Your arts centre: check out ACCA’s autumn programme
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts’ autumn 2019 season features a range of events – music, film, performance and an immersive virtual reality experience – alongside partnerships with two of the city’s most dynamic cultural festivals (Brighton Digital Festival and CINECITY, Brighton’s film festival).
The season opens with a special screening organised to coincide with Welcome Week at University of Sussex – Walking:Holding, a meditative documentary that journeys through urban landscapes exploring identity and intimacy in public space with a focus on LGBTQ+ experiences. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist Rosana Cade focusing on the issues raised within the project.
Tuesday 24 September, 5.00pm. Pay What You Decide
A season highlight is To the Moon, created by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landings in 1969. In this VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon and glides through space debris. The aim is to allow the viewer to literally walk into a work of art.
30 September to 4 October, 1pm to 8pm, slots every 20 minutes. £5
Marking another anniversary, Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (directed by Walter Ruttman) will be screened with a special live score created by Simon Fisher Turner, Klara Lewis and Rainier Lericolais. This event, presented in partnership with CINECITY is a UK Premiere, organised on the weekend that marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Sunday 10 November, 7pm
#ACCADigital is a strand of the programme that brings some of the brightest talent in the electronic music and audiovisual art scene to Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts. The lineup includes Holly Herndon, Tim Hecker, Planningtorock and Caterina Barbieri.
#ACCACinemaClub is a series of screenings organised on Sunday evenings with a focus on documentaries, independent and international cinema. The programme is wide ranging and includes Kenyan cinema, the story of Trojan Records and a documentary following a female football team in post-revolution Libya.
Visit the Attenborough Centre website for full programme details.
Students are entitled to concession price tickets where they are available. Many of the events have an allocation of Pay What You Decide tickets available – book a ticket free of charge and leave an optional financial donation after the event (in an anonymous envelope) if you choose to.