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Autumn Lates: Who said that extra hour had to be spent in bed?
Celebrate the extra hour this year with BREMF @ Autumn Lates.
Join the celebratory journey through Europe at a spectacular Autumn Lates Event at the Brighton Early Music Festival: Saturday, 27th October 20:30 and 22:30.
This year the Queen and Country have been celebrating Her Majesty’s 60 years on the throne. In the spirit of celebration Brighton Early Music Festival has a celebration of its own taking place this year – BREMF’s 10th Birthday! To celebrate this special birthday, the festival is putting on a free Autumn Lates event. It will take place this Saturday, October 27th, the day that the clocks go back, at St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton, with two performances at 20:30 and 22:30.
Autumn Lates is a series of twenty events taking place throughout October and November put on by a number of local arts organisations, including Duke of Yorks, Photo Biennial, Fabrica, Same Sky and Marlborough Theatre. The series is happening as White Night is taking a break, whilst plans are being made for its future development. As White Night was such a popular occasion for four years, it is planned to build on it in future years.
In the meantime, this year, on the night when the clocks go back, Saturday 27 October, Brighton Early Music Festival has a birthday party.
“Autumn Lates: BREMF’s 10th Birthday Celebration will follow the same format as last year’s BREMF @ White Night,” explains Co-Artistic Director, Clare Norburn. “The music ranges from Bach to Schubert, and we have challenged the musicians to try new things – so they are combining their performances with film, shadow puppetry, dancing and readings. All this, in the stunning setting of St Bartholomew’s Church, the tallest church in Europe with beautiful ambient lighting. We will also strip out most of the chairs, so that the audience have the space to wander about and experience the music and follow the musicians all over the building. As at last year’s White Night, we intend to break down some of the barriers that sometimes exist in a formal concert between performers and audience, giving audience members a completely different and magical experience.”
One of five ensembles taking part is Oxford Baroque Ensemble whose music will accompany by a film which, together with the music, will explore the concept of perpetual motion. Musica Poetica will focus on improvisation and ornamentation in 17th Century German music while the Borromini String Quartet celebrates the streets of Madrid, combining the music of Boccherini with new choreography and dance and the unusual addition of shadow puppetry. The Ensemble de Trianon takes us the musical activities of the Court of Versailles including music by Charpentier, Remeau, Montéclair and LeClair. Finally, we take our seats in a 19th Century Salon with the Duo Flauguissimo who bring us works by Paganini, Schubert and Gluck with a recital of poems from a special guest actor. So, quite a birthday party!
And it doesn’t just end on 27th October: returning to Brighton Early Music Festival for a special Showcase event on Thursday, 1st November are two groups who stole the show at BREMF @ White Night in 2011: The Marian Consort and Le Terra e il Mare. Taking inspiration from their White Night event last year, both groups will create an ambient and informal performance with lighting and creative use of the beautiful space of St Mary Rock Gardens to celebrate music from the 16th and 17th Century. Travel from the court to the tavern with music by Couperin and Charpentier and celebrate Renaissance women in songs, motets and madrigals by Janequin, Byrd and Gabrieli.
The BREMF Autumn Lates event on 27th October is free and no tickets are necessary. The audience is free to come and go as they please throughout the evening. For the Showcase concert on 1st November, tickets can be purchased from http://www.bremf.org.uk: £12 and £10 concessions.
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Music at West Hill Hall
13 October 7:30pm
Danny Schmidt + Carrie Elkin
Don’t miss these two great artists in a rare double-bill performance, sharing songs back and forth, lending their voices to each other’s tunes in perfect harmony. Tickets £9
26 October 7pm
Cold Pumas’ Album Launch
Local band launch their debut album, released on Faux Discx records, with support from Sauna Youth, Fair Ohs and Sealings. Tickets £5
3 November 6pm
Riots Not Diets Halloween Bonanza
Film screening of cult 90s teen-horror film, “The Craft”, followed by a variety of Riot Grrrl/Queer Noise bands in the shape of Faggot, Methodist Centre, Roseanne Barrr, Phat Trophies. A terrifyingly fun time guaranteed for all. Tickets £6
WAS 16 November 7.30pm – NEW DATE TBC in 2013
BLURT – POSTPONED
Legendary saxophone driven post-punk trio return to Brighton for a one-off show in a venue which could have been made for them. Led by Ted Milton, Blurt are one of the few surviving 70s post punk outfits to have become tighter, leaner, and more explosive with the passing of time. Tickets £7 OTD, £5.50 adv
Zocalo – meet your neighbour
Dr. Bramwell of the Catalyst Club writes ….
Last year in early September, Brighton’s Hanover area welcomed the return of the TV-free neighbour day, Zocalo. It was a stomping success.
The sun shone and nearly every street had clusters of people sat outside their houses chatting, eating and drinking. Some dragged out barbecues, some brought sofas and rugs. On Albion Hill a table football game appeared while other neighbours challenged each other to games of chess and backgammon. One heroic household on Islingword Street set up their entire living room on the pavement, complete with the obligatory stag’s head.
Brighton Zocalo was set up in 2001 by the anti-TV campaign White Dot as a red-tape free community event for getting neighbours (young and old) to socialise and as a reminder that there’s more to life than Top Gear, Eastenders and Donkey Kong. On the 9th of September 2012 at 5pm, all you have to do is put a chair outside your house, sit on it and talk to people.
As well as being an excuse for an informal knees-up in our streets, real change can come from these events too. As a consequence of last year’s Zocalo, in my street (Beaufort Terrace in Hanover) several of us now have keys to each other’s houses and help out with cat-sitting and plant-watering. One neighbour has also set up shared composting boxes on the patch of grass opposite our houses.
Zocalo has now spread to Preston Circus, Fiveways and Whitehawk. We hope to spread it all over Brighton and Hove. To set up a Zocalo in your street just requires the good will of a few people who are willing to play the role of the Ambassador. The more streets that take part the more momentum we will build towards Brighton’s streets feeling like a real community.
This year’s Zocalo: 5pm on the 9th of September
Place: your street
Find out more: 7pm on 20th Aug at the Great Eastern pub at the bottom of Trafalgar Street
Website: http://www.brightonzocalo.com
Smart Brighton
15 June 2012 Amex Community Stadium
Brighton & Hove hosts leading international industry figures, pioneering business leaders and politicians, including local MPs Caroline Lucas, Greg Barker and Norman Baker, at Sussex’s first ever Smart Business Conference, part of the Eco Technology Show which also features leading speakers from international businesses such as IBM, Accenture, B&Q and Interface.
The conference will focus on two main themes: ‘Smart Cities’ looking at how green technology, products and services can be used to reduce cities’ impact on the environment and improve citizens’ quality of life and “Smart Business” exploring how companies can work more efficiently to increase profits, reduce costs and cut carbon emissions.
The Whistler 