Brighton Festival 2017’s Guest Director Kate Tempest made a surprise return to the city on May 19 for a secret gig as part of the Festival’s Your Place initiative, performing an exclusive rendition of her unreleased new album in full at Hangleton Community Centre.
Guest Director at This years Brighton Festival, Kate Tempest has chosen the theme of ‘everyday epic’ for this year’s Peacock Poetry Prize. The Festival is inviting aspiring young poets and wordsmiths to observe and reflect on the details and daily achievements of our lives and to celebrate and share our common humanity.
The theme for the 2017 Children’s Parade, which takes place during the Brighton Festival on Saturday, May 6, is Poetry in Motion. Jointly produced with award-winning community arts organisation Same Sky, the annual Children’s Parade officially launches Brighton Festival.
Brighton Festival announce that the Guest Director for Brighton Festival 2017 is the acclaimed recording artist, poet, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest. Described by the Guardian as ‘one of the brightest British talents around,’ Tempest’s prolific artistic output across multiple disciplines has attracted her considerable acclaim and a unique range of audiences. Having made her live debut as a spoken-word artist at just sixteen, she initially conceived of herself as a rapper, however she is now equally at home as a poet, novelist, musician and playwright – garnering extraordinary success in each field.
