Community arts event will return to Hangleton and East Brighton

Hosted by local community centres, and programmed in collaboration with local residents and artists, Your Place brought free performances, workshops and activities to the Hangleton and East Brighton communities.

More than 2,000 people took part across the two weekends, with participants describing the experience as ‘inspiring’ and ‘energising’.

Kate Tempest, Brighton Festival 2017 guest director, said: “We thought it was important that as well as having this very exciting, cosmopolitan festival happening in the city centre, with all this buzz and hype and all this energy that gets built up from people seeing something, spilling out on to the street, it also represented the wider population of Brighton who maybe can’t afford to get in to the city centre. We wanted to bring a bit of what was happening in the Brighton Festival out to a bit more of Brighton.”

This year’s event, delivered in partnership with Brighton People’s Theatre, included workshops and performances from Kate Tempest, photographer Eddie Otchere and poetry slam champion Tommy Sissons.

Valerie Foucher, Hangleton community centre manager, said: “Bringing an entire weekend of workshops and performances with so many talented artists and a technical and front house back up of such high standard, not to mention having Kate Tempest perform her Let Them Eat Chaos album was so amazing we still haven’t fully recovered from it. Most importantly it has inspired us. Your Place has opened a door that we do not want to close again.”

Your Place is currently looking for small-scale performances, workshops or exhibitions by local community groups and local artists living in Hangleton or East Brighton, as well as professional artists to be a part of next year’s event.

To find out more, visit: brightonfestival.org