Black Brighton Market is a place where Black People and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, services and perform to the general public. Creating equal opportunities and better profits within the BIPOC community. With our permanent residency at The Actor's Pub we are lucked out with food from The Caribbean kitchen all day. With traders across the entire top floor in two rooms, the theatre is centre stage for our headline performances, open mic and where we call out our raffle prizes. BBM has been the stage for some incredible, up and coming musicians living in Brighton, including Kymara, Steven Bamidele, MRISI, AVIJE and more. With an open mic feature, discover new performers with an array of performances, from poetry to comedy and everything in between. With so many special features, including a raffle draw with prizes created by the traders themselves, this market has everything you need for a day full of family-friendly fun! 2025 Market Days: Saturday 8th March - Celebrating International Days Every weekend in May - Artist Open House Saturday 5th April - Pre-Loved market Saturday 26th July - BARCO Bash Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th August - Pop-up at Madeira Drive Saturday 4th October - Black History Month and 3 year anniversary Saturday 6th December - Christmas / Kwanzaa market For more information on each event, pop-up places and to apply to trade, head to our official website and find us on social media platforms including Instagram and Facebook! Black Brighton Market events are free but we as for donations through either the Eventbrite event listing and/or our Go Fund Me

Come along to Hallo-Screen, a spooky comedy night featuring short films, sketches and live performances from a range of brilliant comedians and film makers.

In 2024 Carl Carzana the Comedian launched and subsequently won the inaugural Carl Carzana of the Year Comedy Competition. A competition that only he was allowed to enter. This year he's doing it all again but with the added twist that actual competitors will be allowed to enter and battle it out to find the best Carl Carzana the Comedian who isn't Carl Carzana himself. All the contestants need do is perform in a Carl Carzana fashion and impress our panel of industry professionals who really know their Carl Carzana. The evening will be compared by last year's winner (Carl Carzana) and a fabulous prize is up for grab which includes £20 cash, mentoring with Carl Carzana to launch their own comedy event and an official certificate. It's one heckuva prize at the most Carl Carzana centric competition in the UK. See you there.

Hot off of the high heels of a successful farewell tour in New Zealand. The iconic Drag Race Down Under star, Ivanna Drink, has arrived and is ready to take the UK by storm. Presenting Ivanna Drink: From Down Under to Downing Street. Join Ivanna for a one hour spectacular cabaret show inspired by the journey of her drag career that's shaped her into the drag legend on Aucklands K Road that we all know and love today. There'll be laughs, chats, meet and greets available and of course drag shows!

Immersion - WTF?? Late L(a)unch with John Robb atThe Actors Brighton. Fri 3rd October 2025 Immersion's Malka & Colin in conversation with John Robb interspersed with album playback from 5.00-7.00 pm in the Slack City studio atThe Actors. ///// What the fuck?? What the fucking fuck?? Its the only realistic response to these dark, divisive and dangerous times. How do you react? How do you feel? How do you soundtrack? Immersion is the project of post punk musical architects Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) and Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck, Savak & Lake Ruth). Since the pandemic, Immersion has been mainly working on their Nanocluster collaborations but they have now re-engaged with the core project after a UK and USA tour gave them a shot of musical urgency and lyrical immediacy. The crafted creativity of the core unit has seen their previous projects honed down in their studio set-up but the magic of the live moment sparked a new necessity to the sound. It sees the four instrumentals and the four vocal pieces of the album created with an added energy and a connection to the shared hopes and fears of the band, its audience and the wider community. It musically catches a moment reacting to the apocalyptic madness of these times and trying to come to terms with it. The songs snapshot these uncertain days adding another layer of humanity to the music and another level of what the fuck??. If the Nanocluster project is about collaboration then Immersion in 2025 is a response to where humanity finds itself in the second decade of the 21st century. It reacts to not only that relentless rhetoric of these times but also how we as humans should respond. Music is the message, the medium, the massage and the moment. This song collection manages to combine the unease with hope, minimally hypnotic songwriting with taut melodies and inventiveness with groove. Thank you for your attention to this matter! //// Doors open at 4.30pm ( Show starts at 5.00pm until 7.00pm) Immersion are Malka Spigel andColin Newman. Although best known for their work with, respectively, Minimal Compact and Wire, the duos work as Immersion provides an outlet for their ongoing fascination in crafting enthralling, unique musical soundscapes. Tour dates - https://immersionhq.uk/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/70rsyhGzfQKX1k8QZDzK1d?si=SOgTpHeFQZ62jAos3vD4Eg Immersion fanlink - https://swim.fanlink.tv/ImmersionWTF Swimming In Sound - https://swimminginsound.com [https://swimminginsound.com/] Insta - https://www.instagram.com/immersion hq fb - https://www.facebook.com/immersionHQ bsky - https://bsky.app/profile/immersionhq.bsky.social

Join Guy Lloyd every month for a live podcast with a difference. Guy will be joined by a special guest to talk about life, love and whatever they fancy really. The hour-long podcast will be recorded in front of a live audience but here's the twist; Guy and his special guest will be painting each other's portrait, while they chat. And then at some point during the conversation and when they are bored of each other's face, they will paint a self-portrait. The audience will enjoy the chat and both Guy and his guest will reveal their artwork at the end of the podcast. And he's not showing off or anything but Guy has an A-Level in art (in 1988. Yes, he's that old). The theme of the podcast is how connection and art is good for the soul. At the the end of the year, all the art will be auctioned off to raise money for mental health charities. Guy's very special guest this month is lead singer of The Hoosiers, Irwin Sparkes. Join Irwin and Guy for chats, giggles and (most probably) really bad art. Also, you are welcome to bring your own art materials and draw us, if you have nothing better to do. Just make us look pretty.

Some of the best improv troupes from Brighton and beyond join forces for a hilarious night of comedy, completely made up on the spot! Join us each month at The Actors for scoops and scoops of silliness! Every show sees a brand new collection of brilliant improvisers, ready to spin your suggestions into comedy gold and make themselves look utterly ridiculous for your entertainment. With performers flying by the seat of their pants, it's certain to be surprising, hilarious, and totally unforgettable! Follow us: facebook.com/Scoopsimprov instagram.com/scoopsimprov