Brighton Festival opens on Saturday 7 May 2022 with the Childrens Parade. Starting at 10:30 am in Jubilee Street. The procession travels to Madeira Drive, via New Road, North Street, East Street and Grand Junction Road before finishing in Madeira Drive at 1:00 pm.

For details of the main events goto https://brightonfestival.org/, for details of Fringe Events go to https://www.brightonfringe.org/, and for details of the Artists Open Houses go to https://aoh.org.uk/.

Transcending Borders and Democracy Under Fire, 3 pm - 5.45 pm on Sunday 29th May 2022, at Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton BN1 1UF (https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/festival-of-europe-presents-164426/)

A MINI FESTIVAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE chaired by Caroline Lucas.
Featuring live music, debate, and poetry on the topic of Transcending Borders and Democracy under Fire, this will be an event not to miss!
Music by Undead Musicians Club celebrating the life of the late singer, songwriter and pianist Rich Beahan, with musical direction by Chris Hookway.
Debate on the subject of 'Democracy under Fire' with writer, journalist and co-founder of Byline Times - Peter Jukes, British Green politician, economist and ex MEP- Molly Scott-Cato and writer, artist and activist - Madeleina Kay.
Poetry read by students from Poetry by Heart on the theme of 'Transcending Borders'.
25% of money raised will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee - https://www.dec.org.uk/ - for their Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Tickets £10 - £20, concessions, drop in.

Brighton & Hove Lib Dems will be joining the procession to Preston Park to celebrate this annual diversity event.

Brighton & Hove Liberal Democrats invite members and supporters to walk in the Pride Parade on Saturday 6th August 2022. We'll meet at 10.30 am by the Palmeira Square bus stop. Please email with your name, email address, mobile phone number and local party. This information will be used to track numbers and contact you about arrangements as well as in the case of an emergency.