Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

10/11/2024

💥Can You See Me Now? Join a thrilling mobile chase game with a twist by Blast Theory

🏃Download the app and you’re dropped into a colourful 3D world where you swap tactics with other players to avoid being caught by the game’s runners.

🏃The twist? The 3D world of the game is based on the real courtyards and buildings of the campus around ACCA. And as your player dodges round corners and down cut-throughs to evade the runners, those runners are chasing you in real time across the campus: working up a sweat and streaming their taunts via live audio.

🏃Play on your mobile from the comfort of an armchair or join in-person as a runner.

📅 Tuesday 19 November – Thursday 21 November, various times
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Find out more and book your FREE slot at:
https://ow.ly/Gxqy50U2Yww

09/11/2024

🎥 Part of Brighton Cinecity: 'The Captain' (Dir: Jamie Patterson) WORLD PREMIERE!

A retired sea captain is placed under house arrest after robbing his local newsagent on a mobility scooter. While confined to his home, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his Greek caregiver sparking a journey of self-discovery for them both. A quiet story of hope, friendship and the importance of inter-generational relationships.

Shot on location in Brighton, by local production company Jump Start Productions in association with MetFilm School Brighton.



📅 Saturday 16 November, 6pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Tickets on sale: https://ow.ly/G9FM50U19GZ

08/11/2024

🎥 Part of Brighton Cinecity: 'REAS' (Dir: Lola Arias)

‘a masterpiece of possibilities, a documentary which shows the resilience of our human spirit' International Cinephile Society

For many years director Lola Arias Works has collaborated with former prisoners; she has been especially interested in the lives of cis and trans people, who find themselves incarcerated for different offences, and how they deal with it inside.

In this creative q***r musical, former inmates of a women's prison in Buenos Aires rewrite their own life stories and perform them through song and dance.

📅 Saturday 16 November, 4pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Tickets on sale: https://ow.ly/ZbKW50U19ib

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07/11/2024

🎥 Part of Brighton Cinecity: 'Earth' (Zemlya) (Dir: Oleksandr Dovzhenko) with live score by Roksana Smirnova & Misha Kalinin

A mesmerising and beautiful hymn to nature, 'Earth' is recognised as one of cinema’s supreme visual masterpieces. It is a uniquely poetic cinema of the countryside, a paean to nature and those that toil the fertile earth of director Dovzhenko’s beloved Ukraine.

Ukrainian musicians Misha Kalinin (electric guitar) and Roksana Smirnova (piano) perform a new, jazz-based score adding new dimensions to Dovzhenko’s iconic close-ups and vast, sweeping landscapes.

📅 Wednesday 13 November, 8pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Tickets on sale: https://ow.ly/6vHA50U17ek

06/11/2024

🎥 Part of Brighton Cinecity: 'Blue Island' screening and Q&A with Director Chan Tze-woon

‘Shows how Hong Kong residents have redefined themselves over time... It is impossible to watch Blue Island without admiring their courage’ — The New York Times

A profoundly moving documentary about Hong Kong’s past and future, and what it means to be a Hong Konger.

Bringing together young participants in the 2019 Anti Extradition Law Amendment protests, and older islanders with their own history of resistance to both Chinese Communist and British Colonial rule, Chan Tze-woon explores distinct yet connected experiences of exile, rebellion, and imprisonment across generations.

📅 Tuesday 12 November, 6pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Tickets on sale: https://ow.ly/CSPZ50U174h

05/11/2024

"Understated, engagingly honest and genuinely moving, this feels like a performance where someone has played their intricate, intimate music just for us."

Brighton Source reviews Colleen at ACCA on 2 November https://brightonsource.co.uk/reviews/colleen-review/

Sharing her intimate, intricate electronic music with grace.

05/11/2024

🎥 Part of Brighton Cinecity: Resistance - New Female Ways of Seeing from North Africa

This triple bill brings together three remarkable feminist films from North Africa: one long film from Morocco, the contemporary sci-fi adventure 'Animalia' by Sofia Alaoui, and two short pieces from Algeria, 'If They Could Have' by Sarah El-Hamed and 'Between Midnight And Six In The Morning' by Nadja Makhlouf which explore the role of women in the Algerian War of Liberation 1954 – 62.

Curated by Martin Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Sussex
The event will include a roundtable discussion with Sarah El-Hamed and Nadja Makhlouf and a DJ playing North African music in the ACCA bar.

📅 Monday 11 November, 6.30pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Tickets on sale: https://ow.ly/QFQU50U0jqt

04/11/2024

Don't miss Devo and Pavements - showing at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts as part of Brighton Cinecity Saturday 9 November 2024.

03/11/2024

🎥 Part of Brighton Cinecity: School of Media, Arts and Humanities at University of Sussex present the 36-hour Film Challenge 2024

On Saturday 9 November, University of Sussex students are given a prop, a location, a mystery parameter and 36 hours to make a four-minute film. All films will be screened at ACCA to a public audience and a judging panel. With up to £1000 worth of prize money, this is a 36-hour filmmaking marathon and only the best will survive it!

📅 Sunday 10 November, 8.30pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Free tickets: https://ow.ly/QycA50TWE2s

01/11/2024

🎥 Part of Brighton Cinecity: 'Pavements' (Dir: Alex Ross Perry)

An examination of the cult 1990s indie band Pavement The Rock Band appears to be just another music documentary — until it isn’t. Part-documentary, part-biopic, part-stage musical – but all Pavement.

Simultaneously tracking the band as they prepare for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour, preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history, and a big-budget Hollywood biopic.

📅 Saturday 9 November, 8.30pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Tickets on sale: https://ow.ly/srls50TWAp1

31/10/2024

🎥 Part of Brighton Cinecity: 'Devo' (Dir: Chris Smith)

Acclaimed filmmaker Chris Smith (Wham!, Fyre) captures the gloriously radical spirit of Devo – a rare band founded by a philosophy; a Dada experiment of high art meets low, hellbent on infiltrating American popular culture.

Using never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale, 'Devo' relishes in the highs, lows and surreal moments of a 50-year career.

📅 Saturday 9 November, 6.30pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Tickets on sale: https://ow.ly/cuIC50TWzf6

30/10/2024

📢 We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with DICE.
🎶Tickets for all our music events are now available on the DICE app.
🎲Download the app and follow 'Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts' as a venue to find more of the events you love.
🎟️You can now book tickets for all our upcoming live music shows through the DICE app. https://dice.fm/

25/10/2024

Next Saturday, French ambient/experimental musician Cécile Schott aka Colleen plays her last live show of the year.

'A singular musician; no one else makes music like Colleen’s. Her songs offer a completely unique window on the world' The New Yorker

Support comes from Brighton’s own sound-artist Johanna Bramli

📅 Saturday 2 November, 8pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Book tickets: https://ow.ly/vmVq50TTuKN or via DICE

24/10/2024

“Pitting new technology against our instinct to express ourselves, this smart, disconcerting experiment presents a tussle between the human and the machine.” **** The Guardian. Final night tonight (Thursday 24 October) 8pm for Signal to Noise 40th anniversary production.

23/10/2024

"Here’s something to get you through the descent into winter.
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts has recently announced their Autumn programme and their contemporary music offering this November is as irresistible as ever."
Read the Brighton Source music preview 👇

The ACCA is the place to be for extraordinary leftfield music this November.

22/10/2024

‘...absurd and surprisingly poignant’ ★★★★ The Guardian

‘Signal to Noise is a piece of theatre like no other’ ★★★★ Broadway World

An upbeat spectacle which is slowly breaking apart, ‘Signal to Noise’ by Forced Entertainment summons a delirious late-night churn of fragments – dances, rehearsals, altercations, scenery changes and unexpected weather reports.

Presented as part of Forced Entertainment’s 40th anniversary celebrations.

📅 Wednesday 23 & Thursday 24 October
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Tickets: https://ow.ly/Yi6U50TR7x7

19/10/2024

📢 Making Trouble: Four Decades of Forced Entertainment

Join us for a conversation exploring Forced Entertainment's lasting impact on contemporary performance. Celebrating some of the significant, difficult and hilarious interventions made by the UK's most consistent, surprising and inexhaustible theatre artists.

With Tim Etchells and Cathy Naden, founder members of the experimental theatre collective, hosted by Sara Jane Bailes and Augusto Corrieri (Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Sussex)

📅 Wednesday 23 October, 3pm
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Free | https://ow.ly/ghTQ50TObO0

18/10/2024

🔭💫 'Until Daylight Comes' by photographer Matthew Paul Bruce is on display for Brighton Photo Fringe at ACCA until this Saturday 19 October.

This free exhibition presents an ongoing project documenting landscapes formed from astronomical history - people of significance, research locations and objects of interest.

📅 Until Saturday 19 October, see website for times
📌 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
🎟 Free | Drop-in | https://ow.ly/GInH50TO9M3