📣We’re delighted to announce
@ShankarAnoushka
as the Guest Director for Brighton Festival 2025!
Anoushka is a world-renowned, critically acclaimed sitar player, composer and activist.🎶
➡️Read more:
📸Laura Lewis
@WMClassical
#Arts
#Culture
We're pleased to announce our plans for this year's Festival can still go ahead from 1 May. Working together with
@BrightonHoveCC
we'll begin a safe return for arts in the city. Details will be announced online on 30 March with guest director
@lemnsissay
We are excited to announce that the acclaimed British and Ethiopian poet, playwright, broadcaster and speaker
@lemnsissay
MBE will be Brighton Festival’s Guest Director for 2020! We can’t wait to see his festival brought to life next May
'I think people are going to be stunned by Blue…Derek Jarman is giving you an opportunity to access more about the self'
🟦
@russelltovey
discusses legendary filmmaker, artist, writer, and LGBTQIA+ activist Derek Jarman and BLUE NOW.
Read more 👉
It is with great sadness we announce that Brighton Festival 2020 is cancelled.
Based on the latest government advice around social distancing measures all planned events have been suspended.
Customers who have booked for events will be contacted shortly
This week is your last chance to contribute to
@LemnSissay
project ‘Tell Me Something About Family’ Wherever you are in the world, light up Lemn’s map with your stories about family
On World Poetry Day her are some words from Brighton Festival 2020's Guest Director
@lemnsissay
Be the window at dawn
Be the light be the ocean
Be the calm post-storm
Be open
We look forward to seeing you all post-storm
#WorldPoetryDay
Burning the Clocks participants we salute you! What a night for an outdoor parade. Here's hoping for a very warm & dry children's parade next May with
@SameSkyBTN
#burningtheclocks
Pier to Pier is an immersive public artwork travelling 14 miles between Brighton Pier and Worthing Pier from Mon 10 May to Sat 6 June. Look out for the orange bench. Take a moment. Sit, look out and listen.
Learn more:
Last night's
@bbcarts
Inside Culture with
@wmarybeard
was all about memory & what we choose to remember & forget. A perfect topic for
@janehorrocks_
new film installation Yolk & Aliens opening next week
@dukeslaneuk
watch Jane's interview on the show here:
Today would have been the start of Brighton Festival, we can’t think of a better way to mark this moment than by seeing you all come together. Thank you with all our hearts. This time next year we will meet again on the streets of our incredible city for Children’s Parade 2021
A huge thank you to our Guest Director
@LemnSissay
for putting smiles on our faces this May 🌞 It's been an absolute pleasure to bring the arts back to our city with Lemn 🎇
🎉 The 2024 programme is here! Join our Guest Director,
@frankcottrell_b
in a celebration of hope, wonder and magic.
Check out our highlights thread 👇
Discover more on our blog:
#BrightonFestival
#ArtsFestival
Welcome to the
#ChildrensParadeAtHome
! Let's make some noise and celebrate all the love, creativity and imagination put into the Children's Parade 💛 Thank you to Alex Mann and his band
@BlocoOlofi
.
Join
@brightfest
Guest Director
@lemnsissay
on Sat 23 May, 8pm for a free live online reading, discussion with
@HannahPool
around his best-selling memoir, My Name is Why. Do you have a question for Lemn? Submit a question here ✍️ Kindly hosted by
@platf9rm
@lemnsissay
invites people from around the world to contribute to his new project 'Tell Me Something About Family'. Light up Lemn's interactive map with your stories about family💡
Catch a glimpse of just some of the artists and performers appearing at Brighton Festival 2021 with Guest Director
@lemnsissay
. Join us from Sat 1 May to experience arts outdoors, online and safely back on stage. Dive in 🏊
What an absolutely fantastic Brighton Festival! Thank you for coming and making it special. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers, participants, performers, staff and to our sponsors, Members and supporters who all make this possible.
📣 The
#BrightonFestival23
programme is here! Gather ‘Round!
Curated by
@NabihahIqbal
, we are so excited to unveil this celebration of community and collaboration spanning more than 100 events this May.
Delve into the full line-up now 👉
🌳📖 Place, belonging and the art of life writing with
@NoreenMasud
& Polly Atkin (
@PollyRowena
).
The two will share their memoirs with
@BHWritingLegacy
's Amy Zamarripa Solis and ask: how do we shape our future while reconciling with the past?
Book now👉
And they’re off! The Children’s Parade has begun, heading down Jubilee Street and there’s already such an amazing atmosphere. What an exciting way to ring in
@brightfest
2022! Come and find the Parade and be a part of the incredible atmosphere!
It’s great to have former Guest Director Michael Rosen back on the
@brightdome
stage telling the tale of how he learned to walk again after recovering from Covid.
#brightonfestival
We just wanted to shout out to our Ticket Office staff. Here's a lovely shot of some of the team, who have been working very hard these last few days - now set up to continue answering customer queries at home. Thank you!
We are saddened to hear about the passing of Brighton legend Disco Pete. At our 50th anniversary in 2016, Pete was featured in the Children’s Parade as a giant puppet created by
@SameSkyBTN
artist Paul Render. Our thoughts are with his family, friends & fans at this time.
Thank you to everyone who bought one of the 50 signed David Shrigley prints to help
#BringBackBrightonDome
and thank you
@davidshrigley
for supporting our campaign 💛
Sending our love to
@MichaelRosenYes
& family today. Happy memories from 2013 when you were an incredible Guest Director. Wishing you a speedy recovery from all staff at Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival xxx
Enter into Olafur Eliasson’s immersive installation at
@FabricaGallery
and explore the twisting pathways of a fairytale forest...
Free | Tue 18 May-Sun 20 June
11-6pm (closed Mon, except Bank Holidays)
Learn more:
Behind the scenes of filming
@janehorrocks_
Yolk and Aliens for the new series of Inside Culture with
@wmarybeard
. It's on tonight on
@BBCTwo
& features our Guest Director
@lemnsissay
on the panel too! Tune in at 7.30pm.
We have waited over a year for
@elizacarthy
to bring East to
@brightdome
& wow what an incredible performance. With guests
@wilkojohnson
& actors Miranda Richardson, Kenneth Cranham & not forgetting the birthday boy, her father Martin celebrating his 80th year 🎂
Our Guest Director
@lemnsissay
will be on your telly chatting about Brighton Festival’s 2021 programme and the theme of ‘care’
@itvmeridian
at 6pm & with our Chief Executive Andrew Comben at 6.30pm
@bbcsoutheast
📺
We’re delighted to receive support from
@DCMS
@ace_national
Culture Recovery Fund, which is vital in ensuring we can bring events back to audiences online, outdoors and safety back on stage this May. Find out more:
#HereForCulture
📚 Our Guest Director,
@frankcottrell_b
, has curated an epic line-up for this year’s expanded books and debates programme. Featuring beloved children’s writers, spoken word artists, acclaimed novelists and more:
Check out our thread 👇
📸 James Hole
Enjoy a flick through our Shrigley-fied 2018 Brighton Festival brochure, with specially commissioned David Shrigley cover artwork, very soon. Pick yours up tomorrow from our Ticket Office on Church Street.
In the meanwhile, check out the programme here:
Explore the South Downs
@sdnpa
this May on a nature trail accompanied by orchestral music, starting from
@museumartcraft
in Ditchling 🚶🌳 Find out more:
#EarthDay
Following our safe & successful return this year, we now look forward to 2022 with renewed optimism & confidence as we proudly announce a Brighton Festival first - next year we'll have two Guest Co-Directors!
Best wishes to our friends and all the artists involved in
@edintfest
@edfringe
who have had to cancel their festivals in August. Let's all keep positive, keep the arts alive and come back with a bang next year! 🙏
#festivals
#art
#culture
What an amazing way to celebrate the beginning of
@brightfest
2022. The
@BrightonGirls
and
@SouthernWater
sponsored
@sameskybtn
Children’s Parade has us so excited for the rest of this month! Find out more about what’s coming up at Brighton Festival:
Exciting to see everyone gathering in the North Laine ahead of today’s
@BrightonGirls
and
@SouthernWater
sponsored
@SameSkyBTN
Children's Parade - and to see the brilliantly colourful costumes and art! Who’s coming out to see the Parade today?
We're so excited for the Children's Parade to kick off the start of
@brightfest
tomorrow, returning for the first time since 2019 with 5000 young people filling the streets with costumes, art and festivities!⭐️
@SameSkyBTN
@BrightonGirls
@SouthernWater
👉
Award-winning artist Ray Lee
@invisibleforces
brings his spectacular sound and light installation to Shoreham Port this May 🛸 Don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind experience:
🎟️ Members Booking open Wed 31 March, 10am
Supported by
@shoreham_port
That’s all folks! It’s been a pleasure to bring the arts back to Brighton this May and we hope you all had as much fun as we did. Although it was by no means a regular Festival, it was certainly one we will never forget.
From Sat 7 May, join us across our city and beyond to celebrate the arts with Guest Co-Directors Marwa Al-Sabouni and Tristan Sharps. Explore the programme now:
Have you submitted your story to
@LemnSissay
interactive map? This weekend is your last chance to light up Lemn’s map by sharing your story about family. Join in:
The past three weeks have been a brilliant, joyful celebration of the arts across the city and beyond, lead by our first ever Guest Co-Directors Marwa Al-Sabouni and Tristan Sharps.
We got back to full strength, rebuilding connections with over 150 events...
Here's Michael Rosen back in 2013, when he was our Guest Director. Excited for him to celebrate his Birthday with us again tonight, 7pm🎂
Join us for Michael Rosen’s Brighton Birthday
He'll be sharing stories of his life & work with Hannah Azieb Pool
Book:
Thankyou Waterstones in Brighton. If anyone sees my paperback in a bookshop display please take a photo so I can post it - thanks for this one Beth.
#mynameiswhy