BRIGHTON Festival continues today, with 150 events set to take place until May 29.
With many exciting music, art, theatre and culture events happening across Brighton and Hove, here is a list of just some today:
Eva Quantica at the Loading Bar, Brighton
“Adjust your VR headset and step inside a surrealist painting.”
This is a "dreamlike, reflective bubble of lockdown Brighton. An open world with hands for hills, a cupcake pavilion, platforms, statues, dancing figures and a glowing lifeforce surging through it all".
Brighton-based digital artist Maf’j Alvarez brings a different story of Eve in Paradise. Featuring the remixed choreography of Kristen McNally and music by Bunty, this one explores female power, patriarchy, immigration and obligation.
Friday, May 20 at 4pm to9.30pm, free
Animal Place at The Spire - St Mark's Chapel, Brighton
This installation was made in collaboration with schools and local groups, who gathered forgotten objects from the area around them, "listened to their curiosity, and helped them become animals".
Tim Spooner is an artist working in performance, installation, painting and sculpture. His work uses materials in ways that reveal unexpected properties. Animal Place continues his fascination with the totemic power of objects, and the specificity and local identity that they can carry despite their abstract and mysterious nature.
Under 16s to be accompanied by an adult
Friday, May 20 at 3pm to 9pm, free
Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists at Brighton Dome Concert Hall
A chance to hear the best emerging young singers from Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists scheme.
Glyndebourne works with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation to support the development of young singers; this is a wonderful opportunity to hear great voices of tomorrow today.
Friday, May 20 at 1pm
Tickets cost £10
Handel's Unsung Heroes at Brighton Dome Concert Hall
La Nuova Musica is joined by star countertenor Tim Mead to explore arias from Handel’s operas
Under the baton of David Bates, Davies and three virtuoso soloists from La Nuova Musica – the violinist Thomas Gould, oboist Katharina Spreckelsen and bassoonist Inga Maria Klaucke – perform a selection of obbligato arias showing how Handel wrote music as virtuosic and lyrical for his unsung heroes as for their singing counterparts.
Friday, May 20 at 8pm
Tickets cost £10, £15, £22.50, £27.50
Under 26s £20
Festival Standby £10
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