Drinking From the Cup Of Ambition: 9 To 5 at the Attenborough Centre
The Sussex Musical Theatre Society (SMuTS) delivered an exceptionally skilled and high-energy production of 9 To 5: The Musical at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, proving just how…
Get Your Craft On in Brighton
If you are looking for something artsy, crafty, and social to join but aren’t sure what, keep Tuesdays and Thursdays free! Cult Milk (@cultmilk on Instagram) hosts two amazing clubs,…
Artists Open Houses: Your New Favourite Winter Weekend Activity
As the weather grows ridiculously cold and every conversation begins with some comment on it, one finds oneself with an increasing lack of will to venture out of bed on…
The Delicate Art of Putting it Back Together
There is something inherently beautiful about visibly mended things, like chipped mugs and hand-stitched clothes, which tell a story through their many imperfections. The Japanese art of Kintsugi exemplifies this,…
The Art Around. Street Artists and Art who help make Brighton, Brighton
Whilst walking the colourful streets of Brighton, you may have noticed art pieces around on top of shops, on spare spaces of the wall, or in alleys between buildings. If…
A Museum Date to the Towner Eastbourne Gallery
Fancy a trip out of Brighton? How does a museum date sound? Just a picturesque 30-minute train ride from Falmer station, and a 10 minute walk along “the sunshine coast,”…
Chris Riddell Illustrates for Students at University of Sussex Library
Brighton illustrator Chris Riddell visited the University of Sussex on Thursday 29 November with a busy day of drawing in the library. With an ardent passion for literature, Chris seemed…
A poetic evening with Chris Riddell and A.F Harrold
On 22 November, Waterstones Brighton hosted Poems to Live your Life by: An Evening with Chris Riddell, where poet A.F Harrold and illustrator Chris Riddell took to the stage to…
The Stanza rebrands as Offshoot
With The University of Sussex’s popular online magazine, The Stanza, rebranding this year under the new name Offshoot, they have many new plans in the works. I had the chance…
Why a Urinal Can be Art
Why mundane objects are sold for millions and why you think you like Banksy. At a lecture an art auctioneer was asked ‘what makes a piece of art good?’. His…
The Arts Appreciation Argument
Even those of us who cannot write a novel, hold a note or put oil to canvas, can enjoy and appreciate an artist’s interpretation of the world around them. Through…
Onca Gallery Launch Review
Most art exhibition launches consist of sipping champagne and polite small talk about the art they display. But when I arrived at the Onca Gallery’s launch of FutureCoast and was…