“As a resident of Brighton and Hove, the Festival

is always a delight. Those who have visited

the Festival before will know that having such

an incredible array of events occur in our city

every year is a great privilege.

The great thing about Brighton Festival is that you see things that are really thrilling and wonderful that you’ve never heard of before. What I’m looking forward to about

the role of Guest Director is having the opportunity to not only see a lot of stuff and programme stuff, but also make some artwork

myself and have it presented in the place where I live.

I think it’s a really % nice way to

communicate with people, to meet people,

and to invite people to come to Brighton.”

Welcome to the 52nd Brighton Festival, our most diverse and wide-ranging Festival yet, with more opportunities than ever for everyone to get involved and participate.

David Shrigley, acclaimed visual artist and resident of Brighton, has helped guide and inspire this programme as Guest Director, and I hope you will enjoy his work and his influence as much as we have enjoyed working with him.

Every year, audiences tell us one of their prime reasons for coming to Brighton Festival is to try something new. I hope that this year our Festival provides you with that opportunity. I hope you might also consider offering that experience to others in our community who might otherwise not be able to come. Last year we introduced Pay-It-Forward and were overwhelmed by the generosity and enthusiasm of our audiences. A donation of £5 on top of the price of your tickets is matched by Brighton Festival to create a £10 Festival ticket voucher for someone unable to afford the opportunity. We want Brighton Festival to be for everyone, and by contributing in this way you can help us make it even more accessible.

Bringing Brighton Festival together every year is a great privilege. It is only possible because of the extraordinary support we have from our funders, patrons, supporters and sponsors, and we thank everyone for their invaluable contributions. I would also like to thank our dedicated staff, enthusiastic volunteers, and generous and creative partner organisations for making Brighton Festival what it is, and for bringing this wonderful city to life each May.

I hope you enjoy this event and all that Brighton Festival 2018 has to offer.

Andrew Comben, Chief ExecutiveBrighton Dome & Brighton Festival andrew.comben@brightonfestival.org

Brighton Festival 2018 Guest Director: David Shrigley

Cover illustration: David Shrigley

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VINCENT DANCE THEATRE

SHUT DOWNWed 9 May – Sun 27 May 2018 ONCA Gallery

Directed & designed by Charlotte Vincent

Wed 9 May–Sun 27 May12–6pm (except Mondays and Tuesdays)ONCA Gallery

Devised and performed by adult collaborators Robert Clark, Jake Evans, Janusz Orlik and Jack Sergison, and young collaborators Marcus Faulkner, Eben Roddis and James Rye

Cinematographer, editor: Bosie VincentSoundtrack: Jules Maxwell with AudioActive’s Marshall Mandiangu and Matt McLaughlinSpoken word: Eben’FloProduction Management (live/film): Mat OrtProduction Management (installation): Steve Collis

Created in partnership with AudioActive, Brighton.

Filmed on location at The Place, London, RSPB Dungeness, Newhaven Fort, Warehouse 13 Quarry Road, Fort Road Recreation Ground and Platinum Gym Newhaven, East Sussex.

Particular thanks to: Jon Clark, Tom Hines, Adam Joolia, Michael Sells and the young people at AudioActive; Clare McKinley at Mankind; and the staff at The Connected Hub.

Thanks to: the co-collaborators who have shared their stories; The Place, London; parents Zoe Rye, Shehnaz and Simon Faulkner, Tamar Underhill and Tristan Roddis; chaperone Sheila Palmer-Williams; Ceyda Tanc Studio; Allistare Smedley, Susannah Smith and their colleagues at Brighton & Hove City Council; Henry Summers at Trafalgar Estate Management; Louise Kelly at RSPB Dungeness; Kath Dudley at Newhaven Fort; Jackie Blackwell at Lewes District Council; South East Dance; Berry den Breeje, Sean Zion Espinho Stakim and Marso Riviere; Munya Muchati at Streetfunk; Denise Perry at Arts Council England; and Jon Clayton, Megs Bruce, Leona Good and VDT’s Board of Trustees.

SHUT DOWN is supported using public funding by Arts Council England, and by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Sussex Community Foundation and the Chalk Cliff Trust.

Directed by one of the UK’s most risk-taking, rigorous choreographers, SHUT DOWN features Vincent Dance Theatre’s first all-male cast and investigates the pressures, contradictions and confusions of being a man. The work plays out across six screens in a thought-provoking collision of movement, rap, spoken word and striking visual imagery, laced with Charlotte Vincent’s dark British humour.

SHUT DOWN has been created in partnership with Brighton’s AudioActive, a music organisation working with young people and contemporary urban culture; their influence, testimonies and music thread through the work.

Downstairs @ ONCAJon Clark of AudioActive and Vincent Dance Theatre have facilitated a series of workshops with young men from across Brighton to create original rap/spoken word pieces that reflect on what it’s like to live as a man today. Accompanied by visuals that reflect the installation in the main gallery, their tracks play downstairs at ONCA in a space where visitors can respond to the work by leaving their own mark, drawings and words in charcoal on a big white paper wall.

Please note: the content Downstairs @ ONCA contains explicit language

Charlotte Vincent on SHUT DOWNI have been making work and campaigning about gender equality for nearly 30 years and never has it seemed more relevant than in the light of the #MeToo campaign last year and the recent media storm around everyday sexism, sexual harassment, abuse of power and the gender pay gap. Making work with men from three different generations in Brighton during this unprecedented period of disclosures and social action by women across the world was sobering, timely and validating for me as an artist, a woman and a feminist, and for the company, whose aim is to use dance theatre to reflect the critical times in which we live.

SHUT DOWN grapples with the personal and the political: the urge to fight, to love, to come together, to be yourself, to be what’s expected of you, to break the rules. The work shines a fierce and sometimes funny light on misogyny, role modelling, fatherhood, ‘otherness’ and how we fail to engage with young men and their emotional needs. The voices of young people are urgent and moving in the work—they show us, as a society, where we really are.

Charlotte Vincent Artistic Director, designerBrought up in Sussex, Charlotte Vincent formed Vincent Dance Theatre (VDT) in Sheffield in 1994 to create new work, with associated social engagement and professional development programmes, that challenges conventional values in dance and gender politics. The company moved to Brighton in 2013. Charlotte has conceived and directed all the company’s work to date and has designed the work since 2005. She is committed to raising awareness around gender inequality, with her distinctive voice acting as a catalyst for critical debate and social change. She regularly mentors emerging and mid-career dance artists and acts as a director, researcher and dramaturg for smaller-scale projects led by female performers and choreographers. She is the co-founder of Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture festival in Leeds.

Bosie Vincent cinematographer, editorBosie Vincent has been making films, documentaries and television programmes for over 20 years for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky Arts, PBS, Discovery and National Geographic. His work covers a diverse range of subjects, including science, art and design, music, wildlife and adventure, and has taken him all over the world. He once worked as Brighton Council’s ‘Video Worker’, making films with disadvantaged members of the community. Resident in Brighton for more than 25 years, he has made a short film about Brighton’s enduring mod scene and has showcased the work of local artists and photographers.

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Jules Maxwell composerJules Maxwell has composed music for a wide variety of choreographers over the last 20 years, including Wayne McGregor, Dog Kennel Hill Project, Jasmin Vardimon, Jane Mason, Cathy Marston, Charlotte Darbyshire, Theo Clinkard, Filip Van Huffel, New Art Club, Laila Diallo, Hofesh Shechter and Jeanine Durning. His background is in theatre and he regularly works at the National Theatre, the Young Vic and Shakespeare’s Globe, London. He also has a long-standing relationship with artist Mark Storor, with whom he has created many small- and large-scale promenade and circus pieces. At the heart of his music and practice is a curiosity to find links across disciplines, hearing music in movement and light and language. He lives in France.

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Vincent Dance TheatreLed by Artistic Director and choreographer Charlotte Vincent, Vincent Dance Theatre (VDT) creates work on stage, on film and online alongside participation and professional development programmes that challenge conventional values in dance and gender politics. Making crucial performance for the critical times in which we live, it aims to place its work at the heart of public debate. In 2017 VDT was nominated as Best Independent Company by the Critics Circle National Dance Awards. Vincent Dance Theatre is a National Portfolio Organisation, funded by Arts Council England, and Associate Company at Brighton Dome.

Artistic Director, CEO: Charlotte VincentGeneral Manager: Niamh Lynam-CotterParticipation and Digital Development Director: Sian Williams Fundraising and Development Director: Judith HibberdFinance Manager: Katie BoughDigital Marketing Officer: Andrea EdwardsPress: Chloe BarkerBoard: Rose Kigwana (Chair), Dinos Aristidou, Claire MacDonald, Alick Mighall, Natasha Reynolds, Alex Williams

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Twitter: @VincentDT #VDTShutDownInstagram: @VincentDanceTheatreUKFacebook: @vincentdance

Free group workshops10am–12noon every weekday ONCA

VDT is running free group workshops to explore the content of this installation. If you are interested in bringing a group, please contact the company at admin@vincentdt.com, or talk to one of the ushers.

Free talkWed 23 May, 6pm ONCA

VDT’s Artistic Director Charlotte Vincent will be in conversation with Rachel Thomson, Professor of Childhood and Youth Studies at University of Sussex, discussing the process of making her first all-male work for VDT and the impact of #MeToo and #TimesUp.

Stretch & Release session Thu 10, 17 and 24 May, 9.30am–10.30am ONCA

Start the day with Charlotte Vincent in a FREE relax and stretch playful release-based session. Children aged under 5 are welcome to attend and join in. Drop in, but with limited capacity of 8 adults.

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