Brighton Festival 09

With 165 events including 26 premieres and commissions

and 11 free outdoor performances it's been three fabulous

weeks of serious fun.

Save the dates for next year's Festival now

Sat 1– Sun 23 May 2010

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“The curtain has come down on another superb Brighton Festival which takes place throughout May each year. Bringing together some of the best art, including sculptures by Anish Kapoor, street entertainment, classical music and theatre, the 2009 event benefited from unseasonably fine weather.”  Times Online 29 May 09

“An absolute corker – far more adventurous and exciting and ambitious than it’s ever been before…a dazzling line-up, which any Festival in the world might envy”

Telegraph.co.uk 9 Mar 09

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Did you hit the Anish Trail?

Over 80,000 people visited the six Anish Kapoor works which were on display throughout Brighton during the Festival including 10,000 who made the journey up to the Chattri on the South Downs to experience C-Curve.

Read The Guardian's feature and photostory

of Kapoor's special Festival commission The Dismemberment of Jeanne D’Arc

Listen to and view our photo-slide podcast with Chief Executive Andrew Comben talking through all the Anish Kapoor pieces on location.

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Photoblog

See this year’s Festival through the eyes of our official photographer Matthew Andrews at his special Festival photoblog

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Did you Flickr? Did you Tweet?

Take a look at what you thought of this year’s Festival in pictures at our Brighton Festival Flickr Group

Or in brief on our Twitter posts

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Festival Podcasts

Get behind the scenes and also hear talks and debates you may have missed in our selection of Festival podcasts.