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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.

Meta supremo Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Orion smart glasses, a new augmented reality (AR) prototype, at the annual Meta Connect developer conference. Ten years in the making, and still not expected on high streets until 2027, these will be a new way to meld the real and digital worlds. They...
  The Fyre music festival and its well-publicised failure are widely seen as a mixture of incompetence and fraud, embodied in Billy McFarland, its chief architect. People paid thousands of dollars for what was advertised as a luxury music festival but they were served simple cheese sandwiches and the entertainment...
A letter, co-signed by hundreds of shops and trade bodies, declared that: Every penny you spend, every purchase you make, is a shop kept afloat and a job maintained. The message was clear: shoppers, your country needs you. It is a call to British consumers that has been made numerous times...
ROOM 101… SUPER STATES… THOUGHT POLICE…  STARRING KEITH ALLEN, MARK QUARTLEY, ELEANOR WYLD AND DAVID BIRRELL Seventy-five years on from the publication of George Orwell’s groundbreaking novel 1984, Theatre Royal Bath Productions’ thrilling new stage version by Ryan Craig and directed by Lindsay Posner, which will play Theatre Royal Brighton from Tue 29 October – Sat 2 November 2024, as...
Monday 24th - Saturday 28th September 2024 - Connaught Theatre, Worthing 3 stars Cluedo 2 - The Next Chapter brings a dose of 1960s style, plenty of slapstick and a good old-fashioned whodunnit to the stage. Drawing inspiration from the beloved board game, Cluedo, this play serves up a mix of...
Get ready to be transported back to the decade that defined a generation - as the legendary Jo Whiley brings her electrifying new show Jo Whiley's 90s Anthems to your doorstep and comnes to Concorde2, Brighton, Jan 25th. The undisputed queen of this decade of British music will be rummaging through...
From pumpkin picking at Preston Manor to big scares at BOOth Museum of Natural History, families looking for some unusual Halloween activities in October half-term are invited to experience the spooky side of Brighton & Hove Museums. The charity that owns five of the top cultural attractions across Brighton &...
Kiri Pritchard-McLean is delighted to announce the UK Tour of her brand new show, Peacock Peacock, which comes to The Dome, Brighton on Friday 25th October. Kiri has had a busy few years. As well as hosting Live at the Apollo, fronting the Radio 4 panel show Best Medicine and...
A TRAINEE horticulturist at Bates Green Farm in Arlington has won a silver medal for her show garden at BBC Gardener’s World Live annual flower show in Birmingham. Emma Lindsay, 28, from Brighton is on a year-long placement under the guidance of Head Gardener Emma Reece.She is training as part...
I have to be honest – I didn’t actually watch the first episode of the classic TV series Friends when it originally aired in the US on September 22 1994. Nor did I bother when it first turned up on British television the following spring. But the final instalment was...