City Reads 2011

This year City Reads will be encouraging the city to read Man Booker shortlisted novel The Long Song by Andrea Levy.

City Reads is an annual citywide reading initiative which aims to spread a love of books and ideas to the widest possible audience throughout Brighton & Hove. The project is run by Collected Works: a Reader Development agency based in Brighton. The concept is simple: selecting one book by one author for the whole community to read, discuss, debate and creatively engage with in a series of special events, workshops and performances.

http://cityreads.co.uk/

Sussex Watercolour Society 34th Annual Show at the Hop Gallery

Sussex Watercolour Society 34th Annual Show at the Hop Gallery - Come and meet some of the artists taking part in the show on Saturday, September 10th between 11am and 2pm – they would love to see you! As they say, expect the unexpected from this show. There will be new paintings of colourful and beautifully crafted work which ranges from the close observation of natural and manmade forms, to pure abstraction; from the loose and lively to the poetic and subtle. There’s something for everyone!

“Spinalonga” by Judy Stutchbury

www.hopgallery.com

James Cauty’s A RIOT IN A JAM JAR at Ink_d Gallery

James Cauty’s A RIOT IN A JAM JAR is an ongoing series of sculptural and graphic works that seek to exploit and commemorate real and imagined riotous events.

The riots in jam jars are 1:87 scale models, all exquisitely constructed and hand painted using traditional model making techniques, and then exhibited in jam jars.

For this exhibition Ink_d Gallery have specially commissioned a small series of new jam jar pieces and an exclusive range of reverse engineered collages. Also on show will be some larger pieces known as Industrial Scale Small World Re-Enactments and various editions including a new full colour book.

www.ink-d.co.uk

Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival

The Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival is the largest festival of its kind in the south of England, running for 10 days every April and throughout the entire month of September.

With local producers, growers, restaurants, bars and food retailers firmly at it’s heart, it’s a showcase of the fantastic food, drink and hospitality to be found in the city and surrounding Sussex.

“As comprehensive a festival as you will find in the UK this summer, this month-long homage to Brighton, Hove and the wider Sussex food scene takes in pretty much every taste-related activity you could think of… For foodies who like to keep it local, the Big Sussex Market, which attracted over 40,000 people last year, is a shopping experience without parallel. Best start saving.” – The Guardian ‘Word of Mouth’, May 2011

http://blog.brightonfoodfestival.com

SOLAR SYSTEMS An exhibition by Semiconductor

Solar Systems is a major exhibition by leading Brighton based digital artists and filmmakers, Semiconductor. It is curated by Lighthouse, in partnership with Phoenix Brighton, for Brighton Digital Festival.

Semiconductor examine our physical environment, using science and digital craft to create artworks that question our place in the natural world.

Solar Systems is their first major exhibition in the South East for four years. It draws together three recent installations that explore our relationship with the Sun.  The three works use different technologies – photography, satellites, and CGI – to observe the interactions between our nearest star and the Earth.

Heliocentric is a stunning single channel digital video installation made from time-lapse photography and astronomical tracking of the Sun’s trajectory across a series of landscapes. The highly acclaimed Black Rain uses images collected by the solar satellite STEREO, which studies the solar wind and the Sun’s coronal mass ejections, as they head towards Earth.  The rarely seen Out of the Light is a time-based sculpture which shows how celestial events, such as a solar eclipse or the transit of Venus, can reveal themselves through the play of light and shadow.

These works are emblematic of the artists’ ongoing investigation of the natural world, which has resulted in major works on astronomy (Brilliant Noise, 2006), and geology (Worlds in the Making, 2011).  Their unique approach has won them fellowships and residencies in significant scientific locations such as NASA’s Space Sciences Lab, the Galapagos Islands and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Their work is part of several international public collections and has been exhibited globally including Venice Biennale, The Royal Academy, Hirshhorn Museum, BBC, ICA and the Exploratorium.

PHOENIX BRIGHTON

10 – 14 Waterloo Pl. 
Brighton BN2 9NB
 • 01273 603700 
 • www.phoenixbrighton.org

http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk