Visual Art
CultureGround
All week / Drop-in
Cultureground is back! The award-winning pop-up gallery dedicated to young artists, reframing & challenging pre-conceptions of youth art & the people who produce it. Young artists offer individual & collaborative pieces in a range of media & styles. Check out the CultureGround tab to see a breakdown of what we’ll be exhibiting.
Brighton young Art Market (BAM)
Sat 25th October / 2-9pm / Free with launch ticket / Drop-in
BAM is Brighton 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.
Paris 68 Redux Poster Workshop
Sat 25th October / 2-7pm / Free with launch ticket / Drop-in
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
Sat 25th October / 3-6pm / Free with launch ticket / Drop-in
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 Workshop with Sinna One
25th, 26th, 28th / Various times / Free / Sign-up
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!
– 25th 2.30-3.30 – – 25th 3.30-4.30 – – 25th 4.30-5.30 – – 26th 3-4 – – 26th 4-5 – – 28th 3-4 – – 28th 4-5pm –
Graffiti Sticker Making
Sunday 26th October / 3-5pm / Free / Sign-up
Come make and swap hand-drawn stickers with Brighton street artist ‘CORKiE’! All materials will be provided (posca pens, blank stickers, etc) but feel free to bring your own art supplies as well!
Tie Embellishment with Art In Mind
Sunday 26th October / 6-8pm / Free / Sign-up
A lesson on how to embellish, embroidery and sew on a tie to create wearable works of art! Materials provided, so come along to unwind, learn, and create.
Zine Power with LGP Young Writer’s Collective
Tuesday 28th October / 3-5pm / Free / Sign-up
Join the DIY publishing revolution and learn to make your own zine! Express yourself through cutting and pasting, collage, and creative writing prompts. All materials provided but feel free to bring any favourite images/magazines to cut up too. Create your own mini zine to take away on any theme of your choice and/or be part of Young Writer’s Collective next publication on the theme of “Time/Time Travel”.
Costume Upcycling with ThirdSpace Theatre
Tuesday 28th October / 6-8pm / Free / Sign-up
Bring in second hand clothes to alter and make into costumes. No need to buy off Amazon anymore! It could be for a party, cosplay, a play, Halloween or any other occasion you have to dress up – simple tricks you’ll be able to use time and time again to make your own outfit through basic making skills.
Mapping Space: Stamp-printing Zines with Aghh! Zine
Wednesday 29th October / 3-5pm / Free / Sign-up
How do our spaces define us? What spaces make you comfortable and which make us inspired? Come and explore the spaces you inhabit and reimagine third-spaces in this hands-on workshop from Aghh! Zine. We will use an easy and fun technique with modelling clay for stamp printing to gather textures from our surroundings in the Brighton Youth Centre. We will then use the results along with writing prompts to create a zine.
Felt Fannies
Wednesday 29th October / 6-8.30pm / Free / Sign-up
A welcoming, hands-on craft workshop where participants design and make felt vulvas, fannies, or coochies! Promoting body positivity, deepening understanding of anatomy and menstruation, and encouraging open, supportive conversations in a fun and safe environment.
Halloween Life Drawing
Thursday 30th October / 3-5pm / Free / Sign-up
Life drawing with a twist – models in cosplay! Turn up in cosplay or just come and join in the drawing. Learn how to draw figures from models doing action poses, and create dynamic drawings.
Collaborative Painting with AIM
Friday 31st October / 4-6pm / Free / Sign-up
Create your own artwork for BYC’s new building! Add a doodle, symbol, colour, or word that represents you today. Work on the giant collaborative canvas with others or make your own piece – either way, your mark will help celebrate the start of a new chapter for the centre.
Queer Grounds
Wednesday 29th October – Sunday 2nd November / 12-5pm / Free / At the Phoenix Art Space
Join the participants from Queer Grounds. The group, aged 16–25, has taken over the Project Space for B.fest and invites you to explore how LGBTQ+ communities have created alternative ways of coming together, rooted in care, community, and collective action, while also imagining what queer young people want and need for the future. Come and see how we’ve been reflecting on queer spaces, stories, and possibilities. Alongside this, we will share visual explorations into togetherness and reflections from a site visit to the queer-led DIY and carpentry space In Our Hands, offering insights into collective making, collaboration, and queer approaches to craft and community building.