Celebrating Humanity, Hopefully

About

As part of their city and festival-wide We, Generate programme, Lighthouse’s Future Creative Leaders are curating a day of activity within the two-day youth-led takeover of Brighton Dome Studio Theatre.

What happens when the people usually talked about become the people doing the talking?

We, Generate. is a youth-led takeover of Brighton Dome, produced by the Future Creative Leaders at Lighthouse - a collective of young creatives, thinkers and community builders reimagining what culture looks like when it starts from the ground up. The day unfolds in two acts.

Part II - Celebrating Humanity, Hopefully

As evening falls, the space transforms into a celebration of Brighton's community music and arts scene. Steam Down - the genre-defying collective known for turning every room into a congregation - headline an evening of improvised, intergenerational music-making alongside local artists and DJs. Expect jazz, soul, spontaneity and sweat. The lobby becomes a gallery of young people's artwork, created across the festival through workshops with Art in Mind. This is not a showcase. It's a gathering.

We, Generate. is the culmination of a month-long programme of FCL events across Brighton Festival, each one asking the same question from a different angle: what does it look like to activate - not just inspire - young people's hopeful imagination?

Come as you are. Leave activated.

Presented by the Future Creative Leaders at Lighthouse. Part of Brighton Festival 2026

Learn more about Part I - Go Back and Get It: Exploring Sankofa

Meet Lighthouse’s Future Creative Leaders

Casey Galt - Championing neurodivergent voices through inclusive, colourful multidisciplinary creative practice.
Elsa Monteith - Telling thoughtful, narrative-driven stories that spotlight emerging artists and grassroots culture.
Dr. Fezile Sibanda - Exploring race, coloniality and marginalised experiences to reshape education systems.
Jed Wright - Building offline, grassroots creative communities through events, poetry and collective exchange.
Kaia Allen-Bevan - Reimagining education through bold anti-racist leadership, entrepreneurship and joyful political creativity.
Levvy - Using music, film and design to creatively communicate mental health and reach young people at scale.
Lucia Comaschi - Blending digital design and traditional storytelling to amplify underrepresented voices and identities.
Megan Lee - Creating accessible, gentle creative spaces that nurture wellbeing, connection and joy.
Molly Taylor - Championing young people’s lived experience as a superpower for collective action and systems change.
Naiya - Transforming lived experience into immersive, multidisciplinary storytelling rooted in growth and self-belief.