Brighton Festival

Every year for the month of May, the City of Brighton holds an Arts Festival. Amongst the many local performances of theatre, opera, dance, poetry, classical music, world music, jazz, workshops, audiences with key literary figures, street theatre, and fringe events, hundreds of artists open their houses to the public. The Buddhist Centre always participates in the Festival, holding exhibitions and presenting performances.

Installation: 'Emerging' by Ingrid Plum

Festival Events 2008

Open Day at the Buddhist Centre
Meditation, Yoga tasters, talk, videos & refreshments.
Saturday 10 May, 11am - 4pm.
Free of charge though donations are welcome

Two Worlds: the real, the imagined

Are we so stuck in the mundane that we can't see another world all around us? Local author Sebastian Beaumont's first mainstream novel, Thirteen, explores levels of 'reality' and looks at how psychological reality can sometimes be more real than bricks and mortar. His second novel, The Juggler, which will be published later this year, explores how spiritual reality can also have a structure, logic and momentum of its own. Tonight he reads from, and discusses, his work.

Friday 16 May, 7.30 - 8.45pm
Cost: £6/£4

An Enlightened Afternoon
Poetry and singing workshops, slide show and performance, meditation, pure foods. Children welcome.
Saturday 17 May, 2 - 5pm
Cost: £3

Meeting of Ways: poetry with music
Be inspired and uplifted as actors perform excerpts from Rumi and
Elliot, set to a live original score by Joss Peach and friends.
Spacious, heart-felt, minimalist, reflective, joyous, sublime!
Friday 23 May, 8 - 10pm
Cost £10/£8

Wolf at the Door: Writing as Awareness

Creative writing workshop with Ananda and Manjusvara. You don't need to be an experienced writer to participate - just willing to let language work through you and begin its secret work of opening.

Saturday/Sunday 24 & 25 May, 10am - 4.30pm
Cost: £80/£60/£25

Tickets from Dome Box Office: 01273 709709