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Brighton Festival
Artists Open
May 2-24
Houses
May 2-24
(weekends)
In its 43rd year,
the Brighton
Festival has
The biggest free
become a major
arts event in
fixture on the
Britain, yet the
international arts
most intimate.
calendar, while
About 1,000 of
maintaining its
the city’s artists
local feel with
A major fixture
and craftspeople
commissions
open the doors
on the arts
A unique
from homegrown
of their studios
calendar, while
artists and shows
and homes to the
opportunity to
maintaining
using the city’s
public. Handily,
experience art
open spaces and
its local feel
most of the Open
away from a
architecture. This year, Anish Kapoor is
Houses are
gallery setting
guest artistic director, and you can see
clustered into
his installations in May. Highlights include
Trails, allowing you to focus your attention
‘Alice In Wonderland’ at Preston Manor,
on districts such as Kemp Town and
a live soundtrack to ‘The Oyster Princess’
Seven Dials. It’s a great way to bag
in the Brighton Dome’s Concert Hall and
original pieces, from paintings to furniture,
a UK premiere by Belgian dance company
jewellery to sculpture, and a unique
les ballets C de la B. And where else could
opportunity to experience art away from
you see a Joe Orton play on a pier, with a
a sterile gallery setting. You might even
fish & chip supper thrown in?
find yourself being offered cake and tea.
www.brightonfestival.orgwww.aoh.org.uk
MATTHEW ANDREWS, ANISH KAPOOR - PHILIPPE CHANCEL PARIS, JAMES PIKE
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