Lighthouse

Name: Lighthouse
Address: 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN14AJ, GB
Telephone: 01273 647197
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Support artists using digital technology & help people succeed in the creative & cultural industries.

Lighthouse is a Brighton-based arts charity that supports artists who use digital technology in their work and helps people find routes into and succeed within the creative and cultural industries. From our central Brighton venues, we offer education and talent development programmes, commission artists to make and present new work, and produce exhibitions, talks and residencies. We have two key talent development programmes for underrepresented young creatives - Lighthouse Young Creatives and Future Creative Leaders. In 2024 we opened the Lighthouse Project Space, Brighton’s first public, youth-led art space. It provides young creatives with a dynamic, multipurpose space to produce, create, perform, showcase and collaborate on artistic projects.

26/10/2026

“Hi I’m Jane from Lighthouse Young Creatives (LYC), and this is my lore. Before I was in LYC, I was self employed, only just got back from living in Spain for a little while and had nothing to do. I wanted to branch out with my creative side and was recommended LYC as an accompaniment to my life.

LYC significantly helped to push me off the “ledge” per-se (like a baby bird jumping out of the nest) and kicked my creative block by giving me community, warmth from the mentors and friends I made, and also gave me the opportunity to celebrate/share my creative side with family/friends and the cohort’s family and friends too!

I want to carry on the creative journey I took of photography and I now know that there’s no secret to doing it.

Just to do it and be proud of it and carry on talking to people/get connections and branch out ;)

Stay groovy
Stay strong
Stay blessed” Jane

A huge thank you to Jane for sharing her story with us. 💛

📷 1,4, 9 Nuria Castro Music Photography
📷 7 Jane

🎊 This year Lighthouse turns 40 and we’ve launched to celebrate. We’ll be looking back on our four decades and sharing stories from YOU! - the people who’ve been part of our journey.

👉🏾 Share your Lighthouse story, memories, photos via our online form ( it takes just 3 minutes) - link in our bio nd comments.

Donate to be part of the Lighthouse Legacy and help us keep creating opportunities for the next generation of young creatives.

👉 The donation link is in our bio and comments.

19/10/2026

In September we held our Town Hall, this time hosted by several of our Future Creative Leaders (FCL). Each of our FCL’s presented the work they have produced over the summer.

levvy and JED touched on Daytime, L U C I A intro’d the webpage she has created and the zine by Casey with reflections on our Brighton Festival 2026 - events that were programmed by FCL.

Fez discussed the event model she has created for our FCL events, and meg🎱 presented her MBE Common Ground series of outdoor events.

Attendees had time to reflect and answer questions with the help of via mentimeter. Some of these are below:

❓What would you like to build?
❓What invisible barriers keep you from feeling like public space belong to you?
❓When did you last spend time in a green space just for the sake of it?
❓What is one small way anyone can start building care into their own block or neighbourhood?
❓What role can festivals play in social change?

Thank you to Kaia Allen-Bevan from FCL and Bobby Brown, our Creative Communities Producer, for chairing and creating an open, welcoming, and collaborative space.

Why do we hold Town Halls at Lighthouse?
Our Town Halls bring young people and communities together to talk about what matters, explore challenges and share ideas for the future.

We believe young people should have a say in the cultural spaces, events and opportunities created for them. Our Town Halls help shape what we do next.

Thanks to everyone who came! See you at the next one!

📷 Leyla Abulhawa one of our Lighthouse Young Creatives Alum

💫 Thanks to our funders Innovate UK Enjoolata Foundation, Chalk Cliff Trust Sussex Community Foundation for their ongoing support.

12/10/2026

This week we have some Lighthouse Lore from Xavier Clarke who is a photographer and a creative partner that first discovered Lighthouse around 2015. The first time was to take portraits for a script/screen writing class, and since then Xavier has gone on to photograph many of our events.

“It has been an honour to have photographed some amazing and insightful events and talks both in the Venue and The Old Market with the Riskey Roadz and Elijah talk. There are just too many moments to mention but I have an abundance of photographic memories" - Xavier

Scroll to see Xaviers photos taken at our events and the rest of his Lighthouse lore.

📷 Xavier Clarke XC Photography

🎊 This year Lighthouse turns 40 and we’ve launched to celebrate. We’ll be looking back on our four decades and sharing stories from YOU! - the people who’ve been part of our journey.

👉🏾 Share your Lighthouse story, memories, photos via our online form ( it takes just 3 minutes) - link in our bio and comments

And while we look back, we’re also looking forward. ❤️

Donate to be part of the Lighthouse Legacy and help us keep creating opportunities for the next generation of young creatives.

👉 The donation link is in our bio and comments

05/10/2026

Green spaces have become sanctuaries for people. For some, they are important meeting places and spaces for quiet belonging. 🌿

And this summer, Lighthouse’s Future Creative Leader Megan Lee (MBE) brought the Brighton & Hove community together through COMMON GROUND: a four-part outdoor gathering series spanning bird watching, spatial exploration, embodied movement, and texture printing and senses mapping.

Through these events, people discovered local wildlife with borrowed binocular from rsbp and mapped out their senses in Queen’s Park. COMMON GROUND showed us what happens when we remove the pressure to ‘participate’ and simply meet people where they’re at.

🌳In our latest Read, Watch, Listen, Meg chats about the inspiring book analogy that sparked her ideas for the project.

We cover ideas of reclaiming public green spaces in Kemptown with FLOW, intimate movement sessions with Faisal Salah, sensory mapping and local ecology with Aghh! Zine and bird spotting in our local areas with Meg.

Each session fostered intergenerational community.

Head to the link in our bio to read the full Read, Watch, Listen blog

📸 Photos by 2-8 MBE
📸 9-13 by Leyla Abulhawa
📸 14 - 17 Aghh! Zine and MBE

💫Thanks to our funders Innovate UK Enjoolata Foundation Chalk Cliff Trust Sussex Community Foundation

02/10/2026

Speak Out, Be Heard. What happens when you create a space to really listen?

Over the past year, our Town Halls have brought young people and the local community together to talk about the issues that matter most. They’ve been spaces where people have shared ideas and challenged existing norms. Together we’ve begun to imagine what change could (and should!) look like.

But why do we hold them?

At Lighthouse, we believe young people should have a say in the cultural spaces and opportunities created for them. Our Town Halls give us a space to listen and understand what’s missing. They help us to explore the barriers people face in having their voices heard, and allow us, as a publicly funded arts charity, to begin to think about how we can share power and decision-making differently.

Our latest Read, Watch, Listen shares what a Lighthouse Town Hall is, why we hold them and what we hope they can make possible.

And we don’t want the conversation to end when the Town Hall does.

Last Saturday left us with some questions to keep thinking about. And we wanna know what you think! Scroll right 👉

💭 What invisible barriers keep you from feeling like public space belongs to you?

💭 Is there a green space in your area you'd love to see activated?

💭 When did you last spend time in a green space just for the sake of it?

Keep the conversation going and drop us your answers in the comments, or tell us if there’s something you’d like us to explore at a future Town Hall.

💫 Our Town Halls are always free to attend. Thanks to our funders Innovate UK, Enjoolata Foundation, Chalk Cliff Trust, Sussex Community Foundation for their ongoing support.

29/09/2026

Last week we launched , celebrating 40 (yeah, that’s right!) years of Lighthouse.

Over the next couple of months, we’ll be looking back on our four decades and sharing stories from the people who’ve been part of our journey.

This week, we’re shining a light on , a past Lighthouse Young Creatives (LYC) participant, who’s sharing a little bit of his Lighthouse lore. 💫

Through his time with Lighthouse, Benjahni has developed his creative practice, made new connections and discovered new opportunities.

A huge thank you to Benjahni for sharing his story with us, and to everyone who’s been part of the Lighthouse community over the past 40 years. 💛

Have you got some Lighthouse lore? 👉🏾 Share it with us via the link in our bio and in comments. Your stories are our history.

And if you want to help us write the next chapter, you can support Lighthouse Legacy and create more opportunities for the next generation of young changemakers. Link in our bio and in comments.

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18/09/2026

We wanna know what matters to you about Brighton’s creative and cultural scene. Let’s talk about it.

Come to our latest Lighthouse Town Hall and be part of a collaborative space of like-minded people. Get the chance to share your ideas and help us shape how our publicly funded programmes serve our community.

Meet your speakers for the next Lighthouse Town Hall:

Kaia Allen-Bevan is an inspiring, award-winning advocate, entrepreneur, and creative recognised for her commitment to social justice and educational reform. Since 2019 (age 16), Kaia has been an active Racial Justice / Anti-Racism advocate, co-organising Brighton’s BLM peaceful demonstrations and founding Brighton Black Lived Matter. Her TEDx Talk was featured in Forbes Morocco as one that had a “Global Impact”.

Bobby Brown is a cultural leader and digital innovator working across technology, youth development, and the arts. With over a decade of experience, he focuses on equity, community-led change, and access to creative opportunities. As Programme Lead for Future Creative Leaders at Lighthouse, he has designed programmes that centre youth voice, decentralise leadership, and open pathways into creative industries.

🗓️ Date: Sat 26 September (2 - 5 PM)
🗣️ Aimed at people aged 14–30 but open to all. We want different perspectives and generations in the room
💬 Share your thoughts through conversation or anonymously via Mentimeter
☕ Snacks, refreshments + drinks (as always)
📍 Brighton Youth Centre
🎟️ Free to attend, open to all! Book your spot at https://luma.com/xvp2i9dl

💫Thanks to our funders Innovate UK Enjoolata Foundation Chalk Cliff Trust Sussex Community Foundation

Address

28 Kensington Street
Brighton
BN14AJ

Telephone

01273 647197

Website

http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/

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