*** SOLD OUT *** USTAD NOOR BAKHSH
Aug
27
7:00 PM19:00

*** SOLD OUT *** USTAD NOOR BAKHSH

This is a super rare opportunity to witness this world renowned virtuoso player of the electric Balochi ‘Benju’ in the intimate setting of The Rose Hill. Ustad is from a fascinating part of the world (Makran coastal border of Pakistan/Iran). He plays rarely-heard long-form spiritual dance music called Balochi - it’s infectious, you won’t be able to stay still - and you won’t want to!

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Melting Vinyl present: Jackie-O Motherfucker + David Frampton
Aug
28
7:00 PM19:00

Melting Vinyl present: Jackie-O Motherfucker + David Frampton

Jackie-O Motherfucker's music draws from a variety of subgenres including various folk musics of the world (American folk and blues, Traditional English folk ballads, etc.), drone, free jazz, psychedelia, and noise rock , and is heavily improvisational in its nature. Because they are a collective, rather than a consistent band or group, the sound of their music can change from performance to performance.

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Full Clip Issue #37
Aug
30
7:00 PM19:00

Full Clip Issue #37

Live music showcase from Rap, Grime & Drum n Bass artists hosted by Full Clip Magazine. Supporting the best of the UK underground - in its 37th edition we put the spotlight on Brighton based artists + open mic cypher for anyone n everyone inssssshide!

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Sandpit Collective Other Asias Film Screening || Aswaat/Voices: Nahla
Sep
2
7:00 PM19:00

Sandpit Collective Other Asias Film Screening || Aswaat/Voices: Nahla

What does it mean to lose your voice? In a war-torn city, on stage, or across history?

Join The Sandpit Collective and the University of Sussex for Nahla (1979), a rarely screened Algerian film set in 1970s Beirut, just before the Lebanese Civil War. Directed by Farouk Beloufa and edited by Moufida Tlatli, the film follows a singer who suddenly loses her voice as unrest takes over the city. With open critical conversation and post-screening live DJs .

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 + Fuck You And Your A-Sides
Nov
7
7:00 PM19:00

ChopChop + Fuck You And Your A-Sides

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 Fuck You and Your A-Sides - "unauthorised feminist lo-fi indie pop from Brighton - surreal, forceful and at times deeply upsetting".

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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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POSTPONED !!!! FIRELIGHT TRIO
Nov
27
7:00 PM19:00

POSTPONED !!!! FIRELIGHT TRIO

Firelight Trio play European folk music that is evocative, inventive, and endlessly exciting. Driving fiddle and gorgeous nyckelharpa meet deep accordion grooves in a rich tapestry of lively Swedish polskas and Scottish reels, lilting French waltzes, toe-tapping klezmer, dazzling original tunes and more.

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SAFEHOUSE PRESENTS: MARK WASTELL, TANSY SPINKS, ADRIAN SOUTHBY, GUS GARSIDE
Jul
23
7:00 PM19:00

SAFEHOUSE PRESENTS: MARK WASTELL, TANSY SPINKS, ADRIAN SOUTHBY, GUS GARSIDE

Two improvisors from the London community - Mark Wastell (percussion) and Tansy Spinks (electric violin) - come to Safehouse to play with Brighton-based Adrian Southby (prepared electric guitar) and Gus Garside (double bass). Two duos of Mark/Adrian and Tansy/Gus will be followed by a quartet.

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Love Is Everywhere
Jul
19
to Jul 20

Love Is Everywhere

hugely popular community party LOVE IS EVERYWHERE returns to the Rose Hill this summer – inspired by the spirit of the 1970s’ ‘utopian’ dance scene. Expect sultry disco divas, Afrobeat, euphoric house and moreeeee

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The Vernon Spring - The Seasonal Spring: 'summer edition'
Jul
17
7:00 PM19:00

The Vernon Spring - The Seasonal Spring: 'summer edition'

The Vernon Spring hosts this new quarterly event-series titled “The Seasonal Spring” together with the artist community he co-founded Lima Limo.  For the “Summer" edition there will be performances from new Lima Limo Records signing Saoirse-Juno, Indian Devotional singer Ranjana Ghatak as well as a solo set by The Vernon Spring.

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Listen Club #26: "Soundscapes of Hope" with Hazel Reeves
Jul
9
7:00 PM19:00

Listen Club #26: "Soundscapes of Hope" with Hazel Reeves

Listen Club is about listening together is in the same space, with the possibility of sharing impressions and casual discussion afterwards. Listen Club hopes to provide a counterpoint to the quick paced personal consumption of music with a more patient shared experience; a deep listen, together, in order to foster community.

This session welcome sound artist Hazel Reeves with the theme “Soundscapes of Hope

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Jinn Records Presents: Pilani Bubu - From Ekuseni to Nay’Indaba
Jul
4
7:00 PM19:00

Jinn Records Presents: Pilani Bubu - From Ekuseni to Nay’Indaba

Pilani Bubu, South Africa’s indelible storyteller, brings two of her most potent and critically acclaimed works to the stage: Folklore Chapter 2: Ekuseni and Nay’Indaba. This live experience is a carefully curated journey through ancestral wisdom, spiritual inheritance, and the pulse of modern-day South Africa — told through music that is rich, raw, and rhythmically transcendent.

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From the Lips to the Moon
Jun
27
7:00 PM19:00

From the Lips to the Moon

A catalyst in London’s experimental scene and on a sell out roll for two years, From the Lips to the Moon has been at the forefront of a growing movement where music and poetry collide. Their debut Brighton performance at the Rose Hill will see Live-electronic music wizard Pouya Ehsaei and voice-shifting performer-writer Tara Fatehi joined by some of Brighton's finest musicians and poets: Subira Joy, Reanna Valentine, Leroy Horns & James Parsons

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Synch Pulse - No. 17: Robots and Cyborg
Jun
25
7:00 PM19:00

Synch Pulse - No. 17: Robots and Cyborg

Appearing in avant-garde short films far less often than in commercial mainstream cinema, there are nonetheless various examples of androids in offbeat documentaries and animations backed by experimental electronic sounds. For this Synch Pulse the focus will be on a mix of vintage and contemporary shorts where robots and cyborgs take centre stage.

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Listen Club 25: Listening to Changing Nature: Changing the Nature of Listening
Jun
18
7:00 PM19:00

Listen Club 25: Listening to Changing Nature: Changing the Nature of Listening

Listen Club is about listening together is in the same space, with the possibility of sharing impressions and casual discussion afterwards. Listen Club hopes to provide a counterpoint to the quick paced personal consumption of music with a more patient shared experience; a deep listen, together, in order to foster community.

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Eva Lunny
Jun
13
7:00 PM19:00

Eva Lunny

Eva Lunny is a London/Brighton based harpist, inspired by ambient greats such as Brian Eno, Laraaji and Aphex Twin, as well as jazz harpists Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Eva uses drones, looping, layering and improvisation to build soundscapes and bring audience members on an introspective journey, infusing neo-classical melodies with modern electronic production techniques.

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Eric Chenaux (solo) + Lee Westwood
Jun
12
7:00 PM19:00

Eric Chenaux (solo) + Lee Westwood

ERIC CHENAUX is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, singer and sound sculptor. He has released seven solo albums of experimental song on the Montréal-based imprint Constellation. “This guys sounds like nothing else we had heard before - his vocals sound as sweet and perfect as Chet Baker mixed with Nick Drake and a bit of beloved Stevie - and a whoozy groovy guitar that draws you into a spellbinding deep listening experience!”

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Hot Tropic #5
Jun
7
to Jun 8

Hot Tropic #5

Lose yourself under the palm trees in a rhythmic fever dream of soukous, salsa, soca, dancehall and disco with 1BTN DJs Chicha Morada and Nick Subtle. Psychedelic visuals by Benedict Sheehan.

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