This annual festival, a long-established staple of Sussex’s cultural calendar, offers a variety of concerts and workshops for lovers of early classical music. Highlights include The Whispering Dome, a multi-media event celebrating migratory birds and featuring musicians from Morocco and West Africa, and several pieces dedicated to English Renaissance composer William Byrd.
Jennifer Binnie is a painter and performance artist, based in Jevington, East Sussex. She first came to recognition alongside artists (and flatmates) Cerith Wyn Evans, Grayson Perry and her sister Christine Binnie. With Christine, and painter Wilma Johnston, she founded the London based performance art group the Neo Naturists. She returned to East Sussex at the […]
This year there are 48 artists and makers displaying their work in two exhibition spaces. As well as a vibrant display of art and craft, there is a programme of talks by some of the participating artists, and the fair includes painters, printmakers, sculptors, jewellers, and glass and textile makerss demonstrating their different creative approaches.
Coinciding with the release of the film Lee, starring Kate Winslet, Brighton celebrates this most glamorous of Sussex residents with an exhibition that examines her life and work through her clothing. Lee Miller – photographer, surrealist, model, war correspondent, writer, traveller and cook – lived her many lives with passion and audacity. These lives are all […]
This celebration of the shortest forms of writing – from short stories to essays, song writing, poetry and journalism – brings us four days of discussions, workshops and family events, featuring leading and emerging voices across literature, journalism, the arts, environment, language, culture and more. Names to look out for include William Boyd, Jeanette Winterson […]
Selected as one of the best shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe by Time Out, The Times and The Stage. What if success doesn’t look like winning a Nobel Prize (or just managing to get a mortgage) but is more about becoming your true self? Sufficiently disillusioned with her theatre career that she shoved cake into a woman’s […]
John Craxton (schooled and part-brought up in rural Sussex) was inseparable from fellow Goldsmith’s student Lucian Freud in the mid-1940s, and he was, if anything, more successful than his friend during his early career. But after he discovered the pleasures of Greece – where he lived more on than off for the rest of his […]
The first live performance at the newly refurbished Corn Exchange will be the latest show by physical theatre company Gecko. Kin is their eighth production, and there’s bound to be a youthful audience: Gecko, whose shows reflect the complexities of modern life, are a recommended practitioner on GCSE and A-level theatre and drama syllabuses. Kin […]
A selection of works by major British modernists. Highlights include two fantastic signed prints by Francis Bacon, two early pieces by Patrick Hughes, significant number of works by the iinimitable Beryl Cook and various works by the increasingly popular Adrian Heath. Also a private collection of works by Roy Spencer. Other works in stock include […]
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is one of the most recognised and reproduced paintings in the world. It is perhaps the most popular poster on student dorm walls from Beijing to Boston. Painted in Vienna around 1908, the evocative image of an unknown embracing couple has captivated viewers with its mystery, sensuality and dazzling materials ever […]
The Berlin-based Colombian experimental electronic musician, composer and sound artist Lucrecia Dalt performs from ¡Ay!, The Wire’s album of the year 2022. ‘…philosophically daring, technically ambitious, and a joy to experience.’ 8.6/10 Pitchfork ‘A Stunning Sci-Fi Pop Opera.’ The Quietus ‘On ‘¡Ay!’, the tropical music of Lucrecia Dalt’s childhood becomes avant-garde sci-fi.’ NPR
CINECITY is subtitled ‘The Brighton Film Festival’, but the geographical range of its screenings is growing year on year. Venues in the 2023 edition – its 21st – include The Duke of Yorks, Dukes at Komedia, Fabrica, The Dance Space and The Old Market in Brighton & Hove, The Connaught in Worthing, ACCA in Falmer, […]
