Brighton Screendance Festival: Screendance invites

Guest curators from the world of screendance select arresting, beautiful and thoughtful films connecting with themes of loss, migration, forgetting and rupture. 

Guest curators include Alexandrina Hemsley, choreographer and film-maker; Gitta Wigro, dance film programmer; Becky Edmunds, multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker; and Charles Linehan, choreographer and curator-founder of London International Screendance Festival.  

Age recommendation: 12+  

Image: In the Same Boat, by Mervi Junkkonen, Mia Malviniemi

Date and time
Saturday 14 November 2026
Times
4-5.30pm
Location
Jamie Watton Creation Space at The Dance Space
Ticket Price
£PayWhatYouCan: £3/5/7/10 - suggested price £5
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