Brighton Festival Fringe collaborate with Zap Art for Fringe City 2011

Brighton Festival Fringe have teamed up with internationally renowned creative producers Zap Art for this year’s Fringe City, a FREE street event taking place on three Saturdays throughout the festival.

New Road and Pavilion Gardens will be taken over by a giant helium balloon, dancers and daredevil acrobats as Fringe City 2011 promises to be the biggest and most adventurous yet.

Fringe acts will still be coming down to promote their events throughout the Cultural Quarter, but we’ve also joined up with Zap Arts to present an amazing programme of street theatre and performances on May 7, 21 and 28.

Collaborators Zap Art have a strong history of creating crowd-pulling, avant-garde street theatre, which challenges the way in which art is perceived and experienced. They provide a unique channel for cultural innovation and leave behind them an inspiring legacy.

Dave Reeves of Zap Art said: “Zap Art are delighted to be producing Fringe City and being a part of the Brighton Festival Fringe. We have put together a programme we hope people will love, with some amazing acts from all over the globe. We want everyone to be able to get involved, so as well as bringing some incredible spectacles like the Heliosphere and street artists like the Grand Theatre of Lemmings, we’ve included the ‘Let’s Dance’ day to encourage people to come down and join in the fun.”

Fringe City is perfect for families and kids. With such a wide array of exceptional performances there’s bound to be something for everyone.

We ask you to hold on to your hats on May 7 as acrobats swoop from the sky at the Fringe City Launch with The Dream Engine’s Heliosphere exploring the unchartered space between street level and rooftops.

Then expect the unexpected as New Road is brought to life by Hit The Streets on May 21 with comedy capers, musical virtuosos and slapstick humour unfolding before your very eyes.

And don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes on May 28 as Fringe City celebrates the best of music and dance with Let’s Dance. Try your hand – or should that be feet – at capoeira, break dancing or the Irish jig and enjoy the wide range of performances on offer.

Modern Toss at Ink_d Brighton

Due to popular demand, Modern Toss returns to Ink_d for a ground breaking exhibition of innovative ‘clothworks’, including a bespoke tailored Swearing Jacket, some challenging tea towel designs and a selection of very collectible new prints.

‘Modern Cloth’ opens on the day of the Royal Wedding and to mark the occasion Modern Toss will present an indispensable capsule collection of last minute commemorative Royal Shitnaks – a set of stamps, a beautiful one-off bone china mug and a professionally woven commemorative royal tea towel – so you can treasure forever the memory of the young Windsor’s nuptials. Help celebrate this emotional time for Kate, Wills, The Drive-by Abuser and the nation by popping down to Ink_d gallery for what promises to be one of our best shows yet.

The gallery is open to the public from Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm. Sundays 12 – 4pm (during exhibition dates).

96 North Road, Brighton, BN1 6YE • 01273 645299 • www.ink-d.co.uk

Ink_d Gallery is a member of the Arts Council’s Own Art Scheme that enables buyers to spread the cost of purchasing art over 10 months at 0% interest.

Easter fun at Churchill Square, Brighton with Bompas & Parr

Burrow your way into an enchanted land this Easter at Churchill Square, Brighton as Bompas & Parr invite visitors into a rabbit themed pop-up café complete with Easter themed edible treats and activities for all of the family.

Miss Egg Timer will take children on an Easter Egg Hunt with a difference. Along with the Easter Bunny she will be leading the children on a magical treasure hunt through the shopping centre, solving puzzles and singing songs along the way. The children will encounter lots of surprises and chocolate treats to really get them in the mood for Easter, before dancing their way back to the café.

The setting of the café will excite parents and children alike and the décor will be reminiscent of a Tim Burton film set or a Tim Walker fashion shoot; with eccentric quirks throughout. Upon arrival visitors will be transported to a fantasy world of rabbit themed treats served from a Mad Hatter’s mix of antique style ‘mix and match’ china, quaint little tea cups and cake stands. Chairs and tables will have something of a topsy-turvy feel and the sumptuous walls and carpets will be covered with haphazard objects and coloured eggs.

In typical Bompas & Parr fashion the café will be a wonderland designed to tempt all of the senses; the pop-up café will be infused with mouth watering chocolate aromas enticing visitors to try all of the scrumptious treats on offer. The edible delights that the culinary wizards are creating are currently top-secret but they promise the Easter treats will be some of their most exciting work yet.

Bompas & Parr’s pop-up café is sure to be eggcellent. Hoppy days!

Churchill Square, Brighton  • www.churchillsquare.com

Brighton Visitor Spring 2011 issue (April, May, June)

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