My Year in Velvet: Lecture and Lunch

Please join us for "Sundays With A Difference!"

This Autumn, Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, (BHPS) is hosting three exciting and inspiring lectures by experts in their fields, followed by lunch. Each lecture and lunch is £20 per person.

Sunday 4 December

Lecture 3: My Year in Velvet

Chris Gebbie, the former High Sheriff of Sussex, entertainingly describes the origins of Shrievalty – – the oldest office under the crown – – as well as the arcane process of appointment, the relationship the lieutenancy and the relevance of High Sheriffs in today’s world. Chris includes snatches of his 2014/2015 diary of experiences wearing velvet.

Times:

11.30 am Welcome drink on arrival

12-1.00pm Lecture with questions and answers

1-3.00 pm Lunch* including wine or a soft drink, followed by coffee

* Please email the Synagogue (info@bhps-online.org) with your selcetion of lunch: Permitted fish / Vegetarian / Other Specific dietary requirments