Sunday Assembly Brighton: Moonstruck

Seasons tidings! We have made it to the end of the 2025 and to close out the year, we are preparing an assembly to leave us #Moonstruck! This month, we are delighted to welcome Robert Massey, Deputy Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society, talking about the Moon in culture, art, and history, and how it has influenced humanity through the ages, right through to present day science. And this month we're raising money* for Science Projects UK, who build interactive exhibits in museums up and down the country (and are the recent saviours of the Observatory Science Centre at Herstmonceux).

Beyond that, our regular round of singing, poetry, food bank**, tea (bring your keep-cup!), cake***, and friendly chit-chat with old friends and new****, to keep our spirits up and community warm :) Click the link in bio or see our Facebook/website for more details! 

Aaaannnd… honest moment - we love putting on sunday assembly, but we really could use a few extra heads, hearts, and hands (preferably still attached to willing volunteers) to help us keep this community going #sundayassemblybrighton #sundayassembly #brighton #moonstruck #whatsonbrighton #wondermore #livebetter #helpoften

* money raised is usually split 50:50 between the charity and Sunday Assembly (for running costs, hall hire, tea, etc) but we're running low on funds, so the 50:50 split will be after we've covered costs.

** tins of food, dry packet food, toiletries, and so on to be distributed to Brighton food banks by us at Sunday Assembly :)

*** and if you're a keen baker - bring cake/brownies/your great bake-off practice pieces!

**** hey, tell your friends and bring them along too - more people = more community = more singing and good times :)

***** Let's have one more fifth asterisk fact to close out the year: After walking the moon & returning to their lunar modules, once their helmets were removed, astronauts described the scent of moon dust as similar to burnt gunpowder.