Brighton Festival 6 – 28 May 2017 Diary
Week 1: Sat 6 May
Wed 10 May
Week 2: Sat 13 May
Mon 15 May
Week 3: Sat 20 May
Tue 23 May
Sat 27 May
Children’s Parade from 10.30am
Virgin Territory 10am – 6pm (ON)
Your Place All day see website (H)
Vivo Piano Trio 1pm (TRB)
Your Place All day, see website (W)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 10am, 11.10am & 12.20pm (SH)
Virgin Territory 12pm – 6pm (ON)
Virgin Territory 12 – 6pm (ON)
The Unfair 10am – 5pm (TNS)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 7.35am, 8.45am & 9.55am (SH)
Storytelling Army various
Kitchen Dance Workshop 11am – 2pm (S)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 5.30pm, 6.15pm, 7pm & 7.45pm (L)
BAFTA Kids 10.30am & 2pm (FR)
Sausages, Spaghetti and Sharks in Parks 5.30pm (CH)
Virgin Territory 12pm – 6pm (ON)
Who Let The Gods Out: Maz Evans 10.30am (SBT)
Benjamin Appl and James Ballieu 7.30pm (TRB)
Kitchen Dance Workshop 11am – 2pm (S)
Kitchen Dance Workshop 11am - 2pm (S)
The Furrow Collective and Anna & Elizabeth 8pm (S))
Tales of Birbal 11.30am & 2.30pm (GH)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 7am, 8.10am, 9.20am, 11am, 7.30pm & 8.40pm (SH) Pitch Perfect 12pm – 4pm (RPE) Lynette Wallworth Collisions 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4pm, 4.45pm, 5.30pm & 6.15pm (L)
Old Joy 6.30pm (DOY)
Chineke! Orchestra 5pm (AS)
Andy Smith Preston Bill 8pm (S)
Kate Tempest Opening Gig 6.30pm (CH)
Kat Francois Raising Lazarus 8pm (ACCA)
Emma Cline 7.30pm (BHHS)
Swan Lake / Loch na hEala 8pm (CH)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm, 10.40pm (WL)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Hot 8 Brass Band 9.15pm (CH)
Sun 7 May NEST 10am, 11.15am, 12.30pm & 2pm (FR) Five Short Blasts Shoreham 8am, 9.10am & 10.20am (SH) River of Grass 1pm (DOY) Lynette Wallworth Collisions 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4pm, 4.45pm, 5.30pm & 6.15pm (L)
Tamara Saulwick Endings 7.30pm (TOM)
Thu 11 May Virgin Territory 12pm – 6pm (ON) Five Short Blasts Shoreham 10.45am, 11.55am & 1.05pm (SH) Palisander 1pm (SN) Lynette Wallworth Collisions 5.30pm, 6.15pm, 7pm & 7.45pm (L) Billy Bragg with Alexis Petridis 7.30pm (S)
I Fagiolini 3pm (G)
Casus Circus Driftwood 7.30pm (TRB)
HIV: Is Victory In Sight? 3pm (SBT)
Tamara Saulwick Endings 7.30pm (TOM)
Apples & Snakes In Their Shoes 7pm (AS)
Sarah Connolly 7.30pm (AS)
Eimar McBride introduces Megan Bradbury 7.30pm (BHHS)
Kate Tempest with Mica Levi & Orchestrate 7.30pm (CH)
Joan Clevillé Dance Plan B for Utopia 7.30pm (ACCA)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL)
Breaking the Spell of Loneliness 8pm (S) Mica Levi Under The Skin 8pm (CH) For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL) For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Mon 8 May NEST 10am, 11.15am, 12.30pm & 2pm (FR) Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore 2.30pm, 4.30pm & 6.30pm (TRB) Timothy Ridout 1pm (SN) Tessa Ross 6.30pm (DOY)
Casus Circus Driftwood 2pm & 7.30pm (TRB) Tamara Saulwick Endings 2pm & 7.30pm (TOM) Lynette Wallworth Collisions 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4pm, 4.45pm, 5.30pm & 6.15pm (L) The Bolds 3pm (SBT) Mimbre I Would If I Could 5pm (AS) The Odyssey 6pm (SBT) Democracy Debate: What Happens Next? 7.30pm (ACCA) London Symphony Orchestra 7.30pm (CH) nabokov Box Clever 8pm (S) For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL) For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Sun 14 May Your Place All day see website (H) Virgin Territory 12pm – 6pm (ON)
SPECTRA: CAST 12pm - 5pm (BDG)
Fri 12 May
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 12.15pm, 1.25pm & 2.35pm (SH) Weekend Without Walls 12pm – 5pm (EBP) Beetle Mania 12.30pm (SBT)
Virgin Territory 12pm – 6pm (ON)
nabokov: Box Clever 2pm & 8pm (S)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 11.15am, 12.25pm & 1.35pm (SH)
Casus Circus Driftwood 2pm (TRB)
Alke Quartet 1pm (TRB) Lynette Wallworth Collisions 5.30pm, 6.15pm, 7pm & 7.45pm (L) Optimism for Difficult Times 6pm (SBT)
Tamara Saulwick Endings 7.30pm (TOM)
Casus Circus Driftwood 7.30pm (TRB) Xiaolu Guo 7.30pm (BHC) Ocean Wisdom, Four Owls & Jam Baxter 7.30pm (CH) SPECTRA: CAST Evening Preview (BDG)
Polly Toynbee and David Walker 6.30pm (BHHS)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL)
Tamara Saulwick Endings 7.30pm (TOM)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Andy Smith Summit 8pm (S)
Adventures with Dylan! 12.30pm (SBT)
David Lynch: The Art Life 8.50pm (DK)
Andy Smith Summit 8pm (S)
Kat Francois Raising Lazarus 8pm (ACCA)
Weekend Without Walls 12pm – 5pm (EP)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Mimbre I Would If I Could 7pm (AS)
Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore 2.30pm, 4.30pm & 6.30pm (TRB)
SPECTRA: CAST 12pm – 5pm (BDG)
Andy Riley 10.30am (SBT)
Joan Clevillé Dance Plan B for Utopia 7.30pm (ACCA)
Tue 9 May
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 11.45pm, 12.55pm & 2.05pm (SH)
Tue 16 May Virgin Territory 12 – 6pm (ON) Jackie Kay introduces Zaffar Kunial 7.30pm (BHHS) Dom Coyote & The Bloodmoneys Songs For The End Of The World 8pm (TRB)
Young City Reads Big Event 1.30pm (CH)
Vélo Théatre A Handful of People 11am & 3pm (BHC)
The Bright Room: Workshop 4pm
Mango and Bambang 11am (ES)
Kojey Radical + Unfold 7.30pm (S)
This Bright Room: Gallery 11am - 11pm (CS)
Yussef Kamaal 1pm (SN)
Kneehigh Tristan & Yseult 7.30pm (TRB)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4pm, 4.45pm, 5.30pm & 6.15pm (L)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 11.15am, 12.25pm & 1.35pm (SH)
Adam Buxton’s BUG David Bowie Special 8pm (CH)
Chris Haughton 1pm (ES)
Wed 24 May
The Comedy of Errors 1pm & 6pm (BOAT)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 5.30pm, 6.40pm, 7.50pm (SH) The Gabriels Play 1: Hungry 1.30pm (ACCA) Helen Oyeyemi 3pm (BHHS)
Wed 17 May
The Gabriels Play 2: What Did You Expect? 4.15pm (ACCA)
Virgin Territory 12pm – 6pm (ON)
Meow Meow Souvenir 5pm & 8pm (TRB)
Tyler Hay 1pm (TRB)
The Gabriels Play 3: Women of a Certain Age 7.30pm (ACCA)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 5.30pm, 6.15pm, 7pm & 7.45pm (L)
Gary Younge 7.30pm (BHHS)
Wendy and Lucy 6.30pm (DOY)
Bang Said The Gun 8pm (S)
Jeremy Hardy 8pm (TRB)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.40pm, 9.20pm, 10.20pm & 11pm (WL)
No Dogs, No Indians 8pm (S) For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL) For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Thu 18 May Virgin Territory 12pm – 6pm (ON) Five Short Blasts Shoreham 3.45pm, 4.55pm & 6.05pm (SH)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.50pm, 9.10pm, 9.30pm, 9.50pm, 10.10pm, 10.30pm, 10.50pm, 11.10pm & 11.30pm (WL)
Sun 21 May Five Short Blasts Shoreham 6am, 7.10am, 8.20am, 6.30pm & 7.40pm (SH) Your Place All day, see website (W) The Unfair 10am – 5pm (TNS)
Cathie Pilkington: Lunchtime Life Club Every Tue & Thu, 9 – 25 May, 12.30pm - 2pm (DM)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 12pm, 1.10pm & 2.20pm (SH)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 5.30pm, 6.15pm, 7pm & 7.45pm (L)
The Gabriels Play 3: Women of a Certain Age 7.30pm (ACCA) A History of Britain in 21 Women 7.30pm (BHHS)
BHC Brighthelm Centre
Cathie Pilkington: Exquisite Corpse Drop-in Workshop Sat 20 May, 10.30am – 4.30pm (DM)
The Hum Download the app on our website
BHHS Brighton and Hove High School
In their Shoes: Poem Trail Sun 7 – Sun 14 May
BOAT Brighton Open Air Theatre
Translation Workshop Sun 21 May, 11.30am (FR)
CH Brighton Dome Concert Hall
Writing Workshop Sun 21 May, 2.30pm (FR) The Hiccup Project: Open Workshop Mon 22 May, 6.30 – 8.30pm (S) The Bright Room: Workshops Tue 23 – Fri 26 May, 4 – 7pm (CS) Dare to Write Sat 27 May, 3pm (ES) The Rap Around Sat 27 May, 4pm (M)
CH 114 Church Street
Colour Key Week 1 (6–12 May) Week 2 (14–19 May) Week 3 (20–28 May) Throughout Brighton Festival Workshops
DK Duke's at Komedia DM Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft DOY Duke of York’s Picturehouse EBP East Brighton Park EP Easthill Park ES Edward Street Lecture Theatre, University of Brighton F Fabrica
FK Alexander 2pm – 6pm (S)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Fri 26 May
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4pm, 4.45pm, 5.30pm, 6.15pm (L) Britten Sinfonia & Brighton Festival Chorus 7.30pm (CH) Hanif Kureshi 7.30pm (BHHS)
Storytelling Army various
The Guilty Feminist 7.30pm (TRB) Circa Depart 8.30pm & 10.15pm (WC)
Luke Wright 7.30pm (S)
Rich Hall’s Hoedown 8pm (TRB)
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: milonga 5pm & 8.30pm (CH)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.40pm, 9.20pm, 10.20pm & 11pm (WL)
Pelléas Ensemble 1pm (SN)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.50pm, 9.10pm, 9.30pm, 9.50pm, 10.10pm & 10.30pm (WL)
One Hundred Homes 2pm & 7pm (BCP)
The Comedy of Errrors 1pm & 6pm (BOAT) The Bright Room: Workshop 4pm – 7pm (see website)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Mon 22 May
Belem 9.30pm (AS)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 5.30pm, 6.15pm, 7pm & 7.45pm (L)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 7am, 8.10am, 9.20am, 7.30pm & 8.40pm (SH)
FK Alexander 6pm – 10pm (S)
Venue Key
Night Moves 1pm (DOY) One Hundred Homes 2pm & 7pm (BCP)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 11.15am, 12.25pm & 1.35pm (SH)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL)
Storytelling Army various
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.40pm, 9.20pm, 10.20pm & 11pm (WL)
Brighton Festival Youth Choir 6.30pm (AS)
An Evening with Picador Poetry 8pm (TRB)
Sun 28 May
Circa Depart 8.30pm & 10.15pm (WC)
Les Talons Lyriques Monteverdi: Il Combattimento 7.30pm (CH)
The Hiccup Project: Open Workshop 6.30pm (S)
Ipek Duben: They/Onlar 12pm - 7pm (F)
Mykki Blanco 9pm (S)
The Gabriels Play 3: Women of a Certain Age 8pm (ACCA)
Brighton Youth Orchestra 5pm (AS)
BAFTA Kids Sat 13 May, 10.30am & 2pm (FR)
Theo Clinkard This Bright Field 5.10pm, 5.30pm,5.50pm, 6.10pm, 6.30pm, 6.50pm, 7.10pm installation slots + 8pm performance (CH)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm, 10.40pm, 11pm, 11.20pm & 11.40pm (WL)
Writing Workshop 2.30pm (FR)
Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists 1pm (TRB)
BDG The Beach, Doughnut Groyne
The Bright Room: Workshop 4pm – 7pm (see website)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.40pm, 9.20pm, 10.20pm & 11pm (WL)
The Bright Room: Gallery 11am – 11pm (CS)
City Reads 2017: Sharon Duggal 4.30pm (SBT)
BCP Bevy Community Pub
Kneehigh Tristan & Yseult 2.30pm & 7.30pm (TRB)
Circa Depart 8.30pm & 10.15pm (WC)
The Hiccup Project May We Go Round? 8pm (S)
The Story Collider 4pm (FR)
Cathie Pilkington: The Life Rooms 11am – 6pm (Thu 11am – 8pm, Sat 11am – 6pm, Sun 11am – 5pm) (UBG)
Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet 1pm (SN)
Jake Arnott 7.30pm (BHHS)
Papertale & Half Moon Boys Don’t 2pm & 4pm (S)
Five Short Blasts Shoreham 4pm, 5.10pm & 6.20pm (SH)
Cathie Pilkington: Night Life Fri 12, 19 & 26 May 7 – 9pm (DM)
Thu 25 May
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
The Gabriels Play 2: What Did You Expect? 4.15pm (ACCA)
AS All Saints Church
The Gabriels Play 3: Women of a Certain Age 7.30pm (ACCA)
Vélo Théatre: A Handful of People 11am (BHC)
Vickers Bovey Guitar Duo 1pm (SN)
Cathie Pilkington: Doll For Petra Tue – Sun 10.30am –5pm (Sun 11am – 5pm) (DM)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Raja Shehadeh 7.30pm (BHC)
Virgin Territory 12pm – 6pm (ON)
ACCA Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
The Gabriels Play 2: What Did You Expect? 4.15pm (ACCA)
The Gabriels Play 1: Hungry 1.30pm (ACCA)
The Big Song 7.30pm (CH)
Hiccup Project: Kitchen Dance Workshops Sat 6, 13 & 20 May, 11am – 2pm (S)
The Rap Around 4pm (M)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.40pm, 9.20pm, 10.20pm & 11pm (WL)
The Comedy of Errors 6pm (BOAT)
Ali Smith 8.15pm (BHHS)
Throughout Brighton Festival
Dare to Write 3pm (ES)
The Gabriels Play 2: What Did You Expect? 8pm (ACCA)
Meek’s Cutoff 1pm (DOY)
Swan Lake / Loch na hEala 8pm (CH)
Workshops
Kneehigh Tristan & Yseult 2.30pm & 7.30pm (TRB)
Translation Workshop 11.30am (FR)
Paul Lewis 3pm (G)
The Unfilmables 9.30pm (DOY)
The Hiccup Project It’s Okay, I’m Dealing With It 8pm (S)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4pm, 4.45pm, 5.30pm, 6.15pm (L)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL)
Petina Gappah 3pm (BHHS)
For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 8.40pm, 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
Kneehigh Tristan & Yseult 7.30pm (TRB)
One Hundred Homes 2pm & 7pm (BCP)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 5.30pm, 6.15pm, 7pm & 7.45pm (L)
Kitchen Dance Workshop 11am – 2pm (S)
The Unfair 10am – 5pm (TNS)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.30pm, 9.10pm, 10.10pm & 10.50pm (WL)
Tariq Ali 7.30pm (BHC)
FK Alexander 2pm – 6pm (S)
No Dogs, No Indians 8pm (S)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4pm, 4.45pm, 5.30pm & 6.15pm (L)
Shirley Collins 7.30pm (CH)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 5.30pm, 6.15pm, 7pm & 7.45pm (L)
The Gabriels Play 1: Hungry 1.30pm (ACCA)
Virgin Territory 12pm – 6pm (ON)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4pm, 4.45pm, 5.30pm & 6.15pm (L)
Probe Now You See It 7.30pm (ACCA)
The Bright Room: Workshops 4pm (see website)
Dinosaur 1pm (SN)
Lynette Wallworth Collisions 5.30pm, 6.15pm, 7pm & 7.45pm (L)
Fri 19 May
Patrick Ness 2.30pm (SBT)
The Gabriels Play 1: Hungry 8pm (ACCA)
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.40pm, 9.20pm, 10.20pm & 11pm (WL) For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm, 10.40pm, 11pm, 11.20pm & 11.40pm (WL)
Vélo Théatre A Handful of People 6pm (BHC) Doric String Quartet 7.30pm (AS) Kneehigh Tristan & Yseult 7.30pm (TRB) Kate Tempest and band & REMI Let Them Eat Chaos: Live 8.30pm (CH) Circa Depart 8.30pm & 10.15pm (WC)
FR Brighton Dome Founders Room G Glyndebourne GH Grand Hotel, Consort Suite
For the Birds (Central Brighton Bus) 8.40pm, 9.20pm, 10.20pm & 11pm (WL) For the Birds (Hollingbury Bus) 9pm, 9.20pm, 9.40pm, 10pm, 10.20pm & 10.40pm (WL)
H Hangleton L Lighthouse M Marlborough Theatre ON ONCA Gallery RPE Royal Pavilion Estate S The Spire, St Mark’s Chapel SH Shoreham Harbour SBT Sallis Benney Theatre SN St. Nicholas Church TNS The New Steine TOM The Old Market TRB Theatre Royal Brighton UBG University of Brighton Gallery W Whitehawk WC Woodvale Cemetry
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