May 18, 2012 
Festivals
Brighton Fringe 2012 review: Footprints @ Salvation Army Brighton Congress Hall 14 May 2012
Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor Suchi reviews Monday’s performance of Footprints by the Fan Dance Theatre Company as part of the Brighton Fringe 2012. Until recently I had not heard of the Fan Dance Theatre Company. Nor had I any idea what their production of “Footprints” was about but I accepted an invitation to [...]
Brighton Festival 2012 review: The Unsaid – Diplomatic Incidents @ the Pavilion Theatre 13 May 2012
Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor Elizabeth Hughes listens carefully and questions everything at The Unsaid: Diplomatic Incidents as part of the Brighton Festival 2012. “Why do we not say what we mean?” asked Dr Biljana Scott at the Brighton Festival on Sunday afternoon (13 May 2012). Dr Scott is a linguistics expert with a [...]
Brighton Fringe 2012 preview: Living Rough – Rough Living @ First Base 19 & 26 May 2012
New exhibition highlights reality of homelessness in Brighton ‘Living Rough – Rough Living’, facilitated and curated by City College Photography tutor Denise Felkin in collaboration with Brighton Homeless Community, is a striking new photography and art project that provides an insight into a marginalised section of the community that is all too often overlooked. Linking [...]
Brighton Fringe 2012 preview: Al Start’s Big Gig for Little Monsters @ Brighton Komedia 20 May 2012
Take your little monster to a great big gig this May when Al Start and her Beastie Band play the Brighton Komedia. Following in the footprints of last year’s sensational, double sell-out show, Gorrid the Horrid, this gig promises more of those excellent songs that children love. Tall stories meet tiny ukuleles, Bigfoot meets a [...]
Brighton event: Bevendean Fringe Arts Festival @ the Holy Nativity Community Project 12 – 13 May 2012
The sixth Annual Bevendean Fringe Arts festival is being held on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May 2012 at the Holy Nativity Community Project, bottom of Norwich Drive from 11-4pm daily. Admission to the exhibition is free and over 20 local artists are taking part in this popular community open house. From landscapes, portraits and [...]
Brighton Festival 2012 review: English Chamber Choir @ St Batholomew’s Church 11 May 2012
Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor Elizabeth Hughes reviews a performance of a world premiere by the English Chamber Choir at St Bartholomew’s Church in Brighton as part of the Brighton Festival 2012. The beautiful vastness of St Bartholomew’s Church was the venue for a joyful performance by the English Chamber Choir on Friday night. [...]
Brighton Festival 2012 preview: The Unsaid Diplomatic Incidents @ the Pavilion Theatre 13 May 2012
Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor Elizabeth Hughes previews Sunday’s Brighton Festival 2012 show at the Pavilion Theatre – The Unsaid: Diplomatic Incidents. The importance of the words we use, in particular in politics and the media, has never been more important and an event which examines this issue at Brighton Festival has already sold [...]
The Great Escape 2012: Saturday 12 May 2012 Review
So, after two fantastic days at The Great Escape we hoped for more of the same on Saturday and we were not disappointed. Who we saw: Jackson Firebird (Digital, 1.30pm) Red Ink (Digital, 2pm) Chet Faker (Digital, 2.45pm) Jinja Safari (Digital, 3.20pm) Palma Violets (Komedia Upstairs, 8.15pm) Howler (Komedia Upstairs, 9pm) Alabama Shakes (Komedia Upstairs, [...]
The Great Escape 2012: Friday 11 May 2012 Review
After a good first day we were pleased to feel the sun on our skin as we headed off into town for the second day of The Great Escape. Luckily we had the day off work, so we could get out and about early and catch as much music as possible. Who we saw: Tiny [...]
The Great Escape 2012: Thursday 10 May 2012 review
Thursday saw The Great Escape 2012 get off to a flying start, despite the miserable Brighton weather. Although we were stuck in the office till the evening, so missed all the Thursday daytime bands (boo) we more than made up with it by our excellent choice of evening bands (even if we do so say [...]
Brighton Festival 2012 review: Book Slam @ the Corn Exchange 7 May 2012
Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor Elizabeth Hughes finds out that the literary scene is anything but down and out in her review of Book Slam at the Corn Exchange on Monday 7 May, as part of Brighton Festival 2012. The Book Slam event at Brighton Dome got off to a smashing start on Monday [...]
Brighton Fringe 2012: Cindy Wolfe Boynton’s Right Time to Say I Love You @ Iambic Arts Theatre
As a US-based freelance journalist for The New York Times, Boston Globe and other publications, Cindy Wolfe Boynton has made a career out of telling other people’s stories. Now, however, she is telling her own through ‘Right Time to Say I Love You’ – a one-woman play about taking care of her mother with Parkinson’s [...]
Brighton Festival 2012 preview: English Chamber Choir live @ St Bartholomew’s Church 11 May 2012
Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor Elizabeth Hughes previews the upcoming English Chamber Choir live performance at St Bartholomew’s Church as part of Brighton Festival 2012. Music from across three centuries will meet at St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton, on Friday night (11 May 2012). The English Chamber Choir will present the world premiere of a [...]
Brighton Festival review: Faber Social @ the Corn Exchange 5 May 2012
Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor Elizabeth Hughes finds out that the Faber Social event as part of Brighton Festival 2012 is not quite as sociable as she had been expecting. The stage at Brighton’s Corn Exchange on Saturday night (5 May 2012) was certainly packed with literary talent. Veteran Irish writer Edna O’Brien was [...]
Brighton Fringe 2012: Spring Seedling Swap @ Preston Park 20 May 2012
Come and swap or buy seedlings for your garden! Have you got some spare seedlings you’d like to swap for some new and different varieties? Or perhaps you had the best intentions to sow some seeds but just didn’t get around to it? Join us for the swap, plus family-friendly activities by our vegetable garden [...]
Follow @brighton_FP
