Part 2 - Brighton Festival · 2019-02-12 · 71 Tue 17 – Wed 18 May Alfred Brendel In Conversation Legendary pianist Alfred Brendel is as eloquent with words as he is with music

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Brighton Festival Part 2

7–29 May 2016

Guest Director: Laurie Anderson F I F T Y Fifty years on the edge Laurie Anderson photo: © Tom Oldham

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Wed 18 May

Laurie Anderson

Slideshow

World Premiere Brighton Festival Exclusive

One of America’s most daring creative pioneers, Laurie Anderson’s groundbreaking body of work spans the five decades that Brighton Festival has existed, and straddles the worlds of art, theatre, film and experimental music.

In the second of two exclusive performances for Brighton Festival, Laurie Anderson presents Slideshow, a specially created performance monologue about place and places.

‘Slideshow is a collection of adventure stories about love, cities, diners, Mars, how we see, living by rivers, Dollywood, my home town and many other places along the way.’ Laurie Anderson

Wed 18 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £18.50, £22.50 Under 26s £15, Festival standby £10

Joint ticket with Song Conversation: £15, £22.50, £30, £37.50, Under 26s £22.50

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Tue 17 – Wed 18 May

Alfred Brendel

In Conversation

Legendary pianist Alfred Brendel is as eloquent with words as he is with music. In this talk based on his book A Pianist’s A to Z, illustrated by recorded excerpts, he conveys some of a thinking pianist’s concerns, collecting concepts and catchwords in the form of an A to Z drawn from 60 years of giving concerts, making records and writing about his profession. An unmissable talk for lovers of the piano, from one of our most celebrated performers. Hosted by Guardian critic and writer Tom Service.

Duration: 70 minutes Presented in partnership with Guardian Live

Tue 17 May, 8pm Royal Pavilion, Music Room £12.50

Reader I Married Him...

Charlotte Brontë at 200

with Tracy Chevalier, Esther Freud & Salley Vickers

To mark the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, novelist Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring) has brought together some of today’s finest female writers for a new anthology of short stories. Each story in Reader I Married Him takes the most famous line of Brontë’s greatest novel, Jane Eyre, as its inspiration.

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Chevalier, Esther Freud (Hideous Kinky) and Salley Vickers (Miss Garnet’s Angel) will read from their own stories, and discuss the enduring appeal of Brontë’s novels and her strong, complicated heroines.

Presented in partnership with Guardian Live

Wed 18 May, 7pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Duke Garwood

Veteran blues-rock man and multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood is most definitely the musician’s musician. Mark Lanegan, with whom Garwood collaborated on 2013’s Black Pudding, calls him a ‘musical genius’, while Josh T Pearson says his songs are ‘as close to heaven as you can get with a guitar’.

Newly signed to Heavenly, Garwood’s acclaimed fifth solo album Heavy Love, his first since 2011’s Dreamboatsafari, sees his intriguing brand of powerful, understated blues on top form. Special guests Woven Entity join Garwood to perform a mix of old and new material. Don’t miss one of contemporary rock’s best kept secrets in a headline performance at Brighton Dome.

Wed 18 May, 9pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £14 seated, Festival Standby £10 (see p157)

Brighton Festival music supported by Rampion Offshore Wind

‘Duke Garwood is the real thing… an old soul and a saint’ Kurt Vile

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Thu 19 – Fri 20 May

Phronesis

Jasper Høiby (Denmark) double bass Neame (UK) piano Anton Eger (Sweden/Norway) drums

Phronesis has captured the imaginations of audiences worldwide with its trademark catchy hooks, complex changes, crackling rhythms and lithe but tight-knit grooves. It’s a sound that is both complex and utterly accessible – one that has placed this MOBO-winning Scandinavian/British trio at the forefront of jazz innovation and acclaim. Presenting its new album Parallax, Phronesis makes its Brighton Festival debut with a gig that’s unmissable for all aficionados of ice-cool modern jazz.

Thu 19 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £14, Festival Standby £10 (see p157)


‘This is contemporary jazz at its most thrilling, creative and airborne.’ Music OMH

Liz Aggiss

Slap and Tickle

Maverick, indomitable, fearless: words that describe performance artist Liz Aggiss. Born in an era when children were seen and not heard, Liz had no clue what she wanted to be. She just knew she wanted to be seen and heard.

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Slap and Tickle is a dark and ribald physical commentary on cultural mores and sexual taboos: a disorientating display of interpretations and contradictions about women, girls, mothers and pensioners. Beating a path through the personal and historical, Aggiss creates a feminist soup lurching from word to movement, music hall to radio nostalgia, costume change to prop manipulation.

Duration: 60 minutes Age 15+

Supported by Arts Council England, South East Dance, Dance4 and University of Bath

Thu 19 May, 8pm Fri 20 May, 7pm & 9.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £12.50, £10 Festival Standby (see p157)

Modern Poetry in Translation

The Great Flight: Poems about Refugees

The plight of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa in Europe has focused our attention on the migrant experience. Modern Poetry in Translation, the world poetry translation magazine founded 50 years ago by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, brings together poetry written by and about migrants: the experience of losing home, losing family and losing an identity in the flight to safety.

Fri 20 May, 5pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £8

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Fri 20 – Sat 21 May

Home Live Art

At Home

A 21st Century Salon

Family, security, bricks and mortar... who and what makes a home?

Reviving the salon tradition of gathering, entertainment and conversation, Home Live Art takes up residence in an exquisite Regency venue – the beautifully restored Angel House – bringing contemporary visual art and live performance together to question our 21st century notions of homemaking.

In the drawing room, you’ll find space to talk, drink, relax and soak up the surroundings. From here, you are free to explore a host of close encounter performances and interactions all over the house: from film and sound installations to music, stand up, theatre and spoken word. This is a unique experience at a unique venue. Check brightonfestival.org for full programme details.

Duration: 120 minutes approx. Age 14+

Angel House is a three storey listed Regency building with restricted accessibility. Contact [email protected] or call 01273 261 525/541 to discuss specific access requirements prior to booking.

Presented by Home Live Art in partnership with Angel House.

Fri 20 May, 6pm, 9pm Sat 21 May, 2pm, 6pm, 9pm (House and cash bar opens 15 minutes before) Angel House, Hove £15, Festival Standby £10 (see p157)

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The Marian Consort

Breaking the Rules

by Clare Norburn Directed by Nicholas Renton

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, composed some of the most intense and glorious music of the Renaissance. He was also a brutal killer. As the obsessive composer relives the past and makes his final confession, the full horror of his crimes stands in stark contrast to his astonishing music.

The Marian Consort perform works by Gesualdo to Clare Norburn’s dramatic monologue creating a soundtrack of the mind, including some of the startling Tenebrae Responsories and madrigals. This tour de force performance is a mesmerising fusion of drama and music.

‘performances that glow with golden purity and soul’ Sunday Times

Fri 20 May, 7.30pm All Saints Church £18, £10 Festival Standby (see p157)

Brighton Festival music supported by

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Fri 20 May

Yuval Avital & Ensemble Meitar

Fuga Perpetua

Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival

The more we read and hear about refugees, the less it seems that we understand their experiences. Fuga Perpetua – meaning ‘always running’ – reflects on the situation of refugees compelled always to move on. In this potent and thought-provoking new work, Yuval Avital, a unique voice in the contemporary and experimental scene, creates an immersive environment using a combination of music, sound recordings, visual projections and movement. With contemporary music group Ensemble Meitar, it crosses the border between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and allows us to relate to refugees through the senses, intuition and imagination.

Post-show discussion with Yuval Avital & Prof. Gerald Cupchik, University of Toronto

Produced by Magà Global Arts, Ensemble Meitar & Third Ear. Supported by Arts Council England

Fri 20 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £15, Festival Standby £10 (see p157)

‘With Yuval Avital, it is better to see and hear than to describe… A must-see.’ Rolling Stone


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Haçienda Classical

House and club classics

The DJs who shaped the Haçienda sound, Graeme Park and Mike Pickering, will perform a continuous set of house and club classics alongside the Manchester Camerata Orchestra and special guests.

Taking the euphoria of the legendary club nights to a whole new level, Haçienda Classical is a unique meeting of styles.

Age 18+

Fri 20 May, 9pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £27.50, £32.50 circle seated £32.50 stalls standing

Sat 21 – Sun 22 May

The Spark Arts for Children

A Boy and a Bear in a Boat

A new play by Stewart Melton from the book by Dave Shelton

Directed by Adel Al-Salloum

Welcome aboard! The boy and a bear set out to sea with just a suitcase, a ukulele and a teapot between them. Dark clouds loom, there’s only one sandwich left and it’s nearly teatime. Where are they heading? Will they ever get there? And when all seems lost, can their friendship survive?

Adapted from Dave Shelton’s award-winning novel and featuring live music and movement, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat is a funny, thoughtful and thrilling voyage to discover the meaning of friendship and adventure.


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Duration: 60 minutes Age 5 – 9

Sat 21 & Sun 22 May, 10.30am & 1pm Grand Hotel, Consort Suite £8

Touch tour: Sat 21 May, 12.15pm FREE (ticket required)

British Sign Language interpreted: Sun 22 May, 1pm

Shakespeare’s Globe & Seabright Productions

Shakespeare Untold

Romeo Untold & Titus Untold

by Harper Ray and Adam Sibbald Based on the plays of William Shakespeare

The stories you know from the characters you don’t. It’s one thing organising the Capulets’ ball, but quite another when first there’s Juliet’s wedding coming up then two funerals to think about. And with hands being lopped off, tongues cut out and throats slit left, right and centre, how is Titus Andronicus’ pie-maker to know where his pie fillings come from? This family-friendly double bill takes a fresh and funny look at the ultra-romantic Romeo and Juliet and the gory revenge drama Titus Andronicus.

Duration: 2 hours including an interval Age 8+

Sat 21 May, 4pm Sun 22 May, 2pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £12.50, Under 16s £8

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Dean Burnett & Robin Ince

The Idiot Brain

In his new book, The Idiot Brain, Guardian science blogger and neuroscientist Dean Burnett explores the most inefficient, bizarre and irrational workings of the human brain. Join him and Infinite Monkey Cage host Robin Ince for a light-hearted look at the psychology of superstition, the neuroscience of sleep, how tall people are more intelligent, and why a glass of wine might improve our memory.


Sat 21 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Retouramont (Paris)

Clairière Urbaine

UK premiere

French company Retouramont creates an opening in the dense sprawl of the city – a ‘clairière urbaine’, or urban clearing – for this free outdoor dance performance. Finding outlets for its expressive aerial choreography in the bustle of city streets, its dancers integrate into the architecture and populate the empty spaces between the buildings, monuments and thoroughfares of the urban jungle.

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Duration: 45 minutes Highly visual performance

Sat 21 May, 3pm & 6pm Lavender Street, Kemptown Between Hereford Court & Wiltshire House FREE

Big Steam Print

No longer hidden behind the closed doors of workshops and studios, Big Steam Print brings the magic of printing into the open air for all to see. Artists and students from across the country will gather to print on a giant scale with our vintage steam roller. Join the excitement as a heady haze of steam and printing ink results in some of the biggest works ever printed.

In partnership with Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft for The Village of Type

Sun 22 May, 12pm – 6pm The Level FREE

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Sun 22 May

The Brighton and Sussex Medical School Debate

Let’s Talk About Death

It’s official – the UK is the best place in the world to die. But what does this mean? It seems death is still a taboo subject that we would rather skirt around than discuss candidly. Covering many aspects of death and dying, including living while you’re dying, what constitutes a good death and how to plan for one of life’s few certainties, this engaging debate features a panel of renowned experts in palliative care along with Tim Crouch, director of The Complete Deaths.

Sun 22 May, 4pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £8

Death Market

Everything and anything you have ever wanted to know about death. Come and ask about one of the most taboo subjects, and learn about the art of celebration, how to write a will and more.

Sun 22 May, 2pm – 4pm Brighton Dome Café-bar FREE

Supported by

© St Christopher’s, London 2015

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The Human Face (1990, UK, cert. 12A)

Directed by Nichola Bruce

Nominated for a BAFTA, The Human Face is a documentary made for the BBC series Arena. Laurie Anderson presents, narrating an examination of mankind’s obsession with its own image, looking at the use of heads and the human face in art and sculpture, and at the prejudices applied every day based solely on a person’s appearance.

Duration: 60 minutes

Sun 22 May, 4.30pm Duke’s at Komedia £6

New Writing South Annual Lecture Nikesh Shukla

Do I need to see myself in stories to enjoy them?

Growing up, Nikesh Shukla raced through Spider-Man comics while listening to Bollywood music, assuming that people like him only existed as supporting players in the stories of white people. When he found The Buddha of Suburbia, everything changed. Nikesh (award-winning author of Meatspace, Coconut Unlimited, The Time Machine) will talk about his recent calls for increased diversity in books, the genesis of his forthcoming anthology The Good Immigrant, and why it’s so important that Spider-Man is a brown kid called Miles Morales.

Sun 22 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £10

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Brighton Festival Chorus

The Dream of Gerontius

Elgar The Dream of Gerontius

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Robert Murray tenor Matthew Rose bass

Edward Gardner conductor Lush orchestration, massed forces and profound subject matter: The Dream of Gerontius is an overwhelming musical experience. This is the kind of music that Brighton Festival Chorus was created to perform, and that is woven into the identity of the renowned CBSO, whose very first performance in 1920 was conducted by Elgar.

A truly stellar cast, led by the eminent British conductor Edward Gardner, luxuriates in music of rare power and eloquence that traces the vision of the journey of a pious man’s soul from his deathbed to his judgement before God.

Sun 22 May, 7pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £18.50, £22.50, £27.50, £30, Festival Standby £10 (see p157)


William Blake Christ in the Sepulchre, Guarded by Angels

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Mon 23 May

Guardian Gaming

Artificial intelligence and the future of gaming

The way video games are made is set to change drastically over the next decade. Through ‘procedural generation’, games like Minecraft can create whole new landscapes every time you play, while advances in artificial intelligence allow computer controlled characters that can build new stories based on player preferences. Guardian games editor Keith Stuart talks to an expert panel of designers and programmers about what this all means for the future of games and the people who play them.


Mon 23 May, 7pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Berlin (Antwerp)

Zvizdal

(Chernobyl – so far so close)

UK Premiere Co-produced by Brighton Festival

26 April 1986, Pripyat, Ukraine. A nuclear reactor explodes and some 90 towns and villages are evacuated. But one couple, Pétro and Nadia, refuse to leave. Without running water, electricity, telephone or mail, they hold on indestructibly in the infected zone for 30 years.

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Berlin, the company behind Bonanza, Perhaps All the Dragons (2014) and Land’s End (2012), returns to Brighton Festival with a filmic portrait of one elderly couple’s self-imposed solitude. Featuring interviews with Pétro and Nadia filmed between 2011 and 2016, Zvizdal tells a poignant story of survival, hope and love in a ghost town.

Duration 75 minutes Age 14+ In Ukrainian with English surtitles Post-show discussion on Tue 24 May

Co-produced with Brighton Festival; Het Zuidelijk Toneel, Tilburg; PACT Zollverein, Essen; Dublin Theatre Festival; Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels; BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen; and CENTQUATRE, Paris.

Mon 23 – Wed 25 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £15, £17.50

Festival Standby £10 (see p157)

Mon 23 – Tue 24 May

Laura Mvula

Plus support

One of the most distinctive musical talents to come out of the UK in recent years, Laura Mvula is a one-woman symphony, whose classical training flourishes in songwriting that fuses orchestral soul with poetic lyricism.

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Nominated for two BRIT Awards, a Mercury Prize and an Ivor Novello Award, her critically acclaimed debut album Sing to the Moon was re-recorded at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios with conductor Jules Buckley and the Dutch Metropole Orkest, taking her stunning debut to new heights.

‘Beautiful in voice and soul, lift your eyes skyward and watch this girl soar’ Clash Magazine

Laura has recently collaborated with the legendary Nile Rodgers, combining his upbeat sound with her thrilling harmonies.

Mvula’s exquisite voice is one of undeniable uniqueness, deserving of every bit of attention it gets. Expect to hear new material from her eagerly anticipated new album in what promises to be a very special performance.

Mon 23 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton £22.50, £25, £27.50


Anthony Burrill

How to use words properly

Fresh from producing a new print for Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, graphic artist and printmaker Anthony Burrill will speak about using words properly. He will tell us how he uses words in his work and his attempts to avoid cliché, well worn phrases and cheesy sentimentality.


Tue 24 May, 7pm Sallis Benney Theatre £10

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Tue 24 – Sat 28 May

Nutkhut

Dr Blighty

World Premiere Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival

Ajay Chhabra Nutkhut Artistic Director Tom Piper & Amanda Stoodley Design Shri Shriram Composer Sian Thomas Performance Director Stephen Clark Writer Vinod Chhabra Translation Phil Supple Lighting Designer Novak Video and Animation Ed Carter Sound Designer Thor McIntyre-Burnie Soundscape

More than a million men travelled from India to fight for the Allies during World War One. Between 1914 and 1916, over 2000 Indian soldiers wounded on the Western Front were brought to a temporary hospital housed in Brighton’s majestic, Mughal-inspired Royal Pavilion Estate.

In a major new collaboration with Nutkhut, Dr Blighty recalls this unexpected episode in Brighton’s history, bringing the experiences of the soldiers, and the locals who came to care for them, movingly back to life. Dr Blighty is part of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War Centenary.

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Visitors to Royal Pavilion Garden can experience a dreamlike environment of immersive installations, ambient soundscapes and theatrical interludes, inspired by letters the soldiers sent back home. After dark, enthralling video projections will colourfully animate the Royal Pavilion. #DrBlighty

A Nutkhut production co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, Brighton Festival, and Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England, and by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Tue 24 – Sat 28 May, 2pm – 10pm Royal Pavilion Garden FREE

A H Fry photos courtesy of Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove


Dr Blighty: The Concerts

As part of Dr Blighty week, we remember Brighton’s Indian military hospital with two special concerts at Brighton Dome marrying classical music traditions from East and West.


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Philharmonia Orchestra

David Murphy conductor Kala Ramnath Indian violin

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis Kala Ramnath The Seasons of India

Music, words and imagery combine to recall memories of the Raj. The Philharmonia Orchestra and violin virtuoso Kala Ramnath perform some of the best-loved English works of the period, alongside Ramnath’s own traditional music scored for violin, orchestra and Indian folk instruments. With readings from letters and diaries written by injured Indian servicemen recuperating in Brighton, this promises to be a truly poignant and evocative concert.

Sat 28 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £18.50, £22.50, £27.50


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Debashish Bhattacharya slide guitar

Gurdain Rayatt tabla

After being immersed in the twilight years of Edwardian England, emerge into the vivid Indian sunlight. Bhattacharya will play a traditional raga concert, alongside virtuoso tabla player Gurdain Rayatt. Bhattacharya plays slide guitar, an instrument he has developed himself – a unique event from one of the great artists of world music.

‘Sinuous artistry... imbued with the spiritual and the sensual’ Daily Telegraph

Sat 28 May, 10.15pm – 11.45pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15 (£5, £10 with Philharmonia Orchestra) Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

Dr Blighty: Commemorations

We bring the week to a close by laying a wreath at the Indian Gate; unveiling a Blue Plaque honouring Subedar Mir Dast (awarded the Victoria Cross at the Royal Pavilion by King George V); and arranging thousands of diya lamps to commemorate the soldiers’ stay in the city.

Sun 29 May, 4pm Royal Pavilion Garden FREE

To make a diya (decorated clay pot) for the final installation, drop into Brighton Dome Café-bar throughout the Festival – see website for times

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Tue 24 – Wed 25 May

‘A truly elevating piece of dance-theatre… that might even change the way you see the world’ Exeunt

‘Rich and vivid, full of humour and urban elegance’ Fest Magazine

VerTeDance / Jirí Havelka / Clarinet Factory (Prague)

Correction

Imagine a world where you can’t progress despite your best efforts to push forward. Multi-award-winning Czech company VerTeDance presents a beautifully poignant piece about our lack of freedom and our power to make decisions.

Reflexes, slants and curvatures, pushing off, tipping and falling: every imbalance is corrected and brought back to equilibrium with theatrics and subtle humour. A live soundtrack by Clarinet Factory builds a fluid tension as the dancers weave around their own shadows.

Correction garnered rave reviews and a clutch of awards in 2015, including a Herald Angel at the Edinburgh Fringe, and both the Audience Award and the MESS Festival Award at Birmingham’s Be Festival. It also won the most prestigious Czech award in the field, Dance Piece of the Year, an accolade that VerTeDance has received three times.

Duration: 55 minute Age 10+ Highly visual performance

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Directed by Jirí Havelka

Choreographed & performed by Veronika Knytlová / Marta Trpišovská, Tereza Ondrová, Martina Hajdyla Lacová / Helena Arenbergerová, Karolína Hejnová, Robo Nižník, Jaro Ondruš / Rado Piovarci, Petr Opavský / Michael Vodenka

Live music by Clarinet Factory

Lighting design by Katarína Duricová Costumes. Set design by Dáda Nemecek

Produced by VerTeDance o.s., danceWATCH – Karolína Hejnová. Supported by City of Prague; Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and Czech Centre in London; Foundation Život umelce; METROSTAV a.s.; Tanec Praha NGO / Ponec – The Dance Venue; Ctyri dny o.s.; and ALT@RT.

Supported by

Tue 24 & Wed 25 May, 7.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton £10, £15, £17.50, Under 26s £15 Under 16s half price

£10 Festival Standby (see p157)

Members’ first night offer £12.50

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Tue 24 – Sun 29 May

Sarah Nicolls

Moments of Weightlessness

Pianist, inventor and performer Sarah Nicolls developed her unique ‘inside-out piano’ to explore the belly of the instrument and to coax out its hidden sounds. In this solo show, she explores the extraordinary unexpected characteristics of the instrument, moving it around the stage to gradually reveal her parallel journey into motherhood. See this monumental piano in surprising motion, hear the beautiful melodies and textures of Sarah’s piano-songs and contemplate the moments of life where everything seems to stand still.

Commissioned by Brighton Dome as part of earsthetic 2014

Tue 24 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Globe Theatre on Tour

The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

Nick Bagnall director Katie Sykes designer James Fortune composer

Valentine loves Silvia and Proteus loves Julia – but Proteus is fickle, and falls for Silvia too. When Valentine plots an elopement, Proteus betrays him and Valentine is banished and joins some outlaws in the forest. What are the chances that he’ll be pursued by Silvia, and Silvia by Proteus, and Proteus by Julia, and that all will be waited upon by their servants Speed and Launce, and even Launce’s dog, Crab?

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This riotous new production is led by a joyful ensemble of players who will delight with songs, romance and chaos, and hurl Shakespeare’s anarchic comedy into the 21st-century. Remember to bring a picnic and dress for the weather.

Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes approx. Age 8+

Presented by Shakespeare’s Globe and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse

Wed 25 – Sat 28 May, 6pm Thu 26, Sat 28 & Sun 29 May, 1.30pm Brighton Open Air Theatre £17.50, Under 19s £10 Family (2 adults, 2 children) £50


Members’ first night offer: £15, Under 19s £8 Family (2 adults, 2 children) £40

Touch tour: Sun 29 May, 11am FREE (ticket required)

Meet the cast: Fri 27 May, 3pm Dyke Road Park Café FREE (ticket required)

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Wed 25 May

I for India (2005, UK, cert. 12)

Directed by Sandhya Suri

This extraordinary documentary follows Yash Pal Suri, doctor and hobbyist filmmaker, who left India for England in 1965. On arrival, he buys projectors, tape recorders and Super-8 cameras, sending one set back home to India.

So begins a 40-year exchange of ‘cine-letters’, in which he shares his new life abroad with family back home. Rediscovered by his daughter, together they tell a bittersweet tale of one man’s story of migration and the myth of return.


‘A miraculous mini-epic’ The Guardian

Wed 25 May, 6.30pm Duke’s at Komedia £10.50, Under 16s £6, Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) £28

ANKH

Bodyline

Gauri Sharma Tripathi’s company of dancers ANKH explores speed and motion, shadow and light, physical reality and illusion in this free outdoor show.

Wed 25 May, 5pm Ship Street FREE

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Gauri Sharma Tripathi

Antahkarna

Kathak is the classical dance form of northern India, defined by fluid grace, intricate footwork and expressive rhythm. It also means ‘to tell a story’. Acclaimed for articulating Kathak for a new generation, choreographer Gauri Sharma Tripathi rediscovers this tradition of storytelling, harnessing the Kathak vocabulary in choreography and improvisations that vascillate between the sensuous and the spiritual, the past and present.

Age 12+

Wed 25 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £15, Festival Standby £10 (see p157)

Brahms & Schumann Song

Lorna Anderson soprano Robin Tritschler tenor Malcolm Martineau piano

Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Op. 4 Liederkreis Op. 24 Brahms Mädchenlied Op. 7 No.5 Deutsches Volkslieder (selection) Lieder und Gesänge Op. 32 (selection)

For the second of his recitals, this time in the glorious Music Room of the Royal Pavilion, master accompanist Malcolm Martineau is joined by one of the brightest young stars in the world of song, the tenor Robin Tritschler, and the distinguished soprano Lorna Anderson, who has enjoyed a long-term collaboration with Martineau.

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They perform works by the supreme masters of Lieder: two cycles from Schumann’s miraculous ‘year of song’ alongside works by Brahms that rely on the eloquence of the pianist as much as on the expressiveness of the singer.

‘Robin Tritschler proves yet again that he is one of the most sensitive and musical of today’s younger lieder interpreters.’ Daily Telegraph

Wed 25 May, 8pm Royal Pavilion, Music Room £32 (includes a glass of wine or soft drink in the interval in the Banqueting Room), Festival Standby £10 (see p157)

Thu 26 – Fri 27 May

Akram Khan Company

Until the Lions


One of the most respected figures in the dance world, Akram Khan returns to Brighton Festival after eight years (Bahok) with his new, full-length production Until the Lions – his most arresting work to date.

Khan is joined by two of his company dancers alongside four musicians providing haunting vocals and soundscape. Together they give a breathtaking performance in this partial adaptation of poet Karthika Naïr’s original reworking of the epic Mahabharata. Beautifully combining the classical Indian dance form kathak with contemporary dance, Until the Lions tells the tale of Amba, a princess abducted on her wedding day and stripped of her honour, who invokes the gods to seek revenge.

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‘A firecracker of a show, one that really stays with you and grows in the memory’ The Telegraph ****

‘Thrilling and beautiful’ The Observer *****

For this epic theatrical spectacle, Khan reunites with some of the collaborators behind his Olivier Award-winning solo DESH, including visual artist Tim Yip, lighting designer Michael Hulls and dramaturg Ruth Little.

Duration: 65 minutes Highly visual performance

This production is a partial adaptation of Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, a retelling in verse of the Mahabharata by Karthika Naïr (HarperCollins India, 2015 & Arc Publications UK, 2016).

Initiated by the 360° Network of round artistic venues across the world and produced during residency at Sadler’s Wells London and Curve Leicester.

Sponsored by COLAS. Created with generous support from The Quercus Trust. Supported by Arts Council England.

Thu 26 & Fri 27 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £20, £25, Under 19s £15


The Guardian Newsroom

The EU Referendum

David Cameron’s promised referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU could be called as early as June 2016. As both the EU exit and pro-Europe campaigns gather momentum, Britain faces profound questions about its future.

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Business leaders claim that withdrawal would lead to economic calamity, while others on the left and the right argue the case for Britain to govern itself. Would an exit see Britain reduced to the status of a minor player on the world stage? Is Britain stronger in Europe? Does the EU need the UK? Join a panel of Guardian writers, including Brighton Festival Chair Polly Toynbee, to analyse and discuss both sides of the debate.


Thu 26 May, 7pm Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts £10

Marlon James

Join us for an evening with 2015 Man Booker Prize-winner Marlon James. A Brief History of Seven Killings is a fictional account of an attempt to assassinate Bob Marley in 1976, a novel described by the New York Times as a ‘Tarantino remake of The Harder They Come… sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex’. Spanning three decades, the novel uses multiple voices – CIA agents, drug dealers, ghosts, beauty queens – to explore the turbulent world of Jamaican gangs and politics.


Thu 26 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Past Historic, Future Perfect: New Buildings in Historic Settings

How should we approach designing new buildings and adapting old ones? Should architecture imitate the past or speak unequivocally of our own time? Hosted by Brighton College, which has a distinguished history of architectural patronage and adaptation, David Robson of The Regency Society of Brighton and Hove discusses the sensitivities of the built environment with Eric Parry and Richard Griffiths, who have recently completed projects in the College, and with Peter Clegg, the architect responsible for the masterplan for the Royal Pavilion Estate.


Presented with The Regency Society of Brighton & Hove

Fri 27 May, 7.30pm (drinks available from 6.30pm) Brighton College, Music School £10

Fri 27 – Sat 28 May

Neil Bartlett

Stella


Really, I think most people have no idea...

A theatrical encounter with a truly remarkable person, Stella is a new show inspired by the strange life and lonely death of Ernest Boulton – one half of the now-infamous Victorian cross-dressing duo Fanny and Stella.

Image reproduced by courtesy of Essex

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Intimate and emotional, scandalous and glamorous, Stella uses two performers, an empty stage and a haunting real-life story to ask what it might take to truly be yourself.

Neil Bartlett, one of Britain’s most individual theatre-makers, makes a welcome return to Brighton Festival following his much-lauded staging of Britten: The Canticles with Ian Bostridge in 2013.

‘Neil Bartlett reminds us that anything is possible in the theatre’ The Guardian

Written & directed by Neil Bartlett Stage design Rae Smith Costumes Johanna Coe Lighting Rick Fisher Sound Chris Shutt Music Nicolas Bloomfield

Duration: 75 minutes approx. Age 14+

Stella is a co-commission by LIFT, Brighton Festival and Holland Festival

Fri 27 & Sat 28 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton £12.50, £15, £17.50


Beth Orton

Plus support

Brighton Festival Exclusive

Beth Orton returns to the UK for two shows at Brighton Festival premiering highly anticipated new material exploring her electronic roots.

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Orton has been one of the country’s most unique and beguiling voices in contemporary music for the past two decades. On her debut LP Trailer Park, Orton pioneered the synthesis of electronic beats and acoustic songwriting. She followed with Central Reservation, which brought international acclaim and a BRIT Award. Further albums deepened the breadth of her songwriting, such as the Jim O’Rourke- produced Comfort of Strangers and 2012’s Sugaring Season. Beth recently relocated to California, where she began working on a series of beautiful, career-redefining songs: these one-off shows will be the first time she has performed this new material live.

‘a voice of seemingly effortless expression’ Pitchfork

Fri 27 & Sat 28 May, 8pm Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts £17.50 standing



Alexei Sayle

As Margaret Thatcher moved into Downing Street in 1979, Soho’s Comedy Store opened its doors with Alexei Sayle as its master of ceremonies. Sayle’s painfully funny new memoir, Thatcher Stole My Trousers, chronicles a time when comedy and politics collided in new and electrifying ways. Join the godfather of alternative comedy as he discusses his career, from Marxist art-school student to star of The Comic Strip and The Young Ones.


Fri 27 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £10

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Mark Haddon

The Pier Falls is the first collection of short stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Written in a new, darker register, Haddon’s stories range from Ancient Greece to the Amazon jungle to the surface of Mars. A 30-stone man is confined to his living room. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve. Haddon has said that the stories are all bound together by ‘an empathy for sometimes unlovable people in difficult situations’. He will read from these new stories and discuss the art of short form writing.


Fri 27 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Masquerade


Enter the Masquerade Ball, a world of anonymity and duplicity that spins a web of lies and truth around its guests. Carry out tasks, hide your secrets, do whatever it takes to win. You will need to form bonds, break relationships and be ruthless in your pursuit of glory but remember… trust no one. Masquerade is a game set in the physical world during which participants receive instructions through their phone from the mysterious hosts of the ball. To participate you will need a mobile phone and a flair for deception.

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Comissioned by Without Walls, Brighton Festival and Winchester Hat Fair

Sat 28 May, 10am – 4pm George Street, Hove FREE (ticket required)

Adriano Adewale

Catapluf’s Musical Journey

Catapluf just can’t stay away after last year’s sell-out success! His imagination travels to places where everything makes music: saucepans, water, drums – even the body! His exploration of rhythms and sounds of the world takes in samba, jazz, klezmer and plenty of opportunities for the audience to join in. Created by Adriano Adewale, known for his amazing ability to create magical soundscapes from the ordinary and the everyday, this family show is packed full of music from every corner of the globe.

Duration: 50 minutes Age 5 – 7

Presented by Serious. Originally commissioned by the EFG London Jazz Festival.

Sat 28 May, 12pm & 2.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10, Under 16s £6

Touch tour: 1.45pm FREE (ticket required)


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Books for Breakfast

The City Reads Book Swap

City Reads is all about the pure pleasure of taking a little longer over the reading of a book and then discussing it with family, friends, neighbours or acquaintances. Something special happens when we share our passion for a book we love and this is your opportunity to do just that. Bring along just one book that you are willing to swap with someone else and we’ll do the rest. Brighton Dome Café-bar will be open – we’ll provide the pastries.

Produced by Collected Works CIC

Sat 28 May, 11am Brighton Dome Founders Room FREE

Limited capacity, to reserve a place email [email protected]

Our Future City

Imagining our creative future

Come and interact with young local artists, experience creativity through their eyes, and help shape the future of the city by imagining what our collective, creative future could be. Our Future City is a 10-year transformation programme that seeks to improve the lives and life chances of children and young people through cultural engagement and creative skills development.

For more information visit ourfuturecity.org.uk

Sat 28 May, 2pm Theatre Royal Brighton FREE

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Tangled Feet

Emerge/ncy

World Premiere

Overnight, a strange portal emerges in Brighton: a mysterious form has burst through the ground and an opening is visible at the top. Slowly, displaced people begin to emerge. Where do they go now? How do we respond to them?

In this unique durational performance piece, which evolves over the course of each day, Tangled Feet questions how we all cope with standing on the edge of enormous uncertainty. Has this state of emergency become the new normal? Follow #EmergencyBrighton for more clues.

‘One of the most exciting physical theatre companies in the UK today… a must-see’ The Stage

Sat 28 & Sun 29 May 12pm – 7.45pm Durational performance 7.45pm The Closing The Level FREE

Meet the artists: Sun 29 May, 11am

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Lola Arias (Buenos Aires)

Minefield


Argentinian writer and director Lola Arias brought her acclaimed show My Life After to Brighton Festival 2013. Now she returns with the world premiere of her new work about the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, developed with and performed by Argentinian and British veterans of the 1982 conflict.

In her trademark style – political, playful and highly personal – Arias brings together soldiers who fought on opposite sides, giving them an opportunity to share their first-hand experiences on a battlefield.

Merging film, re-enactment and documentary theatre, Minefield blurs the lines between truth and fiction to give a fascinating insight into how and what people remember, and how war continues to cast a long shadow over the lives of its protagonists.

‘A compelling mix of personal memories and a mosaic of modern Argentinian history’ The Guardian on My Life After

Duration: 120 minutes Age 11+

Performed in English and Spanish with English surtitles Co-commissioned by LIFT, Brighton Festival, Royal Court Theatre, Le Quai Angers and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.

Sat 28 May, 8pm Sun 29 May, 2pm & 7pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £15, £17.50, Festival Standby £10 (see p157)

Supported by The Aisbitt Family

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Letterpress by the Sea

A pop-up letterpress studio housed in a replica London Underground Tube tent is set to arrive on Hove Lawns with a team of artists, designers and printers! Watch and learn the letterpress process: setting type, inking up and printing using a press. Have a go on one of the presses and select an artist’s print to take home.


Sat 28 & Sun 29 May, 12pm - 6pm Hove Lawns (near the Lawns Cafe) FREE

The Moon and the Sledgehammer (1971, UK, cert. U)

Directed by Philip Trevelyan

A rare screening of a cult classic, originally created for television. Isolated in a ramshackle home in rural Sussex, the Page family lets the 20th century slowly pass them by, managing without running water, electricity or gas. Yet initial judgements of quaintness and eccentricity are challenged as it emerges that they are in control of their world in a way that we can never be in control of ours.

Duration: 65 mins Introduced by the writer and curator Gareth Evans

Presented in partnership with Film Hub South East as part of the BFI’s UK-wide Britain on Film — Rural season.

Sun 29 May, 1.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £10.50, Under 16s £6 Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) £28

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City Reads 2016 Paul McVeigh The Good Son

City Reads is Brighton & Hove’s annual ‘big read’ for adults. This year, people across the city have been reading, sharing and discussing Paul McVeigh’s astonishing debut, The Good Son. Set during the Troubles in 1980s Belfast, it’s an astute, assured and achingly funny novel about the complex nature of innocence and guilt. Paul McVeigh has written plays, comedy and short stories – he is also co-founder of London Short Story Festival. Join him as he discusses his inspiration for the novel in this final event marking the culmination of City Reads 2016.

Produced by Collected Works CIC

Sun 29 May, 2pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £8

Sally Smith

Edward Marshall Hall: A Law Unto Himself

Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC, the subject of Sally Smith’s first biography, was one of the most famous advocates of all time. Born in Brighton in 1858, the charismatic power of his oratory saved more people from the death penalty than any other known barrister. Sally is a barrister and QC. After ten years of criminal work, she specialised in medical law and has appeared in many high-profile medical cases.

Sun 29 May, 5pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Sun 29 May

Penny Arcade

Longing Lasts Longer

‘Bursting with energy… hilarity and pathos’ Edinburgh Evening News

Penny Arcade is a force of nature and New York’s undisputed queen of the underground. Outrageous and inspirational, Arcade occupies a unique position in the American avant-garde and counter-culture movement.

Longing Lasts Longer is her double award-winning Edinburgh show, which turns contemporary stand-up on its head to create a crack in the post-gentrified landscape. Driven by her magnetic rock ‘n’ roll energy, Arcade’s razor-sharp satire is mixed live to euphoric soundscapes inspired by four decades of pop culture. It’s a passionate performance anthem where you can think, laugh and dance at the same time.

‘The smartest, most quotable theatrical party in town’ The Times ****

Age 14+

Presented in partnership with London Artists Projects

Sun 29 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton £10, £12.50, £15, £18, Festival Standby £10 (see p157)

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Floating Points Live

Plus support

Dance music trailblazer Sam Shephard – otherwise known as Floating Points – is renowned for his ambitious, forward-thinking DJ sets around the world. For the past ten years, all roads have slowly been leading to his debut album Elaenia: with influences deep in his formative years the album draws upon classical, jazz, electronic music, soul and even Brazilian popular music. At times delicate and intense, with moments of utter stillness, it provides the bridge between his rapturous dance music and his classical roots. Performing with a full live band, don’t miss what promises to be a remarkable live performance from one of electronic music’s most perceptive new artists.

‘one of contemporary electronic music’s most forward-thinking talents’ Rolling Stone

Sun 29 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £12.50, £15, £18.50, Festival Standby £10 (see p157)


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Lunchtimes

Lunchtimes

Our series of daytime concerts featuring classical stars of the future

Amalthea Duo

Klio Blonz flute Siobhan Swider harp

Mozart Theme and Variations Bizet Entr’acte from Carmen Einaudi Le Onde Shankar L’Aube enchantée Thomas Watching the Wheat Marais La Folia d’Espagne Chopin Theme and Variations on a Theme by Rossini

In a delightfully varied programme, Mozart’s graceful emotion gives way to contemplative music with the mesmerising swirl of Einaudi. Cultures contrast with Shankar’s Indian–Western fusion and Thomas’s Welsh folk song, ending with Chopin’s take on La Cenerentola’s scintillating rondo.



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Ferio Saxophone Quartet

Huw Wiggin soprano saxophone Ellie McMurray alto saxophone Jose Manueal Bañuls tenor saxophone Shevaughan Beere baritone saxophone

Singelée Premier Quatuor Op. 53 Michael Torke July Guillermo Lago Ciudades: Sarajevo, Addis Ababa, Köln, Tokyo Albéniz (arr. Ferio) Cádiz Rivier Grave et Presto

Winner of the 2015 ROSL Ensemble Competition, the Ferio Saxophone Quartet pushes boundaries with its eclectic repertory of old music, new music, popular music and almost any other kind of music. In this lively programme, the Quartet conjures a vivid cornucopia of musical periods, moods and foreign lands.

Tue 10 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Alke Quartet

Soh-Yon Kim violin Elise Harper violin Ben Harrison viola Karen French cello

Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95, ‘Serioso’ Bartók String Quartet No. 5

The many moods of the string quartet are captured by the exciting Alke Quartet. The mastery of Beethoven’s middle period quartets is partnered here with the eerie ‘night music’ style of Bartók’s 5th Quartet.


Luka Okros piano

Debussy Children’s Corner Beethoven Sonata in C major Op. 53, ‘Waldstein’ Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

The Georgian pianist Luka Okros is in virtuosic mode as Debussy evokes childhood and his daughter’s toys; Beethoven sets the standard for piano music in the grand manner; and Liszt provides the ultimate vehicle for pianistic speed and brio.

In association with The Tillett Trust


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Bronte Hudnott flute Naoki Ishibashi piano

C.P.E. Bach Flute Sonata in G major H550, ‘Hamburger’ John Carmichael Fantasy Sonata Gaubert Ballade Joseph Havlat Two Pieces for flute and piano Poulenc Flute Sonata

The Australian flautist Bronte Hudnott offers the classical and the contemporary, drawing on both masterworks of the European flute canon alongside pieces by the Australian composers John Carmichael and Joseph Havlat.

In association with Craxton Memorial Trust

Thu 19 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Gemma Lois Summerfield soprano

Simon Lepper piano

Programme includes

Mendelssohn ‘Neue Liebe Winterlied’ from 6 Gesänge, Op.19 Der liebende schreibt Hexenlied Fanny Mendelssohn Die Mainacht Debussy Ariettes oublieés Strauss 4 Lieder Op. 27

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A selection of chansons and Lieder showcases the expressive talents of Gemma Lois Summerfield, who won the 2015 Kathleen Ferrier Competition, accompanied here by vocal specialist Simon Lepper


Supported by June Crown

Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists

This special concert presents members of Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists scheme performing operatic excerpts from every corner of the repertory.

Glyndebourne works with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation to support the development of young singers; events like this are a unique opportunity to hear great voices of tomorrow — today.


Foyle–Stsura Duo

Michael Foyle violin Maksim Stsura piano

Schubert Violin Sonata in A major D574, ‘Grand Duo’ Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major Op. 94 Brahms Scherzo in C minor from the F-A-E Sonata

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The ‘Grand Duo’ finds Schubert in cheerful, airy mood. Likewise, Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 2 is elegant and carefree, despite its wartime genesis. Finally, Brahms’s contribution to a sonata written with Schumann and his pupil Albert Dietrich fizzes with youthful zest.

In association with Kirckman Concert Society

Tue 24 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Lunchtimes

‘An excellent hidden gem of the Festival’ Latest 7

Alexander Soares piano

Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major Op. 61 Boulez Douze Notations Liszt Sposalizio Dutilleux Piano Sonata Op. 1

One of the country’s most dynamic young talents performs works from the harmonic complexity of Chopin to the grandeur of Liszt’s Sposalizio via Boulez’s set of short miniatures. The concert ends with Dutilleux’s sensuous sonata taking us to the soundworld of post-war France.

In association with Royal Overseas League



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Y–Squared

Yelian He cello Yasmin Rowe piano

Schumann 5 Stucke im Volkston Op. 102 Nikolai Kapustin Concert Etudes Op. 40, No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ for solo piano Svante Henryson Black Run for solo cello Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65

Y-Squared is a duo as imaginative as its name, and this programme demonstrates its wide-reaching artistry. Schumann and Chopin represent the classical rigour that define the duo’s eloquence; solo works by the contemporary composers Nikolai Kapustin and Svante Henryson bring out its daring, freewheeling side.

In association with Kirckman Concert Society

Thu 26 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Trio Isimsiz

Erdem Misirlioglu violin Pablo Hernán Benedí cello Michael Petrov piano

Schubert Notturno in E-flat major Op. 148, D. 897 Dvoràk Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65

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Music of power and substance from the prize-winning Trio Isimsiz. Schubert’s contemplative Notturno is a comparative rarity performed here alongisde Dvoràk’s epic and turbulent Piano Trio, which nevertheless contain a slow movement of superlative grace and radiance.

In association with Young Concert Artists Trust


26 Letters

26 Letters

Our annual celebration of words and pictures for young people

Michael Morpurgo

Former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo is spellbinding company, a master storyteller who has created some of the most brilliant children’s books of recent years. Join him as he talks about his work, which includes War Horse, Private Peaceful and Why the Whales Came, and hear all about his latest book, An Eagle in the Snow, the extraordinary story of the man who could have stopped World War Two before it even began.

Age 8+

Wed 11 May, 6pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £6

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The Story Stew Show

What are the ingredients for a great story? Is there a recipe that will make our stories taste even better? Find out with Mary Evans, author of Who Let the Gods Out? and Rosie Harker, Nosey Parker, in this fun, interactive and downright daft creative writing show.

Age 5 – 10

Sat 14 May, 10.30am Sallis Benney Theatre £6

Daddy’s Sandwich with Pip Jones and Laura Hughes

If you were going to make Mummy or Daddy a sandwich containing ALL their favourite things, what would you include? Tomatoes? Cheese? Their favourite slippers and bubble bath? Join author Pip Jones and illustrator Laura Hughes to see what happens when one little girl makes a sandwich for her daddy. Expect joining in, drawing, and helping make a gigantic sandwich yourself!

Age 4+

Sat 14 May, 12.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

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Chris Riddell Children’s Laureate in residence

Winner of two Kate Greenaway medals for illustration, Brighton’s own Chris Riddell (The Edge Chronicles, Goth Girl) joins 26 Letters for no fewer than three events – for young people and grown-ups too!

Ask the Laureate

Come and meet Chris Riddell, and ask him anything you like about his work and how he gets ideas for his gorgeously detailed illustrations. Chris wants to show how much fun you can have with drawing, so the twist is that he will be drawing the answers to your questions. The questioners he picks can take their doodle- answers home as a unique memento.

All ages

Sat 14 May, 6pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

Poems and Pictures Live

See Chris’s enchanting illustrations take shape before your eyes while poet Rachel Rooney (The Language of Cat) reads some of her beautifully crafted poems in this lively literary event. Chris’s pictures are loved for their keen observation and telling detail, so Rachel’s poems will provide plenty of inspiration for his drawing.

Age 8+

Sun 15 May, 2.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

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Picture Book Masterclass

Find out everything you need to know about creating a picture book, from idea to publication, in this in-depth masterclass for grown-ups. Particularly helpful for students of illustration, there may also be the chance to show your own work to Chris, whose books include Pirate Diary and the Ottoline series.

Duration: 3 hours For ages 16+

Sun 22 May, 10.30am Brighton Dome Founders Room £25, Under 26s £15

Guy Parker-Rees

Find out how bestselling illustrator and author Guy Parker-Rees conjures characters for his books, which include Giraffes Can’t Dance. Meet Guy’s newest creation, Dylan the Dog, and enjoy stories, dancing and lots of drawing fun, with enough tips to make up your very own character. Gerald the Giraffe might even come out for a dance at the end...

Age 4 – 8

Sun 15 May, 10.30am Sallis Benney Theatre £6

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Release your inner cartoonist with Harry Venning

Cartoons are great, and so are cartoonists. Harry Venning’s exclusive cartoon workshops will help you become part of this elite branch of the arts as you learn how to transform a blank piece of paper into a riot of laughs, an explosion of adventure, a cacophony of sound and a gobsmack of disbelief.

Age 7+

Sun 15 May, 12.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

Young City Reads 2016

Brighton & Hove’s Big Read for young people returns! This year young story-lovers are invited to read and discuss Hamish and the WorldStoppers by Danny Wallace. For the Young City Reads Big Event, the award-winning author and presenter, together with the book’s illustrator Jamie Littler, will take centre stage for a live, interactive schools event to talk about their book and tell us more about Hamish, Alice and some disgusting creatures called ‘The Terribles’, who might come from outer space – or maybe France…

Age 8–11

Young City Reads Big Event

Thu 19 May, 1.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £3

‘Inventive, magical and rib-tickling’ The Guardian

Teachers who would like to sign up their class for the Big Read should visit collectedworks.co.uk/young-city-reads

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Julia Copus

When a hog and shrew are best friends, it’s only so long before there’ll be a hullabaloo! When Harry the Hog can’t sleep for strange noises, it’s up to Lil the Shrew to come over and find out what the problem is – not everything is what it seems! Join author Julia Copus to meet the characters, play some games, and enjoy a lovely reading of the adventure!

Age 3+

Sat 21 May, 10.30am Brighton Dome Founders Room £8 (admits 1 adult & 1 child)

Poetry workshop with Vanessa Kisuule

At just 23, award-winning Vanessa Kisuule is establishing herself as a leading young voice in contemporary poetry. In this workshop, focusing on the idea of ‘home’, she’ll show you how to find your unique voice and writing style and teach the performance and breathing techniques that will help your words get heard.

Duration: 2 hours Age 11 – 15

Sat 21 May, 2.30pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £12

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Writing workshop with Sita Brahmachari

Sita Brahmachari is the acclaimed author of Artichoke Hearts, Jasmine Skies, Kite Spirit and Red Leaves. This workshop offers a not-to-be-missed opportunity to gain writing tips, discuss storytelling and have a creative brainstorm with an award-winning author.

Duration: 2 hours Age 11 – 15

Sun 22 May, 3pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £12

Murder Mysteries and Bun Breaks with Robin Stevens

Robin Stevens is the author of the Murder Most Unladylike series, the witty and intriguing whodunnits set in a girls’ boarding school. Hear her talk about her detective duo Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong; find out why she is so fascinated with murder mysteries and what makes a great detective; and help create and solve a mystery of your very own…

Age 9–12

Sat 28 May, 5pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £6

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Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant creator Derek Landy’s epic road-trip across the supernatural landscape of America continues in Demon Road: Desolation. Action-packed and loaded with Landy’s signature razor-sharp wit, it’s guaranteed to set pulses racing. Join Derek to get a sneak peek of what will happen in the thrilling closing chapter of the trilogy.

Age 12+

Sun 29 May, 11am Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £6

Adopt an Author

Supported by GM Building

This exciting project to promote literacy and writing sees primary schools across Brighton & Hove linking with authors in eight weeks of creative fun and emailed inspiration. The project culminates in a ‘Meet Your Author’ party, at which each class meets its adopted author. This year Carden, Patcham, Stanford and Woodingdean Primary Schools are adopting the novelists Sarah Lean and Ross Montgomery and the comic artists/writers Marcia Williams and Gary Northfield.

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Visit the official blog for a fascinating selection of their emails: adoptanauthor.wordpress.com

Produced for Brighton Festival by Collected Works CIC

Peacock Poetry Prize

For the 50th Brighton Festival, our annual poetry competition in partnership with Brighton & Hove 6th Form College (BHASVIC) takes the theme of ‘Celebration’. Rejoice in the everyday or revel in the outlandish: what will you choose to celebrate?

Entries will be judged by our panel of experts and prizes awarded at a special ceremony at Brighton Dome on Thu 26 May, 5pm. There are four categories, for ages 8–11, 12–15, 16–17 and 18+. You can submit up to three poems with a maximum length of 40 lines per poem.

Email your entry, stating your full name, age and date of birth, to [email protected].

Deadline for entries: Fri 22 Apr, 5pm.

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Alongside Brighton Festival

Artists Open Houses weekends

Sat 30 Apr – Mon 30 May aoh.org.uk

This May Artists Open Houses open for five weekends, including both Bank Holiday weekends. Exhibiting work in a wide range of media, over 1,000 artists take part, opening up their homes and studios across the city and beyond. With homemade tea and cake on offer, the Open Houses are an unmissable part of the festival season.

The Village of Type

Throughout May (events until Sep)

ditchlingmuseumartcraft.org.uk

A fun and dynamic season of events celebrates 100 years since London Underground’s typeface was designed in an artists’ community just over the Downs from Brighton. Workshops, exhibitions, residencies and commissions by renowned artists throughout the picturesque village of Ditchling and beyond. You can also enjoy free specially designed letterpress prints as part of Letterpress On Board (7 & 8 May) on selected Southern Rail services between London Victoria and Brighton.

© Two Brighton Gulls Marion Brandis

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Brighton Fringe

Fri 6 May – Sun 6 Jun brightonfringe.org

Brighton Fringe is England’s largest arts festival and one of the largest fringe festivals in the world. This vast celebration of all things creative consists of hundreds of events and performances across a dizzying array of art forms. Start your Brighton Fringe with a trip to Fringe City on New Road, every Saturday and Sunday in May.

Fashion Cities Africa

30 Apr 2016 – 8 Jan 2017 brightonmuseums.org.uk

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition dedicated to contemporary African fashion. Explore street style and couture from Casablanca, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg.

Charleston Festival

Fri 20 – Mon 30 May charleston.org.uk/festival

As part of Charleston 100, celebrating one hundred years of Bloomsbury in Sussex, this year’s Festival will explore creative ideas from Shakespeare to fashion, feminism to the future of the planet.

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Highlights include conversations between Ian McEwan and Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees; Zaha Hadid and Julia Peyton-Jones; Joan Bakewell and Jon Snow. Plus talks from James Shapiro; Graham Swift; Andrew Marr; Edmund de Waal and Jeanette Winterson. Free shuttle bus from Lewes station.

The Great Escape

Thu 19 – Sat 21 May greatescapefestival.com

The Great Escape returns to venues across Brighton, bringing with it 450+ of the best up and coming artists. Day and weekend tickets available.

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