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Artists in Space : the Line-Up – White Night UTOPIA 2011

★☆★VIDEOPIA – Nominated for the Extra Festival Activity Award at the Festival Awards 2011★☆★ Ever wanted to be in the movies? Well here’s your chance people! Videopia is an interactive film making activity that invites you to star in a scenes from Hollywood classics. They’ll be shooting White Nighters in a miniature tribute to space age horror flick ‘Alien’. If you see them searching the Open Market for actors with a camera in one hand and face-hugger prop in the other, go and get a piece of the action! www.videopia.co.uk

OneWayTheatre - After a year of touring the South East, we return to where we first began..  Screening the best short films from around the globe, including comedies, animation and documentary, this inspiring and entertaining selection promises to be their best ever. Be prepared to experience a night a beauty and surprise!

Josephine Dimbleby – Interactive Headpiece. Climb inside a teleidoscopic suit and experience your own private utopia. Artist Josephine Dimbleby invites you to experience an interactive audiovisual performance for you and you alone. Featuring the sounds of all our idealistic pasts, created live by Cap O’ Rushes.  www.josephinedimbleby.com
SOME CARTOGRAPHERS - Dithyrambs to Utopic Analgesia. Installation / Performance

the Magnificent 7 – ‘formed’ . An interactive installation inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Island and Michel Gondry’s Science of Sleep. Come and help us transform this dreary, industrial environment into a magnificent utopia. 6pm onwards.

Meerkuts & Ellipsey – A Soundscape for A Golden Age. A live mixtape of musical vibrations from the promised land. Infusing Dj’ing, live instrumentation and spoken word. With dancing, wiggling, interaction & most of all beats!   http://meerkutslovescrayons.blogspot.com/

Paper Wall. Join in with building a paper wall.  Shredded paper will be woven, knotted and plaited to make a collaborative structure.  Light and projection will hit the surface, watch the shadows emerge throughout the night.  With artist Clare McEwan. www.claremcewan.com

‘Growing Utopia’ participatory art/gardening. Come and visit our Muliti-media craft garden in which to explore your ideas for a positive Utopian future…. Take home something to plant…come and delve into your imaginations. A collaboration between BiggerPicture www.biggerpicture.org.uk and Soundfytes www.soundfytes.net

Carl Gent – “When I Vomit I Think About Outer Space” - a slide projection series that alternates between mundane human dialogue and extreme cosmic data whilst surrounded by 1.2 billion year old Torridonian sandstone rock dust, previously shattered by the impact of a meteorite off the coast of Sutherland. …   &    ..

“Cosmic Crazy Golf – hole no. 6″ – A working crazy golf hole where players try and pot planets and stars into the central maw of a black hole!   www.carlgent.com

Roan Hendrikz - Falling Light. The change of seasons comes with changes of light and darkness. This piece strives to celebrate light and how it can be transformed with basic materials. The installation consists of rolls of receipt paperhanging from the ceiling, built around a light at the centre. It intends to create a visual effect byreinventing the space it is in.

Dayani JinadasaUTOPI Tree

What will be, will be.
When you wish upon a tree.
Come make a wish. Bring friends. Keep wishing. dayanijinadasa.com

designedbybettyshek – jewelry and accessories. http://www.etsy.com/shop/designedbybettyshek

Susanna Gibson – Furniture, Sketch no1. Playful explorations in chairs for you to explore and play on! http://susannagibson.daportfolio.com/


Cuttlefishlove Kanzashi – Designer-maker. Japanese-inspired silk hair accessories and brooches from tiny hand-folded squares of fabric. www.cuttlefishlove.co.uk and  www.etsy.com/shop/cuttlefishlove.

Kate Lloyd – Light. Space. And Nozzles. Projection. www.kate-lloyd.co.uk


‘What a spin’ Collaborate with stencil artist Zeezee Twentytwo to capture your own expression of spraypaint on a spinning vinyl record and leave to dry. You may return to decorate it with stencil images or even make a clock!  http://www.zz22.cc/

Primordial Soup – An interpretive costumed performance by Luke Tonks / music by Natalie Cringle. Harnessing the primal and natural energy within,and inspired by tribal and animal movements and propelling to music mixed by Natalie Cringle. We encourage audience participation.

Leftover designs. Fascinators, earring and other one of a kind accessories made from vinyl records, computer components, vintage trinkets and other upcycled materials by local artist Leftover.  www.leftover.co.uk

Stu VI – The Wondermenttable is a Hybrid Musical Instrument. As old meets new; short melodies and sounds get locked into infinite loops, bounced around, crushed and let up again to form haunting sound-scapes and surprising aural treats. There will be two short, improvised performances during the evening.http://vimeo.com/user7339339/videos

Trailer trashed is a not for profit youth organisation aiming to teach young people how to cook healthy vegetarian food both for themselves and as part of a catering business. We are open to young people across Brighton and Hove for more details please call carly on 07940127830 or come see us on the night for a chat.  Trailertrash100@googlemail.com

Frantic About Frances Handmade Frivolities – Gorgeous retro-style lingerie handmade in Brighton http://www.franticaboutfrances.co.uk


Music and Performance

6pm Jolie & Emlyn Booth (Mc’s/Theatrical delights)
6:15pm Teenage Grandad (Big Loud Band)
7pm Annie Whittingham (Acoustic Singer, Songwriter)
7:40pm Stuart Vallance (Wondermenttable/Cool strings FX box)
8pm Stanley Duke (Singer Songwriter)
8:40pm Luke Tonks (Dance performance)
9:05pm Paper Playground (3 piece dreamy synth electronica band)
10pm Meerkuts (DJ and set of own music)
10:55pm DJ Skepon (ambient, chillout tunes) http://www.mixcloud.com/skepon/
11:45pm Stuart Vallance (Back with the wondermenttable)
12:05 DJ Britney ( Dancey 70s/80s disco fun)
1am Nick Subtle/CryStar (DJ: Home-made Trip-Hop + funky, wobbly electronica)

http://soundcloud.com/crystar

and much much more…!

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