HOUSE 2011 Talks & Events 26– 29 May

Friday 27 May  17.00 -19.00
The Consciousness Engine
The Old Market, 11a Upper Market Street, Hove BN3 1AS
A visit to the Consciousness Engine with Artist Talks from Shardcore and Sam Hewitt, and a discussion panel of cross-disciplinary experts in the field of Consciousness. £5 (£3 concessions) including glass of wine/juice

Sat 28 May 15.00(SOLD OUT), 19.00(A FEW TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE)
Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes
Written and performed by Sue MacLaine
The White Room, Phoenix Brighton, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB
A play and life-drawing class with the Queen of Bohemia. Contains nudity and strong language. 16+. 90mins duration. £12 (£10 concessions)

Saturday 28 May 19.00
Base Sound :: Sonic Gold
The Ceramic House, 75 Stanmer Villas, Brighton BN1 7HN
Gold Dust :: A live performance with guest sound artists in an intimate headphone concert (up to 16 people). The concerts will be followed by a short talk and Q&A with Kay Aplin and Joseph Young, talking about their collaboration in Base Sound :: Sonic Gold. £8 (£5 concessions) including glass of wine/juice

Saturday 28 May  19.30-21.00
Plastique Fantastique
Grey Area, Basement 31 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XA
Grey Area curator Daniel Pryde Jarman will lead a discussion in response to Impossible Diagrams, Plastique Fantastique’s installation at Grey Area. £5 (£3 concessions) including glass of wine/juice

Sunday 29 May  16.00 – 17.00
Hangover Square
Dining Room, Nightingale Theatre, 29-30 Surrey Street, Brighton BN1 3PA
Art director, Anna Deamer talks about design in theatre, film and television, the importance of text in the creative process and how she approached creating a 1939 Brighton hotel room for Hangover Square. £5 (£3 concessions) including glass of wine/juice

Bookings
You can now book tickets for all of the HOUSE 2011 Artists Talks and Events
If you would like to book tickets for any of the HOUSE 2011 Artists Talks and events events, please click on this link  www.brightonticketshop.com •  01273 709709  • Dome Box Office, 29 New Road, Brighton BN1 1UG.

‘A SPOONFUL OF SILENCE’ – Brighton Fringe Festival

Mandana grows letters in her field. The availability of letters, which enables her to talk, depends on the season and the harvest. She crafts her sentences delicately as she tells you her story, allowing you to enjoy the silence between the words. She is waiting for you by the stove in her cosy kitchen, sprinkling rose petals in a freshly made pot of tea. Hold a warm cup of tea in your hand and embark on a journey to the present moment. A delicious and raw performance questionning our use of words. This show can be enjoyed as part of a healthy diet!

“This show has a Zen – like emphasis on taking your time and not doing a million things at once”. The Irish Times***

“Challenging the social stigma of the awkward silence and reminding us that language is a gift. The experience was absolutely delicious”. ThreeWeeks*****

“It does win you over” RTE Radio One.

Nightingale theatre’s upstairs kitchen, 29 – 30 Surrey Street, Brighton

Tickets £8.50/ £6.50 Concessions

www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk

Knitted Living Room at Emmaus Brighton, Brighton Fringe Festival 2011

In their latest creative venture, the Emmaus Brighton Good Will Co-op have knitted a whole living room! The Good Will Co-op started up in 2008 as a project that brought together local people and gave them the opportunity to use their creative skills to turn donated wool, fabric and craft materials into gifts for sale in the Emmaus Brighton shop. Sales of their hand-made gifts have generated nearly £8500 for Emmaus Brighton, enabling more help to be given to people in need. The weekly get-togethers provide a social focus for local people who might otherwise become isolated, and the transformation of unwanted materials into useful items helps reduce landfill.You can see the extraordinary knitted room, complete with newspapers, radio and comfy chair, at the Portslade Community Open Forum on 26th February at Portslade Town Hall. It will on show from 7th – 29th May at the Emmaus Brighton Community, Drove Road, Portslade as part of the 2011 Brighton Fringe Festival before touring various arts venues and stopping off at some Emmaus Communities. The idea of knitting a whole room came from Nicky, one of the Good Will Co-op’s talented volunteers, who was looking for a novel way for the Co-op to raise funds, whilst raising public awareness of Emmaus.

www.emmaus.org.uk

Shifting Boundaries at The Phoenix Gallery, Brighton

Curated by Clare Sheppeard, Shifting Boundaries addresses the themes of art and domestic space, and the relationships between the public and private spheres. Artists include Ben Ashton, Annabelle Dalby, Anne Eggebert, Julian Walker, Caitlin Heffernan, Ingrid Plum,  Dave Stephens and Julia Waugh.

Late openings: 13 – 15 May until 9 pm, 21, 22, 28 May until 7 pm

ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES:

Performance: Ingrid Plum. Saturday, 14 May, 8 pm, free.

Insight  – Artists’ Residencies: Saturday, 21 May, 5 pm, £5 / £3 conc. www.brightonticketshop.com

Still Life: An Audience with Henrietta Moraes

A performance celebrating the life of Henrietta Moraes, model and muse to Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling, and the uncrowned Queen of the 1950′s Soho set. Written and performed by Sue MacLaine.

Saturday 14th May 3pm, 7pm
Sunday 15th May 12pm, 3pm, 7pm
Saturday 21st May 3pm, 7pm
Sunday 22nd May 12pm, 3pm, 7pm
Saturday 28th May 3pm, 7pm

Tickets £12 (£10) Brighton Dome Box Office, 29 New Road, or visit www.brightonticketshop.com or book by phone 01273 709709.

Still Life and Shifting Boundaries are part of HOUSE Festival 2011: Art and Domestic Space www.housefestival.org

www.phoenixarts.org

Charleston Festival May 2011

This year’s Charleston Festival celebrates both the enduring roots of tradition and the innovative thinking that we need to cope with 21st century challenges. From the 257 everyday phrases we get from the King James Bible to modern Jerusalem; from the classics to comtemporary fiction; from Tibet to Stoke on Trent; from Shakespeare to Japanese Netsuke; from family sagas to killer apps; from entertainment to argument. Charleston is the Festival where books, ideas and creativity bloom.

FICTION: Joanna Trollope discusses Daughters in law; we are sent on a quest to unravel the eternal bond of motherhood by Ann Patchett and Lloyd Jones; Henning Mankell reads from the finale to the Wallander mysteries; Esther Freud and Edward St Aubyn mine their eventful personal experiences and David Nicholls talks about One Day, the word-of-mouth literary sensation.

IDEAS: Melvyn Bragg tells us about the impact of the King James Bible on everything from English language and literature to modern Life. Other big ideas concerning civilisation, religion and culture come from Niall Ferguson; A.C.Grayling and Evan Davis.

BIOGRAPHY: Edmund de Waal reads from The Hare with Amber Eyes, the runaway publishing triumph of last year. Michael Frayn discusses his memoir My Father’s Fortune; Diana Athill gets us thinking about growing old in the event Crazy Age; and we hear about human rights and artistic legacies from Gillian Slovo and Judy Golding respectively.

HISTORY: Amanda Foreman and Antony Beevor tell us what inspires their passion for the past in the event Worlds On Fire; Simon Sebag Montefiore addresses the question of how Jerusalem has become a crucible of conflict, desire and dreams for so many centuries and so many peoples and Virginia Nicholson and Amanda Vickery discuss their interest in personalising social history.

ART and DESIGN: Charleston is the perfect setting for new discussions about art and design. Ceramicist Emma Bridgewater and writer Alexandra Harris celebrate iconic names and new beginnings.

Plus! THE CHARLESTON DEBATE: with Sarah Bakewell; Ekow Eshun; Natalie Haynes; William Sieghart and others tbc THE FABER ACADEMY: Creative writing workshops with John Boyne; Judith Kerr and Jill Dawson

* Charleston Festival has recently received a glowing plaudit in a Society of Authors consultation paper, which praises the warm hospitality shown to visiting authors at Charleston. * Charleston Festival is programmed by Artistic Director Diana Reich who was been in the role since the Festival started 22 years ago. * All events take place in a traditional marquee in the grounds at Charleston Farmhouse which nestles under the South Downs between Brighton and Eastbourne.

Friday 20th – Sat. 21st May
All day
John Boyne; Judith Kerr; Jill Dawson; Hannah Griffiths Faber Academy
Friday 20th May
6pm
John Boyne; Judith Kerr; Jill Dawson; David Nicholls: Perspectives on Fiction
Friday 20th May
8pm
Mark Logue; Peter Conradi: The King’s Speech
Saturday 21st May
12pm
Esther Freud; Edward St Aubyn; Claire Armistead: Transitions
Saturday 21st May
2.30pm
Evan Davis: Made in Britain
Saturday 21st May
5pm
Joanna Trollope; William Nicholson: Daughters in Law
Saturday 21st May
7.30pm
Sarah Bakewell; Ekow Eshun; Natalie Haynes; William Sieghart in
The Charleston Debate: ‘Our obsession with the past is a distraction from reality’.
Sunday 22nd May
12pm
P.D. James; Sue MacGregor: Murder She Wrote
Sunday 22nd May
2.30pm
Deborah Devonshire; Imogen Lycett Green: Wait For Me!
Sunday 22nd May
5pm
Antony Beevor; Amanda Foreman: Worlds On Fire
Sunday 22nd May
7.30pm
Charlotte Moore; Robert Sackville-West: Family Inheritance
Wednesday 25th May
3.30pm
Melvyn Bragg: The Book of Books
Wednesday 25th May
6pm
Emma Bridgewater; Matther Rice; Tristram Hunt: Phoenix of the Potteries
Wednesday 25th May
8pm
Edmund de Waal; Fiona MacCarthy: The Hare with Amber Eyes
Thursday 26th May
3.30pm
Diana Athill; Paul Bailey; Jane Miller: Crazy Age
Thursday 26th May
6pm
Lloyd Jones; Ann Patchett: Desperate Odysseys
Thursday 26th May
8pm
Niall Ferguson: Civilisation
Friday 27th May
3.30pm
Henning Mankell; Sigrid Rausing: The Troubled Man
Friday 27th May
6pm
Paul Theroux; Colin Thubron; Erica Wagner: Pioneers
Friday 27th May
8pm
AC Grayling; Caroline Lucas: The Secular Bible
Saturday 28th May
12pm
Evelyn Juers; Gillian Slovo: House of Exile
Saturday 28th May
2.30pm
Elizabeth Chatwin; Judy Golding; Andrew Lownie: Artistic Legacies
Saturday 28th May
5pm
Simon Sebag Montefiore: Jerusalem
Saturday 28th May
7.30pm
Michael Frayn; Juliet Nicolson: My Father’s Fortune
Sunday 29th May
12pm
Virginia Nicholson; Amanada Vickery: Untold Stories
Sunday 29th May
2.30pm
Alexandra Harris; Olivia Laing; Frances Spalding: Landscapes of the Mind
Sunday 29th May
5pm
Michael Holroyd ;Victoria Glendinning: A Book of Secrets
Sunday 29th May
7.30pm
Eileen Atkins; Lynne Truss: The Triumphant Actress

www.charleston.org.uk