A Worthing night that mixes live music, performance poetry, comedy and the pub quiz takes a sideways look at love this month. Eclectric Ballroom will feature singer-songwriters, poets and storytellers alongside an off-the-wall quiz - and it's all themed around Valentine's Day.

Singer-songwriters Pete Fijalkowski and Kieran Garland will make appearances. And the popular Ross Absel Maurice, inspired by artists as diverse as Jeff Buckley and Radiohead, will make a return to Eclectric Ballroom. Each performer will play one of their own compositions and a cover version, and talk about their choices. Of course, they will all be playing love songs

You pick the film, we'll provide the cinema and the popcorn - that's the offer from the organisers of Worthing Film Club.

The group was founded in November 2007, by a group of film fans keen to see a wider range of films on show in Worthing. In 2007, the group showed short films during an Artists and Makers exhibition, and Indian film The Chess Players at Worthing's historic Dome. And in early 2008, Worthing Film Club arranged a showing of an early film by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. The next film, American Splendor, has been chosen by one of the club's members, who will introduce it before a one-off screening at the Dome.

Be it a work of erotic literature, or a scene in a murder mystery, writing about sex can be fraught with fears and inhibitions.

Kay Sexton presents a five session evening course on how to master the genre with confidence and panache. Includes a fool-proof route on how to get your work published.

"She went up the stairs to her Dad's room, just in time to see something terrible happen. Her Dad was sitting at his desk. To his left was the wall, and there was something black on it. At first Dora thought it must be a big spider; then that her Dad must have somehow splashed ink or black paint onto the wallpaper; but then she saw that it was moving and growing bigger..."

Children’s theatre company Oily Cart take audiences on a magical multi-sensory journey of discovery to an imaginary world made entirely of paper.

Aimed at children aged two to five, If All the World Were Paper is inspired by the centuries old nursery-rhyme as well as Victorian paper theatre and comedia dell’arte costume

Worthing's must unusual night out returns on Friday 18th January. Eclectric Ballroom is part-cabaret, part-pop quiz, part 60s-style arts lab, and past events have seen everything from singer-songwriters to short film.

For the first event of 2008, the popular I Predict a Pop Quiz returns. The off-the-wall pub quiz, where a sense of humour is just as important as serious music knowledge is hosted by Pete Fijalkowski.

Actor Alfie Allen, younger brother of singer Lily Allen, stars alongside Simon Callow in the cast of the touring production of Equus which opens at Chichester Festival Theatre on Thursday 31 January.

Allen, the son of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen, will play Alan Strang – a 17 year old with a passion for horses who one night randomly attacks six horses, blinding them with a hoof pick.

In a new workshop from poetry group The South, Jackie Wills is going to pull some poetry off her bookshelves and introduce people to a selection of contemporary writers who've influenced her. She'll mix this up with writing exercises to show how reading informs all creative work.
The workshop is suitable for both beginners and more experienced poets.

Jackie Wills' first collection of poetry, Powder Tower, was shortlisted for the 1995 TS Eliot Prize and in 2004 she was one of Mslexia magazine's top 10 new women poets. Her fourth collection of poetry, Commandments, was published in 2007.

Chichester Festival Theatre is launching a to give emerging directors the opportunity to develop their skills and gain first hand experience of working in one of the UK's leading theatres.

The two year placement will also focus on running a festival and a venue, developing the essential qualities needed to become an Artistic Director. The scheme will initially run for three years, taking on a new trainee director each year.

"Bluedolph the blue-nosed reindeer
Didn't have a shiny nose..."