Tue 21st October 2025
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 […]
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Wed 22nd October 2025
8pm
£7 / £5 Concessions / Limited Pay What You Decide tickets available
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 […]
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Wed 22nd October 2025, Thu 23rd October 2025, Fri 24th October 2025, Sat 25th October 2025, Sun 26th October 2025
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 […]
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Thu 23rd October 2025, Fri 24th October 2025, Sat 25th October 2025, Sun 26th October 2025
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 […]
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Thu 23rd October 2025
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 […]
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Thu 23rd October 2025
5:30-7:30pm
Free, booking essential (booking link to follow soon)
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 […]
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Thu 23rd October 2025
8pm
£7.00 / £5.00 Concessions / Pay What You Decide tickets available
‘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 […]
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Sat 25th October 2025
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, […]
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Sat 25th October 2025
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 […]
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Sat 25th October 2025
12 - 2pm
£15 donation to Mind + £1.25 booking fee
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. […]
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Sat 25th October 2025
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 […]
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Sat 25th October 2025, Sun 26th October 2025
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 […]
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Sat 25th October 2025
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 […]
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Sat 25th October 2025
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 […]
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Sun 26th October 2025
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, […]
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