Unique events coming to Brighton
Published 30 April 2012
The University of Brighton and Brighton Festival organisers are bringing unique events to the city this year.
Following last year's success, the university is increasing its involvement with the festival by co-producing rather than sponsoring events. The university's Faculty of Arts has been working with festival organisers to bring big names to fit the festival's main themes and to utilise our full resources.
BBC presenter and host of its flagship political programme Question Time, David Dimbleby, will be chairing The Cult of The Ruin, a discussion on whether our obsession with the past and period architecture obscures our view of the future.
Mr Dimbleby lives in East Sussex and holds an honorary degree from the university. On his panel will be Paul Finch, writer and deputy chair of the Design Council, Ros Kerslake, chief executive of the Prince's Regeneration Trust, and architect Sunand Prasad.
The event, at the Sallis Benney Theatre in Grand Parade, Brighton, at 7.30pm on 25 May, is being brought to the festival in collaboration with the Regency Society.
In the university's gallery and in partnership with Cinecity, senior lecturer Tim Brown has devised a 'cinema of the imagination' in collaboration with production designer Anna Deamer. Anna has previously worked on the set of the TV hit Downton Abbey and together and working with students across the Faculty of Arts and from City College Brighton & Hove they have devised the two vital spaces of Hangover Square, a kind of virtual cinema that the viewer is invited to occupy.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of Hangover Square author and former Hove resident, Patrick Hamilton, and to mark the occasion, they will be designing an imaginary film set for his famous novel.
Anna, consultant construction manager on the project, said: "I was very impressed by the students' inquisitiveness, enthusiasm and dedication and am sure they'll do a great job. I must also say how privileged the project is to have a group of people willing to give up their free time, outside study, to learn and work together for the purpose of the exhibition."
The exhibition, at the University of Brighton Gallery in Grand Parade, Brighton, is open 5-27 May, Monday to Friday, 11am-7pm, and Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-5pm.
For more information visit brightonfestival.org.
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