The Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival: Brighton Station Festive Christmas Market

Stock up on tasty goodies for the festive season at our mini markets held over the first three weekends of December at Brighton station.

The Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival has invited some of their favourite producers along including Metrodeco, Cloud 9, Micarmo, Titbits, Real Patisserie, The Chilli Shop and Cave a Fromage.

Whether you’re buying for stocking fillers, ordering gift hampers or meats for the Christmas table, or just treating yourself to a bite to eat, take your pick from some of the best food businesses that Sussex has to offer.

www.brightonfoodfestival.com

Coachwerks Winter Craft Fair

Come browse for locally made christmas pressies… Jewellery, cushions, textiles, niknaks, soaps, lipbalm, screenprinted textiles, decoupage vases, illustrations, cards,vintage button jewellery, felt accessories. Plus willow wreath and lantern making, Festive carols and music from Brighton Brass Ensemble, mulled wine, mince pies and much merriment.

Artists’ Open Houses

Over 60 houses and studios will open during three weekends in Brighton & Hove, and further afield in Newhaven and Ditchling.

Browsing in the Artists’ Open Houses, with a glass of mulled wine, to find that special gift that doesn’t cost the earth, signals the start of the festive calendar.

With so many gifted artists and makers in this area, the range of work for sale is most impressive – a microcosm of British talent. Over the years, visitors and purchasers have come to know that high quality gifts can be bought in interesting artists’ houses and studios – and without the gallery mark up. There is something to suit every purse – and there is no pressure to buy. There are paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, jewellery, textiles, designer hats, scarves and throws, lighting, home furnishings, decorations, hampers of homemade Christmas fare – and much more.

www.aoh.org.uk

A Xmas Knees Up at Ink_d Gallery

Ink_d gallery has the perfect antidote to these cold dark winter days, the ‘Xmas Knees Up’.

There’s a wonderful selection of work from stunning originals to a mountain of perfect Xmas gifts. With all types from painting, sculpture, lighting, cards, prints, books to artists-made gifts. This makes the gallery and shop a perfect place to buy your Xmas presents this year. If you are looking for something special for that ‘hard to buy for’ discerning loved one, this may be the perfect place to visit to find that unique item.
The gallery’s shop will be brimming with artist’s work from stocking fillers to affordable tit bits. The upstairs gallery will be hung with stunning originals, and the perfect place to splash out on that important person in your life.

Just a few of the wonderful new pieces are – Anthony Micallef‘s ‘I Break Everything’, Andy Doig’s Raymond Review Stars and Fairground Crosses, Ryan Callanan’s ‘Fanfuckintastic’, Sean Madden’s Weird and Dark Sculptures, Jake Wood Evans ‘Drawings and New Originals, Maria Rivans ‘Large Originals and Small Framed work’…and much, much more.

www.ink-d.co.uk

Robert Goff: An Etcher in the Wake of Whistler – Brighton Museum

See this new small display of etchings by local artist Robert Charles Goff (1837-1922). The display is a rare opportunity to see about 50 works by the Hove-based etcher Goff who was one of the first etchers in Britain to be influenced by J.A.M. Whistler and the Etching Revival. On display are local views of Brighton, Hove and Sussex, as well as striking pictures from his travels in other parts of Britain, Italy, Egypt and Japan.

www.brighton-hove-museums.org.uk