Lack of funds scuppers White Night

11:30am Sunday 13th May 2012 in News By John Keenan

A major cultural event will not go ahead this year.

White Night is an all-night cultural festival which takes place on the last Saturday in October.

But Brighton and Hove Arts and Creative Industries Commission has decided to take a year off from running it.

The event no longer receives the European Union Interreg funding which provided half of the £150,000 needed to put it on.

Last year the Arts Council turned down a funding application for £50,000.

Jackie Lythell, chair of the commission, said the decision not to go ahead this year was because of lack of funding and also because of the large number of other activities and events taking place in the Olympic and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Year.

She said: “The event has been an enormous success over the last four years, but we need to take stock, to take a year out and take time to develop different ways of supporting it and making it happen.

“We are already in discus- sions with prospective sponsors for 2013 and open to any new ideas.”

Comments(19)

turtling. says...
11:42am Sun 13 May 12

that's a shame....what are all the nocturnal benefit claimants going to do now apart from half of them being off their nut on drink/drugs?

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john5001 says...
11:53am Sun 13 May 12

good wot a wast of money

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wole says...
12:13pm Sun 13 May 12

Very good news about this White Night not going ahead. Yet another total waste of time and money.

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wharrgarbl says...
12:42pm Sun 13 May 12

Good to see the comments section is cheery as always.

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censored says...
12:49pm Sun 13 May 12

Ah yes... arts and cultural events simply have no worth. Enjoyment and enrichment are SUCH as waste of time and money.


I assume these commenters have no TV, since nothing on it has any worth.

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Popped vanity implant says...
1:46pm Sun 13 May 12

Instead of "White Night" how about "Blackout on the Beach"?

It could include a city-wide tour to see the Loughborough graduates of 1999 extreme performance art of sleeping off bootleg wine and skunk in various well-lit skips in the road. Sliding then inexorably towards the "Crouching jager-bomb victim, hidden vomit of West Street" installation where pointillistic patterns akin to Seurat's finest are reproduced on the pavement each night with vodka, kebab meat, and brown lettuce. Finally taking in a Pissarro on the seafront?

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george smith says...
4:42pm Sun 13 May 12

With people now relying on food parcels if it did go ahead it would have the ring of Marie Antoinette pleasuring herself and coming out with let them eat cake

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HJarrs says...
5:08pm Sun 13 May 12

george smith wrote:
With people now relying on food parcels if it did go ahead it would have the ring of Marie Antoinette pleasuring herself and coming out with let them eat cake
It also generated way more than £150000 in revenue for businesses in B&H. So that will be a few more food parcels required.

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rosieposey says...
6:43pm Sun 13 May 12

I have visited Brighton twice for white nights and each time have seen no more drunkeness etc than is usual in a city on a saturday night.There are so many things going on that there is no time to get drunk if you are truly there for White night,i hope this is not the end.

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AmboGuy says...
6:49pm Sun 13 May 12

john5001 wrote:
good wot a wast of money
What's a 'wast' of money?

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
6:50pm Sun 13 May 12

Didn't someone nick a piano from the street last year?

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PorkBoat says...
7:57pm Sun 13 May 12

Maybe the council can fund it, they seem to have found £14 million to give away recently.

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Morpheus says...
8:21pm Sun 13 May 12

So successful that the people who go are not prepared to pay for it!

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sdhgfhfuyt says...
8:22pm Sun 13 May 12

turtling. wrote:
that's a shame....what are all the nocturnal benefit claimants going to do now apart from half of them being off their nut on drink/drugs?
you should work for the Daily Fail

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brightonparty says...
4:01pm Mon 14 May 12

People who moan about this event are either very bored with their vapid lives or rabid right-wingers who think are Art is just the other half of Garfunkel. If you don't like it move to Eastbourne, you'll fit right in.

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No-nonsense says...
12:10pm Tue 15 May 12

Those who consistently moan about benefit scroungers etc. seem to have too much time on their hands... No work to do?

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No-nonsense says...
12:13pm Tue 15 May 12

White Night is a fantastic event for everyone - it makes me proud to live in Brighton that such events are put on. And by the way: how do you know that no one would pay for admission? I would, and I'm sure many others, too.

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wole says...
4:19pm Tue 15 May 12

Out of your Giro perhaps?

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clubrob6 says...
6:53pm Tue 15 May 12

Its hard for events these days it costs so much to put them on but people wont even part with £1,pride proved this even though it got so popular preston park became unsafe and it lost money as no one would put in collection buckets.Now it has to be a paying event which hopefully this year will be a sucess now that buisness people are running it.

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