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Brighton Festival is the largest and most established annual curated multi-arts festival in England. Taking place over three weeks in May.- 2 May 202625 May 2026
- During May & June, Brighton Fringe welcomes international performers and audiences as it showcases the creative heart and soul of the city and its unique cultural heritage.
- 1 May 202631 May 2026
The Great Escape is the festival for new music, showcasing 450 emerging artists from all over the world in 30+ walkable venues across the city and a pop-up festival site on Brighton Beach.- 13 May 202616 May 2026
- The Artist Open Houses offer festival–goers the chance to meet the artists and to view locally made, seriously good arts and crafts.
- 2 May 20263 May 2026
- 9 May 202610 May 2026
- 16 May 202617 May 2026
- 23 May 202624 May 2026
- 30 May 202631 May 2026
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Various Venues, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 1TWBrighton
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Exhibition
The Artist Open Houses offer festival–goers the chance to meet the artists and to view locally made, seriously good arts and crafts.
Price
FreeAddress
The Avenue, The Avenue, Brighton, BN2 4GFBrighton
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Theatre
A joyous all female wire walking show.
ElevateHer is played out across three multi level interconnecting wires telling the stories of six performers through music, spoken word and movement. Celebrating female camaraderie and sisterhood. Expect…
Address
Brighton Beach Bandstand, Kings Road, Brighton, BN1 2PQBrighton
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Music
The Shovel presents, in collaboration with Brighton Sunset Sessions, a FREE noise-rock all-dayer on the Brighton beachfront - a guerilla Alt Escape showcase.
Lineup is as follows:
8pm - gegenpress
7pm - jawharp
6pm - paper hats
5pm -…
Address
The British Engineerium, The Droveway, Brighton & Hove, BN3 7QABrighton & Hove
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Lecture
WILD LOVE FESTIVAL - the brand-new one-day wellbeing festival, launches this summer with a bold and heart-led mission: to reimagine wellness as inclusive, accessible, and rooted in real human connection.
Wild Love is a living, breathing celebration…
Address
Charleston in Lewes, Southover Road, Lewes, BN7 1ABTelephone
01323 811626Lewes
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Festival
Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, the questions it raised have not gone away. As alliances shift and the US grows openly hostile towards Europe, we are being forced to think again about Britain's place in an increasingly fractured world.
In…
Address
The Yellow Book, 3a York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GUBrighton
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Type:
Theatre
Upon boarding the Ocean Princess for a relaxing European cruise, Agatha and Mary find certain behaviours slightly odd. Why is Captain Harkness so unusually attentive and who are the three bright young things who seem to be involved in a rather…
Address
Various Venues Across the City, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1WNTelephone
+44 (0)1273 917272Brighton
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Festival
During May & June, Brighton Fringe welcomes international performers and audiences as it showcases the creative heart and soul of the city and its unique cultural heritage.
Address
The Yellow Book, 3a York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GUBrighton
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Theatre
Partake in “Communal Love Spell" on this May’s new and full moon! Have an opportunity to reconnect: within, without, and with one another, through tenderness, care, joy and love! First cast in Glasgow at the institutional Queer Theory (@queertheory)…
Address
Charleston in Lewes, Southover Road, Lewes, BN7 1ABTelephone
01323 811626Lewes
Type
Type:
Festival
In an era marked by conflict and civilian suffering, how robust are international law and institutions in holding perpetrators to account? Barrister and writer Philippe Sands acts before international courts and his books - such as his recent '38…
Address
The Yellow Book, 3a York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GUBrighton
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Theatre
Whispers is a haunting theatrical journey through memory, trauma, and the silenced voices of the past. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England – from a courtroom and convent to the foggy banks of the Thames – the story follows Mrs. P.M. Jones,…
Address
Charleston in Lewes, Southover Road, Lewes, BN7 1ABTelephone
01323 811626Lewes
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Type:
Festival
Sandi Toksvig is one of Britain's most beloved writers, broadcasters and activists. She is joined by author, publisher and friend Lennie Goodings for a wide-ranging conversation about books, politics, feminism and the stubborn optimism required to…
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The Yellow Book, 3a York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GUBrighton
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Type:
Theatre
This sharp, playful comedy follows a delightfully mis-wired mind as it attempts to navigate..well, everything. The journey is a chaotic celebration of the beautifully unconventional ways of neurodivergent brains.
Address
Brighton Beach, Madeira Drive, Brighton, BN1 1TWBrighton
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Music
On The Beach in association with Radio X, led by The Maccabees and joined by Editors, Miles Kane, Anna Calvi, Ash, Badly Drawn Boy and Lime Garden.
Address
The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, BN3 1ASTelephone
01273 201801Hove
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Festival
Whisky, by the sea! This summer, Brighton will be awash with whisky at events throughout the City. From the main expo on Saturday27th - through whisky cocktails, food-pairings, tasting events, music and more - there will be whisky for everyone,…
Address
Komedia, 44--47 Gardner Street, Brighton and Hove, BN1 1UNTelephone
01273 647101Brighton and Hove
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Theatre
After sold-out seasons at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, award-winning comedian Stefania Licari returns with her hit show.
This is your unique chance to become Italian in under an hour.
Address
New Road, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1UFBrighton
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Lecture
What makes St James’s Street so fabulously unique?
Drag icons Alfie Ordinary, Alex Fincher, and Billie Gold have dug deep into the history books and listened to all the juicy gossip to create a new walking tour of the places and spaces that make up…
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Brighton Open Air Theatre, Dyke Road Park, Dyke Road, Brighton and Hove, BN3 6EHDyke Road, Brighton and Hove
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Festival
For the fifth year running, the legendary poetry slammers Hammer & Tongue bring their epic grand final into the open air!
Finalists will come equipped with their unique styles and perspectives to battle it out for the crown. Lucky audience members…
Address
The Yellow Book, 3a York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GUBrighton
Type
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Theatre
Follow a fearless adventurer as she journeys across the globe, driven by the search for her missing husband. Her path weaves through distant lands, forgotten histories, and remarkable moments, each step revealing more of the world and of the man she…
Address
The Yellow Book, 3a York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GUBrighton
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Comedy
The worst person award welcomes performers and audience alike to tell us about the worst person you know. We'll judge it with all the hilarity and mocking it deserves and the winner will get up to a £75 prize!
Address
Preston Park, Preston Road, Brighton, BN1 6AUBrighton
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Music
The UK’s Biggest LGBTQ+ Pride Festival
“Historic, inspired and unparalleled. Brighton Pride is one of the best international pride festivals, we love it” Attitude Magazine.
Pride On The Park is the official Brighton & Hove Pride fundraiser for our…
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