FURROWED RESIDENCY - Avant - Turntablism - Playroom - Multi Collaborations || NIGHT 1 of 2
Oct
29
7:00 PM19:00

FURROWED RESIDENCY - Avant - Turntablism - Playroom - Multi Collaborations || NIGHT 1 of 2

The brilliant Turntablist, sound artist & musician Furrowed will embark on a deep exploration of his new instrument ( modified tunrtables) featuring multi collaborations and two back to back shows in one week! From piano to tape loops, vocalists to scratch DJ, synth fantasies to cello magic and a really epic drummer.

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Hot Tropic - Day Of The Dead
Nov
1
to Nov 2

Hot Tropic - Day Of The Dead

Your favourite tropical disco is back for a special Dia De Los Muertos celebration! Dress up and get down to the finest Latin, Caribbean and African bangers with 1BTN DJs Nick Subtle and Chicha Morada - with extra special trippy visuals from Benedict Sheehan. Come early -there's a free shot of Mezal for the first 20 guests!

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Sandpit Collective Other Asias Film Screening || Aswaat/Voices : Silences of the Palace
Nov
4
7:00 PM19:00

Sandpit Collective Other Asias Film Screening || Aswaat/Voices : Silences of the Palace

This Guy Fawkes week, while fireworks echo stories of revolt, join The Sandpit Collective and the University of Sussex for a different kind of resistance. We present Silences of the Palace (1994), Moufida Tlatli’s groundbreaking feminist masterpiece exploring memory, trauma, and voice in postcolonial Tunisia.

Alia returns to the palace where her mother once worked as a concubine, uncovering layers of gendered violence and colonial control. In this haunting space, silence becomes a form of survival, and a legacy passed down.

After the screening, stay for Move the Silence, a gathering with North African music selections that invite you to reflect and move. Through rhythm and conversation, we explore the space between silence and voice, grief and resilience.

Part of Aswaat / Voices, a season exploring feminist and postcolonial cinema from the Maghreb, presented by the Other Asias film programme.

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ChopChop + La Mômo
Nov
7
7:00 PM19:00

ChopChop + La Mômo

ChopChop's music has been described as “veering from super-bumping agit-funk to angular jazz-punk and beyond", and comparisons have been drawn with Talking Heads and No Wave bands. They've had tracks played on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, played festivals such as Supernormal and Acid Horse, and have been described by 6 Music DJ Tom Robinson as “a fantastic life affirming noise… a wildly original quintet from Brighton”.

They are joined by La Mômo - original punky-poppy instant classics, with hints of Riot Grrl/Raincoats/space rock in the mix but somehow making it all their own thing.

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Listen Club #29: 'Mechanical Music' with Chris Cutler
Nov
12
7:00 PM19:00

Listen Club #29: 'Mechanical Music' with Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, Pere Ubu, Gong) explores the history of mechanical music - music composed for and enacted solely by mechanical devices, a practice can be dated back to at least ninth century Mesopotamia. Listen Club 29 starts from the point where machines began to be used to exceed human possibilities, adding an inhuman dimension to the production of musical sound.

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Širom + Athina B
Nov
21
7:00 PM19:00

Širom + Athina B

Slovenian 'imaginary folk' trio Širom make epic and transportive music powered by acoustic and often handmade instruments. Their expansive compositions echo the borderless, collective spirit of groups like Don Cherry's Organic Music Society and Art Ensemble of Chicago.

"Episodic, dreamlike voyages" - The Guardian

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Mehfil-e-Rose Hill: 'Cante Jondo' with Dunia Flamenco
Nov
22
7:00 PM19:00

Mehfil-e-Rose Hill: 'Cante Jondo' with Dunia Flamenco

A unique opportunity to hear 'cante jondo' by Brighton's very own Dunia Flamenco. A full sensory experience: understand the poetry, listen to the song (cante), hear the guitar and percussion (toque) and experience the dance (zapateado). Our second performance in the second year of The Mehfil Space events at The Rose Hill!

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Scatterfon/Geoff Hearn/Effective Word Order
Nov
27
7:00 PM19:00

Scatterfon/Geoff Hearn/Effective Word Order

An evening of wild highs and playful interventions featuring the second ever live performance by Lucie Treacher, Hutch Demouilpied, and Otti Albietz’s all-star improv trio, Scatterfon, a healing manifestation from tenor and soprano sax and shakuhachi powerhouse Geoff Hearn, and a long-awaited Brighton debut for masked harbinger of chaos Effective Word Order.

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Mehfil Xmas Special: Muslim Shaggan
Dec
9
7:00 PM19:00

Mehfil Xmas Special: Muslim Shaggan

Experience Muslim Shaggan live in an evening of captivating vocal music that draws from the rich traditions of South Asian classical performance. In an intimate setting, hear short, powerful sets that showcase the depth, emotion, and improvisational brilliance of a vocalist who brings centuries-old forms into the present moment.

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The Seasonal Spring || AUTUMN EDITION 2025 : Flock of Colours, Ideophone, The Vernon Spring
Oct
24
7:00 PM19:00

The Seasonal Spring || AUTUMN EDITION 2025 : Flock of Colours, Ideophone, The Vernon Spring

Brighton resident Sam Beste aka The Vernon Spring (Amy Winehouse, MF DOOM, Mathew Herbert!) hosts the second of his quarterly events series titled “The Seasonal Spring” together with the artist community he co-founded Lima Limo.

For the “Autumn" edition there will be performances from long time friend of Lima Limo Records, Flock of Colours, along with founding label member Ideophone as well as a solo set by The Vernon Spring himself.

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Charlotte Keeffe’s Right Here, Right Now Quartet // Larker
Oct
22
7:00 PM19:00

Charlotte Keeffe’s Right Here, Right Now Quartet // Larker

With her Right Here, Right Now Quartet Charlotte Keeffe enables raw musical ingredients and individual expressions to come together and flow. She is captivated by trumpeters like Jaimie Branch, Peter Evans, Tomasz Stańko, Nate Wooley and Lester Bowie, and inspired by abstract painters – referring to her horns as ‘Sound Brushes’.

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Mikey Kenney Trio + Sausage & Penny Detective Agency
Oct
17
7:00 PM19:00

Mikey Kenney Trio + Sausage & Penny Detective Agency

DO NOT MISS !!! “Superbly charismatic fiddle playing & once-heard-never-forgotten singing” KLOF Magazine. Liverpudlian troubadour plays a joyful, energetic and thoroughly unique take on trad fiddle music - surreal songwriting, virtuosic violin & brilliant banter, all accompanied by Hannah Moule on cello & Michael Paul Metcalf on drums, what a line up!!

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Love Is Everywhere
Oct
11
to Oct 12

Love Is Everywhere

HOORAY! it’s that time again!! LOVE IS EVERYWHERE, the contagiously epic and hugely popular party is BACK.

Snap up your ticket real quick and bring all your moves inspired by the spirit of the 1970s’ ‘utopian’ dance scene including David Mancuso’s The Loft, the Paradise Garage and the Gallery. Expect sultry disco divas, Afrobeat, euphoric house, funk, soul, balearic, balloons, disco balls, apricots, bubbles, ‘lofting’ and love.

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Sandpit Collective Other Asias Film Screening || Aswaat/Voices: Black Medusa
Oct
7
7:00 PM19:00

Sandpit Collective Other Asias Film Screening || Aswaat/Voices: Black Medusa

Join The Sandpit Collective and the University of Sussex under the Hunter’s full moon for Black Medusa (2021), a genre-defying feminist noir set in post-revolutionary Tunis.

A haunting portrait of silence, vengeance and fractured femininity, the film follows Nada, a mute office worker by day and femme fatale by night, as she moves through a dystopian cityscape, carrying out acts of brutal retribution.

After the screening, stay for Dance the Pain Away, a ritual of release with an all-Tunisian music mix. Let rhythm, breath and movement help you process the intensity of the film in shared defiance.

Part of Aswaat / Voices, a season exploring feminist and postcolonial cinema from the Maghreb, presented by the Other Asias film programme.

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MEMLNauts
Oct
3
7:00 PM19:00

MEMLNauts

The MEMLNauts are exploring new ways to be creative with machine learning, with impish algorithms powering freshly designed instruments . Expect fractious brass, wayward woodwind, unruly vocal processing, and indecorous string feedback.

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DARKROOM Festival '25
Sep
30
7:00 PM19:00

DARKROOM Festival '25

Darkroom festival presents a dynamic selection of experimental and documentary film and video art. Originally created as a fringe event for Deptford X, over the years it has evolved into a multidisciplinary event focusing on experimental and documentary film and video art.

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Mehfil - e - Rose Hill: Mandar Phatak, Aparna Raguraman, Junaid Ali
Sep
25
7:00 PM19:00

Mehfil - e - Rose Hill: Mandar Phatak, Aparna Raguraman, Junaid Ali

Kicking off the second year of Mehfil programming of south Asian classical raag music at The Rose Hill: a double bill of Khayal vocalist, Mandar Phatak and carnatic violinist, Aparna Raguraman - accompanied on tabla by Junaid Ali. Committed to offering quality music from South Asia, The Mehfil Space is delighted to bring you three performers who will delight and inspire you.

This event by The Mehfil Space @mehfilspace, set up by local curator Atiya Gourlay, is collaborating with the Brighton community arts venue, The Rose Hill and Zeroclassikal.

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Synch Pulse - No. 18: Ceremony, Mystery and Strangeness
Sep
23
7:00 PM19:00

Synch Pulse - No. 18: Ceremony, Mystery and Strangeness

Synch Pulse returns to guide the viewer on a strange journey into a beguiling world of experimental short films, featuring a weird and wonderful selection of enigmatic shorts from the past and present. Taking in the arcane and unclassifiable, this month's theme is a natural fit for avant-garde movies, and the programme will include animations, offbeat documentaries, and vintage adverts and trailers, to accompany some uncanny experimental creations.

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Led Bib + Special Guests
Sep
20
7:00 PM19:00

Led Bib + Special Guests

One of the original torch-bearers for the revitalized young British jazz scene, Led Bib released their twelth album in August this year. Previous Mercury Prize nominees and this newly down sized four-piece pride themselves on side-stepping convention with incendiary results, tearing apart the jazz world with their avant-jazz-euphoric-rock explosions of improvisation.

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Listen Club #27: Body Sounds with Al Strachan
Sep
16
7:00 PM19:00

Listen Club #27: Body Sounds with Al Strachan

Ever since putting a hydrophone into his mouth (followed by some popping candy and a tuning fork) Al Strachan has nurtured an interest in how the human body can be utilised by musicians and sound artists. For Listen Club #27 he will delve into the early history of this practice, with artists incorporating heart beats, digestive gurgles and more into their sonic adventures.

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Ceremonial Laptop: Lichon // Cederick Knox & Grow Fins // more TBC
Sep
13
7:00 PM19:00

Ceremonial Laptop: Lichon // Cederick Knox & Grow Fins // more TBC

Lichon is the music project of Anisa Arslanagic (string player for Beth Gibbons, Bonobo, Portico Quartet, Floating Points) and composer/multi-instrumentalist Alex H Duncan (interviews given for Electronic Sound, Lauren Laverne, Elizabeth Alker).

Inspired by the symbiotic relationship that forms lichen, their music is created with midi data collected from the environment - field recordings and the biodata of plants, fungi and lichen. These soundscapes are accompanied by mostly improvised responses on violin, viola, guitar, live electronics and discarded 80s musical junk.

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Safehouse : Jessica Ackerley / Eli Wallace / Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders
Sep
10
7:00 PM19:00

Safehouse : Jessica Ackerley / Eli Wallace / Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders

Canadian guitarist Jessica Ackerley - "one of the most exciting guitarists to have emerged from the US free music scene in recent years" (Wire Magazine) and Eli Wallace - "...pushing the boundaries of the prepared piano" (The Guardian) form a quartet with on this tour with two leading UK free players: drummer Mark Sanders and saxophonist Rachel Musson.

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