Brighton Festival
The Brighton Festival is an annual arts festival which takes place in the city of Brighton and Hove in England each May. It was founded in 1966, and is the largest multi-art form festival in England.[1] The 2006 festival organised over 200 events during 23 days which were attended by over 500,000 people.[citation needed]
The festival includes organised processions such as the Children's Parade, outdoor spectaculars often involving pyrotechnics, and a great deal of theatre, music, literature and visual arts in venues throughout the city, some of which are brought into this use exclusively for the festival.
One feature of the festival is the Artists Open House concept, whereby artists and craftspeople literally open up their houses for the public to view or buy their work.
The Festival regularly commissions new work from companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre; 2006's Festival included the world premiere of new work by Stomp's Brighton-based creators, Yes/No Productions. It also encourages cross-fertilisation between different art forms, such as 2006's "Stories In Motion", a multimedia collaboration between Chuck Palahniuk, Irvine Welsh and Orbital's Phil Hartnoll. also 2006's "Warp Moves", a collaboration between artists from Warp Records and dancers from Random Dance.
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[edit] Guest directors
Since 2009, the festival has featured guest artistic directors: in that year, Anish Kapoor fulfilled the role,[2] followed in 2010 by Brian Eno[3] and in 2011 by Aung San Suu Kyi.[4]
[edit] See also
- Brighton Festival Fringe.
- Edinburgh Festival (the UK's largest arts festival).
- Norfolk and Norwich Festival (The UK's oldest arts festival)
[edit] References
- ^ Toynbee, Polly (May 30 2006). "The arts of the state could yet prove a political weapon". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1785626,00.html.
- ^ Conrad, Peter (3 May 2009). "Round and round the gardens ...". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/03/anish-kapoor.
- ^ Green, Thomas H (2 April 2010). "Brian Eno on the Brighton Festival". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-festivals/7625642/Brian-Eno-on-the-Brighton-Festival.html.
- ^ Toynbee, Polly (16 April 2011). "Saturday interview: Aung San Suu Kyi". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/16/interview-aung-san-suu-kyi-polly-toynbee.
[edit] External links
- Brighton Festival – main festival official website.
- Brighton Festival Fringe – fringe festival official website.
- Artists Open Houses – website for separate element of the Brighton Festival.
- Brighton Festival Chorus – website for separate element of the Brighton Festival.
- Same Sky – arts organization, forms part of the Brighton Festival.
- Brighton Festival feature on Brighton information website View Brighton.
- Three Weeks featuring complete guides to both the Brighton Festival and Edinburgh Festival.
