Category:Brighton Festival

Diecast model bus, featuring an advert for the Brighton Festival's first year, 1968 [image info]

2024: event catalogue [image info]

2021: advertising [image info]

2021: street art [image info]

2020 event catalogue [image info]

2018: event catalogue [image info]

2016: Children's Parade, Trafalgar Street [image info]

The Brighton Festival, held every May, has been a key part of the Brighton calendar since it started in 1968 (with the exception of the 2020 Festival, which was cancelled due to the global COVID-19 outbreak).

A curated and centrally organised event, The festival started a tradition in 2009 of having a new Guest Director each year. Guest Directors usually have some sort of arts background, and have included writers and poets, architects, musicians, choreographers. The best-known Guest Directors have probably been musicians Laurie Anderson (2016) and Brian Eno (2010), actor Vanessa Redgrave (2012), writer Michael Rosen (2013), and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi (2011).

The Festival's opening event is normally a Children's Parade, starting in Trafalgar Street.

Guest Directors and themes:

• 2024 – Frank Cottrell-Boyce

"Dream Again"

• 2023 – Nabihah Iqbal
• 2022 – Marwa Al-Sabouni and Tristan Sharps
• 2021 – Lemn Sissay

"Roll Up, Roll Up"

• 2020 –

"Welcome to the Imagine Nation"

• 2019 – Rokia Traoré
• 2018 – David Shrigley

"Strive for Excellence"

• 2017 – Kate Tempest
• 2016 – Laurie Anderson
• 2015 – Ali Smith
• 2014 – Hofesh Shechter
• 2013 – Michael Rosen
• 2012 – Vanessa Redgrave
• 2011 – Aung San Suu Kyi
• 2010 – Brian Eno
• 2009 – Anish Kapoor

See also:

• Brighton Fringe

External links

• Brighton Festival homepage (brightonfestival.org)
  • Guest Director (brightonfestival.org)
  • Twitter: @brightfest
• Brighton Festival (wikipedia.org)