University of Sussex, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts fly-through
A video fly-through of the £7.2-million refurbishment of the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, which began in January 2014. The Centre is due to reopen in early 2015.
Find out more at:
sussex.ac.uk/acca
Screensmith showreel 2010
Showreel of work with Screensmith - mostly BAFTA projects, including coverage of the Orange British Academy Film Awards, a Doctor Who masterclass at the Barbican Centre in London, Julie Walters interviewing director Lewis Gilbert at BAFTA and Melvyn Bragg interviewing Sir David Attenborough at Brighton Dome, and a tribute to honour the work of animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen at BFI Southbank.
Tribute to Lord Richard Attenborough
A beautiful tribute to Lord Richard Attenborough celebrating his life and work. This film was designed to be projected onto the exterior of the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Lord Attenborough was Chancellor of the University for 10 years and made his acting debut in Brighton Rock.
ACCA was re-opened in 2015 following an extensive refurbishment by architects R H Partnership (RHP) and is once again a focal point of creative and performing arts activities at the University.
performingborders | LIVE 2019 film: Sim Chi Yin + Annie Jael Kwan
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, 19 March 2019.
Join us at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts for an evening of performative reading and a conversation between Nobel Peace Prize photographer and artist Sim Chi Yin and curator Annie Jael Kwan from Something Human and Asia-Art-Activism.
The Q&A will be chaired by academic, thinker and activist Dr. Anna Marazuela Kim.
More information here:
performingborders | LIVE is a programme of events and new commissions focusing on the exploration of artistic practices happening within the UK live art sector around notions of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical and everyday borders. Curated by Alessandra Cianetti and Xavier de Sousa.
Presented by performingborders and Foreign Actions Productions in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency (London, UK), Contact Theatre (Manchester, UK), Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (Brighton, UK), Artsadmin (London, UK), Deptford Lounge (London, UK), Beyond the Wall/Más Allá del Mur Festival(Nogales, US/Mexico), and the Centre for The Study of Sexual Dissidence(University of Sussex, UK). Supported by the Arts Council England.
For more information on the programme and the artists involved visit
Michael Attenborough CBE on Lord Richard Attenborough
An impassioned speech paying tribute to his late father and outlining his remarkable legacy.
Recorded in 2015 at the opening of the refurbished Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.
Sussex in the sixties: a look back on our early years.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the founding of the University of Sussex, in 1961, this film is a fun look back at what life was like for our first staff and students. Groovy!
SHOW Trailer
Hofesh Shechter has been described as ‘one of the British dance scene’s hottest properties, the creator of works that are full of raw, visceral energy, set to blasting percussive scores that he composes himself ’ (New York Times).
The internationally-acclaimed choreographer, whose landmark pieces include Political Mother and 2017’s Grand Finale, now brings his unique, high-energy work to the Lyric Hammersmith for the first time, as part of a UK and world tour.
Shechter’s blackly comic portrayal of a group of anarchic clowns was rapturously received at Nederlands Dans Theater in 2016, and he now creates a brand new companion piece to sit alongside it. With its razor-sharp lighting and pulsating score, Shechter’s work has the energy of a rock gig combined with beautiful, moving choreography.
SHOW is performed by Shechter II, the 8 strong apprentice company chosen from the most inspiring young talent across the world.
Clowns Premiere: April 29, 2016 by the Nederlands Dans Theater 1 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
SHOW is produced in association with HOME Manchester and Lyric Hammersmith, and received production support from Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia and a production residency at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton.
lyric.co.uk
SMuTS - This is the Moment (Sussex Performing Arts Showcase 2018)
Sussex Musical Theatre Society performing The is the Moment from 'Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical'. Live footage from the Sussex Performing Arts Showcase 2018 in the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts on 27/04/18.
Videography by Agne Kovalkova
Check out the photos from the show here:
Subscribe and follow us for more Musical Theatre!
- Facebook:
- Twitter:
- Instagram:
-
First impressions of the University of Sussex: what our students are looking forward to
Find out from some of our current students what they're most looking forward to about life at Sussex.
undisciplined trailer
South East Dance presents: undisciplined - A micro-festival celebrating contemporary performance with a choreographic edge, by artists and imaginative thinkers who are not bound by a specific genre, provoking powerful conversations.
Candoco Dance Company: Yasmeen Godder: Face In & Hetain Patel: Let's Talk About Dis
Wednesday 18 April at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton
Trailing Identity featuring Amy Bell, Colin Poole and Charlie Morrisey and more...
Wednesday 18 April at various locations across Brighton
Project O: Voodoo
Thursday 19 April at The Old Market, Hove
Eleanor Sikorski: Comebacks I Thought of Later & Jan Martens: Ode to the Attempt (a solo for myself)
Friday 20 April - at The Old Market, Hove
For further information about all events and booking please visit:
Filming Credits:
Eleanor Sikorski. Camera: Mattia Pagura
Amy Bell. Filming: Rosie Powell
performingborders | LIVE 2019 film: Anti-Cool + osborn&møller
performingborders | LIVE is thrilled to release the first film of its series of three public conversations in Manchester, Brighton, and London.We start from our last one at Toynbee Studios, London!
A conversation between interdisciplinary artist Anti-Cool and curators osborn&møller (UK/Denmark), presenting the UK premiere of Anti-Cool’s three-screen video installation On Returning, which explores the history of several British families and couples, separated and disrupted by current immigration policies.
Since the financial requirement was introduced in 2012 for those with family members from outside of the EU countries, 20,000 families who cannot meet the threshold have been facing separation from their family members. Many of them can only speak to their children on Skype. Using raw and often blunt interview footage of participants who are in the middle of such disruptions, On Returning investigates their true feelings about borders, human rights and families. Although highly prevalent in today’s political climate, such stories are still unknown by the majority of the people in the UK. While investigating the difficult issues of immigration the work also uses experimental visual elements of the British landscape and physical/performative actions to explore the highly emotive side of the subject matter.
Cinematography and editing by Studio MaBa.
performingborders | LIVE is a programme of events and new commissions focusing on the exploration of artistic practices happening within the UK live art sector around notions of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical and everyday borders. Curated by Alessandra Cianetti and Xavier de Sousa.
Presented by performingborders and Foreign Actions Productions in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency (London, UK), Contact Theatre (Manchester, UK), Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (Brighton, UK), Artsadmin (London, UK), Deptford Lounge (London, UK), Beyond the Wall/Más Allá del Mur Festival (Nogales, US/Mexico), and the Centre for The Study of Sexual Dissidence (University of Sussex, UK). Supported by the Arts Council England.
For more information on the programme and the artists involved visit -
Sussex University Raising and Giving Kerala Cycle Challenge
The biggest challenge of my life. Fundraising for a fantastic cause before the physical demand of cycling 350km in 6 days in the Kerala region of India. All for raising awareness for the Pendsey Trust and DREAM Trust in Nagpur, both extremely worthwhile causes supporting those with type 1 diabetes in developing countries.
Victoria Melody presents Ugly Chief
This a trailer for my new show - Ugly Chief about to tour...
Details here
In 2013, Mike Melody (celebrity TV antique dealer) was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Victoria was put in charge of planning the funeral her Dad would want – complete with eulogies, a congregation dressed in Blackpool FC’s tangerine colour and a New Orleans jazz procession. A year later the doctors realised they had misdiagnosed Mike. But they are going ahead with the funeral anyway…
Using Victoria’s training as a funeral director and a huge amount of research Ugly Chief looks at the British Funeral Industry and how we deal with death in modern society. Ugly Chief is a comedy based on true events performed by a real-life father and daughter. It explores the taboos around death and its practicalities, and the fractious relationship with a parent whose opinions you don’t always agree with.
Spring 2017 Dates
3rd June - Pulse Festival - New Wolsey, Ipswich
6th June - Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
20th June - Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton
22nd June - South Street Arts Centre, Reading
Commissioned and developed at New Wolsey Theatre, Farnham Maltings, Battersea Arts Centre and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts. Supported by The Point Eastleigh, The Spire, The Marlborough, National Performance Network, and Unity Theatre Trust. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Originally seeded by house with The Old Market.
Film by Rosie Powell
Alessandra Cianetti and Xavier de Sousa on performingborders | LIVE 2019
Curators Alessandra Cianetti and Xavier de Sousa talk about performingborders | LIVE 2019 programme.
Video and editing by Studio MaBa.
performingborders | LIVE is a programme of events and new commissions focusing on the exploration of artistic practices happening within the UK live art sector around notions of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical and everyday borders. Curated by Alessandra Cianetti and Xavier de Sousa.
Presented by performingborders and Foreign Actions Productions in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency (London, UK), Contact Theatre (Manchester, UK), Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (Brighton, UK), Artsadmin (London, UK), Deptford Lounge (London, UK), Beyond the Wall/Más Allá del Mur Festival (Nogales, US/Mexico), and the Centre for The Study of Sexual Dissidence (University of Sussex, UK). Supported by the Arts Council England.
For more information on the programme and the artists involved visit -
performingborders is a platform that explores the relations between the notion of border and live art. The ‘performingborders. conversation on live art | crossing | europe' project is disseminated as an interview-based research-blog and series of related events and writing commissions which interrogate the practices of performers that are responding to the challenging notion of contemporary borders and the shifting concept of Europe.
From February 2016, each month the blog publishes an interview with a live artist, academic, thinker or art professional, as a way to explore the debate on what the contemporary meaning of ‘border’ in live art is, how live artists are addressing this issue within Europe, and how the curatorial tool of the interview can be challenged. The multi- media interviews take a discursive and conversational approach in order to delve into the boundaries of the ever-developing notion of Europe and its proliferating and increasingly heterogeneous borders
David Hoyle, Diamond
Diamond is an unforgiving queer performance of sexuality and British culture exploring LGBT history from 1957 to 2017 through the personal biography of avant garde performer David Hoyle.
Weaving together intimate personal accounts and landmark events, Diamond charts David’s rise from a gay adolescent in Blackpool, through famous Channel 4 anti-drag queen cult phenomena Divine David, to the performer he is today.
With special guests the LipSinkers
TOUR DATES 2018
Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 April, 9pm
SOHO Theatre 21 Dean St, Soho, London W1D 3NE
Saturday 28 April, 8pm
Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA Bristol
Wednesday 2 May, 8pm
Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1NF
Friday 25 – Saturday 26 May 7.45pm
Tron, 63 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB
Saturday 8 June
Skopje Pride Weekend 2018, Macedonia
coalition.org.mk
Monday 11- Wednesday 13 June, 7.45pm
HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place Manchester M15 4FN
2017
Thu 9 Nov - The MAC, BIRMINGHAM, part of SHOUT Festival
Fri 10 Nov - The Black Box, BELFAST, part of Outburst Queer
Arts Festival
Sat 11 Nov - Unity Theatre, LIVERPOOL, part of Homotopia
Mon 13 – Sat 18 Nov - SOHO Theatre, LONDON
Sat 2 Dec - Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, BRIGHTON
University of Sussex, Making the Future 2013-18: The Keep
Fiona Courage, Special Collections Manager at Sussex, talks about The Keep, a new historical resource centre for East Sussex.
The Keep is the result of a major partnership with East Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council. It provides new opportunities for the University of Sussex to engage with the public.
Pole - Sophie King (Sussex Performing Arts Showcase 2018)
Pole FItness's Sophie King performing an original dance routine to Radioactive. Live footage from the Sussex Performing Arts Showcase 2018 in the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts on 27/04/18.
Videography by Agne Kovalkova
Check out the photos from the show here:
Subscribe and follow us for more Musical Theatre!
- Facebook:
- Twitter:
- Instagram:
-
CLASH EXCLUSIVE: Hidden Orchestra - Serpentine (Live at ACCA)
‘Live at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts’ is out everywhere now
‘Live at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts’ is the debut live album from Brighton-based prolific producer and composer Joe Acheson AKA Hidden Orchestra.
Recorded at the interdisciplinary arts hub, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) - an esteemed venue based in Joe’s hometown - ‘Live at ACCA’ showcases Hidden Orchestra at their creative peak, performing an audio-visual blinder that combines immersive visuals, live dub effects, dark orchestral textures and beat-driven, bass-heavy walls of sound.
Tru Thoughts Online:
Men & Girls Dance
Men & Girls Dance is a project by Fevered Sleep
Co-programmed in Brighton & Hove by South East Dance and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
Saturday 29 October 2016
from DAWN CHORUS by Marcus Coates
via — British artist Marcus Coates recorded videos of people singing along to slowed-down birdsong in ordinary human habitats, then sped the videos back up to pitch. Again, find more context at