Events
Our calendar includes all kinds of events organised by us and other groups in the community.
A brand new Light Up ºÚÁÏÍøÕ¾ Festival is coming to ºÚÁÏÍøÕ¾ Town Centre on Friday 28 February and Saturday 1 March (unless indicated), designed to ignite ºÚÁÏÍøÕ¾ with free, family-friendly cultural experiences. Collaborating with some of the UK's leading digital creatives, the two-day festival of light and sound will transform familiar public spaces into vibrant hubs of interactive light art and performances.
An Obscure Camera / Flexer and Sandiland 12 to 5pm
Unit 79/80, first floor opposite Primark, County Mall
With dance performance on the concourse at 1pm, 2pm and 3.30pm on Saturday 1 March
‘Spring Forward’ lanterns / Same Sky
Memorial Garden
‘Spring Forward’ community lantern parade / Same Sky with Bloco Olofi salsa band, Memorial Garden
from 5.30 to 6.30pm on Friday 28 February
‘The Electric Grand Bug Hotel’ projection / Make Amplify
County Mall by Memorial Gardens play area
‘Polaris’ laser show / Seb Lee-Delisle
St Johns Church, Church Walk
‘Spark!’ / Worldbeaters Music
Street theatre parading around town 5.30pm onwards on Saturday 1 March only
‘Light Hearted’ light installation / Gavin Morris
Bandstand, Memorial Gardens
‘Hexagons’ and ‘LED Curtain’ light installations / Gavin Morris
Queensway
‘Everyday Tacticity’ film / Charlotte Spencer Projects
Digital Screen, Queens Square
‘Gap in the Light’ film/ Lila Dance
‘Warrior Women, Past Present Future’ film / Project Female
Former M&S building, The Pavement
Following a series of schools and community arts workshops, arts charity Same Sky will create an installation of willow and tissue sculptures, lights and sound inspired by the end of Winter and coming of Spring. The installation will feature a community lantern lit parade with salsa band.
An interactive, thought-provoking installation displayed in an empty shop, exploring the consequences of everyday actions in public spaces. Enter a large dark space and be immersed in a multitude of ornate rococo frames projected onto the surrounding walls and ceiling. Each of these frames contains a close-up view of the live outdoor environment outside of the building. With 30-minute dance performances on the concourse at 1pm, 2pm and 3.30pm
‘The Electric Grand Bug Hotel’ is a fun, interactive light bright installation for the entire family. Imagine a larger-than-life, light-up colouring book that animates and amplifies a local landmark, that you create! Award-winning arts and technology collective MakeAmplify has collaborated with family design company Hello Dodo to create this site specific interactive projection mapping installation. Outline drawings of the Grand Bug Hotel are projected across nine surfaces of a public building. The public are then invited to colour in the drawings on the provided iPads and they can see their creations light up on the walls.
‘Polaris’ from BAFTA-winning artist Seb Lee-Delisle is a dazzling immersive laser light display set to original music. St John’s Church will be filled with state-of-the-art lasers and lighting, along with a high-fidelity sound system with an original score written and recorded by the artist using 1980’s synthesizers. Please be aware this show contains flashing lights and haze.
Street-theatre with magical live music, movement and lighting spectacular in which mysterious characters composed of light and sound transform the landscape around them.
Gavin Morris creates dazzling interactive light installations designed to encourage collaborative play and control of the urban environment. These include ‘Light-Hearted’ - a giant LED heart which lights up when two (or more) people hold hands, highlighting the value of co-operation and connection. It’s a mesmerising spectacle and just a wonderful (instagrammable) moment; ‘The LED Curtain’ - a giant scrolling message board and a nearby keyboard which allows you to type messages onto the display. It’s jazzed up with a bunch of animations and light patterns to make it look better in your videos; and, ‘The Hexagons’ - a custom made wall of LED neon hexagons each with its own button to turn it on, off and change the colour. It’s a simple canvas to create your own light art.
A seven-minute looping silent film installation co-created in 2021 with filmmaker Zoe Manders and a wide variety of community groups in Brighton and Sussex. It explores the importance of touch in our lives, capturing and celebrating the beautiful, intimate, richly tactile relationships that exist between our bodies, each other and the world that we live in.
A portrait film of four people removed from their world, their life and left entirely to their own devices. Jon, Claire, Mikey and Lucca are friends, but do they really know each other? Stuck together, they close the door on their house for the last time; their lives interweave; small spaces become sanctuaries, cells, stages, studios, gyms and ballrooms.
A film exploration of how female protests shape our world.
'Warrior Women - Past, Present and Future' is a series of co-created youth-led dance fusion pieces which offers an opportunity for young females to express their response to political and social changes happening across the world and process the impact of those changes on their feelings of choice and agency.