Take a bite out of Brighton Festival 2008 (3-25 May). This year offers another exhilarating 3 weeks of world-class art and entertainment. Make sure you don’t miss out on the 42nd biggest and best mixed arts festival in England.

This year's Festival features 12 premieres, 9 exclusives and 30 free events in venues, parks and unusual spaces across the city.

Use the calender to see what tickets are available for events today!

Festival podcasts

Click here for our series of podcasts which will help you get behind the scenes of some of this year’s events. You can also catch up on some you may have missed with extracts from the Books & Debate programme including Mike Leigh!

You can also hear about An Infinite Line: Brighton from this week’s Front Row on Radio 4.

Festival Vodcasts

Hear about our highlights direct from the programming team. Watch a short video for each of our Festival artforms: Performance, Theatre, Music, Classical, Books & Debate, The Free Outdoors, 26 Letters and Family Friendly.

Take a look at video clips from Norman and Glow

Festival Hub

In the heart and soul of Festival-land, The Hub (outside the Pavilion Theatre) is the place to make a meal of it with lovingly prepared, locally sourced, globally themed organic cuisine.

Award Winning Events

The Argus are again running their Angel Awards for exceptional events in the Festival. We’ve already won two this year – Firstly for the extraordinary multimedia magic of Norman – last show Sat 10th May at 8pm and our Pizza Express performances of Shakespeare a la Carte which continues on Sunday mornings (returns only).

Festival Night Train

Head to Brighton Festival and zip back late to London with our special night train service from Southern. Brighton 23.19 to Victoria 00.13 throughout the Festival (back in time to catch most last tubes from Victoria)

Sky Arts programme

National Broadcast Supporter Sky Arts have filmed a 10 minute programme all about the festival which will be screened from Fri 2 May throughout May on channel 267.