Thursday 1 - Sunday 18 May 2025 Launch event: Friday 2 May, 6.30-9.30 PM
Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH
Exhibition Dates: Thursday 1 - Sunday 18 May 2025, 12-6 PM. Open Thursday - Sunday (until 8 PM on Thursdays). FREE, just turn up!
Exhibition will close at 3pm on Friday 2 May and Friday 16 May.
Launch night: Friday 2 May, 6.30-9.30 PM. FREE, but booking is required.
Location: Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH (map)
Step into a space where the rules of art, work, and society are up for debate. Our Future Creative Leaders present We, The Change for Brighton Festival 2025. A dynamic youth-led exhibition exploring art's power to drive meaningful change.
Running from 1 - 18 May at the Lighthouse Project Space in the heart of Brighton, We, The Change showcases the next generation of creative talent, using artivism as a catalyst for social impact and conversation.
Bridging Lighthouse’s rich legacy with its forward-thinking future, the exhibition highlights the voices of young emerging artists and changemakers who are harnessing their skills to inspire action and shape a more just and inclusive society.
Credit: Sarah Brownlow
About the launch, Friday, 2 May 2025:
Join us for a very special night celebrating the opening of the exhibition, featuring music and conversations with our Future Creative Leaders and their collaborators.
Book your FREE tickets for the launch below.
Age: Parental guidance; under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
Content Warning: This exhibition has sensitive content and adult themes that some may find upsetting.
Check out our other events for We, The Change
An exploration into grime, rap and masculinity, where five male Brighton MCs will take the microphone for an open discussion and then a cypher. Levvy, Head of eott, will be providing the questions and rhythms.
Date: Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 6.30-10 PM
FREE Booking required. Get your free ticket here
Step into the world of Naiya Evans, professionally known as Dred, as he takes you on a journey through his life. You can expect images from his childhood, short stories from the present day and recent artworks from film to music. Ultimately a window into his world.
Join us for this special evening to hear Dred’s story.
Date: Friday 16 May 2025, 6.30-9 PM
FREE Booking required. Get your free ticket here
ACCESSIBILITY
This event will be held on the ground floor, level access, of Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH (map)
We have step-free access just to the left of our space. The step-free ramp is 1 metre wide, after the ramp you reach a blue door please use the 'Lighthouse' doorbell, one of the team will come to let you in and you will then go through a door that is 34 in / 86.5cm wide and after that another door in to the space that is 33.5 in / 85cm wide. There is an accessible toilet in the space on the same floor. We have one accessible parking space that must be booked in advance. For further information email info@lighthouse.org.uk or call 01273 647197.
Watch our video on the step-free access at Lighthouse Project Space. We are fundraising to adapt our entrance, so that everyone enters our space through the same door.
PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO DURING EVENT
Please note, that this event will be photographed/filmed. If you prefer not to be photographed please speak to a member of the Lighthouse team. The photographs and film we capture at our events are used for marketing and promotional purposes for our programme only and are stored securely.
ABOUT FUTURE CREATIVE LEADERS
Future Creative Leaders (FCL) is a 12-month paid programme offering young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to work closely with Lighthouse's leadership team to explore various aspects of creative leadership. Funded and supported by Art Fund’s ‘Reimagine Grants’ and Chalk Cliff Trust, over the year, participants will co-curate programmes, select participants for mini-residencies, and recruit their successors, all while exploring alternative governance structures, accountability, and power-sharing.
Funders for Future Creative Leaders
We, The Change is commissioned by Brighton Festival in collaboration with Lighthouse.
Lighthouse Project Space at New England House
Lighthouse Project Space is Brighton’s first public youth-led art space. Based in New England House lower ground floor, with its own entrance on Elder Place off London Road, this brand new venue will provide young creatives with a dynamic, multipurpose space to produce, create, perform, showcase and collaborate on artistic projects.
Lighthouse Project Space, New England House, Elder Place, York Hill Corner, BN1 4GH ( map )