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When: 2-24 May

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‘I have travelled the world, but never as far as imagination can take me,’ observes Brighton’s guest director, the writer Lemn Sissay. And, from Ray Lee’s ‘symphonic Sci-Fi’ to Barely Methodical Troupe’s ‘Bromance’, imagination runs riot in a festival that embraces the shock of the new as much as it cherishes the imagination of past ages. So, while the Kronos Quartet ventures into outer space with Terry Riley’s , La Nuova Musica explores the world of

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