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Sounds of the seafront...in Hove

Brighton Festival installation Audible Forces on Hove beach

7:10pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

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The seafront looked more like a Martian outpost than a traditional resort as one of the more unusual Brighton Festival installations was in town

Artist wants you to steal his work from streets of Brighton and Hove

Citizen Skwith's Be Naughty piece

6:30pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

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Citizen Skwith will be displaying his work around Brighton and Hove over the next few days as part of the Fringe, and is inviting people to steal it

Brighton Festival audio piece wins first Argus Angel Award

Argus Angel award winners EarFilms

6:20pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

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The European Premiere of EarFilms, which was staged in the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange,

Brighton Fringe show's coffin appeal

5:50pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

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Otherplace Productions is appealing to generous local undertakers to lend it a casket for its May 14 to 20 performances of its Brighton Fringe show Cold Comfort

Return of the Spiegeltent to Brighton Fringe

The Famous Spiegel Garden launch party. Third from the left Lilly Lewis 'Official Milliner' to the The Famous Spiegel Garden pictured with grils wearing her creations

7:10pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

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Brighton hatmaker Lilly Lewis helped launch the unique mirrored Spiegeltent as part of Brighton Fringe

Shirty start to Brighton Festival

Artist Kaarina with her shirt sculpture at Fabrica

3:10pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

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The initial stages of a flagship event at this year’s Brighton Festival are underway as clothing has begun to appear on the Clock Tower

Record sales signal big hit for Brighton Festival and Fringe

Pick up The Argus on Friday, May 3, for the special Festival and Fringe supplement with the latest news and ticket offers for both events

3:50pm Thursday 25th April 2013

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Brighton Festival and Fringe are both reporting record ticket sales with just days to go before the annual events

WIN AN EXCLUSIVE FAMILY DAY OUT AT GOODWOOD!

www.goodwood.com

4:02pm Monday 7th January 2013

The new season is now in full swing at Goodwood Racecourse and we are giving you and your family the chance to experience all the thrills of a day at the races.

Brighton Festival rap for holocaust event clash on Sabbath

Doris Levinson, the founding editor of Sussex Jewish News

2:10pm Monday 8th April 2013

The Jewish community has hit out at Brighton Festival organisers for scheduling religious-based events on their Sabbath.

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The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner. Photo by Robert Day

9:30am Tuesday 21st May 2013

To call Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel a challenge for a director or an adapter would be an understatement.

Varmints

Varmints

8:30am Tuesday 21st May 2013

Helen Ward and Marc Craste’s picture book Varmints is a true thing of beauty.

Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang

Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang

9:00am Monday 20th May 2013

It was the ruins of Lewes Priory at the bottom of his road which inspired actor and writer John Burrows to create his new two-hander about the effects of the Reformation.

Nathan Cassidy: Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner

Nathan Cassidy

5:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

Nathan Cassidy loves to gamble. So he’s taking a massive punt on himself to win the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2013.

Under The Shadow Of The Drone

Under The Shadow Of The Drone. Photo by Terry Applin

6:10pm Friday 10th May 2013

The team behind Brighton’s road markings and double yellow lines had a slightly unusual remit last week – to create a lifesize outline of a Reaper drone on Brighton’s Madeira Drive.

Knee Deep

Knee Deep. Photo by Sean Young

6:10pm Friday 10th May 2013

Trust is the root of circus troupe Casus’s work. The four performers from the Australian group live together in Brisbane, which, along with Montreal in Canada, has become a centre for the circus world.

Angelique Kidjo

Angelique Kidjo

6:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

Benin-born Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo may not have been where she is today without the support of her father.

Sam Lee and Friends

Sam Lee and Friends. Photo by Bernd Ott

6:00pm Friday 10th May 2013

Mercury Music Prize-nominated folk singer and archivist Sam Lee admits part of his obsession with collecting the long-forgotten songs of the British Isles was to stick it to “the grey beards”.

Building On What We Have

Brighton is part of the ‘Blue Banana’ mega-region. Photo by Terry Applin

5:50pm Friday 10th May 2013

More than 70% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. The news might shock Britons, who have traditionally viewed the city as a place of ills.

Votes For Women

Karen Antoni leading the Votes For Women tour

5:40pm Friday 10th May 2013

It is one hundred years since a group of 100 women from Brighton Suffragettes marched to London to support the call for votes for women.

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Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang, Friends' Meeting House, until Sunday, call 01273 917272

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11:49am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

FOR many years, the Reformation was just something that happened in the history books.

Luisa Omielan: What Would Beyoncé Do?! Komedia Studio, May 21

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11:45am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

The funky punctuation and the promise of pop diva singalongs laid seeds of trepidation, but Luisa Omielan’s new stand-up comedy show was a stunner.

The Visitor, Brighton Media Centre Gallery, May 21

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11:36am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

Playwright Sharon Jennings took her audience back to the Reformation and placed them in a prison cell where a monk, Sebastian Newdigate, stood chained to a stone pillar. In his habit, stained with filth and blood, he offered croaking prayers from his parched throat.

The Kite Runner, Theatre Royal Brighton, until Saturday, call 01273 709709

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11:19am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

The Kite Runner is a vast and rich novel, spanning several countries and decades of personal and political history. But it’s a mistake to assume that what works on paper will work on stage.

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