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We team up with the Roundhouse to bring together musicians from Palestine, India, Brazil & the Faroe Islands with our musical family in London, headlined by Nubya Garcia

For the past two festivals, we’ve had a Short Story Hour where we’ve done our best to celebrate the imagination and writing talents of the writers around us. There’s only so much you can do in an hour at a festival, though, and so we’ve had the idea to create Thousand Zine, our very own…

Get inside the minds of the artists, sound/light designers and carpenters who created made the Garden Spheres in the Brainchild woods as the project revs up for its next installation.

Get involved with all the offerings the Steez Café has lined up this year, whether it’s playing your favourite records, reciting your poems or bringing your instruments and taking part in jam sessions.

We thought it was about time that we let you in on a Brainchild secret or two. We have been working to create some projects you may not be expecting… Read on to find out what we’ve cooked up.   FIRST UP: WOOM.  WOOM is a brand new small choir made up of Izzy Risk, Alice…

Every year at Brainchild, a different group of artists or architects come together and entirely re-design our dance music stage, The Shack. Since 2013 when this was a DIY scaffolding tower covered in illustrations, we’ve seen it take all different shapes & sizes at the hands and minds of so many great people: it has…

  This year we invited 3D artist, Kristi Minchin to takeover the Brain Stage and create a large-scale, site-specific artwork, informed by our visual identity. Having worked with us for the last couple of years, she’s a Brainchild old-timer and so, perfect to take on the challenge. Eager to hear more about her plans for the project,…

    Introducing the Three Poets: Three Poems series! As the countdown to the festival begins, each Sunday between now and the start of the festival we will be releasing a poem written by a poet performing at Brainchild. Now that June is in full swing and that summer-buzz is around us, we can think of no better…

With only 30 days to go here’s some more information on how you can get to the festival.  First things first, our full site address is: Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum, Bentley, Halland, East Sussex, BN8 5AF.  GETTING HERE BY TRAIN The nearest stations are: Uckfield Station (5.4 miles) and Lewes Station (7.8 miles) Direct trains from London run…

The festival’s operations and the festival’s vision are not always easy to align. Despite the fact that as a team we care hugely about the climate crisis, and through the festival aim to promote engagement with the issue, keeping the festival operation affordable and deliverable with our resources has meant we’ve often fallen short on…