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RadioReverb to partner with Brighton Festival

RadioReverb to partner with Brighton Festival

RadioReverb, Brighton’s not for profit radio station will be this years’ Broadcast Media Partner for Brighton Festival 2017. The radio station, which started broadcasting in 2004 for two weeks during the Brighton Festival, and was then awarded a full community broadcasting licence from OFCOM in 2007

Singers invited to perform as part of Brighton Festival 2017

Singers invited to perform as part of Brighton Festival 2017

Brighton Festival is looking for 100-125 singers to perform as part of a special inter-choral choir for a large-scale, cross-art outdoor performance, featuring song, dance and physical theatre, as part of Brighton Festival 2017.

Brighton Festival announce Guest Director for 2017

Brighton Festival announce Guest Director for 2017

Brighton Festival announce that the Guest Director for Brighton Festival 2017 is the acclaimed recording artist, poet, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest. Described by the Guardian as ‘one of the brightest British talents around,’ Tempest’s prolific artistic output across multiple disciplines has

REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Stella

REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Stella

Neil Bartlett’s two-hander (technically a three-hander) is a complex meditation on gender and identity. It’s based on the life of Victorian cross-dresser Stella (born Ernest) Boulton who survived a scandalous court case and went on to have a successful career as a female impersonator.

REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Anthony Burrill

REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Anthony Burrill

Part of the joy of the Festival is it revels in its nerdyness and this lovely presentation, and talk from Sussex resident Anthony Burrill on the joys of simple expressive printing was a well-attended, informative and ultimately enjoyable night out.

PREVIEW: Penny Arcade in Longing Lasts Longer

PREVIEW: Penny Arcade in Longing Lasts Longer

Penny Arcade is a force of nature and New York’s undisputed queen of the underground. Outrageous and inspirational, Arcade occupies a unique position in the American avant-garde and counterculture movement.

PREVIEW: Brighton Festival: Stella by Neil Bartlett

PREVIEW: Brighton Festival: Stella by Neil Bartlett

A theatrical encounter with a truly remarkable person, Stella is a new show inspired by the strange life and lonely death of Ernest Boulton – one half of the now-infamous Victorian cross-dressing duo Fanny and Stella.

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