Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival Annual Review 2017/18

Annual Review 2017/18

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Inspiring creativity, Enriching lives

Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival enjoys a worldwide reputation as well as being right at the heart of our community.

Our Purpose is To inspire and enable artists to be their most creative To champion the power of the arts to enrich and change lives

Our Vision is To be one of Europe’s leading arts festivals and a year-round destination for diverse artists and audiences

Our Goals are To produce great art in England’s city on the edge To be a place where everyone can grow their creativity and develop skills for life To be the city’s cultural heart To be a sustainable organisation As custodians of the Grade I and Grade II listed Brighton Dome, which is part of the iconic Royal Pavilion Estate, we present a rich and varied programme spanning music, theatre, dance, comedy, literature, spoken word, visual arts, film, digital, community and participatory events. Each May we produce Brighton Festival, the largest curated annual arts festival in England.

Renowned for its pioneering spirit and experimental reputation for more than 50 years, Brighton Festival has become one of the city’s most enduring symbols of inventiveness. Since 2009 we have welcomed a major cultural figure to guest curate and enhance the prestige of the artistic programme. Anish Kapoor, Brian Eno, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Rosen, Hofesh Shecter, Ali Smith, Laurie Anderson, Kate Tempest and David Shrigley have contributed significantly to our innovative programming as Guest Director.

Our diverse portfolio of activities means we reach significant audiences locally and nationally each year. Ticketed events are accompanied by an active programme of creative learning and participation, and this is further complemented by music and arts education for children and young people in schools and music centres across the city. Underpinning our artistic aims is a robust commercial and charitable programme of activities.

Photo: Brighton Dome from the Royal Pavilion Garden, 2017 © Vic Frankowski

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Welcome

Preparing for our Future Over the past year we have moved closer to achieving the ambitious restoration and reunification of the Royal Pavilion Estate, which established Brighton’s reputation two centuries ago and now forms the city’s cultural heart. In the first phase of this masterplan, the Grade I-listed Corn Exchange is being magnificently restored and the Grade II-listed Studio Theatre remodelled in a £21.2m project in partnership with Brighton & Hove City Council, Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The year 2017/18 was therefore our first full year of operating just one venue, the Brighton Dome Concert Hall. This has spurred us to find innovative, exciting and sustainable ways

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Our creative learning events programme centres on work in local communities that offers people of all ages ways to access and participate in the arts. We reached 30,517 people this year, a 70% increase on previous years. We want to increase this even further as we focus on the role culture can play in place-making and addressing Brighton’s specific challenges.

Board of Trustees

Executive Team

Polly Toynbee Chair Tim Aspinall Donald Clark Julian Crampton Simon Fanshawe Nelson Fernandez David Gann Danny Homan David Jordan Chris Martin Alan McCarthy Cllr. Adrian Morris

Andrew Comben Chief Executive

Cllr. Carol Theobald

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of working: new relationships have been forged and existing ones deepened as we prepare the way for Brighton Dome to become a true heritage destination. And despite new challenges, our audience for ticketed year-round performances was higher than in both 2016/17 and 2015/16.

Amanda Jones, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance

Carole Britten Director of Marketing and Audiences Peter Chivers Director of Music & Arts Zoe Curtis Director of Visitor and Venue Services Adam Harvey Director of Production Maxine Hort Director of Operations Tanya Peters Director of Artistic Programming

Photo: Brighton Festival’s Children’s Parade, 2018 © Vic Frankowski

In July 2017 we united with Brighton & Hove Music & Arts to create a sustainable city-wide hub for creative and cultural learning. This is significantly improving access to high-quality music experiences for children, young people, families, schools and communities, and opens up yet more opportunities to work with new partners and funders.

We wish to thank everyone who has contributed to our success over the past year. We hope that this review of 2017/18 and Brighton Festival 2018 will serve both as a reminder of some of our outstanding work and as a testament to lives changed and enriched through the arts.

In total our work for April ‘17 to March ‘18 reached

455,236 audiences, participants and visitors

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301,355

80%

79%

Ticketed Event Attenders and Digital Views

Ticketed Events

of Reviewed Events Considered Excellent

Total Occupancy Attendance

30,517

Participation in our Creative Learning

Activities, Events and Open Days

5,789

Children Taught Music In School Every Week

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83,011

Brighton Festival Free Events and Visual Arts Attendance

16,788 Conference and Private Events Attendance

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The Heart of the City Restored and Reunited

The redevelopment of Brighton Dome’s Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre is the first phase of a long-term vision to revitalise Brighton’s Royal Pavilion Estate, created by George IV in the early-19th century. The project will create a centre for heritage, culture and the performing arts which reflects the unique spirit of Brighton.

Long-lost heritage features are being revived and new state-of-the-art facilities created, including a magnificent viewing gallery in the Corn Exchange, a dedicated creative space for workshops and rehearsals, and a new streetfacing café on New Road. The project will develop, deepen and broaden Brighton & Hove’s cultural tourism offer and significantly contribute to the city’s cultural and economic wellbeing.

The works, which began in February 2017 are well underway, thanks to commitments from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund, and the Coast to Capital Local Growth fund, as well as the City Council, charitable trusts and individual patrons.

With over 90% of funding in place, our community appeal, Build Brighton Dome, invites the local community as well as visitors to the city to help complete this transformational project.

Our public fundraising target is £250,000, which the Roddick Foundation has generously pledged to match pound for pound.

90% of funding is now in place

‘Naming a seat in the Corn Exchange is, for us, a unique way to celebrate both the fantastic performances we’ve enjoyed here together as well as this phenomenal venue, which is so important to the city.’

Karl & Soheila Jones, Seat Appeal donors

You can donate or name a seat at build.brightondome.org

Leadership Support Leadership Support

Photo: Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, 2018 © Carlotta Luke

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Producing Great Art in England’s City on the Edge

Brighton Festival 2017 ‘Everyday Epic’ Guest Director Kate Tempest The Guest Director for Brighton Festival 2017 was the recording artist, poet, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest. Her theme was ‘Everyday Epic’— art that helps us connect to ourselves and others, exploring our individual stories and differences.

Kate inspired several new approaches that helped us reach more new audiences and more parts of Brighton than ever before. Your Place, in partnership with Brighton People’s Theatre, took free performances, workshops and activities involving Festival artists and local residents to the Hangleton and East Brighton communities, with 1,500 people participating across two weekends. The Storytelling Army, a dynamic collective of people from all walks of life, popped up in unusual locations to tell their ‘Everyday Epic’ stories. Festival audiences were also encouraged to join the Pay-It-Forward movement: donations from 1,300 people allowed Festival tickets to be given to those unable to afford them.

Artistic highlights included the UK premiere of The Gabriels, Richard Nelson’s extraordinary depiction of an American family, written and set in real time during the USA’s turbulent election year. Our commissions included an ethereal promenade performance through Woodvale Cemetery for Circa’s Depart, in partnership with LIFT. Kate Tempest’s standout performance was our commissioned live orchestration of her recent album Let Them Eat Chaos, produced in collaboration with the artist Mica Levi. The Festival’s biggest talkingpoint was For the Birds, a spectacular nocturnal trail of sound and light installations at Hollingbury Hill Fort. With over 15,000 people attending over 16 evenings, this was the largest ticketed event ever presented at Brighton Festival, generating much social media engagement.

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‘One of my big hopes was that we could do just what we have done, which is to bring the Festival out a little bit, open it up, and have some events going on in the communities, so people who can’t make it into town for whatever reason, still get to access some of the great programming and some of that feeling of this Festival.’

Kate Tempest, Guest Director

‘ Brighton Festival is a hugely important part of not only Brighton’s but also the nation’s cultural heritage, attracting large audiences to its wonderfully eclectic array of events. Through the medium of the Festival, Nutshell can talk to both existing and potential clients in a very different atmosphere to the building site!’

Ben Copper, CEO, Nutshell Constructions, Sponsor

The total ticketed audience was up 20% to 81,235 – a new Brighton Festival record.

We live streamed 13 Brighton Festival events to audiences around the world for free achieving 44,000 views.

We reached 7,000 new bookers

Photo: Kate Tempest performing Let Them Eat Chaos with Mica Levi & Orchestrate

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Producing Great Art in England’s City on the Edge

Brighton Festival 2018 ‘Strive for Excellence’ Guest Director David Shrigley Brighton Festival 2018 offered more opportunities than ever for people to get involved. The 5,000-strong Children’s Parade drew 20,000 people onto the streets; over 12,500 visitors took part in David Shrigley’s installation Life Model II; and events such as Three Score Dance’s recreation of Pina Bausch’s The Nelken Line and The Voice Project’s choral sleepover The Arms of Sleep involved over 350 local performers and volunteers.

Our first Brighton based Guest Director, David Shrigley, was heavily involved in a range of events, from informal meetings with young people interested in a career in the visual arts to the world premiere of his alt/pop rock musical Problem in Brighton, commissioned by Brighton Festival.

Alongside a characteristically ambitious and high-profile programme, Brighton Festival 2018 featured a host of commissions and cocommissions. These included Hofesh Shechter Dance Company’s Grand Finale; Calixto Bieito’s A String Quartet’s Guide to Sex and Anxiety with the Heath Quartet; Cuckmere: A Portrait, a filmic and orchestral homage to the Cuckmere river; Brighton-based choreographer Ceyda Tanc’s KAYA; Creation (Pictures for Dorian) by the British/German arts collective Gob Squad; and Brownton Abbey, an Afrofuturist party celebrating the work of queer artists of colour.

artists from around the world, from Carleen Andersons’s Festival exclusive A Change is Going to Come to the West African supergroup Les Amazones d’Afrique. The biggest audience draw was No Fit State’s Lexicon in a big top on Hove Lawns. Numerous free events included Pivot, which saw 9,000 visitors riding on talking seesaws; Nick Steur’s rock-balancing performance A Piece of 2; Weekend Without Walls, the annual celebration of family-friendly outdoors performance; and the successful return of the Your Place programme in Hangleton and East Brighton.

The Pay-It-Forward scheme, back for its second year, saw increased redemptions up to 55% for ticket vouchers offered to individuals otherwise unable to experience Festival events.

"The University of Brighton is delighted to be developing its relationship with Brighton Festival, through its involvement in supporting first class productions such as "Penguins" and sponsorship of the fabulous Children's Parade which enable engagement with the wider community across the city and region." Hugh Jones, University of Brighton

Theatre highlights included National Theatre of Scotland’s Adam, the remarkable true story of a young trans man’s journey from Egypt to Scottland directed by Cora Bissett and caravan, the biennial showcase introducing England’s brightest independant theatre artists to Festival organisers from around the world in partnership with Farnham Maltings. Meanwhile the contemporary music programme welcomed

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Photo: Three Score Dance, Dance The Nelken-Line, Brighton Seafront © Vic Frankowski

‘… guest directing Brighton Festival has been a really social experience, and a really positive one. I feel embraced by the arts community in Brighton, but I also feel that I in turn have embraced the arts community back. It’s been a real privilege to be part of the Festival in such a big way, and to have met so many people. I feel very lucky.’

‘We’re proud to be a major sponsor and host venue again for Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival. Through ambitious programming and a clear ethos, they have put experimental, diverse and thought-provoking arts within the reach of everybody. This aligns perfectly with our values at the University of Sussex and our Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.’

David Shrigley, Guest Director

Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adam Tickell – University of Sussex BDBF major sponsors

Total audience reached for Brighton Festival 2018 was 156,624

47,532 people viewed our digital content

27,700 people took part in our programme – the highest ever

913.5 hours of video views via Facebook

73,973 bought tickets

261 volunteers contributed 2,384 hours

33,636 came to free performances

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Producing Great Art in England’s City on the Edge

Brighton Dome Engaging Throughout the Year

Brighton Dome epitomises variety and innovation. Whilst focusing on prodominantly programming in the Concert Hall throughout 2017/18 we still presented 262 public events, workshops and activities, spanning an eclectic programme of music, theatre, comedy, dance, community events, creative learning and artist development activities. We achieved record occupancy levels of 82%, with paid attendance at 76%.

The multi-media Dear Esther Live, The Magnetic Fields’ epic 50 Song Memoir and appearances

by Dizzie Rascal, Dua Lipa, Goldfrapp, Wolf Alice and The Flaming Lips were just some of the highlights of our rock, pop and contemporary music line-up, while the SPECTRUM project (in partnership with Brighton Museum and Brighton Youth Centre) invested in future talent by promoting and supporting local unsigned bands. We presented classical concert series by the London Philharmonic, Brighton Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, and our own Brighton Festival Chorus inaugurated its 50th-anniversary celebrations with Easter and Christmas concerts.

Our theatre programme included the immersive aural experience Séance in a shipping container in Jubilee Square over Halloween; The Mayers Ensemble’s What if I Told You?; and the return of Argentinian theatre maker Lola Arias’ Minefield, originally commissioned by Brighton Festival. We also presented a series of spoken word events including the R.A.P Party curated

by Inua Ellams and The Storytelling Army following their success in the 2017 Brighton Festival. We also hosted 40 children’s and young people’s theatre performances and a diverse Christmas season, including Acrobuffos’

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mesmerising AirPlay from New York. Ballet Boyz, Breakin’ Convention and Carlos Acosta’s new company Acosta Danza were dance highlights, while our comedy line-up featured such major names as Rob Brydon, Russell Brand and Nina Conti.

We continue to host major community events for schools, colleges and other local groups alongside our range of free open days and participation events which saw significantly increased attendance to over 16,000. These included International Women’s Day (in partnership with Brighton Women’s Centre), Heritage Open Day, Black History Month Family Day, Christmas Open Day, Deaf Diaspra, and Together as part of Refugee Week.

‘We are delighted to support such a culturally diverse and accessible programme – our support ensures it reaches a large part of the local community and beyond!’

Victoria King, Griffith Smith LLP Solicitors, Sponsor

82% overall ticketed attendance across our year round Brighton Dome programme Total ticketedaudience reach: 191,995 Open days welcomed 16,040 people

Photo: R.A.P Party, Brighton Dome Concert Hall, 2017 © Genevieve Phythian

‘Rap and poetry mixed together at a fantastic venue’ Audience Member on R.A.P Party

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Growing Creativity

Arts for All 37,364

Audience reached by our Creative Learning activities, events, open days and music and arts service

Brighton & Hove Music & Arts (BHMA) united with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival (BDBF)in July 2017 to create a city-wide hub for creative and cultural learning. By operating collectively, we are significantly improving access to high-quality music experiences for children, young people, families, schools and communities.

In the 2017/18 academic year BHMA engaged directly with 5,789 children and young people - 3,095 through small-group and instrumental lessons, and 2,694 children through the Soundmakers First access programme. We have secured a four-year grant from the national charity Youth Music with which we will increase inclusive music making in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, Kent, Surrey and West Sussex.

We have a strong foundation of partnership through their work with SoundCity: Brighton & Hove, which brings together the leading organisations for music in the city with BHMA as lead partner. The two organisations are also founder partners of Our Future City, the Cultural Education Partnership, which aims to develop the creative talent of children’s and young people’s via arts and cultural learning and creative skills development.

During 2017/18 Our Future City, soon to be called Future Creators, engaged directly with 1,058 children and young people, and digitally with a further 4,014. Its annual conference/joint practice development day for music and arts leaders was attended by 140 delegates in January 2018.

The #Be Collective networking and training programme involved 765 adults representing 199 different organisations.

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Photo: Children playing in a concert for Music & Arts, 2017

Our programmes that support children and young people to achieve an Arts Award include Arts Award Discover, part of the #Be Well programme and the SoundCity (Music Education Hub) provision. We also help schools throughout Brighton & Hove to achieve the Artsmark, which recognises the placing of high-quality arts provision at the centre of school life.

In addition, our programme related workshop offer, expanded community focussed open days and specific creative learning projects including SPECTRUM, Umbrella Club, the annual Brighton Festival Children’s parade, |Memory making Day and Miss Represented have all contribute to much our increased participation audience up 70% to 37,364

‘Our family has been involved with Music & Arts for many years now and it continues to be a brilliant experience for our children. We’ve seen their confidence grow and grow and they’ve made long lasting friendships with children they’d never have met otherwise’ Parent

“It was so amazing to hear everyone play my song and for them all to clap at the end. It felt amazing. I nearly cried and then died of embarrassment, but it felt amazing! I want to do it again.”

(Participating young person – orchestra 360)

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Growing Creativity

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Arts for All 4,280

Children and young people participating in our outreach activites

We are constantly looking for ways to embrace all corners of the community, open the arts to everyone and be a place where everyone can grow their creativity and develop skills for life.

Thanks to funding from Big Lottery Fund, our Miss Represented project, which works with some of Brighton’s most vulnerable young women, including referrals from the Youth Offending Service, foster care services and pupil referral units grew significantly in impact during 2017/18. An original theatre and music production, Can You See Me Now?, which explored participants’ experiences of systems and institutions culminated in a successful national tour, attracting audiences of 719 across 11 performances at arts venues, schools, universities and youth centres in Brighton, Battersea Arts Centre in London and arts venues in Liverpool and Manchester. Miss Represented’s staff also supported Mpower, a pilot project for young men intended as a brother project in partnership with Photoworks, A Band of Brothers and the Connected Hub.

Access for all continues to inform everything we do and building on our established record of accessibility. We presented nine relaxed, 16 British Sign Language-interpreted, four captioned, 18 highly visual and three audio-described performances in 2017/18.

In addition, we provided six successful work placements for young adults with learning disabilities through our partnership with the charity Team Domenica.

‘I genuinely didn’t think I had a future before and now there’s so many other ways I can go’ Miss Represented participant

Another major initiative is our Umbrella Club for children with life-limiting illnesses. In 2017/18 it helped over 180 children and members of their families, with 340 tickets gifted to 37 performances, and 85 children and young people attending workshops throughout Memory Making Day. Umbrella Club involves staff from all departments as volunteers. Membership is widening and more partners are coming on board to increase its reach.

Photo: Miss Represented, Can You See Me Now? Dress Rehearsals, 2017 © Lauren Joy Kennett

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Inspiring Creativity

Our Artists We have the honour and privilege of presenting a hugely diverse range of artists across the Brighton Festival and Brighton Dome programmes.

We provide a platform for artists of many genres, cultures and communities to enrich the cultural life of Brighton & Hove.

Notable artists during 2017/18 included Selina Thompson’s Race Cards, which examined everyday racism; What If I Told You?

by Pauline Mayers, which explored institutional racism; Inua Ellam’s fusion of music and spoken word, RAP Party; and Vanessa Kisuule’s Sexy. Chineke! Orchestra

showcased exceptional young black classical musicians when it made its debut at the 2017 Festival. Mykki Blanco brought together queer artists of colour from the UK and USA, including Travis Alabanza and Lasana Shabazz, while Festival Guest Director, Kate Tempest curated a roster of LGBTQ+ artists which included FK Alexander, Theo Clinkard, Jackie Kay and Meow Meow.

The stimulating mixture of voices in our books and debate events included Hanif Kureishi, Raja Shehadeh, Petina Gappah, Helen Oyeyemi, Patience Agbabi, Zaffar Kunial and Kojey

Radical. Projects such as Choir with No Name and Story-Telling Army placed marginalised local people centre stage, and disabled artists were well represented: the Wild’n’Beets collective, Deaf Men Dancing, Daryl Beeton’s Square World and Andy Smith’s Summit were notable guest companies and productions. The 2017/18 programme has featured artists from 21 countries worldwide, other than the UK, spanning Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle and Far East.

Our Partners Every successful arts organisation relies on partnership, now more than ever. Creating the diverse programme that characterises Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival requires highly valued national and international partnerships, to bring work that is new to UK audiences and, together, to commission original works. In the past year we have continued to work with generous and creative partners and forged successful new relationships with companies and institutions worldwide.

Generous support from Governmental funding bodies enabled us to engage with even more international artists: Yinka Kuitenbrouwer’s 18

One Hundred Homes, supported by the Government of Flanders, and Teac Damsa’s production of Swan Lake supported by Culture Ireland . A vibrant Australian strand (including Circa’s Depart, Lynette Wallworth’s Collisions and Tamara Saulwick’s Endings) secured substantial financial support through the Australia Council.

Our ongoing commitment to close relationships with Dance Consortium, Dance Touring Partnership and Music Beyond Mainstream ensures access to high-quality international productions. Through our membership of Without Walls we benefit from and contribute to the ability of colleagues nationally to commission

Chineke! Orchestra, Brighton Festival 2017 © Vic Frankowski

innovative new work for the outdoors and working together with colleagues at Farnham Maltings to host caravan enables some of the best English performance work to be seen by international promoters.

Our local partners, including the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, The Marlborough Theatre, The Old Market and Brighton People’s Theatre have not only helped to create much of the work highlighted in this review, but have also been vital to our ability to sustain the range of our programme during our redevelopment project, along with a range of other venues throughout the city.

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The City’s Cultural Heart

Our Audience

1 in 3.5 Households in Brighton & Hove attended our ticketing events.

A record number of households in the city now engage in our activities and we attract diverse audiences from across all postal sectors in Brighton & Hove.

We continue to encourage the adventurous spirit of our audiences highlighting opportunities to experience both Brighton Festival and the year-round programme at Brighton Dome.

Brighton Dome

Brighton Festival

48%

65%

42%

23%

10%

12%

Brighton & Hove

Brighton & Hove

South East

South East

London & Beyond

Over half of the year-round audience for Brighton Dome are visitors from outside the city contributing to the local economy 53% of our Brighton Dome audience have been to 4 or more of our events 64% of our year-round audience have also attended a Brighton Festival event within the last 5 years

‘First time at Brighton Dome and a really loved the venue’ ‘It was great to see the Dome so full, and the performers so enthusiastically received by the audience’ ‘It was worth a day trip from London to attend – I would definitely come back again’ Audience Comments 20 20

Photo: Flaming Lips, Brighton Dome 2017 © Jamie Macmillan

London & Beyond

Brighton Festival attracts a high proportion of bookers from the City buying tickets for visiting family and friends and also a higher proportion of bookers from London and beyond 60% of the Festival audience have a high attitude to risk and trying something new 35% of the Brighton Festival 2017 bookers were new audiences

‘Stunningly original and unusual – everything was an adventure in some way. Excellent, thoughtful programming – never better. Bravo’ ‘I loved it – a magical evening. The kind of thing that stays with you for some time afterwards. Simple and beautiful’ Audience Comments

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A Sustainable Organisation

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A Sustainable Organisation

69%

31%

of funding is self-generated (including 64% from ticket sales, catering, private events and sponsorship; and 5% from Memberships, donations, trusts and foundations)

of our funding is from Arts Council England and Brighton & Hove City Council

Environmental Sustainability

Conferences & Private Events

Appeals and Fundraising

Measured against the industry benchmark, electricty consumption in the Concert Hall fell by 38%, and we procured green electricity generated from renewable sources. More performances and admissions meant gas usage increased by 1.5%. None of the venue’s waste was sent to landfill, and 59% was recycled. Having banned the use of plastic drinking straws, we aim to be single-use plastic free by 2020.

Although our redevelopment project has limited the scope for conferences and privates - we hosted 26 events in 2017/18 compared to 79 the previous year - we have been working to preserve our market position by developing our social media activity, maintaining a strong, targeted online presence and launching a reopening campaign. We have also connected with prospective clients through trade shows and engaging with local businesses.

We are grateful to our donors, Members, Patrons, Corporate Partners, and Trusts and Foundations for their continued support of our artistic programme, creative learning and community work.

In 2017/18 we welcomed 300 more Members (from £30 per year) and 22 new Patrons (£1,000 + per year).

We secured a major two-year grant from the Big Lottery Fund to extend the reach of the Miss Represented Programme.

For the refurbishment works, materials have been sorted with hard-core and plasterboard recycled; 400 tonnes of earth removed from the site have been redistributed to other projects; and all other waste, except asbestos, was burned for energy.

Our success depends on the commitment of staff involved in the Green Team and departmental managers. Working with the Sustainable Business Partnership, we developed a new environmental action plan covering 2018–2022.

Photo: Woodland, Brighton Festival 2018

Conferences and proviate events is an essential part of our future business model and we have been busy engaging existing clients with the refurbishment.

All our generous supporters are listed on page 27.

We look forward with excitement to offer our new spaces for use by the local, national and intervational events community.

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A Sustainable Organisation

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Our Finances

Income

Expenditure

71%

94%

25%

5%

Charitable Activities

Charitable Activities

Grants & Donations

Trading Operations & Exceptional Expenditure

4%

1%

Trading Operations

Cost of generating voluntary income

Our financial result for 2017/18 shows a planned deficit in the year, but a much improved position, by £81,000, from our original budget which was set to reflect the risks associated with the redevelopment period. This improvement demonstrates the organisation is managing resources flexibly and effectively throughout the particular challenges of the capital project.

Summary consolidated statement of financial activities – Unrestricted funds including Music & Arts

Incoming resources Grants & donations Trading operations

Unrestricted funds including Music & Arts £’000 General 1,768 287

Investment income

1

Charitable activities

5,015

Total incoming resources

7,071

Charitable expenditure 209

Trading operations Cost of generating voluntary income Exceptional expenditure Charitable activities

89 110 6,878

Total charitable expenditure

7,286

Net incoming/resources for the year Transfer to designated fund

215 0

Net movement in funds

215

The figures in this report were extracted from Brighton Dome and Festival Limited’s full financial statements. The audit opinion on the annual financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2018 was unqualified. The financial statements should be consulted for a full understanding of the results of Brighton Dome and Festival Limited and its financial position.

Photo: For the Birds, Brighton Festival 2017, Hollingbury Hill Fort © Vic Frankowski

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A Sustainable Organisation

Thank you to our supporters As a charity we rely on the support of our members, corporate and trust & foundation donors. We would like to thank them all for their generosity and partnership. brightondome.org/support

‘Brighton Festival […] seems to magnify ‘It’s great to share in something so vital to our city and that brings us personally the essence of the year-round city. closer to the action’ Southern Water are delighted to be a part of, and proud to be supporting, Seb & Jo Royle, Patrons such an amazing event.’

‘By being a patron of Brighton Dome & Ian McAulay, CEO, Southern Water Brighton Festival I feel a part of what I ‘It was a fantastic Members’ rehearsal love most about Brighton – the exciting and great to be granted such privileged performance arts scene – which needs access. Another great reason to keep constant support to thrive.’ renewing the membership!’

Sue Addis, Patron

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Artwork: You are Very Important © David Shrigley

Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Member

Funders

Major Sponsors

Sponsors

Corporate Supporters

WSP West Sussex Print Limited

ASDA | AVT Connect | Book Nook | Brighton & Hove Buses | Facelift | Gunns Flowers | KAVE Theatre Services NCP | The Old Ship Hotel | PR Industrial Ltd Programming Partners

same sky dream & build

Brighton College | Dance Consortium | nabokov | South East Dance

Trusts & Foundations

Mrs A Lacy-Tate Trust | The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust | BBC Children in Need | The Chalk Cliff Trust The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust | EsmĂŠe Fairbairn Foundation | The Lynn Foundation | The Pebble Trust | Sobell Foundation Patrons The Aisbitt Family | Sue Addis | Prof James Barlow & Ms Hilary Brown | Paul & Dee Bonett | Ali Braithwaite | Caraline Brown | Caroline & Howard Carter | Sir Michael & Lady Sue Checkland | Martin & Ainthne Cole | Andrew Comben | June Crown | Ms Karen Doherty | Rachel Dupere | Cindy Etherton & Gillian Etherton QC Michael Farthing & Alison McLean | Prof Gary Frost & Val Frost | Prof David Gann CBE & Ms Anne Asha Richard & Kate Hall | David Harrison | John Hird & Yoshio Akiyama | Danny Homan | Lady Helena Hughes Prof Debra Humphris | Dr Glynn Jones DL OBE | Karl Jones | Dee Lahiri & Nick Southgate | Gary Miller | Kellie Miller & Kim Jones | Ms Diane Moody & Prof Frans Berkhout | Philip Morgan | Judge Marian Norrie-WalkerMichael Pitts | Andrew & Margaret Polmear | Ronald Power MBE | Donald Reid | Clare Rogers | Seb & Jo Royle Paul & Mary Sansbury | Dr Donia Scott & Prof Howard Rush | Richard & Soraya Shaw | Robin & Anja St Clair JonesJohn Summers | Polly Toynbee | Lady Betty Watson | Martin Williams | Those who wish to remain anonymous Thank you to all Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Members

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Situated in the heart of the city and part of the Royal Pavilion Estate, we are an arts charity made up of an historic events venue, a music education service and the biggest curated cross-arts festival in England.

Together we bring the arts and culture to a wide and diverse audience.

Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival

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Registered office: 12a Pavilion Buildings, Castle Square, Brighton BN1 1EE Company no. 889184 | Registered Charity no. 249748 | VAT no. 730 203001

Cover image: For The Birds Š John Nguyen