Event categories

• Science
• Spoken word
• Talks

Date
12/02/2025

7:00 PM

Location / Link:

East Street Tap

For its first in-person show of 2025, Curious Histories is delighted to support Pelican Parcels. They are a small charity that helps babies and young children in Brighton and Hove whose families are facing financial hardship. Tickets are here.

We’re back upstairs at Brighton’s friendly, quirky East Street Tap with a remarkable double bill, featuring a special screening of an unique life history documentary by Ali Ramsey and, from Jonathan Scott, the curious story of NASA’s 1977 mixtape for aliens.

Our talks:

Menopause: The Movie – Ali Ramsey

Ali Ramsey will introduce, and then take questions on, her ground-breaking social history documentary, Menopause: The Movie. The film incorporates personal testimonies, archive and newly shot footage. It considers what we might make of menopause’s new visibility in public life and the relationship this has to the historical experiences of older women and the ongoing feminist work for equal healthcare.

The Vinyl Frontier – Jonathan Scott

Jonathan Scott makes a welcome return to Curious Histories with the story of a group of scientists, artists and writers who in 1977 put together possibly the most unusual mixtape ever devised. In that year, NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a grand tour of the outer planets, and the agency commissioned a plaque to be fixed to the side of each probe – a calling card to any passing alien that might one day chance upon them. The result was the Voyager Golden Record, a genre-hopping multimedia metal LP.

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