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Tue 21st October 2025
Both Sides Now 10 – Artists’ Film Screening
6pm doors & bar, 630-8pm screening
Curated and produced by videoclub (UK) and Dr. Isaac Leung (HK), Both Sides Now 10 presents a dynamic compilation of artists’ film and video works from the UK and Hong Kong. With bold aesthetics and experimental approaches, the programme captures the diversity and complexity of our times, while remaining accessible, thought-provoking, and visually compelling. From […]
Wed 22nd October 2025
Symoné: ‘Nullspace Motel’
8pm
Nullspace Motel blends live art, pole, and dance with philosophical mini-videogames in a fractured road trip through Ish’s memories. Onstage and onscreen intertwine like collage, inviting audiences to question identity, power, memory, and what remains unknowable within ourselves. The game on screen and the dancers on stage unfold like fragments of the same collage, sometimes […]
Sensing Data: Memory in Place with Judith Ricketts
12 – 5pm
Sensing: Data presents seven years of work by artist Judith Ricketts, exploring how data and the built environment reveal the region’s connections to early global economic histories of the transatlantic slave trade. The exhibition brings together a process of research and making that spans discovery, excavation, and the creation of new artefacts. The fragments of […]
Thu 23rd October 2025
Sensing Data: Memory in Place with Judith Ricketts
12 – 5pm
Sensing: Data presents seven years of work by artist Judith Ricketts, exploring how data and the built environment reveal the region’s connections to early global economic histories of the transatlantic slave trade. The exhibition brings together a process of research and making that spans discovery, excavation, and the creation of new artefacts. The fragments of […]
Play Back Forward
11am - 5pm
Play Back Forward explores the legacy of Brighton and Hove’s early film pioneers, George Albert Smith, Laura Bayley, and James Williamson. The exhibition weaves together archival films, creative responses by young people, and new collaborative works by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin. This exhibition reimagines the archive as a time machine, opening up new ways […]
Symoné: ‘Highway to Infinity’
12pm-5pm
You are invited into an interactive installation, ‘Highway to Infinity’, a philosophical and parallel story to ‘Nullspace Motel’. A single-player interactive narrative, ‘Highway to Infinity’ holds up a mirror to the audience’s own unconscious mind, questioning preconceived ideas around identity, memory and the very fabric of reality. Glowing stacks of retro TVs and pulsing immersive […]
Photoworks X POST Photosocial: Marcel Top in conversation with Amin Yousefi
5:30-7:30pm
Belgian-London-based artist Marcel Top presents his recent project Poison Data, Kill Algorithms (2025), exploring the ethical and technical landscapes surrounding automated data collection and mass surveillance. Top’s work investigates how private companies collect and manipulate data for algorithmic training, and how “data poisoning” can be used to resist oppressive surveillance practices. In conversation with Amin […]
PATCH presents ‘push.to.play’
8pm
‘push.to.play’ is a celebration of the creative community at the University of Sussex, curated by student collective PATCH In the auditorium, experience an explosive live display of experimental music, visuals and performance from students and alumni, featuring sets from Robinson’s Village, the ambient project of James Burns, electronic duo Noise Peddler and sound artist and […]
Fri 24th October 2025
Sensing Data: Memory in Place with Judith Ricketts
12 – 5pm
Sensing: Data presents seven years of work by artist Judith Ricketts, exploring how data and the built environment reveal the region’s connections to early global economic histories of the transatlantic slave trade. The exhibition brings together a process of research and making that spans discovery, excavation, and the creation of new artefacts. The fragments of […]
Play Back Forward
11am - 5pm
Play Back Forward explores the legacy of Brighton and Hove’s early film pioneers, George Albert Smith, Laura Bayley, and James Williamson. The exhibition weaves together archival films, creative responses by young people, and new collaborative works by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin. This exhibition reimagines the archive as a time machine, opening up new ways […]
Sat 25th October 2025
Sensing Data: Memory in Place with Judith Ricketts
12 – 5pm
Sensing: Data presents seven years of work by artist Judith Ricketts, exploring how data and the built environment reveal the region’s connections to early global economic histories of the transatlantic slave trade. The exhibition brings together a process of research and making that spans discovery, excavation, and the creation of new artefacts. The fragments of […]
Play Back Forward
11am - 5pm
Play Back Forward explores the legacy of Brighton and Hove’s early film pioneers, George Albert Smith, Laura Bayley, and James Williamson. The exhibition weaves together archival films, creative responses by young people, and new collaborative works by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin. This exhibition reimagines the archive as a time machine, opening up new ways […]
Glitch v.3
7pm-10pm
Step into a dimly lit space where layered projections shift, collapse, and respond to your touch. Through a simple trackpad, you take control – moving through fragments of a nonlinear narrative about being othered, masked, watched, and reshaped. As you scroll, the room seems to listen. Visuals distort. Audio bends. Characters surface from the gloom, […]
Press Play – A Creative Activity Day at Hove Museum
11am - 4pm
Explore new ways to play with and reimagine the film archive through optical tricks, experimental animation, zine-making and more. Activities are inspired by the Play Back Forward exhibition at Hove Museum, including workshops led by the exhibiting artists, Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin. Event Details Alongside creative workshops, visitors can explore the Play Back Forward […]
Brighton Railway Station Tour
12 - 2pm
Step behind the scenes of one of the city’s most iconic landmarks with the Brighton Railway Station Tour, led by Rob Whitehead, Community Engagement Manager. Explore hidden areas such as the atmospheric Cab Road tunnel, normally closed to the public, as well as spaces around the station that reveal stories of its growth and transformation. […]
Oska Bright Film Festival X Dreamy Place Outdoor Film Trail
7pm-8pm
Experience a unique cinematic journey with Dreamy Place as we present films co-curated with Oska Bright Film Festival – the world’s largest festival dedicated to showcasing films made by, or featuring, learning disabled and autistic creators from around the globe. Join us for an unforgettable outdoor film trail through the vibrant streets of Brighton. Watch […]
Glittering Prospects
10am-6pm
Discover the stories buried beneath Brighton’s sands in this atmospheric audio drama Glittering Prospects is a deeply atmospheric 20-minute audio drama by sound designer Anna Bertmark that weaves together Brighton Beach’s hidden histories, environmental mysteries, and the stories of those who search its shores. Inspired by cinematic interview techniques and found audio recordings, the piece […]
Future Visions
2-9pm
The new BYC is here — and young people are already flipping the script on what it could be. With David Allistone from Exploring Senses, they’ve mixed real dreams and wild fantasies to show how the space can live and breathe youth culture, shaped by the ideas of the next generation. Using digital collage, Procreate […]
SAFE x Fabrica x Dreamy Place: Workshop Exploring AI Art with Duncan Thomsen
2-5pm
Join us for an inspiring workshop that looks at how to use AI technology and creative story telling to create your own striking imagery blends creative storytelling with cutting‑edge technology, guided by one of the pioneers of AI imagery, Duncan Thomsen. Duncan has spent more than 35 years working with broadcasters like the BBC, Discovery, ITV, […]
SAFE x Fabrica x Dreamy Place: Talk AI, Robots & Myth
7-8:30pm, doors open at 6:45pm
Join artist Duncan Thomsen, TeamRobot and SAFE Gallery Director, Samuel Buckley for an artists presentation and discussion that looks at the artists’ use of AI in their art practice, the benefits and pitfalls of this new emerging technology and how technology can be used to rethink creativity. Rather than seeing AI as a threat, Thomsen […]
Sun 26th October 2025
Sensing Data: Memory in Place with Judith Ricketts
12 – 5pm
Sensing: Data presents seven years of work by artist Judith Ricketts, exploring how data and the built environment reveal the region’s connections to early global economic histories of the transatlantic slave trade. The exhibition brings together a process of research and making that spans discovery, excavation, and the creation of new artefacts. The fragments of […]
Play Back Forward
11am - 5pm
Play Back Forward explores the legacy of Brighton and Hove’s early film pioneers, George Albert Smith, Laura Bayley, and James Williamson. The exhibition weaves together archival films, creative responses by young people, and new collaborative works by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin. This exhibition reimagines the archive as a time machine, opening up new ways […]
Glittering Prospects
10am-6pm
Discover the stories buried beneath Brighton’s sands in this atmospheric audio drama Glittering Prospects is a deeply atmospheric 20-minute audio drama by sound designer Anna Bertmark that weaves together Brighton Beach’s hidden histories, environmental mysteries, and the stories of those who search its shores. Inspired by cinematic interview techniques and found audio recordings, the piece […]
HINTERLANDS by Pell Ensemble
8 time slots available between 10:15am and 6:15pm
Inspired by microorganisms called extremophiles that live on the edge of habitability, in some of earth’s most inhospitable environments, Hinterlands is a mixed reality headset experience on the speculative futures of human evolution. Movement, spatial sound and augmented reality create a space that unfolds differently for you and the dancer. Through an invitation to move, […]