“A moving symbol of cooperation and humanity” – COAL review
“This is not a show. It’s something else”, we’re told. Gary Clarke’s dance performance of the life and decline of Britain’s mining communities is certainly something else. ‘Do you want…
Brighton’s craft beer festival returns in April for third year
Brighton will become the hub of craft beer in more than a dozen pubs from April 27-29. The Brighton Tap Takeover returns for a third year bringing craft beers to…
Young blood promotes brain regeneration
On the “growing old is natural” vs “it should be medically reversed” debate, vampires have crossed the picket line from the get-go and scientists have just proven they may have…
The educational psychology of children with autism
The scientific field of educational psychology studies the relationship between learning processes and the individual differences in cognitive development, motivation and intelligence. The majority of children are able to understand…
Stand Up & Slam review
Sometimes the best experiences are those you initially question. Stand Up & Slam is one such idea, for it is a resounding triumph of an evening. Hosted in the downstairs…
Organisms, self-understanding and sacrifice in Rambert’s production at Theatre Royal Brighton
Goat.-Rambert-Dancers-FrontCentre-Daniel-Davidson.-©-Hugo-Glendinning Rambert delivered a series of fluid performances where human bodies became elegant oscillations, much like the metallic wall used on stage to divide the dancers in the opening piece:…
SMuTS presents ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ review
Excitement and anticipation were running high Wednesday evening at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) for the opening night of Sussex Musical Theatre Society’s (SMuTS’s) Spring production: Jekyll…
SU Election coverage – Dead Slate: all women elected for third consecutive year at Sussex
The results are in for this year’s Students’ Union election, which saw 30 candidates running to be the full-time elected representatives of the student body at Sussex. The results for…
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra: Spring 17/18
Using his iPad to conduct while expertly running through the cadenzas, Howard Shelley’s dual role of conductor and soloist in a performance of Mendelssohn’s first piano concerto might more readily…
East Slope protestors had heating cut off and toilets removed during Occupation
Students occupying the half-built East Slope accommodation complex had their access to toilets removed, the heating shut off in sub-zero temperatures and a dog handler sent onto site. The occupation…
Artist Focus: Hannah Lapsley
Hannah Lapsley graduated from Sussex University with a degree in Philosophy and English. She is currently based in Brighton, working at an Art Gallery. She has plans to move abroad…
Artist Focus: Dot Tye
Dot Tye was born in London but grew up in Cornwall. She previously completed a foundation diploma in Art and Design which led to a Media Practice degree at Sussex,…
Show Choir Quiz Night raises over £200
Last week, Show Choir held their first ever Quiz Night in Room 76 to raise money for Partridge House Care Home in Bevendean and their Competition Choir. Over 15 teams…
Unexploded Ordnances – Curing historical amnesia and saving the world
In her 1980 paper ‘Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference’, feminist writer Audre Lorde calls the myth of the “generation gap” one of the primary tools of repressive…
Should there be a more radical approach to SU politics?
Yes Johnbosco Nwogbo There is a need now, more than at any other time, for the kind of radicalism and ambitiousness the Red Slate promises to bring to the SU.…
‘Dictator for life’ Xi Jinping bans book about dictatorship
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, now the Chinese ‘dictator for life’, has recently banned Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 as of February 2018. Some of the more unusual results of Xi…
SMuTS presents Jekyll & Hyde
Sussex Musical Theatre Society (SMuTS) are presenting their Spring show this week premiering on Wednesday 21 March. The production is a musical theatre adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 gothic…
Sussex fails to show it increased fees to £9250 legally
A year long investigation by The Badger into the way the University increased fees for continuing students over 2017/18 has left management failing to release any information showing it is…
Ballet British Columbia review
Ballet British Columbia is Canada’s leading contemporary dance company. They are renowned for their edgy performances, and sharp choreography. No doubt the choreographers had put a lot of effort, thought…
Stand Up and Slam preview
It is the nature of recent times that many things no longer exist solely in the categories we give them. The concept of genre has progressed from the home artists…