B.Fest Launch Day!
Saturday 25th October / 2-9pm / Free / Sign-up required
Welcome to B.fest 2025! Celebrate the start of our week of youth culture with a day packed with events, workshops, music, and more. Plus, we’ll be kicking things off with the official launch and ribbon-cutting of our swish new building. Make sure to get over here and have a nosy around the new set-up!
Make sure to book your ticket to the launch day, which will give you access to the whole building for the whole day, all for free.
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Check out the events that’ll be filling BYC throughout the day below, or find them in their relevant tabs in the menu.
Venue B Launch Gig
Music / 2-9pm / Free with launch ticket
From the ribbon-cutting to close, we’ll be debuting our incredible new space for gigs and performance with a line-up showcasing the best of the young scene.
From the ribbon-cutting at 2 until 3, New Generation Jazz will be laying down a groove of jazz fusion.
From 4-7pm, we’ll have acoustic and solo sets. Stick around for chilled vibes and some of the best of Brighton’s young singer-songwriters. Stay tuned for the full line-up.
At 7pm, a brief break from the music for a film screening! See the premier of the BYC Tour where young bands were taken on the road to other YIF funded projects to perform at gigs nationwide, and connect and share music in these inspiring spaces.
After the screening, it’s time to have a dance as alt-rock bands take the stage. Stay tuned for the full line-up
CultureGround
CultureGround / 2-8pm / Free with launch ticket
The official opening of B.fest’s dedicated gallery space, framing young people’s art in professional spaces. Challenging pre-conceptions of youth & community art, over Exhibiting individual, collaborative and multi-media pieces, over 30 young artists offer individual & collaborative pieces in a range of media & styles. Meet the artists & be the first to view this groundbreaking exhibition. Check out the CultureGround tab for the full breakdown of this year’s incredible line-up.
Brighton young Art Market
Visual Art / 2-8pm / Free with launch ticket
BAM is Brighton’s young Art Market: Original prints, prints, poster art, apparel, animation, zines, publishing to buy from the best of Brighton’s up and coming youth artists. Creative workshops, drop-in activities and live unplugged performances make this a market not to miss. Bring plenty of cash, as some some stalls won’t have a card machine.
Streetfunk Showcase
Performance, Poetry, & Dance / 2-5pm / Free with launch ticket
Come and see Brighton’s legendary street dance company showcasing some of there competitive dance crews.
BYC Paint and Pier Showcase
Visual Art / 2-8pm / Free with launch ticket
See epic street art from 25 iconic local artists that gathered to leave their mark on Brighton Youth Centre. Work can be found in the sports hall, Venue B, and around the building. How many crows can you spot!?
Paris 68 Redux Poster Workshop
Visual Art / 2-7pm / Free with launch ticket
Work with Paris 68 Redux (@paris68redux) to create low-fi, high impact, political paste up posters. Using stencil, speak your mind, have your voice heard, and make some powerful imagery.
Amazine with Art In Mind
Visual Art / 2-6pm / Free with launch ticket
From AIM, this zine making workshop focuses on identity expression, connection and place. Create zines and badges to take home and express yourself with!
Spray Paint with Sinna One
Visual Art / 2.30-3.30, 3.30-4.30, 4.30-5.30 / Free / Separate sign-up required
Love to draw and paint and want to create it BIG on a wall? Sinna One will show you basic spray paint techniques to help elevate your art and get it out there!
Spaces for these workshops are limited, so you’ll need to book onto this separately. Check out the links below to secure your spot, and make sure to book fast – they’ll go!
Project Female Taster Day
Performance, Poetry, & Dance / 3-5pm / Free with launch ticket
Brighton’s female-first, empowering dance company are bringing their moves to B.fest. With drop-in workshops at 3-30pm and 3.45-4.15pm, plus a showcase of their incredible company at 4.30, don’t miss this chance to meet these incredible young performers. Gain confidence in your body, learn more about Project Female classes, and have fun!
Home Away From Home
Performance, Poetry, & Dance / 7.30-8.30pm / Free with launch ticket
Taking over an entire floor, ThirdSpace Theatre performers will lead you through a new piece devised by them. After another pandemic, children of the infected are crammed into overcrowded, underfunded centres. As the cracks in society grow, so too do the fragile connections these imprisoned young people cling on to fall apart…
B.Game Tournament
Gaming & Digital / 2-7pm / Free with launch ticket
Come and meet the B.Gamers, our group of young people who meet weekly to talk and play games. Come and battle it out in a video-game tournament, or just spectate and cheer for your friends! Projected onto the wall, it’ll be a fantastic spectator sport. Games will be running all afternoon, so drop-in and out whenever you want.
Future Visions
Gaming & Digital / 2-9pm / Free with launch ticket
With David Allistone from Exploring Senses, young people have mixed real dreams and wild fantasies to show how the space can live and breathe youth culture, shaped by the ideas of the next generation. Using digital collage, Procreate and more, they’ve built animations that light up the building — an immersive takeover of youth-led visions, raw, playful and unapologetically future-facing. Installations indoors during the day, then lighting up the exterior of our building as the sun begins to set.