to come to the church. To access the live-stream, go to: @brightonunitarian5709/streams" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@brightonunita… Transmission starts at 10.55am & a recording will be made available on the BUC website for 7 days

LDPA District Minister Rev Jim Corrigall asks: "Could God end Suffering?”. If God is all-loving & all-powerful, why is there so much suffering in the world? Surely God could stop this? Explore these questions through the lens of particle physics, the Book of Job & Teresa of Avila

What better way to spend your lunchtime than listening to some gorgeous music played on a lovely Steinway grand piano within the reverberant walls of our beautiful Grade II listed building. Doors open at 12 noon with tea & coffee served in the church hall. Concert 12.30-1.15pm.

We have another lovely programme for you this Friday lunchtime (19 April, 12.30pm): British-Peruvian pianist Andrew Garrido will perform Claude Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque & Franz Liszt’s Three Sonnets by Petrarch, from Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage: Italie. Suggested donation £5.

All are welcome to this Sunday's service (18 Feb, 11am) led by BUC Member Brian Bell on the theme of "Perennial wisdom - the timeless truths that guide our spiritual understanding”. The service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel. Join us for tea/coffee & chat afterwards

We are delighted that Roelof Temmingh returns for Friday’s lunchtime concert (16 Feb, 12.30pm) with a programme of Beethoven, Schubert-Liszt song transcriptions & Medtner. This is a concert, & a supremely talented young pianist, not to be missed! Suggested donation £5 on the door

This Sunday’s service (7 January, 11am) will be led by BUC Member John Naish with the title: “Gold, Frankincense & Meh”. The service will be live-streamed, but will NOT be recorded: @brightonunitarian5709/streams" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@brightonunita…. Please stay on for tea, coffee & conversation afterwards. All are welcome

Sun service (17 Dec, 11am) will be a celebration of the Winter Solstice led by BUC Minister-elect Jennifer Sanders. Please bring a poem, reading or song that marks this time of year for you, to share in the service which will NOT be live-streamed. Warm wishes & Solstice Blessings

The service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel from 10.55am. To access the live-stream, please go to our website or the Brighton Unitarian YouTube Channel: @brightonunitarian5709/streams" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@brightonunita… A recording will be made available on the BUC website for 7 days.

All are welcome at this Sunday’s service (10 Dec, 11am) led by Rev Susie Courtault, BUC Member & Interfaith Minister on 'The Power of Healing'. The service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel if you are unable to come to the church. All are welcome.

"Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering, There is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" - Leonard Cohen

Another concert of gorgeous classical piano music (Fri 8 Dec, 12.30) performed by Italian concert pianist Simone Alessandro Tavoni: Bach’s French Suite no.5, Beethoven’s Appassionata & Chopin’s Ballade no.4. Doors open at 12. Suggested donation £5 cash or card. Do come & join us!

To access the live-stream, please go to our website or the Brighton Unitarian YouTube Channel: @brightonunitarian5709/streams" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@brightonunita… Transmission will start at 10.55am and a recording will be made available on the BUC website for seven days.

All are welcome at our Sunday service (3rd December, 11am) led by Rev Jim Corrigall, Unitarian District Minister for London and South-East England: “How can we learn Resilience?” The service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel if you are unable to come to the church.

Jim writes: "Life throws up many challenges. To survive, qualities like patience and resilience are clearly needed. Can we learn these qualities? If so, how? And has this anything to do with the Christian season of Advent?" Please join us for tea, coffee & conversation afterwards

Suggested donation £5 on the door - cash or card. Doors open at midday with tea, freshly-brewed coffee and biscuits available in the church hall on a “pay as you feel” donation basis. It’s the perfect way to spend your lunch break in our beautiful Grade II listed building.

Another lovely Friday lunchtime concert (1 Dec, 12.30pm) featuring newly formed ensemble: Evelyn Harrison (clarinet), Lyndsay Jeffery (clarinet) & Zhanna Kemp-Dashkovskaya (piano) present a unique arrangement of Mozart’s sublime Kegelstatt Trio & Mendelssohn’s Concertpiece No.2.

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Our regular concerts are the perfect way to spend your Friday lunchtimes, enjoying a rich variety of music in our beautiful Grade II listed church, located in the cultural heart of the city. Tea/coffee & biscuits available from 12. Wheelchair accessible venue. Everyone welcome.

Merlin (clarinet) and Polina Shepherd (voice/piano) are internationally-acclaimed performers in the Klezmer and Yiddish world. Drawing from their Jewish and Slavic roots, they weave together a unique music that moves the listener physically, emotionally and spiritually.

This Fri (17 Nov, 12.30pm) we welcome Merlin & Polina Shepherd to perform at our lunchtime concert. The programme includes a local premiere of Polina's vocal cycle DI Khasene/A Wedding to a folkloric cycle by Yiddish bard Moyshe Kulbak written in 1922 in exile in Berlin.