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From art exhibitions and theatre to music, literature and creative movements, this category explores the people, places and ideas shaping Brighton’s cultural life — celebrating both grassroots creativity and headline events across the city.

This year at the Brighton Fringe, Invisible Voices will be showcasing a brand new project that tells the personal stories of the homeless around Brighton and Hove. The project aims to highlight Brighton and Hove’s ongoing problem with homelessness and to ‘give a voice to those who are homeless...
On the corner of Sydney street and Trafalgar Street there used to be co-operative clothing stores, much like the independent shops that still line the famous North Laine. If we transport ourselves around a hundred years ago to when this photograph was taken, we can see a vast arrangement of...
The long established satirical comedy The Treason Show will be excoriating your favourite politicians once again at The Rialto Theatre next month, as it continues to march cheerfully into its sixteenth year since its hilarious birth in Brighton in the year 2000. Having once graced the insides of the Komedia...
Everyone's favourite gobal bromance is coming to Brighton. Following on from their Broadway hit, Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf, Magneto, Estragon), will be joined on the stage by Sir Patrick Stewart (Picard, Prof. Xavier, Vladimir), to star in Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter's masterpiece play - No Man's Land - which will be appearing...
Believe it or not, this a circus procession of elephants slowly plodding down Western Road – Brighton’s biggest shopping area. This vintage snap was taken between Temple Street and Borough Street in 1899 and it shows; note the gigantic hats of the women in the crowd lining the narrow street, and...
Brighton Pavilion’s luscious and outwardly oriental design is often a big focus for tourists, it is Brighton’s biggest attraction, but the Pavilion's time as a military hospital with a rich history steeped in the care for wounded Indian and British soldiers during WWI is less known. Over 6,000 amputee soldiers...
Three performances will be taking place at The Old Market this month as part of their Women’s Voices Mini-Series. Starting on the 15th, Three Generations of Women will kick off the mini-series. Created by the Broken Leg Theatre company, Three Generations of Women is ‘as story of the horrors...
The Yellow Book is billed as the UK's first steampunk pub, and as such it is only right that it should have been established in our fair city. In case you didn't know, Brighton - with its Victorian pier, Georgian architecture and relaxed attitude towards people who wander about in...
A Turner Prize Winning artist is inviting people from all over the world to get involved with a collaborative film project to be exhibited here in Brighton. A Room With Your Views will be a video installation and exhibition by Gillian Wearing, OBE. She is inviting us to film...
In 1979 a young Mod called Jimmy Cooper embarked on a booze and drug filled emotional journey as he rode to Brighton for the weekend to fight a Mods cultural enemy, Rockers. Adapted from the rock opera by rock legends The Who, Quadrophenia quickly became a cult classic and...