Beach hut advent calendar

For many years, the Shedworking staff in the runup to Christmas looked forward to the annual beach hut advent calendar down in Brighton & Hove but which sadly stopped running in 2018. The hardworking Hove Beach Hut Association said it was hoping to pick up the reins in 2019 but that was just before the world was hit by lockdowns and plans have understandably been put on the back burner. However, the assocation is holding a Winter Open Day on December 18 from 4pm until 6pm when many huts will be open to the public and with modest festive theme displays - look out for laminated posters such as the one below to indicate which huts are taking part. Fingers crossed that next year the advent calendar will return!

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Shedvent

If you're feeling a bit bereft by the end after 11 years and 264 art installations of the Beyond Beach Hut Advent Calendar in Brighton and Hove, do not fear. Into the breach has stepped the church of St Thomas and St Nicholas, Bedhampton, Portsmouth. Their Shedvent celebrations centre on a special Advent shed which the local primary school, uniformed groups, WI, and other local groups will be decorating every day with a new approach to an old Christmas carol. The shed opens every day at 5pm until 6.30pm

And once again writer Joanne Harris is putting on her own Shedvent fun on Twitter. Follow the links below:

And the first door of #Shedvent brings you my December newsletter, including work-in-progress, news, art, competitions and the best piece of writing advice I've ever had. Not signed up yet? Do it now at https://t.co/lhhzemW0Ol...

— Joanne Harris (@Joannechocolat) December 1, 2019

For #Shedvent, I've unlocked all my ko-fi posts. Chapter 18 of THE BATTLEBRIDGE FAIRIES, free for you now on ko-fi... https://t.co/2Vn0WaA5K8

— Joanne Harris (@Joannechocolat) December 1, 2019

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The Cosmic Shed (and advent calendar)

The Cosmic Shed is a shed-based podcast about the delights of science and storytelling (books, theatre, films, music, television, radio, etc) which is written and presented by Andrew, Laura and Ben from a garden shed in Bristol. Here's what they say about it:

The shed has been enhanced with some homemade weather-proofing, a lick of celestial black paint, three otherworldly armchairs, and a Japanese DIY star projector. Oh, and fitted with microphones to record our babble. We don’t have the budget for a device to control the weather, so any atmospheric sounds you hear are from the garden just beyond the shed’s thin wooden walls.

They are running a special Cosmic Shed Advent Calendar this month which is marvellous. Today's guest is Jessica Fox, writer and former resident storyteller at NASA which is well worth a lesson. -------------------------------------------------
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Advent calendar beach hut final week

A few of our favourites from the first two weeks of the beach hut advent calendar (more here). More details about the last week, perhaps ever, of this marvellous event.

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Beach hut advent calendar opens its doors

Maybe for the last time, the Beyond Church beach hut advent calendar in Brighton and Hove opened its first doors this weekend. Here's Hut 17 owned by Sarah Sutherland-Rowe (more images of it here) created in collaboration with children from All Saints Hove - it featured an angel with wings made from the children's handprints, and a modern day dress Mary and Joseph. If you can make it to the daily openings for the rest of Advent, the organisers would be delighted to see you and offer you a warming drink and a mince pie. You can also follow @RevMartinPoole for pictures.
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Last year for the Beach Hut Advent Calendar

After a decade of opening beach hut advent calendar doors every day during advent along the promenade at Brighton and Hove, Beyond Church have announced that this will be the last year they do so as they will be developing other projects. It's had a good run - one year I did a daily update for The Independent when they first started - and we've been delighted here at Shedworking to preview and report back on each year's beach huts.

It was created to remind people of the Christian roots of the season of Advent. Over the years they have served more than 4,000 warm drinks and 3,000 mince pies. You can see this year's timetable at their site here and we'll be highlighting some of our favourites during December, This year the theme is #FollowtheStar which links to the Church of England's Christmas campaign.

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Beach hut advent calendar

Just a reminder that Beyond Church is running its annual beach hut advent calendar again this year along Brighton and Hove's seafront (see here for our reports of it over the last 10 years since it started). Every night up to Christmas Eve a different hut opens its doors to an art installation celebrating  - visitors can enjoy free mince pies and drinks and also collect stamps each night to win a hamper or box of chocolates. Tonight's hut is 227 and 3D advent calendars will be on sale.


Below is the first of the huts, put together by Year 7 pupils of King's School and focusing on the verse from Isaiah in the Old Testament:
  
'The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on this living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.' 

To see all the huts as they are opened day by day, go to Beyond Church's special blog.

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Beach hut advent calendar 2016

Beyond Church has been running its excellent annual beach hut advent calendar again this year in Brighton and Hove (see here for how we've been reporting it for the last half a dozen years). There's only a few days to catch the last remaining huts, so do nip along. Full details here on their website.

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Beach hut advent calendar

The fine folk at Beyond Church are once again opening up their beach hut advent calendar in the huts along the esplanade in Brighton & Hove. Regular readers of Shedworking will know that each day in December,  a different hut is open to the public from 5.30pm to 6.30pm, individually decorated along traditional Christmas lines. And there are also mince pies and mulled wine on offer. We'll be featuring some of our favourites during Advent.

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Beach hut advent calendar enters seventh year

We've been covering the annual beach hut advent calendar in Brighton since it started seven years ago (see here for more details of past calendars), so we're delighted that Beyond Church has again been working hard to make it happen again in 2014. As in previous years, a different beach hut on the Hove esplanade will open its doors every night as Christmas approaches, each with an artistic festive surprise within. There's mince pies, warm drinks and almost certainly special guests every day between 5.30pm and 6.30pm, starting tonight with Hut 311. Good luck to all, and to all a good luck. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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Sixth annual Brighton beach hut advent calendar

The fine folk at Beyond Church in Brighton are once again putting on their excellent beach hut advent calendar during December. We've reported on this since the very start (and one year on a daily basis in conjunction with The Independent newspaper which was frankly a bit exhausting) so we're delighted to see them still going strong. 

This year, the theme is the 'Alphabet of Advent'  (except X and Z) up to Y for Yuletide on Christmas Eve, on the seafront in a different beach hut every night from 5.30pm to 6.30pm.  Pictured above is last night's hut - B for Brighton & Hove - put together by local artist Nick Sayers via imagery collected by his pinhole cameras around the area over the last six months. We'll be reporting back again for occasional visits later this month...

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Advent calendar beach huts in Brighton: roundup

As promised at the end of last month, a few of our favourites so far (go to the Beyond Church's blog to see more) including this surprisingly shedworkingesque one above. Look out for some of these appearing in the Christmas special of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces.

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Beach hut advent calendars open their doors tomorrow

As in previous years (and reported on in these pages), those in the Brighton and Bridlington areas can enjoy their very own beach hut advent calendar openings.

Tomorrow at 5.30pm sees the launch of the fifth annual Brighton Beach Hut Advent Calendar. From the 1st to the 24th December a different hut along Hove seafront will open each night with some surprising festive art. The launch will feature hut 311 with art created by St Christopher's School Hove based on the carol I Saw Three Ships and will include the school choir and decoration created by the children themselves. Other huts will include recreations of the stable complete with smell, all female morris dancers, local poets, various choirs and mathematical art. You can get details of each hut opening by going to www.beyondchurch.co.uk
 

In Bridlington (click here for more information) doors also open again on 1st December, then on the 8th and 15th, and then everyday until Christmas Eve. Organiser Martin Hutchinson says: "We will be retelling the famous story of the Nativity in the lead up to Christmas in new fresh, fun and interactive ways, using the gifts and talents of local people to delve into the issues that this timeless story tells."
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Christmas sheds

Our 2011 festive sheds roundup begins with Jay Hodges's shed to office conversion in Missouri. "My wife deserves the credit though," he says, "as she was the impetus behind the lights and she did much of the work putting them up too!" And pictured below is a lovely photo of a Smart Duo from Smart Garden Offices looking rather like Father Christmas himself in its red and white.

Here's the inside of Penelope Overton's garden office.

And don't forget to take a look at the lovely Beach Hut Advent Calendar in Brighton.

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Brighton's 2011 Beach Hut Advent Calendar

We mentioned the Bridlingon beach hut advent calendar last week but there's also another series of doors being opened again this year, the Beyond version (see here for previous years' details) which you can also read about on their blog (indeed, they have just launched a series of 14 Christmas postcards featuring a selection of images from previous years' Beach Hut Advent Calendars).

You can download a full list of huts taking part which will be open daily 5.30pm-6.30pm every night in December up to Christmas Day, each one opening to showcase a festive artistic surprise. The launch night hut is being run by St Christopher's school and will feature their choir and art from pupils. Beyond will be serving mince pies and warming drinks and there is an opportunity to win a year's supply of Higgidy pies for the person who comes to the most huts during the event.
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Beach Hut Advent Calendar 2010: highlights so far

A few of our favourite huts from this year's beach hut advent calendar down in Brighton & Hove.
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