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Our Place, Brighton Festival
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2 Metre Conversations
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Our Place, Brighton Festival
Exhibition
Community Takeover - Stories
4 Sep 2021 – 3 Oct 2021
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Address
- 10-14 Waterloo Place
- Brighton
- BN2 9NB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Phoenix is on the main bus routes, 5, 5A, 5B, 21, 21A, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 46, 48, 49, 50, N25. For up-to-date information on bus routes and times visit www.buses.co.uk
- Brighton station is just 10 minutes’ walk away. Turn left out of the main station. Continue downhill along Trafalgar Street, cross the main roads passing in front of St Peter’s Church, then turn left. Phoenix will be on the right, in front of the traffic lights.
An evolving arts exhibition that celebrates community.
About
Our annual Community Takeover exhibition is back this autumn. Once again our gallery is transformed into a dedicated space for our community projects to be celebrated and all our visitors to contribute to an evolving exhibition. Our theme this time is ‘stories’ as we look back at recent narratives and invite you to share your stories with us.
View artwork produced by residents from East Brighton, Moulsecoomb & Bevendean and Hangleton & Knoll during the Our Place project, part of Brighton Festival in May this year, and learn more about this ground-breaking community initiative. Watch 2 Metre Conversations, a series of short films commissioned by Phoenix Art Space, the University of Brighton’s Centre for Art and Wellbeing and supported by Brighton and Hove City Council. Created by artist Katy Beinart and filmmaker John Edwards and shot during the initial lockdown period in 2020, these moving and powerful conversations with local people from a wide range of backgrounds show the diversity of experience during the pandemic.
Come along and tell us your stories through activities such as window drawings, adding to our forest of books and creating fabric decorations for our willow enclosure. Everyone is invited to take part in one of our artist-led workshops or visit the exhibition as it unfolds.
Visit the Green Room from 22 September – 3 October for Acts of Transfer, a collaboration between artist Katy Beinart and writer Lizzie Lloyd that involves using image and text to re-explore past socially engaged art projects.
