A family activity at Preston Manor with Victorian parlour games inspired by Lewis Carroll's world, featuring science, puzzles and wordplay.
Alice in FUNderland takes over Preston Manor on Thursday 29 October, from 10am to 4pm. It's a family day built around Victorian parlour games, with Lewis Carroll's world running through the whole thing. The manor itself is the area's only historic country house, set in a grand Edwardian estate, and the day uses that backdrop as a starting point.
The games lean on Carroll's science, puzzles and wordplay: the science of shrinking and growing, the Cheshire Cat's disappearing smile, and 'Six Impossible Things before Breakfast'. Different rooms are staged as different chapters of Carroll's world, with games about time, space and language alongside simplified chess and parlour favourites like charades, picture consequences, squiggles, thumb wars and good news/bad news. They're pitched as an antidote to the computer screen, so it's as much about getting away from a screen as it is about the games themselves. You'll also meet some of the famous creatures from the Booth Museum collection along the way.
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It's run in partnership with the Brighton Science Festival and is aimed at all ages, so it works as a family outing. The day runs from 10am to 4pm at Preston Manor & Gardens, Preston Road, BN1 6SD, and it's free with admission to the manor.
