Today's idea - Brighton's Big Spoon & Handmade Brighton

Two things today! Firstly at 1pm today Brighton's Big Spoon will be taking place: an attempt to have the biggest spoon with hundreds of people at the same time. There was a mention of the Guinness World Record chaps attending, but it's likely just for fun. Invite everyone you know, they ask - and you can find the facebook event page here.

Secondly Handmade Brighton's co-op shop on St james' Street is organising a craft fair "featuring the very best independent design makers from Brighton" at Komedia. The fair starts at 4pm with the promise of original artworks from the artists themselves along with "30 stalls of handmade items such as hand made books and self published zines, men's and women's fashion, acrylic and silver jewellery, limited edition screen prints, unique accessories" amongst the endless stream of things to look at, play with, and buy.

Catch it from 11am-4pm. It's free entry and good for an artsy poke around. Oh, and importantly they promise music, a fully stocked bar and refreshments. I'm sold.


Find it downstairs in Komedia and the Facebook event page here. More info here and you can find their blog here.

Have a lovely day.

Today's idea - Handmade Brighton at Komedia

Today sees Handmade Brighton take place downstairs at Komedia. As well as panning to go myself, I've also been inundated with emails telling me about this event, so it's really pretty popular. As "A celebration of all that's handmade" it takes place today again as a bi-monthly event at 11am featuring craft and fashion in a market/fair type deal. There'll be over 30 stalls of handmade things, with clothing, accessories, prints, furniture, and other nice things.

"As we love an excuse for a theme we won't be ignoring the fact it's the week before valentines."

It should be very good for a poke about. There's a Facebook group, a blog, and you can find the Facebook event here.

In other news the London Philharmonic Orchestra are playing at the Brighton Dome.