Brighton Festival 2012: Top five free events

This year’s Brighton Festival is shaping up to be one of the best, and better still, there’s plenty of things to see for free. We’ve picked out five of our favourite free events, and you can find even more on the Brighton Festivalwebsite.

Children’s Parade

It simply wouldn’t be Brighton Festival without the Children’s Parade to get things going. Led by this year’s Guest Director Vanessa Redgrave, the procession brings together 5,000 youngsters from across the city to explore the ‘story of stories’. Expect colour, costume and live music as the parade makes its way through the city centre to Madeira Drive.

Date: 5 May

Time: 10.30am

Venue: Starts at Sydney Street, Brighton

For more information, visit the Brighton Festival website.

Sea of Voices

This commissioned project by Invisible Flock is billed as a ‘guided audio-visual encounter’. Inspired by our relationships with the sea, Sea of Voices looks at the imagery, history and mythology of our coast. Using Brighton’s unique seascape we are invited to embark on this interactive and thought provoking experience.

Date: 5 May – 27 May

Time: 12noon – 7pm

Venue: Various between Fabrica and the Marina

For more information, visit the Brighton Festival website.

The Otolith Group

The Turner-prize nominated artists have created a new film commissioned for the Brighton Festival, which follows on from last year’s Hydra Decapita. It is the second part of a projected trilogy of films looking at the relationship between finance capitalism and the slave trade.

Date: 5 – 27 May

Time: 12noon – 7pm (Late nights 5 and 26 May until 11)

Venue: Fabrica

For more information, visit the Brighton Festival website.

Trolleys

If you’re looking for something a bit different then this may well be it. Trolleys is billed as a “high-octane, highly physical and humorous outdoor performance – on wheels”. A mixture of acrobatics, ballet, street dance and electro-acoustic music, it follows the trolley’s emotional tales of love, friendship and anarchy. Intriguing.

Date: 19 May

Time: 2pm and 3.15pm

Venue: Marina Square, Brighton Marina

For more information, visit the Brighton Festival website.

The Boat Project – Maiden Voyage

This is the maiden voyage of the boat created from last year’s donations of wooden objects which had memories attached to them. Guitars, hockey sticks, rolling pins and even coat hangers are just some of the objects that have been crafted into a sea-worthy vessel. There will be several events activities taking place to celebrate the launch of the vessel but the maiden voyage from Chichester to Brighton will give people their first look at this fascinating creation.

Date: 19 May

Time: 1pm

Venue: Brighton Marina

For more information, visit the Brighton Festival website.

Originally published on Friday-Ad.

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